{"id":21192,"date":"2014-03-12T11:24:11","date_gmt":"2014-03-12T15:24:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=21192"},"modified":"2014-03-12T10:27:42","modified_gmt":"2014-03-12T14:27:42","slug":"u-s-army-field-band-to-perform-at-lincoln","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/?p=21192","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Army Field Band to perform at Lincoln"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: arial,helvetica,sans-serif; font-size: medium;\"><em><strong>Eight university students will accompany soldier-musicians at free, public concert<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_743749\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/USArmyFieldBand-300x163.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-743749\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-743749 \" style=\"border: 2px solid black; margin: 4px;\" alt=\"The U.S. Army Field Band will perform at Lincoln University on March 16.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/USArmyFieldBand-300x163.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"163\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-743749\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The U.S. Army Field Band will perform at Lincoln University on March 16.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em><strong><\/strong><\/em>LINCOLN UNIVERSITY<b> \u2013 <\/b>The U. S. Army Field Band and Soldier\u2019s Chorus, known as the Musical Ambassadors of the Army, will perform Sunday, March 16, at Lincoln\u2019s Manuel Rivero Hall Gymnasium at 5 p.m.<\/p>\n<p>The free, public concert marks this year\u2019s third Lincoln-sponsored musical arts event featuring nationally-recognized talent for the student body and community-at-large.\u00a0 The Chamber Orchestra of Philadelphia performed on both Nov. 12 and Feb. 11, a university news release said.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>\u201cEducation through the arts has proven to be an invaluable tool in enriching the lives of people of all ages and demographics,\u201d said Dr. Robert R. Jennings, the university president. \u00a0\u201cTo host the men and women musicians of our nation\u2019s Armed Forces in this the 160<sup>th<\/sup> year of the Lincoln University is a most gracious honor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"More...\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/chescotimes.com\/wp-includes\/js\/tinymce\/plugins\/wordpress\/img\/trans.gif\" \/>The U.S. Army Field Band includes four performing components: the Concert Band, the Soldiers&#8217; Chorus, the Jazz Ambassadors, and the Volunteers. \u00a0Each tours the U.S. approximately 100 days per year, appearing before live audiences of over 2 million people and broadcast to over 2 billion, as directed by the secretary of the Army, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>The soldier-musicians tailor their concerts to audience venues as diverse as veterans\u2019 homes, hospitals, schools and sporting arenas. \u00a0Recent performances include Summerfest, Country USA, the AAA 400 at Dover International Speedway, and the Army All-American Bowl, which they support annually, the release said.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, eight students from the Lincoln University Concert Band will accompany the Army performers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLove is the language of the heart, and music is its lesson plan,\u201d said Director of Bands Dr. H. Wade Johnson.\u00a0 \u201cWe&#8217;re delighted that the Lincoln University students will be exposed to and perform with the musical ambassadors of the United States Armed Forces.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eight university students will accompany soldier-musicians at free, public concert LINCOLN UNIVERSITY \u2013 The U. S. Army Field Band and Soldier\u2019s Chorus, known as the Musical Ambassadors of the Army, will perform Sunday, March 16, at Lincoln\u2019s Manuel Rivero Hall Gymnasium at 5 p.m. The free, public concert marks this year\u2019s third Lincoln-sponsored musical arts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":21191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[5148,5149,2016,5150,5151],"class_list":["post-21192","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-director-of-bands-dr-h-wade-johnson","tag-dr-robert-r-jennings","tag-lincoln-university","tag-lincoln-university-concert-band","tag-the-u-s-army-field-band-and-soldiers-chorus"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21192","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=21192"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21192\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/21191"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21192"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21192"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.unionvilletimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21192"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}