{"id":68394,"date":"2017-05-01T16:08:50","date_gmt":"2017-05-01T22:08:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-bands-wrap-up-concert-season\/"},"modified":"2017-05-01T22:08:50","modified_gmt":"2017-05-01T22:08:50","slug":"cortez-bands-wrap-up-concert-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/cortez-bands-wrap-up-concert-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Cortez bands wrap up concert season"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=0938487d-74d6-4a34-9be0-2639a7c44378&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1043\" alt=\"The Montezuma-Cortez High School band performs with the Dallas Brass earlier this year.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">The Montezuma-Cortez High School band performs with the Dallas Brass earlier this year.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Ken Degener\/For The Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The Montezuma-Cortez High School bands will wrap up their performance season with two concerts this month.<\/p>\n<p>M-CHS hosts the All-District Band Night Tuesday at 7 p.m. The senior appreciation concert will be May 11, at M-CHS at 7 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The senior appreciation concert will be Director Rodney Ritthaler\u2019s final concert with the band. His 28-year career at M-CHS will end when he retires after this school year.<\/p>\n<p>Ritthaler said the bands are solid this year.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have some great kids and the talent\u2019s there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The jazz band played at the Colorado Mesa University jazz festival yesterday. The jazz band will wrap up the festival season at the Skyline Jazz Festival in Longmont on May 5.<\/p>\n<p>Both concert and jazz bands earned \u201csuperior\u201d ratings at the CHSAA large group festival in Bayfield on April 20, Ritthaler said. Both groups got perfect ratings from judges at the festival, he said.<\/p>\n<p>The concert band earned a 2 in the sight reading portion of the event, which is an excellent rating, Ritthaler said.<\/p>\n<p>On April 21, both groups traveled to the Colorado West Music Festival in Grand Junction. Both bands earned \u201csuperior\u201d ratings at that event, and the jazz band was deemed the top jazz group in the 3A category, Ritthaler said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Friday: Rodney Ritthaler discusses his career in an interview with The Journal<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":68395,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[281,21,28,60,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-68394","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-agriculture","tag-cortez","tag-headlines","tag-montezuma-county","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68394","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=68394"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/68394\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/68395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=68394"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=68394"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=68394"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=68394"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}