{"id":6937,"date":"2016-04-11T17:22:27","date_gmt":"2016-04-11T17:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=6937"},"modified":"2025-06-10T14:32:35","modified_gmt":"2025-06-10T14:32:35","slug":"barrymanilowxcelenergycenter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/11\/barrymanilowxcelenergycenter\/","title":{"rendered":"Auggies perform with Barry Manilow at Xcel Energy Center"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6967\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6967\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6967 size-medium\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/04\/BarryManilow-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/04\/BarryManilow-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/04\/BarryManilow-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/04\/BarryManilow.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6967\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Auggies sing with Barry Manilow on his well known hit, \u201cCopacabana (At the Copa).\u201d<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Members of the Augsburg Choir sang backup for Barry Manilow during the Grammy-award winning performer&#8217;s farewell tour.\u00a0The choir sang three encore songs with Manilow including &#8220;I Write the Songs,&#8221; &#8220;Miracle,&#8221; and &#8220;Copacabana (At the Copa).&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Augsburg Choir was selected to perform by Barry Manilow&#8217;s choir director, Doug Hollenback.\u00a0The ensemble is recognized for its high level of musicianship and performs a\u00a0diverse repertoire under the direction of\u00a0Peter Hendrickson\u00a0&#8217;76.<\/p>\n<p>The performance by the students drew media attention from Twin Cities media outlets including:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Pioneer Press:\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.twincities.com\/2016\/04\/07\/barry-manilow-says-goodbye-in-farewell-show-at-the-x\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Barry Manilow says goodbye in &#8220;farewell&#8221; show at the X<\/a><\/li>\n<li>Minnesota Public Radio<\/li>\n<li>KARE 11<\/li>\n<li>KMSP FOX 9<\/li>\n<li>WCCO TV<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Watch a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/KMGOU0vFbqo\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">YouTube video of Auggies performing Copacabana<\/a> at the show.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the Augsburg Choir sang backup for Barry Manilow during the Grammy-award winning performer&#8217;s farewell tour.\u00a0The choir sang three encore songs with Manilow including &#8220;I Write the Songs,&#8221; &#8220;Miracle,&#8221; and &#8220;Copacabana (At the Copa).&#8221; The Augsburg Choir was selected to perform by Barry Manilow&#8217;s choir director, Doug Hollenback.\u00a0The ensemble is recognized for its high &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":147,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[3843,3227,3762,2002,2012,3186,3087,3165],"class_list":["post-6937","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-students","tag-barry-manilow","tag-kare-11","tag-kmsp","tag-mpr","tag-music","tag-pioneer-press","tag-wcco","tag-xcel-energy-center"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/147"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6937"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11857,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6937\/revisions\/11857"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6937"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6937"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6937"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}