{"id":26372,"date":"2016-04-02T08:15:35","date_gmt":"2016-04-02T13:15:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=26372"},"modified":"2016-04-02T08:15:07","modified_gmt":"2016-04-02T13:15:07","slug":"fhsu-brass-choir-plays-in-dallas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/?p=26372","title":{"rendered":"FHSU Brass Choir Plays in Dallas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Last week the Fort Hays State University Brass Choir had the extraordinary opportunity to perform in Dallas prefacing a performance by the Dallas Wind Symphony. The song they played was a fanfare, written by FHSU\u2019s own Dr. Jeff Jordan. The \u201cDallas Winds\u201d as they are more casually known, holds a composing competition every year, and this year Dr. Jordan took the trophy. 40 to 50 compositions were entered in the contest, and considering the Dallas Wind Symphony is the top professional concert band, it was a huge honor for FHSU to be selected. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dr. Lane Weaver, the band director, said that the experience was phenomenal, \u201ctruly a great testament to the quality of the FHSU band.\u201dHowever, he wasn\u2019t just offered the ordinary prize of having the Dallas Winds play his song; because Jordan knows the principal trombone player with the Dallas Winds, the FHSU Brass Choir was given an invitation to come perform it themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>For those who are not familiar with band terms, a brass choir is a small ensemble of brass instruments. The group that traveled to Dallas included 22 students, 3 of which were percussion players as well.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Band member Katie Glading, said, \u201cg<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">etting to see such a well-known composer, Eric Whitacre, actually conduct his works was fantastic and a pretty rare opportunity, not to mention getting to see the Dallas Wind Symphony perform in itself is a very cool experience. I&#8217;m very grateful for this good experience.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last week the Fort Hays State University Brass Choir had the extraordinary opportunity to perform in Dallas prefacing a performance by the Dallas Wind Symphony.&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":132,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[3400,3401],"tags":[9182,418,412,9717,106,6143],"class_list":["post-26372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fhsu-music-arts-entertainment","category-fhsu-theatre","tag-dallas-wind-symphony","tag-dr-jeff-jordan","tag-dr-lane-weaver","tag-fhsu-brass-choir","tag-fort-hays-state-university","tag-katie-glading"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/132"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=26372"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26372\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":26388,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26372\/revisions\/26388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=26372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=26372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tigermedianet.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=26372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}