{"id":49036,"date":"2025-10-15T08:40:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-15T12:40:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/?p=49036"},"modified":"2025-10-16T10:35:48","modified_gmt":"2025-10-16T14:35:48","slug":"mr-mark-urmson-brings-musical-talents-to-nphs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/top-stories\/2025\/10\/15\/mr-mark-urmson-brings-musical-talents-to-nphs\/","title":{"rendered":"Mr. Mark Urmson brings musical talents to NPHS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0Mr. Mark Urmson is wearing many hats this school year. At Penndale, Urmson teaches\u00a0 Exploring Music, Media Arts, Theater Arts, and is the director of Penndale Theater. And now, at North Penn High School he teaches Music Tech 1, Music Production, and Guitar 1.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Going from the high school to the Penndale everyday is certainly not easy.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">&#8220;It\u2019s a challenge.. It\u2019s definitely a shame that I\u2019m not there all day,\u201d Urmson said.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Urmson&#8217;s inspirations to become a music teacher started with being a student. He first started playing the saxophone to get out of classes he didn\u2019t like.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI took my first lesson, came back a week later and could basically play the entire book already,\u201d Urmson shared.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Urmson\u2019s favorite parts of being a music teacher are being able to teach in a district where the kids can actually learn and play music. He likes being the person that gives them that experience that he didn\u2019t have.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI think it\u2019s cool, especially now, working with the Marching Knights and teaching here at the High School,\u201d Ursmon added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">As a student in his class at Penndale, I had the opportunity to play the drums with Urmson. His class really let me express myself and he helped me move forward in my music career. I would recommend anyone who is interested in music to take his class. He has the experience to further excel anyone in. <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Mr. Mark Urmson is wearing many hats this school year. At Penndale, Urmson teaches\u00a0 Exploring Music, Media Arts, Theater Arts, and is the director of Penndale Theater. And now, at North Penn High School he teaches Music Tech 1, Music Production, and Guitar 1.\u00a0 Going from the high school to the Penndale everyday is certainly&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49037,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[25,11],"tags":[],"staff_name":[1547],"class_list":["post-49036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-people-in-the-pods","category-top-stories","staff_name-ian-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49036"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49038,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49036\/revisions\/49038"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49037"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49036"},{"taxonomy":"staff_name","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.knightcrier.org\/app-json\/wp\/v2\/staff_name?post=49036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}