{"id":113,"date":"2014-09-03T14:19:31","date_gmt":"2014-09-03T21:19:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cgdev.stringlettermusic.com\/?p=113"},"modified":"2014-10-06T09:28:31","modified_gmt":"2014-10-06T16:28:31","slug":"guitar-symposium-coming-to-texas-am","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/guitar-symposium-coming-to-texas-am\/","title":{"rendered":"Guitar Symposium Coming to Texas A&M"},"content":{"rendered":"

Aggie Nation is gearing up for the\u00a0next Texas A&M International Guitar Symposium and Competition, the university\u2019s third biannual\u00a0event celebrating classical guitar from around the world.<\/p>\n

From October 24 to 26, guitarists will descend on College Station, Texas, to compete for prizes of up to $2,000 in competitions for professionals, as well as two youth divisions.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s event salutes \u201cHispanic Heritage\u201d and will feature programs and performances with artists from Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Among the highlights, Grammy Award-winning Brazilian guitarist Odair Assad will perform, an appearance symposium artistic director Isaac Bustos calls a \u201cdistinct pleasure.\u201d<\/p>\n

As in previous years, the three-day guitar whirlwind will include various public recitals, and student performances (that\u2019s the Texas A&M Classical Guitar Ensemble, pictured) plus classes and lectures led by university faculty. Artists slated to take part in the festival include Jose Antonio Escobar, Adam Holzman, Pablo Garibay, Valerie Hartzell, the Andrew Zohn and Robert Sharpe Duo, and plenty more.<\/p>\n

Festival and competition registration is $175 professional; $150 youth; $100 festival only. Visit\u00a0the symposium website<\/a>\u00a0for more information.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Aggie Nation is gearing up for the\u00a0next Texas A&M International Guitar Symposium and Competition, the university\u2019s third biannual\u00a0event celebrating classical guitar from around the world. From October 24 to 26, guitarists will descend on College Station, Texas, to compete for prizes of up to $2,000 in competitions for professionals, as well as two youth divisions. This year\u2019s event salutes \u201cHispanic Heritage\u201d and will feature programs and performances with artists from Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico, and Nicaragua. Among the highlights, Grammy […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":114,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/GuitarEnsemble.jpg?fit=500%2C333&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/classicalguitarmagazine.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}