Quotes about Mozart Apr 9, 2008
--- Franz Liszt, in a letter to Marie zu Sayn-Wittgenstein, December 10, 1872. "I replied, however, that I should be only too happy to renounce all my virtues in exchange for Mozart's sins.". (Suite101.com)
Fairfax Symphony Plans Year-Long Search For Retiring Music Director’s Replacement Apr 8, 2008
Gregory Vajda, 35, born in Hungary, studied clarinet and composition at the Bla Bartk Secondary School and conducting at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music. He has served as assistant conductor of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, resident conductor of the Oregon Symphony and permanent guest conductor of the Hungarian State Opera. (South County Chronicle, VA)
On Sonata Cycle Apr 6, 2008
" Schiff, 54, was born in Budapest, the only child of Jewish parents who had both survived the Holocaust. His father died when Andrs was 6; his mother is still alive and healthy at 91. His early training at the Franz Liszt Academy gave him not only what he concedes is an irrational distaste for the music of the school's founder and namesake ("It's not his fault that his music is played so badly or in such a stupid manner"), but also an excellent musical education on the government's tab. The... (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Pianist captivates at KFAC Apr 1, 2008
This was followed by some Franz Liszt music from his Hungarian period. She took concert goers from gypsies dancing around the fire, and then from such heights dropped them into a waltz or minuet. (Burley South Idaho Press, ID)
A touch of brass: Boston Brass heads for Westerly Mar 29, 2008
The quintet Jose Sibaja and Conner on trumpet; J.D. Shaw, French horn; Lance LaDuke, trombone and euphonium; and Andrew Hitz on tuba will begin with music by Antonin Dvorak (the "largo" from the "New World Symphony"), Shostakovich ("Gallop") and Franz Liszt ("Hungarian Rhapsody No. 2"). Spicing up the classical first half will be some Latin flavoring, with music by Alberto Ginastera, born in Buenos Aires in 1916, and Argentina s favorite son, Astor Piazzola. (Westerly Sun, RI)
What's Happening Mar 27, 2008
Francis of Paola walking on the waves" from Two Legends by Franz Liszt, and "Gaspard de la nuit" by Maurice Ravel. Senior Honors Recital: Stephanie Granade, voice - 8 p.m., Edge Recital Hall; featuring soprano Stephanie Granade with Carrie Allen on piano and Rylan Smith on guitar, this program will include a wide range of repertoire from Bach to Pasatieri, including arias from Humperdinck's Hansel und Gretel, Verdi's Un ballo di maschera, and De Espana Vengo from Zarzuela. R.E.M. Accelerate... (Athens Banner-Herald)
American Pianist Grace Nikae Mar 15, 2008
This recording features piano works by Alexander Scriabin, Enrique Granados, Manuel de Falla and Franz Liszt. Nikae's interests are educational as well: she regularly gives workshops, masterclasses, recital lectures and interdisciplinary lectures connecting music to other fields in the arts (such as French Impressionism or German Romantic Poetry). (Suite101.com)
Philharmonic announces its 2008-09 season Mar 3, 2008
Melissa Marse, a pianist who performed last year with the Philharmonic on Franz Liszt s Totentanz, will return for Piano Concerto in A Minor by Edvard Grieg. The pops series continues on Feb. 6, 2009, in Scranton and Feb. 7 at the Kirby Center with another mix of theatrics and orchestral performance, The Broadway Tenors. (The Citizen's Voice, PA)
URI musicians key up for annual piano festival Feb 29, 2008
Taguchi will open the Saturday program with Franz Liszt s "B;n;diction de Dieu dans la solitude" (God s benediction in the solitude) from "Harmonies po;tiques et religieuses." Urrico and Takasawa will follow with Anton Arensky s "Suite No.1, Op.15: Romance, Waltz, Polonaise." Takasawa and Taguchi will perform Maurice Ravel s "La Valse" and Parillo will perform jazz solos before the intermission. The second half of the concert will be devoted to Ingolf Dahl s "Quodlibet on American Folk Tunes"... (Westerly Sun, RI)
Wagner family saga stresses details over dysfunction Feb 26, 2008
Besides Richard Wagner - whose colorful life almost starts to pale alongside his brood - there was Cosima Wagner, illegitimate daughter of the composer Franz Liszt, who bore Wagner three children while she was still married to conductor Hans von Bulow, one of Wagner's biggest supporters. Richard Wagner was 24 years older than Cosima, and after Wagner died in Venice of a heart attack at the age of 69, she lived another 47 years, fiercely guarding the Master's legacy. (Boston Globe)
Playing its founder’s favorites Feb 22, 2008
The program itself will have multiple pieces that Gatlin loved, including selections from Beethoven, Antonio Vivaldi, Aaron Copland, William Grant Still, Franz Liszt and even the song The Impossible Dream from Man of La Mancha. He was someone who would not let go of that dream, Waters said. (Petersburg Progress Index, VA)
