{"id":2040,"date":"2014-02-28T15:46:17","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T15:46:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/22\/furman-singers-on-tour\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:42:11","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:42:11","slug":"furman-singers-on-tour","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furman-singers-on-tour\/","title":{"rendered":"Furman Singers hit the road for spring tour"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/furman-singers.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-10278 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/furman-singers.jpg\" alt=\"furman singers\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/200;\" \/><\/a>The Furman University Singers will be on tour Sunday, March 9 through Tuesday, March 18 performing at local and regional churches, with a closing concert in Furman\u2019s McAlister Auditorium. The six stops on tour are:<\/p>\n<p>10:30 a.m., Sunday, March 9 ,\u00a0First Baptist Church<br \/>\n847 Cleveland Street, Greenville, S.C. 29601<\/p>\n<p>7:00 p.m., Sunday, March 9, Myers Park United Methodist Church<br \/>\n1501 Queens Road, Charlotte, N.C. 28207<\/p>\n<p>7:30 p.m.,\u00a0Monday, March 10, St. Paul\u2019s Episcopal Church<br \/>\n401 E 4th Street, Greenville, N.C. 27858<\/p>\n<p>7:00 p.m.,\u00a0Tuesday, March 11, Christ Church United Methodist<br \/>\n410 N Holden Road Greensboro, N.C. 27401<\/p>\n<p>7:30 p.m.,\u00a0Wednesday, March 12, The Cathedral of All Souls in Biltmore Village<br \/>\n9 Swan St. Asheville, N.C. 28803<\/p>\n<p>8:00 p.m.,\u00a0Tuesday, March 18, Furman University, McAlister Auditorium<br \/>\nPart of Furman Music\u2019s Sound Quality Concert Series<\/p>\n<p>The concerts are conducted by Dr. Hugh Ferguson Floyd, Music Professor and Director of the Furman Singers.<\/p>\n<p>The 80-voice ensemble continues a tradition of performance that is more than 65 years old. The Singers will present both sacred and secular music ranging from an early English Anthem of the Tudor period, to a new student work composed for the Singers and premiered on this tour. The program includes new arrangements of familiar hymns and spirituals.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the concerts, call the Furman Music Office at 864-294-2086.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman University Singers will be on tour Sunday, March 9 through Tuesday, March 18 performing at local and regional churches, with a closing concert in Furman\u2019s McAlister Auditorium.\u00a0The concerts are conducted by Dr. Hugh Ferguson Floyd, Music Professor and Director of the Furman Singers.\u00a0The 80-voice ensemble continues a tradition of performance that is more than 65 years old.\u00a0The Singers will present both sacred and secular music ranging from an early English Anthem of the Tudor period, to a new student work composed for the Singers and premiered on this tour. The program includes new arrangements of familiar hymns and spirituals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":12907,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2040","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\/2040","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\/257"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12907"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}