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Cellist David Finckel will be appearing in the musical role of Don Quixote in Richard Strauss鈥� 鈥淒on Quixote: Fantastic Variations on a Theme of Knightly Character鈥� as The Santa Fe Symphony Orchestra and Chorus presents 鈥淏eethoven & Strauss鈥� on Sunday, April 12.

The role is played by a cellist who, alongside the symphony, plays through the theme, 10 variations and finale of the story of 鈥淒on Quixote.鈥� The symphony will play the an introduction without the cello. Finckel joins in during 鈥淭heme: Don Quixote, the Knight of the Woeful Countenance.鈥� 

鈥淚t鈥檚 a piece that I have loved and studied and hoped all my life that I would get to play,鈥� Finckel said.

Don Quixote is the misguided hero of the story, Finckel said, and the part is traditionally performed by a principal player of the orchestra. When he was offered the role by Guillermo Figueroa, Santa Fe Symphony music director, Finckel jumped at the opportunity. 

鈥淚f you鈥檙e a cello player, and you get an offer to come as a guest and play Don Quixote, you always take it,鈥� Finckel said. 

The story follows Don Quixote and his descent into madness, he said. 

The character is an elderly Spanish gentleman who, after reading romance novels about knights, decides he has to become one. Don Quixote gets a suit of armor, a decrepit old horse and his friend Sancho Panza and goes looking for evil and damsels in distress, Finckel said. 

鈥淚t鈥檚 an incredible depiction of a mind, kind of losing its way and becoming more confused and delusional,鈥� Finckel said.

The performance is filled with incredible sound effects, he said, including everything from traditional wind instruments to the use of a wind machine during a magical aerial ride. 

One scene, Finckel said, involves Don Quixote attempting to fight a herd of sheep, and the audience will suddenly hear the herd bleating through the wind instruments. 

鈥淚t鈥檚 like this kaleidoscope of musical ideas,鈥� Finckel said, 鈥渁nd a lot of them start happening simultaneously.鈥�

He said the variations throughout the show are a composer鈥檚 way of taking a theme and assigning a harmony to it. 

鈥淭he idea is that you take these harmonies and maybe some of the melodic ideas, and you develop them in different ways,鈥� Finckel said. 

The variations take the same thematic and harmonic structure and 鈥減ut it in different clothes,鈥� he said.

He said the different themes can go from being fast to slow and quiet to loud, but they are all based on the same harmonic design. 

While most pieces of music will have 10 to 15 of these thematic ideas where little patterns appear, Strauss has over 50, Finckel said. 

鈥淵ou hear in this introduction pretty much every theme that you鈥檙e going to hear throughout the whole piece,鈥� Finckel said.

He said all the themes mean and represent something. Variation 6, 鈥淭he False Dulcinea,鈥� depicts a figment of Don Quixote鈥檚 imagination. Her theme is first heard in the introduction represented by the oboe.

The piece is half of a two-part program for the symphony鈥檚 presentation of 鈥淏eethoven & Strauss.鈥� The symphony will also perform Beethoven鈥檚 Symphony No. 1 in C Major, op.21.

Finckel said he is particularly excited to perform with the Santa Fe Symphony and work alongside Figueroa, with whom he has been friends for many years. 

鈥淗e understands this piece on a very deep level,鈥� Finckel said. 

Finckel comes from a musical family and has been playing since he was young. His father is a jazz musician, and his uncles and cousins are all cello players. 

He said he feels lucky to have made a career out of music and he was elated when he was given the chance to play 鈥淒on Quixote.鈥�

鈥淚 thought I was going to finish my career without ever getting to play this piece,鈥� Finckel said. 鈥淪o I said yes, without even thinking about it.鈥�

Elizabeth Secor is an arts fellow from the New Mexico Local 近距离内射合集 Fellowship program. You can reach her at esecor@abqjournal.com.