{"id":4886,"date":"2015-02-10T19:37:31","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T00:37:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/?p=4886"},"modified":"2015-02-11T13:18:08","modified_gmt":"2015-02-11T18:18:08","slug":"a-tribute-to-roland-hayes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/2015\/02\/10\/a-tribute-to-roland-hayes\/","title":{"rendered":"A Tribute to Roland Hayes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"\/afam\/files\/2015\/02\/hayes_poster_22.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/afam\/files\/2015\/02\/hayes_poster_22-417x636.jpg\" alt=\"hayes_poster_2(2)\" width=\"417\" height=\"636\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4887 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2015\/02\/hayes_poster_22-417x636.jpg 417w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2015\/02\/hayes_poster_22-672x1024.jpg 672w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 417px) 100vw, 417px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<h2><em>In the words of\u00a0Barbara Brown,\u00a0Chair of the Hidden Brookline Committee &#8220;It&#8217;s long past time for Roland Hayes to be widely known and appreciated again&#8221;.<\/em><\/h2>\n<p>On Sunday March 15th, the <strong>Hidden Brookline Committee<\/strong> is organizing a tribute to American lyric tenor &amp; composer\u00a0<strong>Roland Hayes<\/strong> at <strong>Unity Boston at Christ&#8217;s Church, Longwood<\/strong>. One of the first African-American male concert artists to receive wide acclaim both at home and internationally, Hayes was widely lauded for his abilities and linguistic skills with songs in French, German and Italian.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/afam\/files\/2015\/02\/hayes_flyer.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/afam\/files\/2015\/02\/hayes_flyer-636x324.jpg\" alt=\"hayes_flyer\" width=\"636\" height=\"324\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-4893\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2015\/02\/hayes_flyer-636x324.jpg 636w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2015\/02\/hayes_flyer-1024x523.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/files\/2015\/02\/hayes_flyer.jpg 1650w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 636px) 100vw, 636px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The concert will feature the talents of Reverend Liz Walker, <em>Emcee<\/em> &amp; Robert Honeysucker, <em>Baritone<\/em>. His great grandson Wenc Bogdanoff, a classical singer,\u00a0will close the program.<\/p>\n<p>While the concert is free, seating is limited so make sure you reserve a seat at rolandhayes.eventbrite.com.<\/p>\n<p>Hayes lived in Brookline for 50 years and this\u00a0concert is the first step\u00a0in Hidden Brookline Committee&#8217;s effort to establish a permanent memorial to him in the town he loved. So come show your support &amp; spread the word!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the words of\u00a0Barbara Brown,\u00a0Chair of the Hidden Brookline Committee &#8220;It&#8217;s long past time for Roland Hayes to be widely known and appreciated again&#8221;. On Sunday March 15th, the Hidden Brookline Committee is organizing a tribute to American lyric tenor &amp; composer\u00a0Roland Hayes at Unity Boston at Christ&#8217;s Church, Longwood. One of the first African-American [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3592,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3592"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4886"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4894,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4886\/revisions\/4894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4886"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4886"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/afam\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4886"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}