Center For New Music: Inward Expanse – Aaron Larget-Caplan, Guitar
$15 ($10 C4NM members)
- Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar
Lainie Fefferman — Carousel (California premiere)
Lou Bunk — Being and Becoming (California premiere)
Antonio Celso Ribeiro — Selected works (world premiere)
Brian Schrober — Selected works
Laurie Spiegel — Selected works
Anthony R. Green — Selected works
Štěpán Rak — Selected works
Ken Ueno — Selected works
John Cage — Dream (arr. Aaron Larget-Caplan)
Guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan returns to C4NM in a solo concert titled 'Inward Expanse', which explores one’s position in daily life from a mystical, scientific, and cerebral perspectives with music for guitar and electronics, acoustic solos of night.
Steps and Leaps by Tom Flaherty celebrates the success of humankind marking the anniversary of the moon landing, while Carousel by Lainie Fefferman was written at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic and exemplifies the confusion and worry of daily life and what’s coming. Lou Bunk's Being and Becoming is an expanse of a note…a person…a cup of coffee.
The sonic world of the lullaby is touched upon with acoustic compositions written for Aaron’s critically acclaimed commissioning endeavor the 'New Lullaby Project', with multiple California premieres and New Lullaby Project world premiere #69 by Brazilian composer Antonio Celso Ribeiro. Other composers include Brian Schrober (NYC), Laurie Spiegel (NYC), Anthony Green (RI/UK), Štěpán Rak (Czech Republic), Ken Ueno (UC Berkeley). Some lullabies look at the duty of the lullaby, others a moment of what the two worlds of wake vs. sleep represent, and others how our minds slip between and adjust to our dreams as we fall asleep.
Bonding the new and old, Aaron includes one of his groundbreaking John Cage arrangements. Written in 1948, Dream is a lyrical work written for choreographer Merce Cunningham. Aaron’s new arrangement was made in 2015 and published in 2017 by Edition Peters and recorded on John. Cage. Guitar. issued by Stone Records (UK).
COVID-19 Protocols: For in-person events at C4NM, masks and proof of vaccination are required.
About Aaron Larget-Caplan, guitar
Composer and classical guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan searches for the life in music, and music in life. He has premiered over 120 compositions, directs the Spanish music and dance ensemble ¡Con Fuego!, while curating the New Lullaby Project commissioning endeavor, and the Now Musique recital series. His arrangements and recording of the music of John Cage are the first to be sanctioned by the estate and have received international accolades. He has 11 solo albums which have earned over 6 million streams, including albums dedicated to J.S. Bach, John Cage, Spanish romantic and flamenco composers, contemporary composers, and his own music. Raised in Colorado, he makes his home in Boston.
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