{"id":2404,"date":"2011-02-08T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-08T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/02\/08\/delta-state-to-host-annual-high-school-honor-choir-festival\/"},"modified":"2013-09-09T14:07:19","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T14:07:19","slug":"delta-state-to-host-annual-high-school-honor-choir-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2011\/02\/delta-state-to-host-annual-high-school-honor-choir-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State to host annual High School Honor Choir Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"283\" width=\"240\" align=\"left\" class=\"caption\" alt=\"Jeffery Redding \" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/2011Releases\/Redding.jpg\" \/>On Friday, February 11, 150 high school students from across the state will gather on the campus of Delta State University for a weekend of singing at the annual Honor Choir festival. <\/p>\n<p>These talented students were selected by audition to participate in the festival by members of the Delta State University music faculty.<\/p>\n<p>Jeffery Redding will be this year&rsquo;s guest conductor. He has conducted numerous all-state choirs throughout the country, and his choirs have appeared at regional and national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association. <\/p>\n<p>The choir will be accompanied by Dr. Kumiko Shimizu, assistant professor of piano at Delta State. The concert will also feature pianist Christopher Winston, saxophonist Steven Hugley, and violinist Anne-Gaelle Ravetto.<\/p>\n<p>The three-day festival concludes with a performance at 2 p.m., Sunday, Feb. 13,&nbsp; in the Delta &amp; Pine Land Theatre of the Bologna Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n<p>The concert is free and open to the public. For more information, call 662-846-4115.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Friday, February 11, 150 high school students from across the state will gather on the campus of Delta State University&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":6699,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2404","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-general"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2404"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41298,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2404\/revisions\/41298"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6699"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2404"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2404"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2404"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}