{"id":205530,"date":"2026-05-29T17:07:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:07:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205530\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T17:07:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T17:07:10","slug":"allentown-band-honors-memorial-day-lehigh-valley-press","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/205530\/","title":{"rendered":"Allentown Band honors Memorial Day \u2013 Lehigh Valley Press"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Published May 29. 2026 12:47PM<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Allentown Band performed a Memorial Remembrance concert May 24 at Springhouse Middle School.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The free concert, hosted by the South Whitehall Parks and Recreation Department, was held 7-8:30 p.m. at the school, 1200 Springhouse Road, Allentown.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Founded in 1828, the Allentown Band is recognized as America\u2019s oldest civilian concert band.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">Conductor Ronald Demkee surprised audience members by requesting the band perform the theme from the film \u201cMidway,\u201d composed by John Williams.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The program also featured music from \u201cSaving Private Ryan\u201d and \u201cThe Patriot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"article__body\">The Allentown Band is known for preserving and advancing the heritage of concert band music through community performances and educational outreach.<\/p>\n<p>PRESS PHOTO BY MICHAEL HIRSCHConductor Ronald Demkee, center, leads the Memorial Remembrance Concert at Springhouse Middle School.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Published May 29. 2026 12:47PM The Allentown Band performed a Memorial Remembrance concert May 24 at Springhouse Middle&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":205531,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[153,155,154],"class_list":["post-205530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem","tag-bethlehem-headlines","tag-bethlehem-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205530","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205530\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/205531"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}