{"id":79854,"date":"2019-09-18T12:13:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-18T17:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=79854"},"modified":"2019-09-18T13:08:13","modified_gmt":"2019-09-18T18:08:13","slug":"um-choral-concert-celebrates-world-peace-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/um-choral-concert-celebrates-world-peace-day\/","title":{"rendered":"UM Choral Concert Celebrates World Peace Day"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<h4 class=\"wp-block-heading\"><em>Performance features UM Chorus and guest choirs<\/em><\/h4>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/fordcenter.org\/files\/2019\/08\/1-Peace-Concert-Poster.jpg?w=640&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A <strong>World Peace Day Concert<\/strong> set for Friday, September 20 at the<strong> University of Mississippi <\/strong>will bring together more than 350 performers for a choral celebration for peace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The concert is set for <strong>7:30 pm<\/strong> in the <strong>Gertrude C. Ford Center for the Performing Arts<\/strong>. Admission is free and all are welcome.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The university is part of a worldwide musical collaboration, <strong>AVoice4Peace<\/strong>, that shares its message of peace through singing.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;In 2016, we were privileged to host the Nairobi Chamber Choir and their director, Ken Wakia,&#8221; said <strong>Donald Trott<\/strong>, Ole Miss director of choral activities. &#8220;It was during this tour that he came up with the idea to start AVoice4Peace to form a worldwide movement of singing for peace each year on World Peace Day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>&#8220;We have participated each year since and we all find participating a meaningful way to make a statement for peace through what we do best: singing.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The performance will feature the <strong>UM Chorus and Concert Singers<\/strong>, directed by Trott and <strong>Elizabeth Hearn<\/strong>; and the <strong>UM Gospel Choir<\/strong>, directed by <strong>Jasmene Mitchell<\/strong>. Three special guest groups also will perform: the <strong>Festival Singers of Florida Tour Choir<\/strong>, directed by <strong>Kevin Fenton<\/strong>; the <strong>Lafayette High School Choir<\/strong>, directed by <strong>Hannah Gadd Ardrey<\/strong>; and the <strong>Oxford High School Choir<\/strong>, directed by <strong>Thomas Ardrey<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"25\" height=\"16\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/06\/TheLocalVoiceLigature-25web.jpg?resize=25%2C16\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-14544\"\/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Performance features UM Chorus and guest choirs A World Peace Day Concert set for Friday, September 20 at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":238,"featured_media":79856,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":""},"categories":[7887],"tags":[15321,15322,414,7275,7067,15319,15323,655,15320],"class_list":["post-79854","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-music","tag-avoice4peace","tag-donald-trott","tag-ford-center","tag-gertrude-c-ford-center-for-the-performing-arts","tag-ole-miss","tag-um-choral","tag-um-chorus-and-concert-singers","tag-university-of-mississippi","tag-world-peace-day"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/09\/2019-09-17-Voice-for-Peace.jpg?fit=620%2C349&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79854","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/238"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=79854"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79854\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/79856"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=79854"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=79854"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=79854"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}