{"id":1430,"date":"2016-01-27T11:10:20","date_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:10:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/?p=1430"},"modified":"2016-01-27T11:10:20","modified_gmt":"2016-01-27T17:10:20","slug":"mphs-students-make-4-states-symphonic-band","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/mphs-students-make-4-states-symphonic-band\/","title":{"rendered":"MPHS Students Make 4-States Symphonic Band"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five Mount Pleasant High School Goin\u2019 Gold Band members were selected as members of the 4-States Symphonic Band at the 4-States Band Clinic and Concert in Texarkana, Texas on January 14-16th. The Symphonic Band is the top 4-States Band selected at the Clinic.<\/p>\n<p>Making the Symphonic Band are Alicengrace Gray, 1st Chair-Trumpet; Steven Mendoza, 2nd Chair-Euphonium; Gavin Dethrow, 3rd Chair-Euphonium; Anthony Martinez,10th Chair-Clarinet; and, Nataly Ruan,14th Chair-Flute.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The audition process is a very competitive! Our students did an amazing job,\u201d said Dr. Theodus Luckett III, the MPHS Director of Instrumental Music. \u201cOur students compete against some of the best high school musicians from Texas, Arkansas, Louisiana and Oklahoma. To be selected for the top band, the Symphonic Band, is quite an honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The five performed in concert with the Symphonic Band at the Texas High School Performing Arts Center in Texarkana on January 16.<\/p>\n<p>Pictured: Front Row (l-r): Nataly Ruan and Alicengrace Gray<br \/>\nBack Row (l-r): Steven Mendoza, Anthony Martinez, and Gavin Dethrow<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five Mount Pleasant High School Goin\u2019 Gold Band members were selected as members of the 4-States Symphonic Band at the 4-States Band Clinic and Concert in Texarkana, Texas on January 14-16th. The Symphonic Band is the top 4-States Band selected at the Clinic. Making the Symphonic Band are Alicengrace Gray, 1st Chair-Trumpet; Steven Mendoza, 2nd [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1431,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1430","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\/1430","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=1430"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1430\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1431"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1430"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1430"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1430"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}