2023 Year in Review – Adventure in Music
- Award and Honors, Chamber Music, Contemporary Music, General, Interviews, John Cage, New Lullaby Project, Now Musique, Press, Publishing, Recordings, Reviews, Video
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I am grateful for the many people who have made this year so special. At times I felt like 2023 was a normal year of music making and collaboration, and then I would be reminded that our recent past is very much with us and that the world is very fragile.
I consider 2023 to be Adventure in Music year, and I think we have earned a bit of rest and a special cappuccino or affogato (see below) to commemorate the beauty that can exist in the world, if we so desire it.
Onward for a wonderful, safe, and healthy 2024, and thanks to all who have listened, enjoyed, and explored music with me in 2023!
Aaron
Collaborators:
- Christopher Bush, clarinet
- Johnathan McCullough, baritone
- Frederic Jodry III, harpsichord
- Robert Lehman, violin
- Kimberly Lehman, viola
- Rebecca Hartka, cello
- Jeff Christmas, conductor with the Bowdoin Chamber Choir
- Charles Coe, poet
- Kabir Sehgal, Tiger Turn
- Alex Fedorov, design
- Steve Hunt, mixing and mastering
- Gina Genova, Will Rowe, and Simon Henry Berry, American Composers Alliance
- Gene Caprioglio, Edition Peters
- Steve Schwartz, Your Heaven Audio
- Michael Newman, Mannes School of Music
- João Luiz, Hunter College
- Tali Roth, Juilliard
- Nick Morgan, TEDx
Premieres:
- Alan Hovhaness – Mystic Flute, Op. 29, arranged by ALC, Robbins Library, Arlington, MA, February 2023 (US premiere)
- Daniel Felsenfeld – Only Winter Certainties on Bargemusic, Brooklyn, New York, April 2023 (info)
- Sam Cave – …in the soft dark welling… at the Smith Center for the Arts, Providence College, September 2023
- Nicolás Lell Benavides – Rinconcito for guitar & string trio, University of Southern Maine, December 2023 (info)
New Album & Recordings
- Spanish Candy – May 26, 2023 on Tiger Turn (888-10) (info)
- Berceuse Inquiète by Ronald Pearl, for the New Lullaby Project, live at Providence College (listen)
Album Reviews
- The Arts Fuse: God’s Time: Music of J.S. Bach on Guitar
- Take Effect: Spanish Candy
- Fanfare: Spanish Candy
- James Wegg Review of 3 albums: Spanish Candy, John. Cage. Guitar., God’s Time: Music of J.S. Bach
- The Whole Note: Spanish Candy
- Take Effect: Drifting, Vol. 3 of the New Lullaby Project
- Take Effect: honey cadence
- Take Effect: God’s Time: Music of J.S. Bach on Guitar
- Amazon Fan Review: honey cadence
Publications:
- honey cadence – a collection of six meditations by Aaron Larget-Caplan was published by the American Composers Alliance, May 2023 (info)
Publication Review:
- This is Classical Guitar: honey cadence
- This is Classical Guitar: Bacchanale by John Cage arranged for two prepared guitars
Awards:
- Paul Revere Award for Graphic Excellence from The Music Publishers Association of the United States presented for Aaron’s arrangement of Bacchanale by John Cage, June 2023 (info)
- Cultural Grant from the Massachusetts Cultural Council for Now Musique, Feb. 2023
- Best of 2023 by The Arts Fuse: God’s Time: Music of J.S. Bach on Guitar, Dec. 2023 (info)
- Reached 6-million streams!
Videos:
- Spanish Candy intro video (watch)
- Remembering by Laurie Spiegel, written for the New Lullaby Project (watch)
- Libertango by Astor Piazzolla, arranged for sextet (watch)
- Interview with Anthony R. Green (watch)
- Interview with Daniel Felsenfeld (watch)
- TEDx – moving still by Aaron Larget-Caplan (watch)
Instructional Videos:
Interviews:
- Conducting Conversations, WCRI, Rhode Island, May 2023
Classes
- Juilliard, New York
- Hunter College, New York
- New York University Steinert School of Music
- Mannes at the New School of Music, New York
Misc.
- New press photos with photographer Paula Morin (info)
- TEDx – moving still by Aaron Larget-Caplan (watch)
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