{"id":18088,"date":"2013-01-02T09:59:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-02T13:59:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/?p=18088"},"modified":"2013-01-02T09:59:41","modified_gmt":"2013-01-02T13:59:41","slug":"madrigal-dinners-at-wright-state-mark-30-year-milestone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/01\/02\/madrigal-dinners-at-wright-state-mark-30-year-milestone\/","title":{"rendered":"Madrigal Dinners at Wright State mark 30-year milestone"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt))<\/p>\n<p>For many people in our region, the holiday season really begins with a Madrigal Dinner at Wright State University.<\/p>\n<p>The special celebration \u2014 a festive kind of dinner theater in which entertainment and choral music from the past are interspersed with dining \u2014 has been taking place at Wright State for 30 years. A collaboration between the school\u2019s Student Union and the Department of Music, this year\u2019s dinners were held from Dec. 13-16, with 1,100 people attending.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cParticipants traveled back in time to year 1576, where the Apollo Room was transformed into a great hall,\u201d explained Eric Corbitt, executive producer of the event and director of the Student Union. \u201cThe Baron of Wright Manor welcomed guests for a medieval holiday filled with food, laughter and song. The townsfolk relaxed amidst the flurry of his majesty\u2019s performers \u2014 musicians, singers, dancers, the puppet master and the jester.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Read more at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.daytondailynews.com\/news\/lifestyles\/madrigal-dinners-at-wright-state-mark-30-year-mile\/nTbLw\/\">DaytonDailyNews.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>((Excerpt)) For many people in our region, the holiday season really begins with a Madrigal Dinner at Wright State University. The special celebration \u2014 a festive kind of dinner theater in which entertainment and choral music from the past are &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/2013\/01\/02\/madrigal-dinners-at-wright-state-mark-30-year-milestone\/\" class=\"morelink\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":21,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[714,730],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-18088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-for-the-media","category-wright-state-in-the-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/21"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=18088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18089,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18088\/revisions\/18089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=18088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=18088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/webapp2.wright.edu\/web1\/newsroom\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=18088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}