{"id":18656,"date":"2015-03-06T18:30:38","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T00:30:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=18656"},"modified":"2017-08-14T10:43:40","modified_gmt":"2017-08-14T15:43:40","slug":"fhsu-spring-choral-concert-to-feature-gospels-spirituals-and-folk-songs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=18656","title":{"rendered":"FHSU spring choral concert to feature gospels, spirituals and folk songs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Fort Hays State University&#8217;s Department of Music and Theatre will present its spring choral concert, &#8220;We&#8217;ve a Story to Tell,&#8221; at <span class=\"aBn\" tabindex=\"0\" data-term=\"goog_365668892\"><span class=\"aQJ\">7:30 p.m. Tuesday<\/span><\/span>, in the Beach\/Schmidt Performing Arts Center in Sheridan Hall on the FHSU campus.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">The concert will include the FHSU concert choir, the Fort Hays Singers and other guest appearances. Terry Crull, associate professor of music and theatre, will conduct.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">The FHSU Concert Choir will open the evening with a selection of spirituals, folk songs and gospel tunes, including the popular &#8220;Swing Low, Sweet Chariot&#8221; and &#8220;Battle of Jericho.&#8221; Spirituals are usually sung a capella.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">The Fort Hays Singers will follow with a variety of tunes, including the spiritual &#8220;Go Down Moses,&#8221; which tells the story of Moses and Pharaoh, and the Bahamian spiritual &#8220;All My Trials.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">The Concert Choir will close the evening with its rendition of the folk song &#8220;In Dat Great Gitten&#8217; Up Mornin&#8217;.&#8221;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: small;\">Tickets for adults are $6, senior citizens and students, 12 and over, are $4, children 11 and under and FHSU students with I.D. are free. To purchase tickets, contact the Department of Music and Theatre at FHSU at <a href=\"tel:785-628-4533\" target=\"_blank\">785-628-4533<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fort Hays State University&#8217;s Department of Music and Theatre will present its spring choral concert, &#8220;We&#8217;ve a Story to Tell,&#8221; at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, in&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":142,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3400],"tags":[5071,5068,5060,5072,5073,5070,5069,754,5067],"class_list":["post-18656","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fhsu-music-arts-entertainment","tag-battle-of-jericho","tag-fhsu-concert-choir","tag-fort-hays-state-university-department-of-music-and-theatre","tag-go-down-moses","tag-in-dat-great-gitten-up-mornin","tag-sweet-chariot","tag-swing-low","tag-terry-crull","tag-weve-a-story-to-tell"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/142"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18656"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18661,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18656\/revisions\/18661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18656"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18656"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18656"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}