{"id":67758,"date":"2017-03-15T03:27:45","date_gmt":"2017-03-15T09:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/m-chs-band-concert-is-march-28-in-cortez\/"},"modified":"2017-03-15T09:27:45","modified_gmt":"2017-03-15T09:27:45","slug":"m-chs-band-concert-is-march-28-in-cortez","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/m-chs-band-concert-is-march-28-in-cortez\/","title":{"rendered":"M-CHS band concert is March 28 in Cortez"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=1ced9d61-0abb-4548-b329-6c14e3bb2d20&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1324\" alt=\"Michael Levine from Dallas Brass practices with the Montezuma-Cortez High School band in February. The bands played a concert with the group.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">Michael Levine from Dallas Brass practices with the Montezuma-Cortez High School band in February. The bands played a concert with the group.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Sam Green\/The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>Montezuma-Cortez High School jazz and concert bands will play their spring concert on Tuesday, March 28.<\/p>\n<p>The free event starts at 7 p.m. at the M-CHS Auditorium.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re inviting everyone in the community,\u201d band director Rodney Ritthaler said.<\/p>\n<p>The jazz band\u2019s set will include funk tune \u201cLast Tangle of Lord Boogie,\u201d swing standard \u201cFly Me to the Moon\u201d and solo piano ballad \u201cIn Her Family,\u201d Ritthaler said.<\/p>\n<p>The symphonic winds and concert band also will play selections including a four-movement piece titled \u201cElements\u201d and the \u201cNathan Hale Trilogy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The groups are preparing for a festival schedule starting at the end of this month, Ritthaler said. Many of the tunes featured at the March 28 concert will appear on the program for festival appearances.<\/p>\n<p>On March 31, the jazz band will travel to Farmington, the San Juan Jazz festival. On April 20, the symphonic winds and concert band will travel to Bayfield for the Colorado High School Athletics Association large group festival.<\/p>\n<p>On April 21, the bands travel to Grand Junction for the Colorado West Music Festival.<\/p>\n<p>M-CHS hosts the All-District Band Night on May 2 at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The jazz band will wrap up the festival season at the Skyline Jazz Festival in Longmont on May 5.<\/p>\n<p>May 11 will be the senior appreciation concert, at M-CHS at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>This is Ritthaler\u2019s last year as M-CHS band director. He will retire this spring after 28 years on the job. He said his final season with the band has been one to remember so far.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019ve been doing really great,\u201d he said. \u201cThe marching season was great.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ritthaler plans rigorous schedule  in final year as band director<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":67759,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[21,28,60,36,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-67758","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-montezuma-cortez-high-school","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67758","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67758"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67758\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67759"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67758"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67758"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67758"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=67758"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}