{"id":4071,"date":"2010-01-27T08:00:01","date_gmt":"2010-01-27T13:00:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/?p=4071"},"modified":"2010-01-05T14:19:50","modified_gmt":"2010-01-05T19:19:50","slug":"grace-bumbry-at-bu-tonight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/2010\/01\/27\/grace-bumbry-at-bu-tonight\/","title":{"rendered":"Grace Bumbry at BU tonight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-4072 alignleft\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/files\/2010\/01\/Headshot.jpg\" alt=\"Headshot\" width=\"138\" height=\"175\" \/><a href=\"www.bu.edu\/archives\">The Board of the Friends of the Libraries of Boston University<\/a> will host an evening with renowned opera singer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/calendar\/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&amp;entity_id=56004&amp;source_type=A\">Grace Bumbry<\/a> tonight at 5:30 in the Metcalf Ballroom (775 Commonwealth Avenue).\u00a0 Bumbry gained international recognition when she was cast in the German Bayreuth Festival in 1961, at age 24, and was the festival\u2019s first ever black singer.\u00a0 Her performance at the festival is most remembered for its 30-minute applause and 42 curtain calls.\u00a0 Bumbry was also recently inducted into the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kennedy-center.org\/calendar\/index.cfm?fuseaction=showIndividual&amp;entity_id=56004&amp;source_type=A\">Kennedy Center<\/a> and is a <a href=\"www.bu.edu\/cfa\">Boston University College of Fine Arts<\/a> Alumnus.\u00a0 The event will include a lecture and reception; tickets are $25.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Board of the Friends of the Libraries of Boston University will host an evening with renowned opera singer Grace Bumbry tonight at 5:30 in the Metcalf Ballroom (775 Commonwealth Avenue).\u00a0 Bumbry gained international recognition when she was cast in the German Bayreuth Festival in 1961, at age 24, and was the festival\u2019s first ever [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[191],"tags":[2197],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4071"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4074,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4071\/revisions\/4074"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-devl.bu.edu\/bunow\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}