{"id":31666,"date":"2024-04-29T11:27:57","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:27:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=31666"},"modified":"2024-04-29T11:27:57","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T15:27:57","slug":"former-director-of-bands-hicken-to-conduct-alum-to-premiere-new-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/former-director-of-bands-hicken-to-conduct-alum-to-premiere-new-music\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Director of Bands Hicken to conduct, alum to premiere new music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Former Furman University Director of Bands Les Hicken will lead the Greenville Symphony Sunday, May 5, at 3 p.m. and 7:30 p.m. at the Peace Center&#8217;s Gunter Theatre. The concert, &#8220;With the Wind,&#8221; spotlights wind instruments and features the works of Igor Stravinsky, Richard Strauss, Kurt Weill and a world premiere composition by Furman alumnus and clarinetist Erik Franklin &#8217;11. Journalist Paul Hyde gives a preview of the event in <a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/arts-culture\/gunter-theatre-program-shines-spotlight-on-greenville-symphonys-wind-players\/\">Greenville Journal<\/a>. Learn more about Erik Franklin in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/alumnus-performs-mentor-conducts-in-may-5-peace-center-concert\/\">Furman News story<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The May 5 Greenville Symphony performances conducted by Les Hicken highlight wind instruments and a world premiere by Furman alumnus Erik Franklin &#8217;11.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":7804,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,119,6,39],"tags":[2752,1812,2751],"class_list":["post-31666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alumni","category-greenville-journal","category-in-the-news","category-music","tag-erik-franklin","tag-greenville-symphony-orchestra","tag-wind-instruments"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31666","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=31666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=31666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=31666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=31666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}