{"id":1298,"date":"2015-12-08T10:31:11","date_gmt":"2015-12-08T16:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=1298"},"modified":"2015-12-08T10:31:11","modified_gmt":"2015-12-08T16:31:11","slug":"mphs-jazz-band-students-make-all-region-jazz-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/mphs-jazz-band-students-make-all-region-jazz-band\/","title":{"rendered":"MPHS Jazz Band Students Make All-Region Jazz Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eight Mt. Pleasant High School Goin\u2019 Gold Band members have earned placement in the All-Region Honor Jazz Band. Three Sophomores (Jesus Garrett &#8211; trombone, Carlos Lopez -trombone and Noah Wall &#8211; trombone), two Juniors (Emily Mott \u2013 tenor saxophone and Matthew Shelton \u2013 drums) and three Seniors (Fabian Fernandez \u2013 trombone, Juan Garcia \u2013 piano and Alicengrace Gray \u2013 trumpet) each auditioned individually before a panel of judges in Texarkana recently.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am extremely proud of this group of musicians,\u201d said MPHS Jazz Band Director Barry Tagg. \u201cThey all worked hard to prepare for the tryouts and their hard work has paid off. This was also a great year for the MPHS Jazz Band at the auditions. This year\u2019s eight is double the number of students who made All-Region last year and it represents almost half of our entire jazz band of 17 members. This is also the second year Alicengrace and Fabian have qualified for the All-Region Jazz Band. Both were selected as alternates their sophomore years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The MPHS students will perform at the TMEA Region IV Middle School\/Freshman\/Jazz Clinic &amp; Concert on Saturday, December 12th, 2015 at Marshall High School.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured (l-r): Matthew Shelton, Fabian Fernandez, Carlos Lopez, Jesus Garrett, Noah Wall, Juan Garcia, Emily Mott and Alicengrace Gray<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight Mt. Pleasant High School Goin\u2019 Gold Band members have earned placement in the All-Region Honor Jazz Band. Three Sophomores (Jesus Garrett &#8211; trombone, Carlos Lopez -trombone and Noah Wall &#8211; trombone), two Juniors (Emily Mott \u2013 tenor saxophone and Matthew Shelton \u2013 drums) and three Seniors (Fabian Fernandez \u2013 trombone, Juan Garcia \u2013 piano [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1299,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1298","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\/1298","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=1298"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1298\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1299"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1298"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1298"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1298"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}