{"id":2550,"date":"2013-02-27T21:30:58","date_gmt":"2013-02-28T02:30:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2013\/02\/27\/hats-off-to-boston-pops-furman-symphony\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:33:39","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:33:39","slug":"hats-off-to-boston-pops-furman-symphony","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/hats-off-to-boston-pops-furman-symphony\/","title":{"rendered":"Hats off to Boston Pops, Furman Symphony"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Greenville loves conductor Keith Lockhart. Tuesday night\u2019s sold-out Peace Center concert confirmed that fact as Lockhart, one of Furman\u2019s favorite grads, returned to town with the Boston Pops for a sparking concert of Broadway music and classical works. Lockhart paid tribute to his alma mater by inviting the Furman Symphony Orchestra to join the Boston Pops in the performance for a blazing account of Tchaikovsky\u2019s \u201c1812\u201d Overture. He also led the Furman Symphony in what\u00a0<em>The Greenville News<\/em>\u00a0called\u00a0a \u201cwell-shaped and vigorous account\u201d of Sibelius\u2019 \u201cFinlandia.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Leading up to the concert,10 principal musicians with the Boston Pops visited Furman to offer musical coaching and advice. The unique collaboration has everything to do with Lockhart\u2019s continued close connection with Furman, from which he earned bachelor\u2019s degrees in piano performance and German.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenvilleonline.com\/article\/20130227\/ENT\/302270020\/Lockhart-Pops-offer-exhilarating-evening?nclick_check=1\">Read review by Paul Hyde<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=CLn9Xno-xJI&amp;list=UUyS8zZArf7znM0DW5ZFkb8w\"><strong>Watch WSPA SceneOn7 video<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"\n\t\t<style>\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 {\n\t\t\t\tmargin: auto;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-item {\n\t\t\t\tfloat: left;\n\t\t\t\tmargin-top: 10px;\n\t\t\t\ttext-align: center;\n\t\t\t\twidth: 50%;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 img {\n\t\t\t\tborder: 2px solid #cfcfcf;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t#gallery-1 .gallery-caption {\n\t\t\t\tmargin-left: 0;\n\t\t\t}\n\t\t\t\/* see gallery_shortcode() in wp-includes\/media.php *\/\n\t\t<\/style>\n\t\t<div id='gallery-1' class='gallery galleryid-2550 gallery-columns-2 gallery-size-thumbnail'><dl class='gallery-item'>\n\t\t\t<dt class='gallery-icon landscape'>\n\t\t\t\t<a href='https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/07\/boston-pops-concert11.jpg'><img width=\"150\" height=\"150\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/07\/boston-pops-concert11-150x150.jpg\" class=\"attachment-thumbnail size-thumbnail lazyload\" alt=\"\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 150px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 150\/150;\" \/><\/a>\n\t\t\t<\/dt><\/dl>\n\t\t\t<br style='clear: both' \/>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":2551,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2550","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-music","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550","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=2550"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2550\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2551"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2550"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2550"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2550"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}