sentences:  At the October 2007 Boston University Messiaen Project conference "Messiaen the Theologian", Festa and pianist Luke Berryman gave the U.S. premiere of Messiaen's recently discovered 1933 "Fantaisie" for violin and piano.He gave the New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles premieres before playing the Betts Stradivarius at the October 2008 Washington, D.C., premiere with pianist Jerome Lowenthal at the Library of Congress.Festa appears briefly in the films "Act of Violence" (1979), "Filthy Gorgeous