{"id":4172,"date":"2015-11-14T21:03:19","date_gmt":"2015-11-14T21:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/02\/17\/lyric-theatre-presents-opera-scenes-recital-nov-17\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T18:49:43","slug":"lyric-theatre-presents-opera-scenes-recital-nov-17","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/lyric-theatre-presents-opera-scenes-recital-nov-17\/","title":{"rendered":"Lyric Theatre presents opera scenes recital Nov. 17"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_19907\" style=\"width: 213px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/newsimg.furman.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/Grant-Knox-faculty-large-low-res-sized.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-19907\" class=\"wp-image-19907 size-medium lazyload\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/Grant-Knox-faculty-large-low-res-sized-medium.jpg\" alt=\"Grant Knox faculty, large low res, sized\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 203px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 203\/300;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-19907\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dr. Grant Knox<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Furman University Lyric Theatre will present an opera scenes recital Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 8 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall on the Furman campus.<\/p>\n<p>The recital, \u201cInnocent Merriment: A celebration of operetta,\u201d is free and open to the public and is presented by the Furman University Music Department.<\/p>\n<p>The performance is directed by Furman Assistant Professor of Voice and Director of Lyric Theatre Dr. Grant Knox.<\/p>\n<p>Twenty-two students in Grant\u2019s opera workshop class will perform various scenes from the operetta repertoire. Featured composers include Arthur Sullivan, Jacques Offenbach, Otto Nicolai, Johann Strauss II, Sigmund Romberg, Richard Rodgers and Jerome Kern. All scenes will be performed in English.<\/p>\n<p>Furman faculty member David Gross is musical coach and pianist. Furman senior Abigail Hart is assistant director.<\/p>\n<p>For more information about the recital, call the Furman Music Office at (864) 294-2086.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>About Grant Knox<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Knox joined the Furman music faculty in 2013. An American tenor, Knox enjoys a varied career in opera, musical theater, concert and recital. He has appeared with the Cincinnati Opera, Atlanta Opera, Chicago Opera Theater, and Chautauqua Opera, among others. Equally versed in concert repertoire, Knox has performed with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra, Illinois Philharmonic, Cobb Symphony, Binghamton Philharmonic, and others, and has appeared in recital at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts.<\/p>\n<p>As a recording artist, Knox can be heard on the complete cast recordings of Gilbert and Sullivan\u2019s \u201cThe Grand Duke\u201d and \u201cThe Sorcerer,\u201d Offenbach\u2019s \u201cThe Brigands,\u201d Romberg\u2019s \u201cMaytime,\u201d and Kalman\u2019s \u201cThe Carnival Fairy,\u201d all released on the Albany Records label.<\/p>\n<p>Knox holds degrees from the Eastman School of Music and a doctorate from Northwestern University&#8217;s Bienen School of Music.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman University Lyric Theatre will present an opera scenes recital Tuesday, Nov. 17, at 8 p.m. in Daniel Recital Hall on campus.\u00a0\u201cInnocent Merriment: A celebration of operetta,\u201d is free and open to the public, and is presented by the Music Department. Directed by Dr. Grant Knox, 22\u00a0students in Knox&#8217;s opera workshop class will perform various scenes from the operetta repertoire.\u00a0Senior Abigail Hart is assistant director, and Furman&#8217;s David Gross is\u00a0musical coach and pianist.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":15546,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4172","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\/4172","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=4172"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4172\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15546"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4172"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4172"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4172"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}