{"id":84866,"date":"2017-02-28T09:07:07","date_gmt":"2017-02-28T14:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=84866"},"modified":"2017-02-28T09:07:07","modified_gmt":"2017-02-28T14:07:07","slug":"vw-wauseon-bands-set-exchange-concert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2017\/02\/28\/vw-wauseon-bands-set-exchange-concert\/","title":{"rendered":"VW, Wauseon bands set exchange concert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Submitted information<\/em><\/p>\n<p>The Van Wert High School Symphonic Band will host a free \u201cpre-contest\u201d exchange concert with Wauseon Symphonic Band tonight at 7 in the Saltzgaber Music Hall of the Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio.<\/p>\n<p>Both bands will present music to be performed at the upcoming Ohio Music Education Association district band contest later in the week. The bands will also receive an on-stage critique by music professor Dr. Daniel Tembras of Indiana University-Purdue University at Fort Wayne (Indiana) to help them finish their preparation for contest.<\/p>\n<p>The Wauseon band, under the direction of Don Clark, will perform \u201cMilitary Escort by Harold Bennett, \u201cEstample\u201d by W. Francis McBeth, and \u201cThe Light Eternal\u201d by James Swearingen. The band will perform at district contest at 5:30 p.m. Friday, March 10.<\/p>\n<p>The VWHS Symphonic Band, under the direction of Bob Sloan, will perform \u201cAces of the Air\u201d by Karl King, \u201cConcert Variations\u201d by Claude T. Smith, and \u201cReckoning\u201d by Michael Markowski. The band will perform at contest on Saturday, March 4, at 2:30 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The contest will also be held in the Niswonger Performing Arts Center.<\/p>\n<p>The VWHS band has qualified for state in 11 of the last 12 years and earned a \u201csuperior\u201d rating at state in eight of those trips.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, visit the Van Wert band website at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vanwertbands.org\">www.vanwertbands.org<\/a>, follow them on Twitter at @vwbands, or call the music department at 419.238.3722.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Submitted information The Van Wert High School Symphonic Band will host a free \u201cpre-contest\u201d exchange concert with Wauseon Symphonic Band tonight at 7 in the Saltzgaber Music Hall of the Niswonger Performing Arts Center of Northwest Ohio. Both bands will present music to be performed at the upcoming Ohio Music Education Association district band contest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-84866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-10 00:18:41","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84866\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}