{"id":40916,"date":"2019-06-09T08:30:00","date_gmt":"2019-06-09T15:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/rainier-youth-choirs-primo-voce-captures-first-place-at-festival\/"},"modified":"2019-06-09T08:30:00","modified_gmt":"2019-06-09T15:30:00","slug":"rainier-youth-choirs-primo-voce-captures-first-place-at-festival","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/news\/rainier-youth-choirs-primo-voce-captures-first-place-at-festival\/","title":{"rendered":"Rainier Youth Choirs&#8217; Primo Voce captures first place at festival"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Covington-based Rainier Youth Choirs&rsquo; youngest ensemble won the top award at the adjudicated Music in the Park Festival last weekend in Federal Way.<\/p>\n<p>Talented second- and third-graders received a superior rating by judges in their category and brought home the trophy. The awards ceremony was at the Wild Waves Theme &#038; Water Park after a fun day in the park.<\/p>\n<p>Primo Voce sang selections usually performed by much older groups: Betinis&rsquo;s &ldquo;Be Like the Bird,&rdquo; a three-part a cappella canon with text by Victor Hugo; &ldquo;Sarasponda,&rdquo; a Dutch folk song, arr. Boshkov; and &ldquo;A Menagerie of Songs&rdquo; by Jennings.<\/p>\n<p>Auditions for fall enrollment in Primo Voce, grades 2-4, and for RYC&rsquo;s other three choir levels for grades 5 and up are being scheduled now. Singers from all area communities are eligible and are also invited to participate in RYC&rsquo;s 8th annual Summer Choir Day Camp Aug. 5-8 in Kent. <\/p>\n<p>More information can be found at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.rainieryouthchoirs.org\" target=\"_blank\">RainierYouthChoirs.org<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covington-based Rainier Youth Choirs&rsquo; youngest ensemble won the top award at the adjudicated Music in the Park Festival last weekend in Federal Way.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":40917,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"yst_prominent_words":[],"class_list":["post-40916","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40916"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40916"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40916\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40917"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40916"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40916"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40916"},{"taxonomy":"yst_prominent_words","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.kentreporter.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/yst_prominent_words?post=40916"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}