{"id":48162,"date":"2022-03-04T09:50:52","date_gmt":"2022-03-04T14:50:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/?p=48162"},"modified":"2022-03-08T09:18:06","modified_gmt":"2022-03-08T14:18:06","slug":"dr-benjamin-bergey-directs-instrumental-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/2022\/03\/dr-benjamin-bergey-directs-instrumental-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr. Benjamin Bergey Directs Instrumental Festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/emu.edu\/faculty-staff\/?show=bpb668\">Dr. Benjamin Bergey<\/a> from Eastern Mennonite University directed a full-day orchestra workshop at Eastern Mennonite School on Thursday, March 3, culminating in an evening program in the school\u2019s auditorium. The experience on site was scheduled when the annual Mennonite Schools Council instrumental festival was cancelled due to COVID.<\/p>\n<p>Featured pieces for the day\u2019s rehearsals and program included \u201cThree Riders Overture,\u201d composed by C.L. Gruselle; \u201cEnglish Folk Songs Suite,\u201d composed by R. Vaughan Williams; and the soaring \u201cOn Top of the World,\u201d composed by B. Balmages.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bergey commended the students\u2019 preparation for the focused day, thanks to EMS strings teacher <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/facultystaff\/maria-lorcas\/\">Mar\u00eda Lorcas<\/a>, and band teacher, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/facultystaff\/nick-gardner\/\">Nick Gardner<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Bergey is assistant professor of music at EMU, where he directs the choirs and orchestra, and teaches courses on music theory and conducting. He is an active musician who currently conducts the Rapidan Orchestra in Orange, Va. He completed his doctorate and masters at James Madison University in Orchestral Conducting, where he conducted the Symphony and Chamber Orchestras, as well as the Opera Orchestra, conducting performances of Rossini\u2019s \u201cBarber of Seville\u201d and Puccini\u2019s \u201cLa Boheme.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a treat to hear and see the full orchestra on our stage again,\u201d said Paul Leaman, head of school. \u201cWe will never again take for granted the gift of making and enjoying music together!\u201d<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Benjamin Bergey from Eastern Mennonite University directed a full-day orchestra workshop at Eastern Mennonite School on Thursday, March 3, culminating in an evening program in the school\u2019s auditorium. The experience on site was scheduled when the annual Mennonite Schools Council instrumental festival was cancelled due to COVID. Featured pieces for the day\u2019s rehearsals and\u2026<\/p>","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":48165,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[81],"tags":[21,58,109],"class_list":["post-48162","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","tag-music","tag-orchestra","tag-the-arts"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48162","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=48162"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/48162\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/48165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=48162"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=48162"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.easternmennonite.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=48162"}],"curies":[{"name":"gracias","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}