Sixteen freshman members of the Mount Pleasant High School Goin\u2019 Gold Band were named to the Freshman All-Region Band after auditions at Pine Tree High School on Monday, December 3.\u00a0 In order to audition, students had to prepare two short technical pieces. MPHS placed more freshmen than any other school.\u00a0 Two students, Holly Reese and Pablo Mata, earned 1st chair for their respective instruments.<\/p>\n
Those named to the Freshman All-Region Band include Aachal Amin-3rd chair Flute, Kayla Mata-5th chair Flute, Alitzel Mendoza-8th chair Flute, Manoa Bagsic (8th grader)-5th chair clarinet, Jayme Don Juan-7th chair clarinet, Neida Perez-11th chair clarinet, Abril Ramirez 13th chair clarinet, Holly Reese-1st chair bass clarinet, Jonathan Tepetate-2nd chair Alto Sax, Pablo Mata-1st chair Tenor Sax, Jayden Beckham-3rd chair Trumpet, Odalys Adame-2nd chair Trombone, Leslie Mayo-4th chair trombone, Donovan Young-4th chair percussion,
\nJair Moreno-6th chair percussion, and Erik Ojendis-7th chair percussion.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019m extremely proud of each student that auditioned,\u201d said MPHS Head Band Director and Director of Fine Arts, Dr. Theodus Luckett III.<\/p>\n
\u201cTheir hard work and dedication to excellence continues to set them apart from all others. I\u2019m truly honored to assist them on their musical journey.\u201d<\/p>\n
Photo:
\nFrom left to right:
\nFirst Row:
\nAbril Ramirez, Jayme Don Juan, Aachal Amin, Alitzel Mendoza, Neida Perez
\nSecond Row:
\nLeslie Mayo, Pablo Mata, Jonathan Tepetate, Holly Reese, Kayla Mata
\nThird Row:
\nJair Moreno, Donovan Young, Erick Ojendis, Odalys Adame, Jayden Beckham
\nNot pictured:\u00a0 Manoa Bagsic<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Sixteen freshman members of the Mount Pleasant High School Goin\u2019 Gold Band were named to the Freshman All-Region Band after auditions at Pine Tree High School on Monday, December 3.\u00a0 In order to audition, students had to prepare two short technical pieces. MPHS placed more freshmen than any other school.\u00a0 Two students, Holly Reese and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5293,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5292","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\/5292","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=5292"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5292\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mphs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}