{"id":8979,"date":"2010-11-22T10:14:10","date_gmt":"2010-11-22T15:14:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/utnews.utoledo.edu\/?p=8979"},"modified":"2010-11-22T10:20:24","modified_gmt":"2010-11-22T15:20:24","slug":"music-professor-to-discuss-release-of-composition-nov-22","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/11_22_2010\/music-professor-to-discuss-release-of-composition-nov-22","title":{"rendered":"Music professor to discuss release of composition Nov. 22 on WGTE radio show"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"attachment_8980\" style=\"width: 170px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/images.jpeg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-8980\" src=\"http:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/images.jpeg\" alt=\"Jex\" title=\"images\" width=\"160\" height=\"240\" class=\"size-full wp-image-8980\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-8980\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jex<\/p><\/div>Dr. David Jex, UT professor of music, will be a guest on WGTE FM 91\u2019s \u201cAfternoon Classics\u201d Monday, Nov. 22, at 1 p.m. <\/p>\n<p>He will talk about his new composition titled \u201cThree Dances\u201d for baritone saxophone and piano that was released on the disc, \u201cConnections,\u201d which features sax player Lynn Klock, a faculty member at the University of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n<p>Jex and Klock are both from the Toledo area and played together in bands while in college; they have stayed in touch over the years.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI sent a copy of \u2018Three Dances\u2019 to Lynn and to some other saxophone friends for possible performances,\u201d Jex said.<\/p>\n<p>The prolific composer continues to churn out material.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI just finished the composition \u2018Dark Passage\u2019 for alto saxophone and F horn,\u201d Jex said. \u201cTwo UT students requested a duet from me to play on their upcoming recitals, and this piece is the result.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Jex also is the music director for the Toledo Repertoire Theater\u2019s production of \u201cA Christmas Carol.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBesides rewriting some of the music, I\u2019m having a great time conducting and working with the cast,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. David Jex will discuss a new song he wrote on \u201cAfternoon Classics,\u201d which will air Monday, Nov. 22, at 1 p.m. on WGTE FM 91.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,7],"tags":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8979"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8979\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.utoledo.edu\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}