{"id":697,"date":"2012-08-09T19:56:51","date_gmt":"2012-08-09T23:56:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/2012\/08\/09\/bocook-has-musical-ties-to-the-olympics\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T13:42:44","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T18:42:44","slug":"bocook-has-musical-ties-to-the-olympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/bocook-has-musical-ties-to-the-olympics\/","title":{"rendered":"Bocook has musical ties to the Olympics"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_3734\" style=\"width: 168px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jay-bocook.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3734\" class=\"size-full wp-image-3734 lazyload\" title=\"jay-bocook\" data-src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.furman.edu.s3.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/08\/jay-bocook.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"196\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 158px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 158\/196;\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3734\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jay Bocook<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Jay Bocook, director of athletic bands at Furman, has had a strong connection with the Olympic Games over the years. He was responsible for taking composer John Williams\u2019 original orchestra scores and turning them into band scores for the Olympic bands, which were heard during the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.<\/p>\n<p>In the summer of 2003, Bocook\u2019s music transcriptions of Williams\u2019 work were premiered by the U.S. Marine Band in a concert at the Kennedy Center in Washington, D.C., and conducted by the noted composer.\u00a0 WSPA-TV\u2019s \u201cScene on 7\u201d reported on the music professor\u2019s work.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www2.sceneon7.com\/entertainment\/2012\/aug\/08\/top-talker-blitz-ar-4302391\/\">Watch the video<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jay Bocook, director of athletic bands at Furman, has had a strong connection with the Olympic Games over the years. He was responsible for taking composer John Williams\u2019 original orchestra scores and turning them into band scores for the Olympic bands, which were heard during the 1984 Olympic Games in Los Angeles, the 1996 Centennial Olympic Games in Atlanta and the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake City. WSPA-TV\u2019s \u201cScene on 7\u201d reported on the music professor\u2019s work.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":265,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,6,39],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academic-department-page","category-in-the-news","category-music"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/265"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/697\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.furman.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}