{"id":1652,"date":"2010-12-19T17:04:22","date_gmt":"2010-12-19T22:04:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=1652"},"modified":"2010-12-19T17:04:22","modified_gmt":"2010-12-19T22:04:22","slug":"a-visit-from-st-nick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=1652","title":{"rendered":"A Visit From St. Nick"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Last Friday&#8217;s annual <a href=\"http:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=1604\">Christmas Concert fundraiser<\/a> was well attended and we managed to raise some good money on top of having a good time. \u00a0I was particularly excited about this concert because I had written a brand new composition for last year&#8217;s show, but winter weather forced us to cancel it. \u00a0We finally got to premier my composition for narrator and big band, music set to the poem <em>A Visit From St. Nick<\/em>. \u00a0Rodney Hagans is the narrator, but unfortunately he&#8217;s out of the camera frame for the whole video. \u00a0Still, you can get a good idea of how the chart sounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"656\" height=\"369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pkFlkKoxnL4?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last Friday&#8217;s annual Christmas Concert fundraiser was well attended and we managed to raise some good money on top of having a good time. \u00a0I was particularly excited about this concert because I had written a brand new composition for last year&#8217;s show, but winter weather forced us to cancel it. \u00a0We finally got to &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=1652\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">A Visit From St. Nick<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":15350306,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"{title}\n\n{excerpt}\n\n{url}","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"_wpas_customize_per_network":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1364],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1652","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-composition"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/peFHCc-qE","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/15350306"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1652"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1652\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1652"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1652"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1652"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}