{"id":228,"date":"2011-11-20T01:04:34","date_gmt":"2011-11-20T01:04:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/?p=228"},"modified":"2012-10-24T19:09:57","modified_gmt":"2012-10-24T19:09:57","slug":"meet-connie-fifth-grader-guru","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/11\/meet-connie-fifth-grader-guru","title":{"rendered":"Meet Connie: Fifth Grader Guru"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Connie-in-de-Benneville-2010.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-232\" title=\"ConnieOrdway\" src=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Connie-in-de-Benneville-2010-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"Connie Ordway\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Connie-in-de-Benneville-2010-225x300.jpg 225w, http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/11\/Connie-in-de-Benneville-2010.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a>Connie Ordway is a fifth grade teacher who just joined the Long Beach Chorale this year, and we&#8217;re so pleased to have her! She sang for nine years in the South Bay Master Chorale, &#8220;under the direction of the incomparable Iris Levine,&#8221; she says. &#8220;If I don&#8217;t sing, I will die! The beauty of music sustains me on a daily basis; to be a part of producing that beauty nourishes my soul,&#8221; Connie says. We couldn&#8217;t have said it better!<\/p>\n<p>Connie spends her time outside of work taking care of her three children. She has a fifteen-year-old son, Isaac, who is a sophomore at South Torrance High School. She also has two adopted children, six-year-old Robbie and three-year-old Lila. &#8220;They are biological siblings that we adopted from foster care, and we couldn&#8217;t be happier now that our family is complete!&#8221; Connie says. What a wonderful story!<\/p>\n<p>Connie&#8217;s favorite musical genres are classical, country, and musical theater. Welcome to the club. my dear.<\/p>\n<p>To &#8220;adopt&#8221; Connie as part of our Adopt a Singer program, click here:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vendini.com\/donation-software.html?d=ba09c23977f6604874e0dad306dded18&amp;t=donation\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.vendini.com\/images\/buttons\/donate-now.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"108\" height=\"22\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>To read more singer profiles in our Adopt a Singer campaign, click\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/category\/adopt-a-singer\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Thanks for supporting the Long Beach Chorale!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Connie Ordway is a fifth grade teacher who just joined the Long Beach Chorale this year, and we&#8217;re so pleased to have her! She sang for nine years in the South Bay Master Chorale, &#8220;under the direction of the incomparable &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/11\/meet-connie-fifth-grader-guru\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-adopt-a-singer"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=228"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":234,"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/228\/revisions\/234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.longbeachchorale.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}