{"id":1766,"date":"2010-03-09T11:28:44","date_gmt":"2010-03-09T16:28:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brocku.ca\/brocknews\/?p=1766"},"modified":"2010-03-09T11:29:34","modified_gmt":"2010-03-09T16:29:34","slug":"niagara-symphony-still-in-search-for-music-director","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/2010\/03\/niagara-symphony-still-in-search-for-music-director\/","title":{"rendered":"Niagara Symphony has final candidates for music director"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Niagara Symphony Association is down to three candidates for the post of music director with the withdrawal of John Morris Russell.<\/p>\n<p>Russell told Symphony executive director Jack Mills in an email in February that \u201cthe future of the (Symphony) depends on a musical leader who can devote himself or herself wholeheartedly to the huge tasks at hand, and I no longer believe I can make the kind of commitment (the Symphony) will need to move forward&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>The other candidates, Russell added, are \u201cexceptional.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The three remaining candidates are Timothy Hankewich, Bradley Thachuk and Diane Wittry. Hankewich has already conducted a Masters concert and a POPS! program earlier this season. The remaining appearances are:<\/p>\n<p><strong>April 11, 2:30 p.m. <\/strong>\u2014 Thachuk conducting the final concert in the Masters Series with a program that includes Beethoven\u2019s \u201cEmporer\u201d Piano Concert with David Louie and the Second Symphony of Sibelius<\/p>\n<p><strong>May 1, 7:30 p.m. and May 2, 2:30 p.m.<\/strong> \u2014 Wittry conducting a big band swing program called \u201cIt Don\u2019t Mean a Thing If It Ain\u2019t Got That Swing\u201d with Niagara vocalist Juliet Dunn<\/p>\n<p>For tickets, call 905-688-5550 x3257.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Niagara Symphony Association is down to three candidates for the post of music director.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[54],"tags":[106],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1766"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1769,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1766\/revisions\/1769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brocku.ca\/brock-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}