Even the religious songs, with which the recital opened, shimmered with ambiguity.
The recital opens the theater's wide-ranging season-long series Bach in Context.
The recital opened with the Mendelssohn octet, a work filled with the exuberant optimism of youth.
The recital opened with some of Bartok's 44 Violin Duos (around 1933) interspersed with selections from Prokofiev's "Fugitive Visions" for solo piano (1915-17).
The recital opened and closed with two works for cello and piano by jazz composers, "Tango Bittersweet" by Mr. Hersch, a pianist known for his improvisations, and "Spin" by Mr. Byron, the clarinetist.
Within a few weeks of his arrival he had given his first recital, opened a music school which was rapidly overwhelmed by applications, and become conductor of the Gothenburg Society for Classical Choral Music.
That was how they came to approach Fallon to ride Recital, inadvertently opening yet another can of worms.
The evening, part of Juilliard's faculty recital series, opened with a vivid performance of Stravinsky's brief Three Pieces for String Quartet.
The main man is sitting easy, guitar held high, in the short taster recital that opens the evening: silvery solos with flamenco flashing by the master's side.
Designed for a major concert, a farmers' market or a participatory dance recital, it opened late last month with much fanfare, meant to attract office workers, suburbanites from across the region, tourists and the urban dwellers who call downtown home.
