The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet Lifts the Crowd With a New Pat Metheny Composition

Credit: Michael Norwood Phillip Houghton’s Opals is a three-movement work portraying various facets of Australia’s national gemstone. The Los Angeles Guitar Quartet created the impression of sparkles, floating rainbows, and glittering points of light with a wide array of tone colors made by varying the part of their fingernails that stroked the strings, the speed of those strokes, and the point on the strings that they touched. The result was mesmerizing. For an encore, the Los Angeles Guitar Quartet performed the exceptionally fast and rhythmically surprising Tarantella by Horacio Salinas of the Latin folk group Inti-Illimani. Scott Cmiel is Chair of the guitar and musicianship departments at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music Preparatory Division and Director of the guitar program at San Francisco School of the Arts....

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