{"id":209663,"date":"2023-04-11T15:46:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:46:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/?p=209663"},"modified":"2023-10-09T15:49:16","modified_gmt":"2023-10-09T19:49:16","slug":"chorale-lauded-in-nj-dot-com-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/2023\/04\/11\/chorale-lauded-in-nj-dot-com-review\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Heather Buchanan and Montclair State University Chorale Lauded in NJ.com Review"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~buchananh\">Dr. Heather Buchanan<\/a>, Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/\">John J. Cali School of Music<\/a>,\u00a0and the Montclair State University Chorale\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/entertainment\/2023\/04\/guest-conductor-makes-debut-with-nj-symphony-leads-rich-spring-program-review.html\">were lauded in this NJ.com review<\/a>\u00a0for their performance in the New Jersey Symphony spring concert at NJPAC.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Buchanan conducts both mixed-voice curricular choirs, MSU Chorale (symphonic choir), and the MSU\u2019s flagship choir University Singers, and two extra-curricular project choirs, Vocal Accord and Prima Voce (SSAA). Choirs under her direction have earned critical acclaim for their \u201cheartfelt conviction,\u201d \u201cvibrant sound,\u201d \u201cgrace and precision,\u201d being a \u201cmarvel of diction, tuning and rhythm, \u201cimpeccable dynamics and diction,\u201d \u201celoquence,\u201d \u201cnew-minted enthusiasm and vibrancy,\u201d and for singing with the \u201ccrispness and dexterity of a professional choir.\u201d Her collaborative partner is pianist Steven W. Ryan.<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nj.com\/entertainment\/2023\/04\/guest-conductor-makes-debut-with-nj-symphony-leads-rich-spring-program-review.html\">Read the full story<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Heather Buchanan, Professor in the John J. Cali School of Music,\u00a0and the Montclair State University Chorale\u00a0were lauded in this NJ.com review\u00a0for their performance in the New Jersey Symphony spring concert at NJPAC. Dr. Buchanan conducts both mixed-voice curricular choirs, MSU Chorale (symphonic choir), and the MSU\u2019s flagship choir University Singers, and two extra-curricular project [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":209664,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-209663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-153_music","category-news-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=209663"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209663\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":209666,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/209663\/revisions\/209666"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/209664"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=209663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=209663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=209663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}