New Lullabies in Newport
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On October 12 in Newport, Rhode Island, I had the pleasure of sharing an All-New Lullaby Project concert for the first Newport Classical Kids Concert.
With a Nor’easter baring down on us, we experienced 10 contemporary lullabies including premiere n. 81 by Jin Hee Han.
Over 40min of music and the kids were awesome. A few drew and moved around, others dozed off, and they all listened!
Never underestimate your audience, challenge, and present beauty. They will listen!!
Thank you Trevor Neal and Newport Classical team!
Thanks to composer Ronald Pear and Ian Wiese for coming too!
Watch New Lullaby Project Composer Shorts:
Newport Classical Kid’s Program
Presents
Aaron Larget-Caplan’s New Lullaby Project
October 12, 2025
Program
- A World of Your Own (2012) Jim Dalton
- Remembering (2021) Laurie Spiegel
- Ninna Nanna (2021) Pasquale Tassone
- Berceuse Inquiète (2021) Ronald Pearl
- Night Echoes (2025) – World Premiere (no. 81) Jinhee Han
- Lullaby (2020) Stepan Rak
- Stuff at Night (2024) Larget-Caplan
- Counting Backwards (2021) Anthony Green
- Midnight Train (2021) Ian Wiese
- All Through the Night (2024) Keane Southard
New Lullaby Project
- Begun in 2007 by Aaron Larget-Caplan, the New Lullaby Project present bridge the chasms of fear of contemporary music to audiences and composers in writing for the guitar. Since then it has premiered of over 80 New Lullabies by 75 composers from 12 countries, issued three albums and two anthologies of scores published by the American Composers Alliance.
Who’s afraid of a lullaby?!
- There are two basic types of lullabies: one gives the listeners warmth and protection, while the second tends to be darker with hints of fear. The former calls for good dreams to the wary soul and lets him know that he will awake safely in a better tomorrow. The latter lives on the idea that night and even sleep can be dangerous. Maybe this comes from the folk tradition of tempering our demons by singing to them, voicing our fears that are greater than our worldly matters, or the simple truth that one can catch a cold if one’s feet are not fully covered while sleeping.
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