{"id":1547,"date":"2008-12-08T10:53:48","date_gmt":"2008-12-08T18:53:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/?p=1547"},"modified":"2008-12-08T10:53:48","modified_gmt":"2008-12-08T18:53:48","slug":"the_mckenna_service","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2008\/12\/the_mckenna_service\/","title":{"rendered":"Farewell Service For McKenna"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the <em>Boston Globe<\/em>, Matt Negrin reports on yesterday&#8217;s memorial service for pianist Dave McKenna.&nbsp;He includes what&nbsp;one of McKenna&#8217;s favorite singers said about working with him.&nbsp; <\/p>\n<blockquote dir=\"ltr\" style=\"MARGIN-RIGHT: 0px\">\n<p>It was like partially singing with an orchestra and floating on air at the same time, because he was buoyant,&#8221; said Daryl Sherman, who had sung with the pianist since the 1980s, including at his final performance in the Oak Room in New York City&#8217;s Algonquin Hotel. She called McKenna the &#8220;Woonsocket hero.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>To read all of Negrin&#8217;s article, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boston.com\/ae\/music\/articles\/2008\/12\/08\/pianists_rich_jazz_legacy_endures\/?rss_id=Boston.com+--+Music+news\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the Boston Globe, Matt Negrin reports on yesterday&#8217;s memorial service for pianist Dave McKenna.&nbsp;He includes what&nbsp;one of McKenna&#8217;s favorite singers said about working with him.&nbsp; It was like partially singing with an orchestra and floating on air at the same time, because he was buoyant,&#8221; said Daryl Sherman, who had sung with the pianist [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1547","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}