{"id":210246,"date":"2024-02-21T16:13:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-21T21:13:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/?p=210246"},"modified":"2024-02-21T16:15:19","modified_gmt":"2024-02-21T21:15:19","slug":"aaron-helgeson-receives-benjamin-h-danks-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/2024\/02\/21\/aaron-helgeson-receives-benjamin-h-danks-award\/","title":{"rendered":"Aaron Helgeson Receives Benjamin H. Danks Award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/~helgeson\">Aaron Helgeson<\/a>, Associate Professor in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/john-j-cali-school-of-music\/\">Cali School of Music<\/a>, recently received the <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C3V4M9fA7uc\/?igsh=bmpweGp0M3RveTR3\" target=\"_blank\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/p\/C3V4M9fA7uc\/?igsh%3DbmpweGp0M3RveTR3&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1708455343538000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0tikL4Ase-uXde43KngaIZ\">Benjamin H. Danks award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters<\/a>, which recognizes exceptional talent and dedication to the craft of music composition.<\/p>\n<p>He specializes in composition and music theory, and uses transcription, adaptation, and collage to mix contemporary sounds with historical sources like wax cylinders, medieval psalms, and unfinished manuscripts.<\/p>\n<span class=\"prpl-button\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.aaronhelgeson.com\/\">Learn more at AaronHelgeson.com<\/a><\/span>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From the American Academy of Arts and Letters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":37,"featured_media":210247,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-210246","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-153_music","category-news-and-announcements"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210246","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/37"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=210246"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210246\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":210250,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/210246\/revisions\/210250"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/210247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=210246"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=210246"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/arts\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=210246"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}