{"id":3779,"date":"2019-05-07T00:24:11","date_gmt":"2019-05-07T00:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=3779"},"modified":"2019-05-07T02:23:58","modified_gmt":"2019-05-07T02:23:58","slug":"houston-youth-symphony-performs-ring-the-bells-at-break-of-day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/?p=3779","title":{"rendered":"Houston Youth Symphony performs <i>Ring the Bells at Break of Day<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3781\" style=\"width: 196px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MW_photo2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3781\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3781\" src=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MW_photo2-186x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"186\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MW_photo2-186x300.jpg 186w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MW_photo2-768x1240.jpg 768w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MW_photo2-634x1024.jpg 634w, https:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/MW_photo2-124x200.jpg 124w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 186px) 100vw, 186px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3781\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Michael Webster, conductor of the Houston Youth Symphony and Karim Al-Zand<\/p><\/div>\n<p>The award-winning <a href=\"https:\/\/houstonyouthsymphony.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Houston Youth Symphony<\/a>, under the direction of Michael Webster, concluded its 2018\/19 season with its Spring Concert, featuring the finest young musicians from the region performing in four ensembles. The May 5th concert concluded with the most advanced orchestra in a program that included Karim Al-Zand&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/?page_id=2924\">Ring the Bells at Break of Day<\/a> and Ravel&#8217;s <strong>La Valse<\/strong>. The concert also featured presentations of 2018\/19 Concerto Competition winners Kevin Chan, performing a movement from Prokofiev&#8217;s <strong>Violin Concerto No. 2<\/strong> and Johnny To, performing Rossini&#8217;s <strong>Introduction, Theme and Variations<\/strong> for clarinet and orchestra.<a href=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/HYS_logo.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-3789 size-full aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/alzand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/HYS_logo-e1557188827256.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"200\" height=\"157\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The award-winning Houston Youth Symphony, under the direction of Michael Webster, concluded its 2018\/19 season with its Spring Concert, featuring the finest young musicians from the region performing in four ensembles. The May 5th concert concluded with the most advanced orchestra in a program that included Karim Al-Zand&#8217;s Ring the Bells at Break of Day [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3780,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3779"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3801,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3779\/revisions\/3801"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/3780"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alzand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}