{"id":10729,"date":"2012-05-23T20:02:26","date_gmt":"2012-05-24T02:02:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/?p=10729"},"modified":"2023-11-14T13:20:21","modified_gmt":"2023-11-14T19:20:21","slug":"frances-darger-to-retire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/frances-darger-to-retire\/","title":{"rendered":"Frances Darger to retire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/francesdarger.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-10730\" title=\"francesdarger\" src=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/francesdarger-203x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"203\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/francesdarger-203x300.jpg 203w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/francesdarger-694x1024.jpg 694w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/francesdarger-339x500.jpg 339w, https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/francesdarger.jpg 882w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 203px) 100vw, 203px\" \/><\/a>If you attend the Utah Symphony Saturday night for the final symphony in Thierry Fischer&#8217;s season-long\u00a0 Beethoven Cycle\u00a0 (since Fischer is performing them backwards it&#8217;s actually Beethoven&#8217;s first symphony), you&#8217;ll also catch the final performance of violinist Frances Darger.<\/p>\n<p>Now 87, Darger has been with the orchestra for the past seventy years, and will hang up her bow after Saturday&#8217;s performance. To our readers Darger&#8217;s name may ring a bell, if not for her longevity at Abravanel Hall then from the profile of her Laura Durham wrote in the <a href=\"http:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15bytes\/12mar\/page5.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March edition of 15 Bytes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can get your tickets to the symphony AND support Utah&#8217;s Art Magazine by making a $150 contribution to 15 Bytes (see our Spring Fundraiser for details) or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.utahsymphony.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">utahsymphony.org<\/a> to purchase tickets.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you attend the Utah Symphony Saturday night for the final symphony in Thierry Fischer&#8217;s season-long\u00a0 Beethoven Cycle\u00a0 (since Fischer is performing them backwards it&#8217;s actually Beethoven&#8217;s first symphony), you&#8217;ll also catch the final performance of violinist Frances Darger. Now 87, Darger has been with the orchestra for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10730,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,69],"tags":[831],"class_list":["post-10729","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-comings-goings","category-daily-bytes","tag-utah-symphony"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/05\/francesdarger.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-04-27 01:07:00","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10729"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":71285,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10729\/revisions\/71285"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10730"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10729"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10729"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/artistsofutah.org\/15Bytes\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10729"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}