Young pianist already a 'star' Feb 16, 2008
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Manhattan Piano Trio: a grand departure from the usual Feb 15, 2008
Strezeva, who was born in Moldovia and came to the United States with her family, will begin Sunday afternoon s recital with a concert etude by Franz Liszt, "Sospiro." The title means "breath," and the piece is "a way to put people into the mood for the concert," she says. "It s just a beautiful piece and sets the atmosphere for the whole concert.". (Westerly Sun, RI)
Leslie Howard Jan 28, 2008
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Classical pianist Angela Jia Kim performs a number of classical works from artists such as Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Liszt Friday evening during the Lake City Community College Concert Series. JASON MATTHEW WALKER/Lake City Reporter Jan 26, 2008
Classical pianist Angela Jia Kim performs a number of classical works from artists such as Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Liszt Friday evening during the Lake City Community College Concert Series ... Published: Friday, January 25, 2008 11:54 PM EST Classical pianist Angela Jia Kim performs a number of classical works from artists such as Ludwig van Beethoven and Franz Liszt Friday evening during the Lake City Community College Concert Series. (Lake City Reporter, FL)
Solo recital stars pianist Jan 23, 2008
Hastings will give a free public recital at 8 tonight in Esber Recital Hall, which will include works of Franz Liszt, Fr;d;ric Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ... He added that he will also be playing 12 studies by Chopin written to test the player, as well as a transcription of a Richard Wagner piece by Franz Liszt that "really exploits all pianist techniques.". (Daily Collegian, PA)
Violin prodigy scores at the Heyde Center Jan 4, 2008
Then it was the towering Franz Liszt, his Pelerinage set to Dante s, Divina Commedia. Its great cast of characters crossed the keyboard from Virgil to Beatrice including sinners and saints, bringing Dante to life through the fingers of the diminutive Namji Kim. (Chippewa Falls Chippewa Herald, WI)
The Wagner Clan Dec 29, 2007
It is impossible to gloss over Wagner's anti-Semitism and the even more fierce hatred of Jews exhibited by his wife, formerly his mistress, Cosima von Bulow, the daughter of the composer Franz Liszt and a French countess. After Wagner's death in 1883, Cosima ruled the festival with an iron fist and Bayreuth became an ideological powerhouse that disseminated vile anti-Semitic and nationalistic propaganda throughout Germany. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
King of the keys made jazz a pleasure Dec 26, 2007
As a child, Peterson studied piano with Paul de Marky, a student of Franz Liszt; as a young jazz musician, he was hailed as the Brown Bomber of Boogie-Woogie, likening his two-fisted technique to that of boxer Joe Louis. But with both Liszt and boogie-woogie, Peterson built his sound and style on music that had plenty of room for dazzle and melody, but relatively little interest in the sort of harmonic innovation Monk and Evans championed. (Globe and Mail)
World Renowned Pianists Romance Audiences at MECA Dec 22, 2007
The program features the musical genius of Franz Schubert, Frdric Chopin, Sergei Rachmaninov, Franz Liszt and Johannes Brahms ... Among these is a selection by Franz Liszt, Hungarian Rhapsody no.2 which gained widespread popularity when used by Warner Bros. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
A bright new star Nov 26, 2007
The special art of piano transcription largely has been the particular province of a few keyboard titans, Franz Liszt and Ferruccio Busoni chief among them. presented a program Sunday afternoon at the Steinway Gallery in Boca Raton that featured an ambitious collection of transcriptions by these two pianist-composers as well as three others of works from Bach to Mozart and Richard Rodgers. (The Palm Beach Post)
How actors go from zero to music virtuoso for film roles Nov 22, 2007
It reached an early peak with the 1961 Franz Liszt biopic "Song Without End," in which the British actor Dirk Bogarde mastered several of Liszt's impossibly demanding piano works. "Bogarde can claim distinction with having most successfully faked it," Mr. Tibbetts says. (Christian Science Monitor)
Exemplary, extemporary Nov 15, 2007
Gabriela Montero has a gift the classical establishment has shunned since the days of Franz Liszt - improvising ... " At 37, Montero is the queen of improvisation. Classically trained, she was born with a gift that the classical establishment has largely shunned since the days of Franz Liszt - creating music in front of an audience. Improvisation fell out of favour because the 19th-century piano literature became so difficult to master, according to David Dubal, a piano faculty member at the... (Globe and Mail -- Entertainment)
