{"id":2603,"date":"2011-05-07T22:40:10","date_gmt":"2011-05-08T05:40:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/?p=2603"},"modified":"2011-05-07T23:19:00","modified_gmt":"2011-05-08T06:19:00","slug":"weekend-extra-sancton-on-stage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2011\/05\/weekend-extra-sancton-on-stage\/","title":{"rendered":"Weekend Extra: Sancton On Stage"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/2006\/07\/sanctons_song_for_students\/\"target=\"_blank\">I wrote about Tom Sancton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book<\/a> <i>Song For My <a href=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Sancton-Book.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Sancton-Book.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"Sancton Book\" width=\"140\" height=\"140\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-2604\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Sancton-Book.jpg 140w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Sancton-Book-70x70.jpg 70w, https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/Sancton-Book-110x110.jpg 110w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 140px) 100vw, 140px\" \/><\/a>Fathers<\/I> being assigned reading for Tulane University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s incoming students. That venerable school chose it to give the freshmen a shared intellectual experience that would stimulate discussion. Not incidentally, it would also acquaint them with a profound aspect of the culture and cach\u00c3\u00a9 of Tulane&#8217;s home, New Orleans. <\/p>\n<p><p>A respected correspondent, an overseas bureau chief and a clarinetist who mastered the traditional music of his hometown, Sancton has now adapted the book as a theatrical experience.  The stage presentation will run in a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabaretlechatnoir.com\/index.php?id=298\"target=\"_blank\">St. Charles Avenue theater<\/a> for two weekends this month. This preview is enough to make me want to drop everything and hurry down to a place that, during my eight years there, got into my blood and won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get out.<\/p>\n<div style=\"text-align: center;\"> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"440\" height=\"355\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/j_si5OXylZs?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p><p>For Sancton in a different context&#151;trading fours with Wynton Marsalis at the 2002 Marciac Festival in France&#151;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=HFp5d38aPtM&#038;feature=related\"target-\"_bank\">go here<\/a>.  Sancton, clarinet; Marsalis, trumpet; Charles Bremner, piano; Adrian Dearnell, bass; Philippe Camus, drums. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Five years ago, I wrote about Tom Sancton\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s book Song For My Fathers being assigned reading for Tulane University\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s incoming students. That venerable school chose it to give the freshmen a shared intellectual experience that would stimulate discussion. Not incidentally, it would also acquaint them with a profound aspect of the culture and cach\u00c3\u00a9 of [&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-2603","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-main","7":"entry","8":"has-post-thumbnail"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603","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=2603"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2603\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2603"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2603"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/rifftides\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2603"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}