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Dr. Hugh Ferguson Floyd<\/p><\/div>\n
Conducted by Furman Music Professor Dr. Thomas Joiner and Furman Singers Director Dr. Hugh Ferguson Floyd, the concert is open to the public. Tickets for the Sound Quality Concert Series event are $12 for adults, $10 for seniors and $5 for students. The event is part of Furman\u2019s Cultural Life Program.<\/p>\n
The Furman Singers and Chorales with the Furman Symphony Orchestra will present Benjamin Britten\u2019s cantata, St. Nicholas<\/em>. This dramatic work features faculty tenor, Dr. Grant Knox, in the title role and tells the story of the historic 4th century Christian saint and Bishop of Myra whose secret gift-giving led to the traditional role of Santa Claus.<\/p>\n Dr. Thomas Joiner, Director, Furman Symphony Orchestra<\/p><\/div>\n For the second half of the concert, Joiner leads the FSO in extended excerpts from another holiday classic, Tchaikovsky\u2019s The<\/em> Nutcracker<\/em>. The FSO will perform passages rarely heard without dancers including \u201cDecorating the Christmas Tree,\u201d \u201cThe Battle of the Mouse King,\u201d and \u201cTransformation of the Nutcracker,\u201d in addition to the favorite Spanish, Arabian, Chinese, and Russian Dances, and \u201cWaltz of the Flowers.\u201d<\/p>\n Tickets may be ordered online<\/a>. For more information about the concert, contact the Furman Music Office at (864) 294-2086, or email the department at FurmanMusic@furman.edu<\/a>.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Furman University Symphony Orchestra, the Furman Singers and Furman Men\u2019s and Women\u2019s Chorales will present \u201cChristmas at Furman\u201d Friday, Dec. 2 at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium on campus. Conducted […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":16416,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,39,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-music","category-top-stories"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254","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=6254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16416"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"Dr.](\"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/218\/2022\/08\/thomas-joiner-portrait-sized.jpg\")