Word: gardners
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...lsabella Stuart Gardner Museum...
...Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum...
Classical guitarist Eliot Fisk's recital at the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum on Sunday featured a slew of technically challenging if not particularly expressive guitar works and transcriptions...
...Fantasia-Sevilliana by Joaquin Turina, Fisk's instrument immediately filled the Gardner's tapestried concert hall with its booming sound. The Turina, a work from this century, evokes traditional images of bull-fighting and Spanish dancing. Luigi Boccherini carried these ideas back to Italy more than a century before with his own guitar works...
...embellishment. He executed the last selection, a genuine if overly scripted "Notre Dame Blues," With appropriate gusto, smiling visibly for the first time while playing. Perhaps he was considering the incongruity of Rochberg's brand of smokestack lightning--replete with twangs and even a couple of slides--amidst the Gardner's 15th century surroundings...