{"id":7871,"date":"2018-11-27T21:43:25","date_gmt":"2018-11-27T21:43:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2018\/11\/27\/furmans-bill-thomas-bids-farewell-with-haydns-monumental-the-creation\/"},"modified":"2022-09-07T15:17:29","modified_gmt":"2022-09-07T19:17:29","slug":"furmans-bill-thomas-bids-farewell-with-haydns-monumental-the-creation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/furmans-bill-thomas-bids-farewell-with-haydns-monumental-the-creation\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Thomas bids farewell with Haydn\u2019s monumental &#8220;The Creation&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After 31 years at Furman, Music Professor Bill Thomas will retire at the end of the academic year. But before he does, he&#8217;ll lead the Furman Symphony Orchestra and the Oratorio Chorus in Hadyn&#8217;s masterwork &#8220;The Creation&#8221; Friday, Nov. 30, at 8 p.m. in McAlister Auditorium. Thomas spoke with <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/greenvillejournal.com\/2018\/11\/26\/pauls-pick-furmans-bill-thomas-bids-farewell-with-haydns-monumental-the-creation\/\">Greenville Journal<\/a><\/strong> contributor Paul Hyde, who dubbed the event &#8220;Paul&#8217;s Pick.&#8221; Hyde spoke to Thomas about the monumental work that is &#8220;The Creation&#8221; and what he plans to do with all his extra time following retirement.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After 31 years at Furman, Music Professor Bill Thomas will retire at the end of the academic year. But before he does, he&#8217;ll lead the Furman Symphony Orchestra and the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":257,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871","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=7871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7871\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}