{"id":35666,"date":"2024-12-18T18:39:47","date_gmt":"2024-12-18T23:39:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/?p=35666"},"modified":"2024-12-20T08:54:16","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T13:54:16","slug":"mark-britt-talks-tubachristmas-with-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/mark-britt-talks-tubachristmas-with-local-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Britt talks TUBACHRISTMAS with local news"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What&#8217;s better than the classic Christmas tune &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221;? How about 60-80 tubas performing it in unison? <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wyff4.com\/article\/tuba-christmas-perform-greenville-south-carolina\/63216864\">WYFF News 4&#8217;s<\/a> Gabrielle Komorowski caught up with Furman University&#8217;s Mark Britt to explore the history of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/academics\/music\/camps-conferences\/tuba-christmas\/\">TUBACHRISTMAS<\/a> tradition, which began in New York City in 1974. Today TUBACHRISTMAS celebrations take place in hundreds of cities all over the country. Britt, a professor of low brass and music education, said the event draws performers of all ages and skill levels from 7th grade and older, with professional musicians also joining the fun. The 36th TUBACHRISTMAS concert in Greenville, South Carolina, happens downtown at NOMA Square Saturday, Dec. 21, at 12:15 p.m. It&#8217;s free and the public is invited to attend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman Professor of Music Mark Britt says a &#8220;Jingle Bells&#8221; serenade by 80ish tubas is an experience like no other. Learn more about TUBACHRISTMAS, which performs its 36th concert in Greenville at 12:15 p.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, at NOMA Square downtown. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":35667,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,39,120],"tags":[3199,3200],"class_list":["post-35666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-music","category-wyff-tv","tag-low-brass","tag-tubachristmas"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35666","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=35666"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35666\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35669,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35666\/revisions\/35669"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}