{"id":3648,"date":"2012-06-27T22:19:53","date_gmt":"2012-06-28T02:19:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wilktone.com\/?p=3648"},"modified":"2023-03-30T09:47:57","modified_gmt":"2023-03-30T13:47:57","slug":"memoriam-for-dr-david-kirby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/?p=3648","title":{"rendered":"Memoriam for Dr. David Kirby"},"content":{"rendered":"
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My friend and colleague, Dr. David Kirby, passed away unexpectedly yesterday. David was the Director of Bands at Pfeiffer University and one of the finest woodwind players I have known. We had been collaborating on different projects recently. He and I co-conducted a concert combining the Land of the Sky Symphonic Band and Pfeiffer University Wind Ensemble last April. If you’ve been reading my blog for a while, you may remember his name as one of the members of the Lenoir Saxophone Ensemble, a group I recently wrote a number of arrangements for.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Today I composed this short piece for saxophone trio: soprano, tenor, and bari. David played alto saxophone with the Lenoir Saxophone Ensemble<\/a>. It’s simply called Memoriam<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

My friend and colleague, Dr. David Kirby, passed away unexpectedly yesterday. David was the Director of Bands at Pfeiffer University and one of the finest woodwind players I have known. We had been collaborating on different projects recently. He and I co-conducted a concert combining the Land of the Sky Symphonic Band and Pfeiffer University … Continue reading Memoriam for Dr. David Kirby<\/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":"","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-3648","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-WQ","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648","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=3648"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8218,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3648\/revisions\/8218"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wilktone.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}