{"id":217,"date":"2011-07-21T11:57:51","date_gmt":"2011-07-21T15:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/aaronlc.com\/blog\/?p=217"},"modified":"2011-07-21T16:04:09","modified_gmt":"2011-07-21T20:04:09","slug":"testimonial-from-the-berkshire-athenaeum-all-ages-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/testimonial-from-the-berkshire-athenaeum-all-ages-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Testimonial from the Berkshire Athenaeum All-Ages program"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Berkshire Athenaeum, Pittsfield, Mass.<br \/>\nJuly 6, 2011<\/p>\n<p>Program: \u00a0<em><strong>Latin &amp; Spanish Travels<\/strong> (click <a href=\"http:\/\/www.aaronlc.com\/school-enrichment-programs.html\" target=\"_blank\">HERE<\/a> to find out about Aaron&#8217;s Enrichment Programs)<\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCN3457.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-218\" title=\"Berkshire Athenaeum - Latin Travels\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCN3457-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCN3457-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCN3457-1024x768.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/DSCN3457.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Aaron Larget-Caplan performed today at The Berkshire Athenaeum to an audience of 90 children and parents.\u00a0 Aaron\u2019s musical talent surpassed my expectations; he is a true musician capable of playing alongside John Williams or any other famed classical guitarist.\u00a0 When I closed my eyes and listened, I was transposed by his music.<\/p>\n<p>So maybe you\u2019re asking how this was appropriate for Children\u2019s programming?\u00a0 Aaron gave wonderful explanations about his instrument and music.\u00a0 He told stories and explained how his music was itself a story.\u00a0 He played and asked the children to guess what the music was about.\u00a0 One little girl gave a great story about the music of F.M. Torroba:\u00a0 \u201cA prince met a princess and they lived in a castle and had a daughter named Marial, and she would ride her horse from castle to castle and then she was lonely and then\u2026(pause)&#8230;\u00a1Ol\u00e9!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Aaron was great at keeping the children\u2019s interest in a genre of music and style that they had probably not heard before. \u00a0He introduced them to musical terms and stories of the Latin world which fit right in with our Summer Reading Program them: \u201cOne World Many Stories.\u201d\u00a0 It was a fun and educational performance.<\/p>\n<p>As the Children\u2019s Librarian and an administrator it was a pleasure to work with him.\u00a0 He was easy to work with, pleasant and kind.\u00a0 On a side note, he was also great and gracious to tune my guitar and give a short private performance after the main event.<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Miss. Nan<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_219\" style=\"width: 210px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2756.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-219\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-219\" title=\"No you Can't Touch my guitar!!\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2756-200x300.jpg\" alt=\"No you Can't Touch my guitar!!\" width=\"200\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2756-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/07\/IMG_2756-682x1024.jpg 682w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-219\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">No you Can&#39;t Touch my guitar!!<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aaron\u2019s musical talent surpassed my expectations; he is a true musician capable of playing alongside John Williams or any other famed classical guitarist.  <\/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":[64,5,1,53],"tags":[70,73,74,72,71],"class_list":["post-217","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts-residency","category-concerts","category-general","category-reviews-2","tag-all-ages","tag-berkshire-athenaeum","tag-enrichment-program","tag-john-williams","tag-latin-travels"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217","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=217"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":225,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217\/revisions\/225"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alcguitar.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}