It was one of the many free concerts he performs every year for school children, prisoners, and others who rarely get to hear classical music. Fisk believes in the power of music to better the world, and these community concerts are his contribution to that goal. Music sensitizes us. Music makes people aware of other people. Music inculcates good study habits.
Music activates the soul.
It's a tragedy that in the feeding frenzy of the austerity budgets we've deleted music and art from the lives of our young people, and our republic will be the poorer for it. His evolving style goes beyond classical to encompass Bach and the blues, Paganini and Gershwin. A master teacher , Fisk is on faculty of the New England Conservatory of Music, where he makes social responsibility and outreach into cornerstones of the guitar program. Verdi was instrumental in the Italian independence movement. Casals left Spain and refused to return as long as Franco was in power.