{"id":10310,"date":"2024-06-06T16:57:04","date_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=10310"},"modified":"2024-06-06T16:58:04","modified_gmt":"2024-06-06T21:58:04","slug":"mphs-band-members-earn-uil-state-medals-solo-and-ensemble-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/mphs-band-members-earn-uil-state-medals-solo-and-ensemble-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"MPHS Band Members Earn UIL State Medals Solo &#038; Ensemble Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3>Nine Mount Pleasant High School Goin\u2019 Gold Band members earned state medals at the UIL State Solo and Ensemble contest held in and around the Austin area on May 25-27.<\/h3>\n<h3>Two MPHS ensembles earned UIL state gold medals, the highest rating given by the judges. The percussion ensemble of Aaron Waldrop, Pedro Castillo, Armando Molina, and Grace Zittel earned a state gold medal for their performance of \u201cUpbeat Suite\u201d. The baritone quartet of Angel Farias, Jesus Mata, Oscar Castellanos, and Bruno DeLeon earned a state gold medal for their performance of \u201cThree Equali\u201d. And Luke Thurman earned a state silver medal for his percussion solo, \u201cRain Dance\u201d.<\/h3>\n<h3>The Goin\u2019 Gold Band will now turn its attention to preparations for their 2024 halftime show, \u201cDiamonds are Forever\u201d. The MPISD band program is under the direction of Dr. Theodus Luckett III, Karen Luckett, Jamey Sterrett, Brian Bass, Alicia Hargett, and Sheri Sullivan.<\/h3>\n<h3>Photos:<\/h3>\n<h3>MPHS Goin\u2019 Gold Band UIL State medalists (L to R) Luke Thurman, Aaron Waldrep, Pedro Castillo, Armando Molina, Angel Farias, Jesus Mata, Oscar Castellanos, Bruno DeLeon<\/h3>\n<h3>Not pictured: Grace Zittel<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nine Mount Pleasant High School Goin\u2019 Gold Band members earned state medals at the UIL State Solo and Ensemble contest held in and around the Austin area on May 25-27. Two MPHS ensembles earned UIL state gold medals, the highest rating given by the judges. The percussion ensemble of Aaron Waldrop, Pedro Castillo, Armando Molina, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":10311,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10310","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-high-school-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10310"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10310\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10311"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10310"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10310"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10310"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}