Aaron Larget-Caplan

Revolutions in Music – Guitar America 250 DATE: Sunday, October 11 TIME: 3 pm (doors open at 2:30 pm) TICKETS: $25. Tickets available online, at the theatre box office or by calling 503-436-1242. Daring and trailblazing classical guitarist and composer, Aaron Larget-Caplan, returns to the Coaster Theatre this fall to perform music from his latest album Guitar America 250 – Revolutionaries and Rockstars! Guitar America reframes the American story through guitar, poetry, and protest. Aaron Larget-Caplan’s Revolutions in Music program explores pre-Civil War music through the World Wars, mid-century classical composers including Leonard Bernstein, George Gershwin, and Irving Berlin, pop-culture icons Paul Simon and Eddie Van Halen, as well as new works by living composers Michael Nix and Larget-Caplan himself. Poetry and writings by Frances Harper, James Madison, and more! “Larget-Caplan represents the ideal 21st century artist.” – Network for New Music “Astounding technical proficiency and artistic delicacy”– Boston Music intelligencer “Guitar America 250 leads us through a compelling narrative of the bounty of American diversity. It lays out the story of America writ large, encompassing the grandeur of the country without grandiose declaration.” – David Liptak, composer