{"id":15820,"date":"2022-06-13T15:46:53","date_gmt":"2022-06-13T19:46:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/?p=15820"},"modified":"2023-01-09T11:24:36","modified_gmt":"2023-01-09T16:24:36","slug":"living-the-dream","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/living-the-dream\/","title":{"rendered":"Living the Dream"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Music industry graduate Zack Sandler ’20 assists award-winning photographer Danny Clinch and is also the associate producer for the Transparent Clinch Gallery at the Sea.Hear.Now Festival. He has worked on productions with Bruce Springsteen, Bon Jovi, members of Pearl Jam, and more. Sandler is also a tour manager and plays saxophone in several bands.<\/p>\n\n\n

How I Got Here <\/h3>\n\n\n

I always had the musical bug. I\u2019ve played the sax since the fourth grade, but my calling was the business side of the music industry. With Monmouth being so close to Asbury Park, I was able to learn in the classroom and then hone my craft in town later that same night.<\/p>\n\n\n

Monmouth Mentors <\/h3>\n\n\n

Professor Joe Rapolla has been a huge influence on my personal life and professional career. A lot of what I\u2019m doing is thanks to him. And I wouldn\u2019t have graduated with honors if it wasn\u2019t for Reenie Menditto, who pushed me to write my thesis, which is now published and archived in the Bruce Springsteen Archives and Center for American Music. I\u2019m really proud of that.<\/p>\n\n\n

My Career Goal <\/h3>\n\n\n

I\u2019m living it. I\u2019m happy being a producer. I\u2019m happy playing on stage. I\u2019m happy touring. And I\u2019m happy working alongside the superheroes I grew up listening to and idolizing.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Zack Sandler ’20 is a producer at award-winning photographer Danny Clinch’s Transparent Clinch Gallery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":57,"featured_media":15822,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"image_focus":"{\"x\":52,\"y\":19}","hide_title":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[93],"class_list":["post-15820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-back","tag-alumni-donor-profiles"],"thumbnail":"\"\"","catString":"The Back","issue":"Spring\/Summer 2022","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/57"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15820"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15820\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15869,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15820\/revisions\/15869"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15822"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.monmouth.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}