{"id":109762,"date":"2026-01-08T16:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-09T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/?post_type=thursdays-at-three&#038;p=109762"},"modified":"2026-01-12T16:08:42","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T00:08:42","slug":"dana-sparling-jimmie-herrod","status":"publish","type":"thursdays-at-three","link":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/programs\/thursdays-at-three\/episodes\/dana-sparling-jimmie-herrod\/","title":{"rendered":"Dana Sparling; Jimmie Herrod"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>January 15, 2026: Host Christa Wessel welcomes flutist Dana Sparling; and vocalist Jimmie Herrod to the Irving Levin Performance Hall.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Jimmie will be previewing his upcoming concert with the Oregon Symphony, and Dana will share music by Katherine Hoover and Carl Reinecke, accompanied by Rachel Modlin.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Tune in Thursday at 3:00 PM PT at 89.9 FM in Portland, OR or from anywhere in the world on our website.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">ABOUT<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<p>Dana Sparling is All Classical Radio&#8217;s current Young Artist in Residence. A junior at Camas High School in Washington, Dana has played flute and clarinet since middle school. She now plays flute and piccolo with Metropolitan Youth Symphony\u2019s Symphony Orchestra, and alto saxophone with MYS\u2019s Symphonic Wind Ensemble.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more about Dana and our Young Artist in Residence program <a href=\"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/2025-young-artists-composer-residencies\/\">on the All Classical Arts Blog<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Get to know Dana through some of the pieces of music that inspire her <a href=\"https:\/\/icanradio.org\/blog\/play-it-forward-dana-sparling\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on the blog at <strong>icanradio.org<\/strong><\/a>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n\n\n\n<p>With \u201ca voice like a beacon of hope\u201d (Seattle Times), vocalist Jimmie Herrod brings singular power and expressivity to his globe-trotting career as a singer, songwriter, and entertainer on stage and screen. Herrod first came to worldwide prominence as a finalist on the NBC nationally broadcast television show, \u201cAmerica\u2019s Got Talent,\u201d earning the rare \u201cGolden Buzzer\u201d recognition from actress Sofia Vargara and returning the following year on the AGT All-Stars series.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>As a solo artist, Herrod has appeared to critical and audience acclaim with the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO) at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, and with the symphony orchestras of San Francisco, Houston, and Oregon, including as a featured soloist for the globally televised PBS \u201cJoni Mitchell Songbook\u201d concert at The Kennedy Center with the NSO, where he shared the stage with musical luminaries like Renee Fleming, Lalah Hathaway, Raul Midon, and Aoife O\u2019Donovan.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Learn more at <a href=\"https:\/\/jimmiebeingjimmie.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">jimmiebeingjimmie.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<hr class=\"wp-block-separator has-alpha-channel-opacity\"\/>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":107489,"template":"","class_list":["post-109762","thursdays-at-three","type-thursdays-at-three","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"acf":[],"ACF":{"global_category":"thursdays_at_three"},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thursdays-at-three\/109762","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/thursdays-at-three"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/thursdays-at-three"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107489"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.allclassical.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=109762"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}