{"id":3511,"date":"2015-02-13T23:25:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-13T23:25:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/02\/13\/symphonic-band-and-wind-ensemble-in-concert-feb-20\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:46:22","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:46:22","slug":"symphonic-band-and-wind-ensemble-in-concert-feb-20","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/symphonic-band-and-wind-ensemble-in-concert-feb-20\/","title":{"rendered":"Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble in concert Feb. 20"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/02\/Leslie-W.-Hicken-600x400.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-16469 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Leslie-W.-Hicken-600x400-medium.jpg\" alt=\"Leslie W. Hicken 600x400\" width=\"300\" height=\"217\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/217;\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Furman University Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble will present a concert Friday, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on the Furman campus.<\/p>\n<p>Conducted by Director of Bands Leslie W. Hicken, \u201cGood Night, Dear Heart\u201d is open to the public, and is part of Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students.<\/p>\n<p>The evening features two consortium world premiere performances by David Holsinger, \u201cConnacht Rhapsody,\u201d and Greenville composer Dan Forrest, \u201cGood Night, Dear Heart.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Symphonic Band will present \u201cManhattan Beach March\u201d by John Philip Sousa and an orchestral transcription by Camille Saint-Sa\u00ebns, \u201cPas Redoubl\u00e9.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Furman senior music major Alex Jenks will guest conduct the Symphonic Band on Percy Grainger&#8217;s \u201cIrish Tune from County Derry\u201d and \u201cShepherd&#8217;s Hey.\u201d The Wind Ensemble will present major compositions for wind band by Joaquin Rodr\u00edgo and Morton Gould.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, contact the Furman Band Office at (864) 294-3069.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman University Symphonic Band and Wind Ensemble will present a concert Friday, Feb. 20 at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on campus. Conducted by Director of Bands Leslie W. Hicken, \u201cGood Night, Dear Heart\u201d is open to the public, and is part of Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program. Tickets are $5 for adults and $3 for students. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":14390,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3511","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\/3511","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=3511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3511\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/14390"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}