{"id":286,"date":"2016-11-14T15:12:12","date_gmt":"2016-11-14T15:12:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www2.lvc.edu\/lavie\/?p=286"},"modified":"2016-11-14T15:12:12","modified_gmt":"2016-11-14T15:12:12","slug":"musical-love","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2016\/11\/14\/musical-love\/","title":{"rendered":"Musical love"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"dslc-theme-content\"><div id=\"dslc-theme-content-inner\"><p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-290\" src=\"http:\/\/www2.lvc.edu\/lavie\/files\/2016\/11\/nowak2-1-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"nowak2\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Missy Walmer, Staff writer<\/p>\n<p>A professor\u2019s experiences create a great love for music that he wants to share.<\/p>\n<p>Lebanon Valley College professor Robert Nowak has had musical experiences with actress Susan Anton, actor and singer from \u201cThe Godfather\u201d Al Martino, a polka band and many others. Nowak has performed for Martino alongside his conductor and piano player in Downingtown.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat got me noticed was [Martino\u2019s] conductor loved the way my triangle sounded,\u201d Robert Nowak, an instructor of music, said.<\/p>\n<p>Nowak has worked with many Italian singers and has played multiple shows. But he stays very humble.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never asked for autographs,\u201d Nowak said. \u00a0\u201cI never got any pictures. That\u2019s the job. People that are entertainers aren\u2019t stars. They\u2019re just normal people who have a lot of stories to share.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Professor Nowak was first fascinated by drums, percussion and marching band, which sparked his love for music in high school.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMusic takes you all over and sort of permeates your life and it\u2019s basically just me,\u201d Nowak said.<\/p>\n<p>Nowak instructs an introductory level music class. His main goal is to get students to go out and listen to an orchestra concert or just to experience more than what the popular music of the day is.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI\u2019m very happy if we can just get everybody out to things and experience something new rather than be locked into what the radio stations play,\u201d Nowak said.<\/p>\n<p>Nowak describes his interest in the television show \u201cDancing with the Stars\u201d because of their use of a live orchestra. But later on they took away the live music. His goal is to get students to go out and experience these dwindling occurrences.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe trick is to find something to do, something you like, and then continue to do it,\u201d Nowak said.<\/p>\n<p>Nowak strives to preserve the authenticity of live music and the love for music. But overall, it\u2019s about finding something to love and promoting it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>&nbsp; By: Missy Walmer, Staff writer A professor\u2019s experiences create a great love for music that he wants to share. Lebanon Valley College professor Robert Nowak has had musical experiences with actress Susan Anton, actor <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/2016\/11\/14\/musical-love\/\" title=\"Musical love\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":291,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-286","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-campus-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=286"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=286"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=286"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.lvc.edu\/lavie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=286"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}