A few weeks before graduation, 18-year-old Logan Phares sat in a concert hall and listened as a full orchestra brought his music to life.<\/p>\n
For the Phoenix Symphony, it was part of an educational performance. For Phares, a senior at Boulder Creek High School in Anthem, it was something more personal: a four-minute composition he wrote and arranged over several months, inspired by heartbreak and shaped by persistence, now performed by a full symphony.<\/p>\n
\u201cI was intimidated, but I jumped at it,\u201d Phares said of the chance. \u201cI wanted to write it and, even if I wasn\u2019t going to make it, I still just wanted the feedback in any way possible.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A few weeks before graduation, 18-year-old Logan Phares sat in a concert hall and listened as a full…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":723267,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5131],"tags":[5229,32867,5643,1587,299859,63460,174055,1589,69094,69096,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":["post-723266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-phoenix","tag-america","tag-anthem","tag-arizona","tag-az","tag-boulder-creek-high-school","tag-deer-valley-unified-school-district","tag-dvusd","tag-phoenix","tag-phoenix-symphony","tag-symphony-hall","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-of-america","tag-unitedstates","tag-unitedstatesofamerica","tag-us","tag-usa"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116393151505503213","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723266","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=723266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/723266\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723267"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=723266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=723266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=723266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}