{"id":793,"date":"2021-06-16T21:27:27","date_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:27:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/?post_type=stories&#038;p=793"},"modified":"2021-06-16T21:27:27","modified_gmt":"2021-06-16T21:27:27","slug":"bench-player","status":"publish","type":"stories","link":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/news\/bench-player\/","title":{"rendered":"Bench Player"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><\/h5>\n<h5>Eastern music majors take to the airwaves on KPBX\u2019s \u2018Piano Bench.\u2019<\/h5>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>One of the most popular daytime programs on KPBX, the Spokane affiliate of National Public Radio, is Jim Tevenan\u2019s Piano Bench, a show dedicated to revealing the instrument\u2019s \u201cgreat beauty and scope\u201d via a mix of live performances and recordings.<\/p>\n<p>Eastern student players are frequently among the guests featured on the program. During an appropriately masked, live studio appearance on Feb. 9, several Eastern students \u2014 not all of them pianists \u2014 teamed up with EWU music faculty members Jody Graves, professor of piano studies, and John Marshall, a professor of strings and cello studies, to show how Eagle musicians have not missed a beat during the long months of socially-distanced music making.<\/p>\n<p>Stream their stellar performances by visiting: <a href=\"http:\/\/spokanepublicradio.org\">spokanepublicradio.org<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eastern music majors take to the airwaves on KPBX\u2019s \u2018Piano Bench.\u2019 &nbsp; One of the most popular daytime programs on KPBX, the Spokane affiliate of National Public Radio, is Jim Tevenan\u2019s Piano Bench, a show dedicated to revealing the instrument\u2019s \u201cgreat beauty and scope\u201d via a mix of live performances and recordings. Eastern student players<a class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/news\/bench-player\/\">&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":484,"featured_media":791,"menu_order":0,"template":"","class_list":["post-793","stories","type-stories","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","stories_categories-campus","stories_categories-students"],"acf":{"featured_video":"","subheading":"","display_byline":false,"display_date_published":false,"Links":false,"Resources":false},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/793","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/stories"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/484"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/793\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":795,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/stories\/793\/revisions\/795"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/791"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ewu.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}