{"id":19507,"date":"2014-12-11T17:02:25","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T23:02:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/?p=19507"},"modified":"2014-12-11T17:02:25","modified_gmt":"2014-12-11T23:02:25","slug":"alumni-cresap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/2014\/12\/11\/alumni-cresap\/","title":{"rendered":"Alumni: Cresap"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">CRESAP&rsquo;S TRUMPET CAREER<br>\nSOARS SINCE GRADUATION<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">Andy Cresap hasn&rsquo;t missed a beat, from the day he stepped onto the Bemidji State campus as an aspiring musician through graduation in 2010; from acceptance into the prestigious University of North Texas graduate program to earning a chair with an award-winning group; or working his trumpet in a classical ensemble to playing in the horn section for two sellout shows headlined by Aretha Franklin.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">After arriving at UNT, Cresap became part of the 1 O&rsquo;Clock Lab Band, which earned Downbeat Magazine Awards last year as the best large jazz ensemble and best college Latin music group.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">In September, he backed Franklin as she delighted Texas crowds at Austin City Limits in Austin and the Winspear Opera House in Dallas.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>&ldquo;It was an amazing experience to work with an artist of her caliber,&rdquo; Cresap said.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>&ldquo;Even at 73, she put on an unbelievable show.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">He started looking for more stage appearances this fall by taking a hiatus from school and exploring the job market in Las Vegas.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>He plans to perform with different shows and eventually catch on somewhere permanently.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p2\">&ldquo;I have always focused on being a well-rounded player,&rdquo; Cresap said when explaining how the beat will continue.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>&ldquo;When I left UNT, I was playing mostly jazz, pop and commercial.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp; <\/span>My career goal is to perform mainly commercial and jazz music as a lead trumpet player.&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CRESAP&rsquo;S TRUMPET CAREER SOARS SINCE GRADUATION Andy Cresap hasn&rsquo;t missed a beat, from the day he stepped onto the Bemidji State campus as an aspiring musician through graduation in 2010; from acceptance into the prestigious University of North Texas graduate program to earning a chair with an award-winning group; or working his trumpet in a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[958],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19507","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-magazine"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19507"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19507\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19508,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19507\/revisions\/19508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bemidjistate.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}