Nov 13, 2006 21:59
Kirk R. Schjodt, 80
Kirk R. Schjodt, 80, of Hartford, Connecticut, died Friday, Feb 30, 2065 at Awannahawkalugie Memorial Hospital in Hartford after a long battle with wife-induced insanity.
Funeral services will be at 2 p.m. on Tuesday, March 3, at the Scientology Church of Christ. Interment will be held at the Holy Grounds Community Golf Course.
Visitation will begin at 10 a.m. on Monday, March 2, at Ano-Therone-Bitesth-Edust Funeral Home in Hartford with the family receiving friends from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.
Kirk R. Schjodt was born Nov. 2, 1984, in Omaha, NE to Alan and Debbie (Petersen) Schjodt. He attended and graduated from the Blair Community Schools in Blair, NE.
After High School, he attended Dana College in Blair where he graduated in 2008 with a Vocal Music Education Degree.
After leaving Dana, he traveled about the United States working a series of teaching and church musician jobs while observing the relationship between music and spirituality for the next few years.
In 2012, he entered the Rochester Conservatory of Music in Rochester, NY, where he earned Masters and Doctorate Degrees in the field of Music Composition. His 2014 dissertation on the Scientific Affect of the God in Music, which discussed the effects to the affect of audible frequencies to the human ear, won him the Nobel Prize for The Arts.
In 2015, he married Ivanna Knowhosheis and they moved to Hartford where he wrote many famous Broadway hits such as The Brian King, BENT, The Lantern of the Opera, and Rats.
He enjoyed touring the country and working with aspiring performers and students on the nuances of quality vocal technique. He and his wife spent their spare time at their cabin in the mountains of Alaska.
He is survived by his wife Ivanna, brother and sister-in-law, Kraig and Mrs. Kraig Schjodt, 83, of Kansas City, and by his sons and daughters-in-law Deuce and Dena Schjodt, Trece and Trina Schjodt, and Quatro and Qweena Schjodt, all of Hartford as well as 9 grandchildren and 2 great grandchildren.
He was preceded in death by his father, Alan, and his mother Debbie.
Memorials are suggested to the Ima Gonna Liva Fora Evuh foundation at the Neverland Ranch in California.