{"id":533,"date":"2017-10-18T08:07:31","date_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:07:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/?p=533"},"modified":"2017-10-18T08:07:31","modified_gmt":"2017-10-18T15:07:31","slug":"sax-noir-re-formed-and-hired-to-play-orpheum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/?p=533","title":{"rendered":"Sax Noir re-formed and hired to play Orpheum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0225.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-532\" src=\"http:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"550\" height=\"362\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0225.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/IMG_0225-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Sax Noir was down to a duo briefly, with the departure of Debbie Webb to the &#8220;other&#8221; coast and Valerie Crocker getting too busy with family and her work as a music teacher. &nbsp;Bryan took over brilliantly as principal saxophone of the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble for Debbie but wanted to stay on tenor for the quartet. &nbsp;Ace teacher and player Tina Wang joined both PSWE and Sax Noir on 2nd Alto. &nbsp;We cast about for a Soprano player and Michael Morimoto, saxophone instructor at the Vancouver Academy of Music was interested. &nbsp;He&#8217;s joined just in time for our rehearsal this weekend to prepare for our upcoming gig at the 90th birthday celebrations of Vancouver&#8217;s premier music hall, the Orpheum Theatre!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sax Noir was down to a duo briefly, with the departure of Debbie Webb to the &#8220;other&#8221; coast and Valerie Crocker getting too busy with family and her work as a music teacher. &nbsp;Bryan took over brilliantly as principal saxophone of the Pacific Symphonic Wind Ensemble for Debbie but wanted to stay on tenor for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-533","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7zTpS-8B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=533"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":534,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533\/revisions\/534"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=533"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=533"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saxnoir.com\/site\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=533"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}