{"id":992,"date":"2009-02-03T08:35:50","date_gmt":"2009-02-03T08:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/02\/03\/delta-state-to-host-annual-high-school-choir-festival\/"},"modified":"2013-09-03T12:55:24","modified_gmt":"2013-09-03T12:55:24","slug":"delta-state-to-host-annual-high-school-choir-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/2009\/02\/delta-state-to-host-annual-high-school-choir-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Delta State to host annual high school choir festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<table cellspacing=\"1\" cellpadding=\"1\" width=\"25%\" align=\"center\" summary=\"\" border=\"0\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"290\" alt=\"\" width=\"232\" src=\"\/Images\/univ_relations\/Bara.jpg\" \/><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p align=\"center\"><span>Dr. Daniel Bara<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial\"><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoPlainText\"><span>A total of 180 of the most talented high school choir singers from across the state will gather on the campus of Delta State University, from<span> <\/span>Friday, Feb. 13 to Sunday, Feb 15, as Delta State hosts its annual choir festival.<\/p>\n<p><span>These talented students were selected by audition to participate in the festival by members of the Delta State music faculty.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span>Dr. Daniel Bara, associate professor of music and director of choral activities at East Carolina University, will be the guest conductor.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><\/span><span>Choirs under his direction have performed by invitation at state, regional and national conferences of the American Choral Directors Association and the Music Educators National Conference.&nbsp;Their first compact disc recording, &ldquo;Greater Love,&rdquo; was released internationally on the Gothic Label in fall 2007.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<p><\/span><span>The choir will be accompanied by Dr. Kumiko Shimizu, assistant professor of piano at Delta State.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><span>The three-day festival concludes with a performance on Sunday, Feb.15, at 2 p.m., in the Delta and Pine Land Theatre of the Bologna Performing Arts Center on campus<span>.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/span><span>The concert is free and open to the public.&nbsp;For more information, call (662) 846-4115.<\/span><\/span> <\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Daniel Bara &nbsp; A total of 180 of the most talented high school choir singers from across the state will gather on the campus of Delta State University, from&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":4197,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-992","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\/992","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=992"}],"version-history":[{"count":12,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41789,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/992\/revisions\/41789"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=992"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=992"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.deltastate.edu\/news-and-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=992"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}