{"id":3283,"date":"2026-04-06T11:21:24","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:21:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/?p=3283"},"modified":"2026-04-06T11:21:43","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T16:21:43","slug":"mpjh-band-receives-superior-excellent-rating-at-contest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/2026\/04\/06\/mpjh-band-receives-superior-excellent-rating-at-contest\/","title":{"rendered":"MPJH Band Receives Superior &#038; Excellent Rating at Contest"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3 class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><span data-olk-copy-source=\"MessageBody\">The Mount Pleasant Junior High School Band participated in the UIL Region 4 Middle School Concert and Sightreading contest held on Friday, March 27 at New Boston High School.\u00a0The band played 3 pieces on stage including \u201cForward March!\u201d by Paul Murtha, \u201cAs Twilight Falls\u201d by Robert Sheldon, and \u201cJapanese Pictures\u201d by Kevin Mixon,\u00a0and had to sightread a piece they had never seen before.\u00a0 They earned a superior rating for their stage performance and an excellent rating for sightreading.<\/span><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"x_MsoNormal\">The MPJH Bands will perform in the annual MPISD Spring Band Concert at\u00a06:00 p.m. on Tuesday, March 31 in the MPHS Auditorium.\u00a0The concert will also include performances from the HS Jazz band and the JH &amp; HS percussionists.<\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"x_MsoNormal\"><\/h3>\n<h3 class=\"x_MsoNormal\">Photo: The MPJH Band<\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Mount Pleasant Junior High School Band participated in the UIL Region 4 Middle School Concert and Sightreading contest held on Friday, March 27 at New Boston High School.\u00a0The band played 3 pieces on stage including \u201cForward March!\u201d by Paul Murtha, \u201cAs Twilight Falls\u201d by Robert Sheldon, and \u201cJapanese Pictures\u201d by Kevin Mixon,\u00a0and had to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":3284,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3284"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mpisd.net\/mpjhs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}