A disconnect at Mak Grgic's National Gallery recital

The guitar has a distinguished legacy and repertoire. If you include lute music, which is easily adapted, a guitarist has centuries of literature to mine. So the programming of Sunday evening's recital at the National Gallery of Art by Mak Grgic, assisted by guitarist Nejc Kuhar and cellist Jay Campbell, was puzzling and off-kilter. It consisted of two works by Kuhar and one by Nina Senk in between four Bach transcriptions. There was no discernible connection among any of the pieces; no theme, s...