{"id":547,"date":"2009-03-03T11:53:00","date_gmt":"2009-03-03T15:53:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/03\/noche-de-salsa\/"},"modified":"2009-03-03T11:53:00","modified_gmt":"2009-03-03T15:53:00","slug":"noche-de-salsa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2009\/03\/03\/noche-de-salsa\/","title":{"rendered":"Noche de Salsa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/cranelepic-711886.jpg\"><img style=\"margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt;float: left;cursor: pointer;width: 320px;height: 186px\" src=\"http:\/\/northcountrypublicradio.org\/blogs\/ballotbox\/uploaded_images\/cranelepic-711882.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>It was cold last night, but the practice room at the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.potsdam.edu\/academics\/Crane\/index.cfm\">Crane School of Music<\/a> in Potsdam was sizzling with salsa!<span>    <\/span>Production Director Joel Hurd and I sat in on a rehearsal of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.potsdam.edu\/newsandevents\/209_latinensemble.cfm\">Crane Latin Ensemble<\/a>.<span>  <\/span>Actually, I sat while Joel recorded their music.<span>  <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span>The 21 musicians represent nearly every aspect of music life at Crane \u2013 strings, brass, percussion, piano, woodwinds and voice.<span>  <\/span><\/span>Under the direction of Dr. Marsha Baxter, the ensemble is preparing for another trip to Mexico this summer. <span>  <\/span><span>  <\/span>I sat grinning for more than an hour during their prep session.<span>   <\/span>It\u2019s dynamic music from a group of talented young people who played their hearts and souls out.<span>   <\/span>I could have grinned all night.<span><\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"MsoNormal\"><span> We\u2019ll share a snippet of their music Thursday morning during the \u201c8 o\u2019clock Hour\u201d and more next week.<span>   <\/span>In the meantime, catch the ensemble\u2019s Noche de Salsa (Night of Salsa) this Friday night at 7:30 in SUNY Potsdam\u2019s Hosmer Hall.<span>   <\/span>It\u2019s free!<span>     <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was cold last night, but the practice room at the Crane School of Music [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}