ACG Watch Party: Austin Pictures Part 2

Matt Hinsley introduces us to the one and only Jorge Caballero, one of our favorite artists at ACG. We’ve had many adventures with Caballero. Perhaps none of our adventures have been more spectacular than Austin Pictures on October 1st, 2011 when Jorge performed the nearly-impossible Pictures at an Exhibition by Modest Mussorgsky on solo guitar.

Jorge’s performance inspired a range of other programming that evening with more than 125 collaborators – and we talked about most of that already with Maestro Peter Bay and the Miro Quartet’s Daniel Ching (watch Austin Pictures Part 1, online here).

For this Watch Party: Austin Pictures Part 2, we focus on Jorge’s extraordinary solo performance, and share some of the beautiful visual created by students for that special evening.

https://youtu.be/04fmbEw_FPs

If you enjoyed this video, you might also like our other Watch Party video and our Let’s Listen guided listening series:
ACG Watch Party: Sing me a Lullaby
ACG Watch Party: Flamenco India
Let’s Listen: Lullaby Project
Let’s Listen: Friendship
Let’s Listen: Guitar+Dance=Joy
Let’s Listen: Grisha


Let’s Listen: Lullaby Project

Travis Marcum is ACG Education Director and Director of Music & Healing. Since 2015 he has run ACG’s Lullaby Project, a collaboration with Carnegie Hall through which our teaching artists are paired with a mom (mostly), in a shelter, hospital, prison, or with a social service partner, to write a personal song for her child or children.

The artist and mom spend hours together, usually over the course of about a month, talking and writing about hopes, dreams, and fears. The resulting ideas are distilled into lyrics, and the song is made.

In this very special edition of Let’s Listen, Travis introduces us to some of his favorite lullabies from the past five years.

If you love this project and these beautiful songs, check out ACG Watch Party: Sing me a Lullaby. Travis is joined by ACG Executive Director Matt Hinsley, and two of our Lullaby artists Arnold Yzaguirre and Claudia Chapa to watch and discuss the 2015 KLRU TV special Sing Me A Lullaby, made about ACG Education and our Lullaby Project. The watch party will even include a new performance by Arnold and Claudia together.

And if you enjoyed this Let’s Listen experience, here are a few more in the series:

Let’s Listen: Friendship
Let’s Listen: Guitar+Dance=Joy
Let’s Listen: Grisha