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Kennedy School student Johnny R. Falla said that the “light atmosphere” encouraged the audience to react to the debate as it progressed...
While one of Boccherini's guitar quintets features castanets, Turina calls for percussive sounds created by tapping the face of the instrument. Fisk later extended the guitar's percussive role in his transcription of de Falla's Danza del Molinero from "El Sombrero de Tres Picos"; by adding a strummed tone to his tapping, Fisk achieved a startlingly bell-like effect. He also created ringing harmonics by manipulating the resonant lengths of the strings...
Fisk rounded out the program with another short and mystically impressionistic de Falla transcription ("Homenaje Pour le Tombeau de Debussy"), and a clearly well-rehearsed 24th Caprice of Paginini. Here, transcribed pizzacati, though sometimes lacking in volume, were remarkably distinguishable from regularly bowed notes. As an encore, Fisk offered a similarly effortless and energetic rendition of Julio Segruras' "El Colibri...
...Chapel Concerts--presents soprano Maricel Lucero and guitarist Christopher Kane performing works by De Falla, Villa-Lobos and others. MIT Chapel, 77 Mass Ave., Cambridge. Thursday, Feb. 13, noon. Free...
...Symphony Orchestra--with director David Epstein and pianist Patrick O'Byrne performs Ravel's Concerto for the Left Hand, De Falla's Nights in the Gardens of Spain and Debussy's Nocturnes. Tickets are $1. In MIT's Kresge Auditorium Saturday...