{"id":1379,"date":"2016-02-17T19:41:40","date_gmt":"2016-02-18T00:41:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/like-a-rolling-stone\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T14:14:58","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T19:14:58","slug":"like-a-rolling-stone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/like-a-rolling-stone\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman alums meet the Rolling Stones"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_7037\" style=\"width: 330px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/rolling-stones-photo.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7037\" class=\"size-full wp-image-7037 lazyload\" title=\"rolling-stones-photo\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/rolling-stones-photo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"320\" height=\"258\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 320px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 320\/258;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-7037\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Photo courtesy of flickr contributor Brandon Carson<\/p><\/div>\n<p>When the Rolling Stones performed in concert at the TD Garden in Boston on Wednesday as part of their \u201c50 &amp; Counting\u201d tour, two Furman graduates were there to help Mick Jagger and the boys with some very important vocals. Boston University\u2019s Marsh Chapel Choir, led by 1997 Furman music graduate Scott Jarrett, was on stage to accompany the Stones on their iconic anthem, \u201cYou Can\u2019t Always Get What You Want.\u201d The campus-based choir, which includes professional singers as well as students and BU alumni, included 2000 Furman graduate and Boston resident Graham Wright. Jarrett told BU Today that singing with the Stones in front of nearly 19,000 people is a &#8220;gig beyond his wildest imagination.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2013\/marsh-choir-to-sing-backup-for-rolling-stones-tonight\/\">Read more at BU Today<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=iKu-qRYeWrQ\">Watch YouTube video<\/a><\/strong><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the Rolling Stones performed in concert at the TD Garden in Boston on Wednesday as part of their \u201c50 &amp; Counting\u201d tour, two Furman graduates were there to help Mick Jagger and the boys with some very important vocals. Boston University\u2019s Marsh Chapel Choir, led by 1997 Furman music graduate Scott Jarrett, was on stage to accompany the Stones on their iconic anthem, \u201cYou Can\u2019t Always Get What You Want.\u201d The campus-based choir, which includes professional singers as well as students and BU alumni, included 2000 Furman graduate and Boston resident Graham Wright. Jarrett told BU Today that singing with the Stones in front of nearly 19,000 people is a &#8220;gig beyond his wildest imagination.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":1380,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1379","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1379"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1379\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1380"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1379"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1379"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1379"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}