{"id":4085,"date":"2015-10-06T16:47:45","date_gmt":"2015-10-06T16:47:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2015\/10\/06\/fall-festival-of-choral-music-presents-concert-oct-17\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:49:20","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:49:20","slug":"fall-festival-of-choral-music-presents-concert-oct-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/fall-festival-of-choral-music-presents-concert-oct-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Fall Festival of Choral Music presents concert Oct. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/fall-convocation-15.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-19352 lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/fall-convocation-15-medium.jpg\" alt=\"Furman singers, fall convocation 15\" width=\"300\" height=\"189\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 300px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 300\/189;\" \/><\/a><\/strong>The Furman Fall Festival of Choral Music will close with a concert on Saturday, Oct. 17, at 3 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on the Furman University campus.<\/p>\n<p>The concert is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n<p>For the festival, singers from high school programs in the region are invited to participate with mixed quartets of their finest singers. These groups practice and perform under the baton of Furman Singers director Dr. Hugh Ferguson Floyd who leads Saturday\u2019s culminating concert with the Singers.<\/p>\n<p>Combined, the Furman Singers and High School Festival Choir number nearly 180 voices. The choirs will be accompanied by Grace Odell \u201816 (Pelzer), and Furman Music Professor Dr. Vivian Hamilton, and will perform a mix of traditional hymns, folk songs and spirituals.<\/p>\n<p>Floyd is Coordinator of Choral Music at Furman. Prior to his appointment at Furman, he served as Director of Choral Studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music at Oberlin College. He has also been a guest lecturer at the Eastman School of Music and Yale University. Floyd served as Director of Choral Activities and Voice Instructor at the famed Interlochen Center for the Arts in Michigan and taught at the Interlochen Arts Academy. Floyd is a graduate of Furman, the Eastman School of Music, and the University of Michigan.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the event, contact the Furman University Music Department at (864) 294-2086, or email the department at <a href=\"mailto:FurmanMusic@furman.edu\">FurmanMusic@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Furman Fall Festival of Choral Music will close with a free concert Saturday, Oct. 17, at 3 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on campus.\u00a0For the festival, singers from high school programs in the region are invited to participate with mixed quartets of their finest singers. These groups practice and perform under the baton of Furman Singers director Dr. Hugh Ferguson Floyd who leads Saturday\u2019s culminating concert with the Singers.\u00a0The choirs will be accompanied by Grace Odell \u201816 (Pelzer), and Furman Music Professor Dr. Vivian Hamilton, and will perform a mix of traditional hymns, folk songs and spirituals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15398,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4085","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\/4085","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=4085"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4085\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15398"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4085"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4085"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4085"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}