For eight years, Folds served as National Symphony Orchestra\u2019s first-ever Artistic Advisor \u2014 until Trump’s takeover of the Kennedy Center <\/p>\n
\n\tThis Fourth of July, musician Ben Folds<\/a> has released a brand-new album recorded live at the sold-out Concert Hall of the John F. Kennedy Center<\/a> for the Performing Arts in Washington, D.C. The show took place before Trump seized the Center and Folds resigned<\/a> from his leadership position there in protest<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe album, Ben Folds<\/a> Live with the National Symphony Orchestra, features both Ben Folds classics and new music in collaboration with the National Symphony Orchestra conducted by Steven Reineke. Regina Spektor and Tall Heights appear as guests, and a choir of sorts is made up of Doug Peck, Nicholas Kassoy, and Marc Silvey.<\/p>\n \t\tTrending Stories<\/p>\n \n\tIn addition to streaming from multiple DSPs, physical copies of Ben Folds Live with the National Symphony Orchestra are available, including signed CDs and a range of vinyl presses. On July 10 at 8:30 p.m. ET, Folds will also join TalkShopLive<\/a> to discuss the new album. Folds will also be touring solo and accompanied by orchestras across the U.S., with more information available here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n \n\tThe album was recorded on Oct. 25 and 26, 2024, ahead of Folds\u2019 resignation from his post as the first-ever Artistic Advisor to the National Symphony Orchestra (NSO). According to a release, Folds left as Trump\u2019s takeover signaled \u201ca betrayal of mission, a hostile remodeling of one of America\u2019s most vital cultural institutions and artistic sanctuaries.\u201d Many artists, including Lin Manuel Miranda<\/a>, the cast of Les Miserables<\/a>, and Issa Rae<\/a> have protested the Kennedy Center<\/a> since Trump\u2019s reorganization of it.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"For eight years, Folds served as National Symphony Orchestra\u2019s first-ever Artistic Advisor \u2014 until Trump’s takeover of the…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":39810,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[29],"tags":[31759,69,171,31760,975,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-39809","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-ben-folds","9":"tag-donald-trump","10":"tag-entertainment","11":"tag-kennedy-center","12":"tag-music","13":"tag-united-states","14":"tag-unitedstates","15":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=39809"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39809\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/39810"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=39809"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=39809"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=39809"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}