{"id":974,"date":"2018-09-09T18:53:26","date_gmt":"2018-09-09T22:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/?p=974"},"modified":"2018-09-14T19:07:10","modified_gmt":"2018-09-14T23:07:10","slug":"johncageguitar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/johncageguitar\/","title":{"rendered":"John. Cage. Guitar."},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>COMING in November 2018 on <a href=\"http:\/\/stonerecords.co.uk\/artist\/\">Stone Records!<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">Guitar virtuoso Aaron Larget-Caplan was first introduced to the music of John Cage as a student at the New England Conservatory. Disappointed by the lack of representation by mid-century American composers in the guitar repertoire, he chose to make his own arrangements of Cage\u2019s music \u2013 now published by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.edition-peters.com\/product\/piano-music-arranged-for-guitar\/ep68585\">Edition Peters<\/a>. He found similarities in arranging Cage to arranging Bach, claiming the music to be so strong on its own that instrumentation felt secondary: Beautiful music is beautiful. This recording features seven early and mid-career compositions, dating from 1933 through 1950 for solo guitar, violin and guitar, and prepared guitar duo. All guitar parts were originally written for solo piano or prepared piano. The compositions required few adjustments from the originals and fit very well on the guitar. The music is playful, meditative, meandering, introspective, large, quiet, haunting and regal. Whether a cognoscente or someone who wants to discover more about John Cage, this disc is a wonderful recital of one of the great twentieth-century composers, newly imagined and expertly played by wonderful artists.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-975\" src=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cover-John.Cage_.Guitar..jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1427\" height=\"1342\" srcset=\"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cover-John.Cage_.Guitar..jpg 1427w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cover-John.Cage_.Guitar.-300x282.jpg 300w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cover-John.Cage_.Guitar.-768x722.jpg 768w, http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/09\/cover-John.Cage_.Guitar.-1024x963.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1427px) 100vw, 1427px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><strong>Guests Artists<\/strong>: Sharan Leventhal, violin &amp; Adam Levin, prepared guitar<br \/>\n&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Many fans want their copy ASAP, so Aaron is offering autographed pre-release CDs of <strong><em>John. Cage. Guitar.<\/em><\/strong>\u00a0!!<br \/>\n<b>\u2022\u00a0<\/b>Send $25 via venmo, paypal, (info[at]alcguitar.com) or check. Price\u00a0includes US shipping only.<br \/>\nHe will also have a few at upcoming concerts ($20), so go to a concert!<br \/>\nInternational fans please inquire via email regarding shipping cost.<br \/>\nAll copies will be sent beginning Oct. 1st and confirmed via email.<\/p>\n<p>Stay tuned for CD release concert information, reviews and more.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>COMING in November 2018 on Stone Records! Guitar virtuoso Aaron Larget-Caplan was first introduced to the music of John Cage as a student at the New England Conservatory. Disappointed by the lack of representation by mid-century American composers in the guitar repertoire, he chose to make his own arrangements of Cage\u2019s music \u2013 now published [&hellip;]<\/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":[6],"tags":[172,230,87,157],"class_list":["post-974","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-recordings","tag-john-cage","tag-john-cage-guitar","tag-recording","tag-stone-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974","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=974"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":979,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/974\/revisions\/979"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=974"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=974"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=974"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}