{"id":229,"date":"2026-06-14T19:17:33","date_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:17:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phibetamu.org\/chi\/?p=229"},"modified":"2026-06-14T19:17:33","modified_gmt":"2026-06-14T23:17:33","slug":"niskayuna-music-teacher-wins-10k-honors-from-barry-manilow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phibetamu.org\/chi\/2026\/06\/14\/niskayuna-music-teacher-wins-10k-honors-from-barry-manilow\/","title":{"rendered":"Niskayuna music teacher wins $10K, honors from Barry Manilow"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Phil Pandori is the band teacher in the Niskayuna Central School District and is a Phi Beta Mu member (Chi Chapter)\u00a0 In February, he was modified that he was one of ten finalists in the Capital Region for the Barry Manilow Music Teacher Award and recently was notified that he is the winner.\u00a0 His prize is $10,000 \u2014 half for him personally, and half to buy new instruments for students, as well as 10 tickets to the Barry Manilow Concert.\u00a0 Way to go, Phil!!<\/p>\n\n\n<style>.kb-image229_dd0afc-fd .kb-image-has-overlay:after{opacity:0.3;}<\/style>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-kadence-image kb-image229_dd0afc-fd size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"522\" src=\"https:\/\/phibetamu.org\/chi\/files\/2026\/06\/phil.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"kb-img wp-image-230\" srcset=\"https:\/\/phibetamu.org\/chi\/files\/2026\/06\/phil.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/phibetamu.org\/chi\/files\/2026\/06\/phil-300x157.jpg 300w, https:\/\/phibetamu.org\/chi\/files\/2026\/06\/phil-768x401.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Phil Pandori is the band teacher in the Niskayuna Central School District and is a Phi Beta Mu member (Chi Chapter)\u00a0 In February, he was modified that he was one of ten finalists in the Capital Region for the Barry Manilow Music Teacher Award and recently was notified that he is the winner.\u00a0 His prize<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7735,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","infinite-scroll-item"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phibetamu.org\/chi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phibetamu.org\/chi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phibetamu.org\/chi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phibetamu.org\/chi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7735"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phibetamu.org\/chi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/phibetamu.org\/chi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phibetamu.org\/chi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phibetamu.org\/chi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phibetamu.org\/chi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}