{"id":1051,"date":"2019-02-25T15:46:26","date_gmt":"2019-02-25T19:46:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/?p=1051"},"modified":"2019-03-17T15:27:04","modified_gmt":"2019-03-17T19:27:04","slug":"review-john-cage-guitar-classical-guitar-magazine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/review-john-cage-guitar-classical-guitar-magazine\/","title":{"rendered":"Review: John. Cage. Guitar \u2013\u00a0Classical Guitar Magazine"},"content":{"rendered":"
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John. Cage. Guitar.
\nAaron Larget-Caplan (guitar and prepared guitar)\u00a0\"\"
\nwith Sharan Leventhal (violin) and Adam Levin (prepared guitar)
\nStone Records<\/a><\/h4>\n

Ear-opening Cage on guitar<\/h2>\n

One scenario I yearn to witness is a quiz-master demolishing an other wise unassailable contestant by asking him to name a work by John Cage, other than 4\u201933\u201d. Possible answers are numerous, but known only to those who\u2019ve done their homework. What Cage apparently didn\u2019t do was compose for guitar, leaving a gap that is definitively filled by this ear-opening release from American guitarist Aaron Larget-Caplan.<\/p>\n

Drawing on Cage\u2019s catalog for piano and prepared piano, Larget-Caplan eases the listener into the proceedings with the hypnotic soundscape of A Room<\/em>, the word \u201cminimalist\u201d being invoked for a second time in the performer\u2019s notes, alongside a disclaimer that \u201cCage did not use the term.\u201d Whatever the genre, the two-part textures have a transparency ideally suited to the guitar. This is enhanced by Larget-Caplan\u2019s tidy and understated playing, the feeling of brightness and focus well-captured by engineer Steve Hunt. Likewise Three Easy Pieces<\/em>, in which the tonal\/modal language prompts Larget-Caplan to suggest the first two pieces \u201ccould easily be mistaken for 19th century guitar compositions.\u201d Few are likely to confuse Cage with Carulli, but the comparison is not without merit.<\/p>\n

As the album progresses, occasional sharp edges emerge, most notably in the deliciously noisy Bacchanale<\/em>, arranged for two prepared guitars. However, anyone hoping this CD will perpetuate the false image of Cage as merely a purveyor of the impenetrable will leave empty-handed. \u2014Paul Fowles<\/p>\n

Classical Guitar Magazine, Spring 2019, P. 67<\/p>\n

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John. Cage. Guitar. Aaron Larget-Caplan (guitar and prepared guitar)\u00a0 with Sharan Leventhal (violin) and Adam Levin (prepared guitar) Stone Records Ear-opening Cage on guitar One scenario I yearn to witness is a quiz-master demolishing an other wise unassailable contestant by asking him to name a work by John Cage, other than 4\u201933\u201d. Possible answers are […]<\/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":[150,6,53],"tags":[176,256,230,20,144,157],"class_list":["post-1051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-press","category-recordings","category-reviews-2","tag-adam-levin","tag-classical-guitar-magazine","tag-john-cage-guitar","tag-review","tag-sharan-leventhal","tag-stone-records"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1051"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1057,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1051\/revisions\/1057"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}