{"title":"Brendan Slocumb","description":"BRENDAN NICHOLAUS SLOCUMB was raised in Fayetteville, NC, and holds a degree in music education (with concentrations in violin and viola) from the University of North Carolina at Greensboro. For more than twenty years he has been a public and private school music educator and has performed with orchestras throughout northern Virginia, Maryland, and Washington, DC.","products":[{"product_id":"the-dark-maestro-paperback","title":"The Dark Maestro - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eHis cello made him famous. His father made him a target.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCurtis Wilson is a cello prodigy, growing up in the Southeast D.C. projects with a drug dealer for a father. 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