  {"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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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 Ä¢¹½ÊÓÆµ 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}]}}