{"id":2755,"date":"2024-03-28T08:11:26","date_gmt":"2024-03-28T15:11:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-high-school\/2024\/03\/28\/lynden-high-band-earns-remarkable-30th-straight-superior-rating\/"},"modified":"2024-03-28T08:11:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-28T15:11:26","slug":"lynden-high-band-earns-remarkable-30th-straight-superior-rating","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-high-school\/2024\/03\/28\/lynden-high-band-earns-remarkable-30th-straight-superior-rating\/","title":{"rendered":"Lynden High Band Earns Remarkable 30th\u00a0Straight \u2018Superior\u2019 Rating\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>For the 30<sup>th<\/sup>&nbsp;straight year, the Lynden High School Wind Ensemble band earned a Superior rating at annual the San Juan Music Educators Association Large Group Festival.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cWith the struggles that music programs have had over the past few years, maintaining the standard of Superior level playing has been highly challenging,\u201d says Trevor Galligan, Lynden teacher and band director. \u201cI think this says a lot about the student\u2019s determination. These kids not only work hard and have an excellent pep band presence, but they have the musical maturity to play classical music at the highest level.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The festival, held at Western Washington University, is the largest regional event in the state with 21 schools participating from Blaine to Mount Vernon and beyond. The 53-member Lynden band played three pieces for the judges, all picked by the director to ensure a combination of lyrical and technical components.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Galligan says a Superior rating\u2014the top rating achievable\u2014is awarded when the band accomplishes superb clarity of pitch, proper blend and balance at all times, flawless rhythmic accuracy, a portrayal of the composer\u2019s intent of the piece through the performance, as well as expressive shaping and phrasing of the music.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cI was told afterward by one of the judges,\u201d Galligan says, \u201cthat after our performance was over, the judge sitting next to him simply turned his adjudicating form over and said, \u2018Now, that\u2019s a good band.\u2019\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>For the 30th&nbsp;straight year, the Lynden High School Wind Ensemble band earned a Superior rating at annual the San Juan Music Educators Association Large Group Festival.&nbsp; \u201cWith the struggles that&nbsp;&hellip;&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-high-school\/2024\/03\/28\/lynden-high-band-earns-remarkable-30th-straight-superior-rating\/\">Read&nbsp;More&nbsp;&raquo;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":2756,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"Lynden High School","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-high-school","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lynden.wednet.edu\/lynden-high-school\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}