GFest Online 2020: An online music festival devoted to the classical guitar and its heritage, past, present and future. THIS AFTERNOON’S PROGRAM:
1. Intro by BGFest Artistic Director Eliot Fisk
2. Sedona Farber — Danza Brasileña, Jorge Morel
3. Joey Malvinni — Aria detta la Frescobalda, Girolamo Frescobaldi
4. Frida Alejandra Cruz Felix — Fantasie No. 7 from ‘Varietie of Lute Lessons’, John Dowland
5. Fernando Vilchis García — Fuga from ‘Variaciones y Fuga sobra la Folia’, Manuel M. Ponce
6. Ananya Hariganesh — Waltz, Ferdinando Carulli
7. Mónica Odette Flores Gutiérrez — Capriccio No. 15, Luigi Legnani
8. Shaanveer Gupta — Allegretto Op. 241, No. 14, Ferdinando Carulli
9. Yeju Srivastava — Etude No. 1 in E minor, Heitor Villa-Lobos
10. David Manzanares-Salguero — Vals Op. 8, No. 4, Agustín Barrios
11. Edward Grigassy — Prelude No. 5 in E Major, Francisco Tárrega
12. Francisco Barrios Aviña — Estudio Brillante, Francisco Tárrega
13. Harshini Hariganesh — Little Herd Boy, Oleg Kiselev
14. Arjun Rajapur — Allegro Solemne from ‘La Catedral’ (3rd Mvt), Agustín Barrios
15. Thatcher Harrison — The New Jigantella Dance Craze, Thatcher Harrison
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In response to the Covid-19 Pandemic, the 2020 Boston Guitar Fest (June 28 - July 1) transformed itself into GFEST ONLINE, an entirely virtual event that re-imagines the festival in light of the realities forced on all of us by the virus. The online structure of the events enables international participation from around the globe in real time in an unprecedented and exciting new way.
The Festival honors the many courageous members of our community working on the front lines to keep the rest of us safe during the pandemic.