{"id":25695,"date":"2025-11-02T08:09:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-02T08:09:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/25695\/"},"modified":"2025-11-02T08:09:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-02T08:09:10","slug":"highland-high-students-recognized-by-ny-state-school-music-association-daily-freeman","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/25695\/","title":{"rendered":"Highland High students recognized by NY State School Music Association \u2013 Daily Freeman"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Highland High School students Scaret Lovell, Judith VanKleeck, Gisella Shaut, and Ava McNamee were recognized by the New York State School Music Association (NYSSMA) for their musicianship.<\/p>\n<p>Lovell was selected to perform with the NYSSMA All-State Jazz Ensemble on vibraphone in December in Rochester. Only 20 students statewide are chosen for this elite ensemble \u2014 an honor that reflects Lovell\u2019s remarkable skill and dedication.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, VanKleeck (drums) and Shaut (string bass) were named alternates for the 2025 NYSSMA All-State Jazz Ensemble. Shaut was also selected as an alternate for the All-State Symphonic Orchestra on string bass, and McNamee was chosen as an alternate for the All-State Mixed Chorus.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highland High School students Scaret Lovell, Judith VanKleeck, Gisella Shaut, and Ava McNamee were recognized by the New&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25696,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[16345,85,267,9,11,10,49,51,50],"class_list":{"0":"post-25695","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-highland-high-school","9":"tag-latest-headlines","10":"tag-local-news","11":"tag-new-york","12":"tag-new-york-headlines","13":"tag-new-york-news","14":"tag-new-york-state","15":"tag-new-york-state-headlines","16":"tag-new-york-state-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25695","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=25695"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25695\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25696"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25695"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25695"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25695"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}