{"id":40529,"date":"2011-02-22T13:31:39","date_gmt":"2011-02-22T18:31:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/home.bates.edu\/?p=40529"},"modified":"2017-01-26T14:21:43","modified_gmt":"2017-01-26T19:21:43","slug":"music-amigo-aguilar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/2011\/02\/22\/music-amigo-aguilar\/","title":{"rendered":"A night of wild music: Cutting-edge guitarist, drummer to perform"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href='https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/02\/amigo_0989-web.jpg'><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"199\" height=\"300\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/files\/2011\/02\/amigo_0989-web-199x300.jpg\" class=\"attachment-medium alignright\" alt=\"Cristian Amigo\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Under the tantalizing billing of &#8220;Wild Music for Guitar and Percussion,&#8221; guitarist-composer <a href=\"http:\/\/cristianamigo.com\/\">Cristian Amigo<\/a> and drummer <a href=\"http:\/\/www.gustavoaguilar.com\/\">Gustavo Aguilar<\/a> perform at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 4, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n<p>The concert is open to the public at no cost, but reservations are required through the Bates ticketing website, <a href=\"http:\/\/batestickets.universitytickets.com\/user_pages\/event_listings.asp\">www.batestickets.com<\/a>. For more information, contact <em>olinarts@bates.edu<\/em> or 207-786-6135.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Amigo is an American player, composer and producer who explores the spaces between Western art musics &#8212; classical and jazz &#8212; and popular music. Known as an acoustic and electric guitarist with an improvising bent, Amigo writes and performs avant chamber music; electronic music; music for opera, theater, film and performance pieces; and American roots music.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;During any given performance&#8221; by Amigo, Time Out New York commented, &#8220;Messiaen grapples with Led Zeppelin while Perez Prado teaches Stravinsky to mambo.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>A percussionist and composer, Aguilar has honed his musicianship for almost two decades. His commitment to combining notated and improvised elements has earned him the reputation as an &#8220;intuitive, methodical mystic.&#8221; His music has been called &#8220;beautiful, introspective and passionate,&#8221; &#8220;thought-provoking and thoroughly fresh.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Under the tantalizing billing of &#8220;Wild Music for Guitar and Percussion,&#8221; guitarist-composer Cristian Amigo and drummer Gustavo Aguilar perform at Bates College at 7:30 p.m. Friday, March 4, in the Olin Arts Center Concert Hall, 75 Russell St.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_hide_ai_chatbot":false,"_ai_chatbot_style":"","associated_faculty":[],"_Page_Specific_Css":"","_bates_restrict_mod":false,"_table_of_contents_display":false,"_table_of_contents_location":"","_table_of_contents_disableSticky":false,"_is_featured":false,"footnotes":"","_bates_seo_meta_description":"","_bates_seo_block_robots":false,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_id":0,"_bates_seo_sharing_image_twitter_id":0,"_bates_seo_share_title":"","_bates_seo_canonical_overwrite":"","_bates_seo_twitter_template":""},"categories":[11010,133],"tags":[6889,9087],"class_list":["post-40529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-arts","category-creativity","tag-performing-and-visual-arts","tag-visual-arts"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=40529"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40529\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":86966,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40529\/revisions\/86966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bates.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}