{"id":410722,"date":"2026-08-19T10:10:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:10:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410722\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T10:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T10:10:16","slug":"east-texas-tonight-east-texas-musician-shares-how-a-childhood-love-for-music-took-him-across-the-globe","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/410722\/","title":{"rendered":"East Texas Tonight: East Texas musician shares how a childhood love for music took him across the globe"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\">TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Weston Jennings is an accomplished organist, conductor and harpsichordist who has performed across the United States and Europe \u2014 including some of the world\u2019s most historic cathedrals.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">But his journey into music wasn\u2019t always about the organ.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He first picked up the piano at just five years old, and it wasn\u2019t until he was 16 that he discovered the pipe organ at a summer arts camp in Michigan. That moment would eventually take him from Eastman School of Music, to Yale, to England \u2014 where he served as an organ scholar at places including Canterbury Cathedral and London\u2019s Royal Festival Hall.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Today, he\u2019s right here in East Texas, serving as Director of Music and Organist at First Presbyterian Church in Tyler, teaching at Stephen F. Austin State University and leading New Texas Sinfonia.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright 2026 KLTV. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"TYLER, Texas (KLTV) &#8211; Weston Jennings is an accomplished organist, conductor and harpsichordist who has performed across the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":410723,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[143434,133173,143436,111495,143437,27,29,28,143435],"class_list":["post-410722","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-texas","tag-east-texas-musician","tag-east-texas-tonight","tag-first-presbyterian-church","tag-new-texas-sinfonia","tag-stephen-f-austin-university","tag-texas","tag-texas-headlines","tag-texas-news","tag-weston-jennings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410722","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=410722"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/410722\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/410723"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=410722"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=410722"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=410722"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}