{"id":163,"date":"2010-12-13T14:02:10","date_gmt":"2010-12-13T18:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaronlc.com\/blog\/?p=163"},"modified":"2011-02-04T14:13:46","modified_gmt":"2011-02-04T18:13:46","slug":"new-lullaby-cd-thoughts-by-author-glenn-kurtz","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/new-lullaby-cd-thoughts-by-author-glenn-kurtz\/","title":{"rendered":"New Lullaby CD thoughts by Author Glenn Kurtz"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is a recent note I received from author Glenn Kurtz regarding my New Lullaby <\/a>CD. \u00a0If you have not read his book, Practicing: A Musician\u2019s Return to Music, <\/em>I highly recommend it<\/span>. \u00a0Most of all he writes beautifully. \u00a0Though it centers on the guitar it is a story that can speak to professional musicians or general lovers of music. \u00a0It speaks about aspects of life in a conservatory and what can follow, it is personal, and informative regarding the history the most beautiful instrument in life: \u00a0the guitar. \u00a0Thanks Glenn!<\/p>\n

“It’s not every musician who invites you to fall asleep during his performance. But while it often happens at recitals–by invitation or not–usually it’s for the wrong reasons. “New Lullaby<\/a>,” despite its subtitle, “14 enchanting ways to fall asleep,”\u00a0will not put you to sleep. On the contrary, it is a beautiful, perceptive, and evocative performance that earns and deserves your rapt appreciation. Most of all, however, it felt to me like a\u00a0courageous exploration of a mood or a state that is rarely identified, and these days all-too rarely enjoyed: attentive peacefulness. It is the mood of listening to a story <\/em>before<\/em> you fall asleep, of letting your mind relax and attend. A\u00a0calm, meditative, expansive, playful, serious mood of lingering with your imagination. Listening to these fourteen pieces, you have the feeling that anything might happen. Aaron Larget-Caplan’s\u00a0playing is\u00a0sensitive, assured, and spontaneous. Like a good storyteller, he\u00a0keeps you listening and leaves you wanting more. And as with the best performances, “New Lullaby” wakes you up to a world of new experiences.”<\/em><\/p>\n

— Glenn Kurtz<\/a>, author of Practicing, A Musician’s Return To Music<\/em><\/p>\n

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New Lullaby is a beautiful, perceptive, and evocative performance that earns and deserves your rapt appreciation. Most of all, however, it felt to me like a courageous exploration of a mood or a state that is rarely identified, and these days all-too rarely enjoyed: attentive peacefulness.
\n\u2013 Glenn Kurtz, author of \u201cPracticing, a musician’s return to music\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4,6,53],"tags":[18,41,28,16,39,45,42,37,48,43,8,46,36,40,35,49,44,38],"class_list":["post-163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-new-lullaby","category-recordings","category-reviews-2","tag-aaron-larget-caplan","tag-carson-cooman","tag-cd-review","tag-classical-guitar","tag-david-leisner","tag-david-vayo","tag-eric-schwartz","tag-francine-trester","tag-glenn-kurtz","tag-john-mcdonald","tag-jonathan-feist","tag-kevin-siegfried","tag-lynn-job","tag-mark-small","tag-nolan-stolz","tag-practicing","tag-ryan-vigil","tag-scott-wheeler"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=163"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":184,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/163\/revisions\/184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}