{"id":6315,"date":"2016-12-06T22:00:18","date_gmt":"2016-12-07T03:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2016\/12\/06\/heavenly-sounds-in-boston\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:26:47","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T01:26:47","slug":"heavenly-sounds-in-boston","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/heavenly-sounds-in-boston\/","title":{"rendered":"Heavenly Music in Boston"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Furman alum Justin Blackwell \u201905 serves as associate director of music and principal organist for Boston University\u2019s Marsh Chapel. His performances are a regular part of the well-attended Sunday morning services that are also broadcast live on WBUR, BU\u2019s National Public Radio station. <strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/today\/2016\/justin-blackwell-marsh-chapel-organist\/\">BU Today<\/a><\/em><\/strong> profiled Blackwell, who holds music degrees from Furman and BU, where he earned a master\u2019s in choral conducting. But the Furman-BU music connection runs deeper than Blackwell. Fellow Furman alum Scott Allen Jarrett \u201997 also serves as Marsh Chapel music director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Furman alum Justin Blackwell \u201905 serves as associate director of music and principal organist for Boston University\u2019s Marsh Chapel. His performances are a regular part of the well-attended Sunday morning [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":6316,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,3,6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-alumni","category-in-the-news","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315","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\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}