{"id":7023,"date":"2016-04-27T16:55:36","date_gmt":"2016-04-27T16:55:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=7023"},"modified":"2021-07-22T05:23:08","modified_gmt":"2021-07-22T05:23:08","slug":"hudson-star-observer-mckenna-selissen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2016\/04\/27\/hudson-star-observer-mckenna-selissen\/","title":{"rendered":"Hudson Star-Observer interviews McKenna Selissen &#8217;18 on performing with Barry Manilow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/04\/Hudson-Star-Observer-logo.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-7024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2016\/04\/Hudson-Star-Observer-logo.png\" alt=\"Hudson Star Observer - logo\" width=\"200\" height=\"64\" \/><\/a>The Hudson Star-Observer, a newspaper in Hudson, Wis., recently interviewed Augsburg College student and choir member <strong><span id=\"schemaorg-article-body\">McKenna Selissen<\/span> &#8217;18<\/strong> about her experience performing with the Augsburg Choir as they joined Barry Manilow at the Xcel Energy Center.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was unbelievable to share the stage with someone so well respected and well known in the music world,&#8221; Selissen said. &#8220;I am amazed how many hit songs he&#8217;s had and with all the commercial jingles he&#8217;s wrote; he is extremely talented.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The students who performed with Manilow were each given a pair of complimentary tickets to the concert. Selissen, a music therapy major, happily gifted her tickets to two of her clients. One of the clients uses Manilow&#8217;s music extensively in his therapy sessions.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;He knows every song and all the words so it was such a coincidence when we were asked to do this. This client was beyond excited to not only go to his first concert, but to see his very favorite singer,&#8221; Selissen said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"node-title\">Read HHS alum performs with Barry Manilow on the Hudson Star-Observer site.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Hudson Star-Observer, a newspaper in Hudson, Wis., recently interviewed Augsburg College student and choir member McKenna Selissen &#8217;18 about her experience performing with the Augsburg Choir as they joined Barry Manilow at the Xcel Energy Center. &#8220;It was unbelievable to share the stage with someone so well respected and well known in the music &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":263,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,8],"tags":[275,3843,3850,3849,2012,2015],"class_list":["post-7023","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-the-news","category-students","tag-augsburg-choir","tag-barry-manilow","tag-hudson-star-observer","tag-mckenna-selissen","tag-music","tag-music-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/263"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7023"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10605,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7023\/revisions\/10605"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}