{"id":25132,"date":"2023-03-10T15:00:01","date_gmt":"2023-03-10T20:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/?p=25132"},"modified":"2023-03-10T15:00:48","modified_gmt":"2023-03-10T20:00:48","slug":"guest-artist-to-present-heard-but-not-seen-the-african-american-voice-a-musical-landscape","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/2023\/03\/guest-artist-to-present-heard-but-not-seen-the-african-american-voice-a-musical-landscape\/","title":{"rendered":"Guest artist to present \u2018Heard But Not Seen \u2014 The African American Voice: A Musical Landscape\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>Guest artist Daniel Washington visits Marshall University this month to present a concert, \u201cHeard But Not Seen \u2014 The African American Voice: A Musical Landscape,\u201d as well as teaching a master class and leading an artist talk. His visit is part of the Birke Fine Arts Symposium, a university-wide celebration of art featuring the theme \u201cMaking the Unseen Visible.\u201d Artists present musical performances and works in theatre and dance, as well as lectures, literary readings and gallery exhibitions, as part of the symposium.<\/p>\n<p>Washington is a bass-baritone and tenured professor of voice at the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre &amp; Dance. His \u201cHeard But Not Seen\u201d concert is planned for 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 31, in Smith Recital Hall. He will be joined by Marshall faculty members Dr. Carline Waugh and Dr. Alexander Lee; Sara Lee; and the MU Chamber Choir, led by Dr. David Castleberry, and the University Chorus, directed by Dr. Briana Nannen. A reception will follow, and the event is free and open to all.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis concert is an exciting, heartfelt and moving vocal presentation of art songs and spirituals by African American composers,\u201d said Waugh, an assistant professor of voice at Marshall. \u201cWhile these works are sometimes overlooked within the canon, they speak to audiences across the American landscape.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Washington also will present a vocal master class at 2 p.m. Tuesday, March 28, in Smith Recital Hall and will lead an artist talk at 6 p.m. Thursday, March 30, in Smith Recital Hall.<\/p>\n<p>The visit is sponsored by the School of Music in the College of Arts and Media and the Birke Fine Arts Symposium Endowment, with support from the Joan C. Edwards Professorship Award.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Guest artist Daniel Washington visits Marshall University this month to present a concert, \u201cHeard But Not Seen \u2014 The African American Voice: A Musical Landscape,\u201d as well as teaching a master class and leading an artist talk. His visit is part of the Birke Fine Arts Symposium, a university-wide celebration of art featuring the theme [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":134,"featured_media":25134,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,45,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25132","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-cam","category-featured","category-news-releases"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/134"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25132"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25133,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25132\/revisions\/25133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25132"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25132"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marshall.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25132"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}