{"id":22040,"date":"2025-10-15T12:21:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:21:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/?p=22040"},"modified":"2025-10-15T12:21:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-15T21:21:35","slug":"band-news-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/band-news-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Band News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>A Record Number of Students Will Represent Steller Community for All-State<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Each year, the Alaska School Activities Association (ASAA) sponsors the All-State Music Festival for high school band, choir, and orchestra students.&nbsp; Participation requires rigorous and highly&nbsp;competitive auditions.&nbsp; Attaining regular chairs or even a spot on the alternate list is the pinnacle of high school musicians.&nbsp; Six students for Steller Band auditioned for this year&#8217;s All-State Band.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The audition results for the 2025 ASAA All-State Band were released last weekend.&nbsp; All of the Steller Band students did exceptionally well: Five students are accepted; one student is placed on the alternate list. The students on the alternate list are in &#8220;on call&#8221; status.&nbsp; If spots become available, the students will be called up.&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>These highly accomplished students for Steller Band are:<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>Charlie Banning, trumpet &#8211; alternate<\/div>\n<div>Liam Kraft, trumpet<\/div>\n<div>Josephine Leonard, French horn<\/div>\n<div>Marley McDonagh, flute<\/div>\n<div>Zoe McDonagh, French horn<\/div>\n<div>Remiel Porter, percussion<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>&#8220;These students put a lot of effort into the auditions.&nbsp; When I learned that six of our band students made either the regular chairs or the alternate list, I was over the moon.&nbsp; I am still doing the Happy Dance now&#8221;, said Mr. Toba, the band teacher.&nbsp; &#8220;The number of students is, to my best of knowledge, the most in our school history.&nbsp; Steller will be well-represented for All-State in November.&nbsp; I cannot be prouder of these highly accomplished band students.&#8221;<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div>The 2025 All-State Music Festival will be from Thursday, November 20, through Saturday, the 22nd, at Betty Davis East High School.&nbsp; The gala concert will take place in the Saturday evening at West High School Auditorium, starting at 6 p.m.&nbsp; The public is invited.<\/div>\n<div>&nbsp;<\/div>\n<div><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-22041\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-All-State-Students-600x296.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"296\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-All-State-Students-600x296.jpeg 600w, https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-All-State-Students-1200x592.jpeg 1200w, https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-All-State-Students-300x148.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-All-State-Students-768x379.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-All-State-Students-1536x758.jpeg 1536w, https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-All-State-Students-2048x1010.jpeg 2048w, https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/2025-All-State-Students-624x308.jpeg 624w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Record Number of Students Will Represent Steller Community for All-State &nbsp; Each year, the Alaska School Activities Association (ASAA) sponsors the All-State Music Festival for high school band, choir, and orchestra students.&nbsp; Participation requires rigorous and highly&nbsp;competitive auditions.&nbsp; Attaining regular chairs or even a spot on the alternate list is the pinnacle of high [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-22040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22040","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22040"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22040\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":22042,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22040\/revisions\/22042"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stellerschool712.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}