{"id":318,"date":"2022-10-26T11:14:45","date_gmt":"2022-10-26T16:14:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/music\/?p=318"},"modified":"2022-10-26T13:34:24","modified_gmt":"2022-10-26T18:34:24","slug":"muw-chamber-singers-fall-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/music\/virtual\/muw-chamber-singers-fall-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"MUW Chamber Singers Fall Concert"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Fall Choir Concert\" width=\"500\" height=\"281\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/BynSKO6PnLY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><figcaption>&#8220;Aspects of Americana&#8221;<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">Date of Concert: Tuesday, November 1st at 7:30 p.m.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-text-align-left\">This event will be held in Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium (inside Poindexter Hall) and is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The MUW Chamber Singers, conducted by Dr. William Reber, present a program that looks at various aspects of our American history and experience. The first part of the program begins with two traditional American songs, a 19<sup>th<\/sup> century revivalist hymn adapted by Aaron Copland and a folk song adapted by Jeff Funk.&nbsp; The first part concludes with excerpts from the musical \u201cLes Mis.\u201d&nbsp; While the composer of \u201cLes Mis\u201d is not American (French, actually), the Broadway musical is an American art form, one which we have given to the world.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part Two is comprised of three solo songs by American composer Ricky Ian Gordon, representing different aspects of life from the late 80s to the early part of this century.&nbsp;Susan Hurley, MUW Assoc. Professor of Voice will be the soloist, accompanied by Dr. Reber<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Part Three contains three songs: Moses Hogan\u2019s setting of the spiritual \u201cSteal Away,\u201d Margaret Bonds\u2019 choral setting of Langston Hughes poem \u201cThe Negro Speaks of Rivers,\u201d and William Grant Still\u2019s \u201cPlain-Chant for America.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Date of Concert: Tuesday, November 1st at 7:30 p.m. This event will be held in Connie Sills Kossen Auditorium (inside Poindexter Hall) and is free and open to the public. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":319,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-virtual"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=318"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":330,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/318\/revisions\/330"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/319"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.muw.edu\/music\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}