TEMPO: Symphony embarks on musical tour Oct 28, 2007
Add to that, Anton;n Dvor;k s Symphony No. 8 in G major, and Franz Liszt s symphonic poem, Les Preludes, which the SVSA has performed before to the delight of the audience ... The other Hungarian featured in the concert, Franz Liszt, wrote Les Preludes. (Sierra Vista Herald, AZ)
WHS, Chariho lend a hand to the next Wynton Marsalis Oct 27, 2007
As a special treat, says Dowding, "we re having a guest artist Brandon Donahue, a former student of mine,he was a member of the chorus and also accompanied the chorus, and he s now in his fourth year as a piano performance major at Rhode Island College." Donahue, a 2004 graduate of Chariho, will accompany some of the choral selections Wednesday and will also play the "Hungarian Rhapsody" by Franz Liszt, which he just performed for his junior recital at RIC. "We re very lucky to have him," says... (Westerly Sun, RI)
* Teenager overcomes odds to win piano competitions Oct 21, 2007
Liu, who studies electronics at the National Hsinchu Senior Industrial Vocational School, said the music of Franz Liszt sparked his interest in the instrument. However, his family was too poor to pay for piano lessons, so he began working at a convenience store nearby at the age of 15. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
WBU Music Department plans concerts 10-21-2007 Oct 21, 2007
Pair, who retired from Wayland in 2002 after 36 years of teaching music, will focus on composer Franz Liszt whose transcriptions were written to enhance other composers works as elaborate piano compositions. Pair has selected 10 of Liszt s transcriptions for his concert, including the Bridal Chorus, Wedding March and Verdi s Rigoletto. (Plainview Daily Herald, TX)
Fall concert will feature violinist and organist Oct 19, 2007
The program includes Toccata and Fugue in D Minor, J. S. Bach (1685-1750) (organ solo); Fugue from Sonata in C Major, J. S. Bach (1685-1750) (violin solo); Romanze in G Major, Johan Severin Svendsen (1840-1911) (violin and organ); Mephisto Waltz, Franz Liszt (1811-1886), (arranged by Nathan Milstain [1903-1992] for violin solo); Incantation pour un jour saint, Jean Langlais (1907-1991) (organ solo); and The Seasons, Antonio Vivaldi (1678-1741) (arranged for violin and organ by Alojz Srebotnjak... (Maryville Daily Forum, MO)
Revealed: Puccini's secret lover Sep 30, 2007
Richard Wagner:stole his second wife, Cosima, the daughter of Franz Liszt, from his best friend, the pianist and composer Hans Von Bulow. Gustav Mahler: His wife Alma Schindler had an affair with the painter Oskar Kokoschka and then married architect Walter Gropius. (Guardian Unlimited)
Richard Strauss Sep 20, 2007
There he became a friend of Hans von Bulow, first husband of Cosima Wagner, daughter of Franz Liszt. He had several works given in Munich, including a symphony when he was 17, and the next year a wind serenade in Dresden and a violin concerto in Vienna. (Suite101.com)
Antonio Salieri Sep 16, 2007
He taught Ludwig van Beethoven, Franz Schubert, Franz Liszt, and J. Nepomuk Hummel. Salieri played the continuo in the first performance of Joseph Haydn's Creation in 1798. (Suite101.com)
Piano recital to benefit church, Cross of Peace Sep 15, 2007
She also participated in several international piano competitions in France and Andorra, winning the Grand Prix for Franz Liszt interpretation in Marseille in 2003. In Moscow, Kartashova received private piano lessons with the renowned Professor Emmanuil Monaszon, a teacher of more than 100 world-renowned pianists. (Santa Maria Times)
Alexander Glazunov Sep 14, 2007
In Weimar, he also met with Franz Liszt, who had some influence in his music. In 1899, he was appointed professor at the St. Petersburg Conservatory, and after six years, he was appointed as director there until leaving the Soviet Union in 1928, when he went to live in Paris but before he did, he first went to Vienna, then toured Europe and the US. Dmitry Shostakovich was one of his prominent students in St Petersburg. (Suite101.com)
* Events & Entertainment Sep 7, 2007
The concert also features pianist Roger Muraro, who is laureate of both the International Franz Liszt Competition in Parma and the International Tchaikovsky Competition in Moscow. He will be joined by the NSO to present Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No.1 in B Flat Minor, Op. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Lubomyr Melnyk: KMH Aug 15, 2007
Imagine Reich's "Piano Phase" as jacked up by Cecil Taylor (or if you're more classically inclined, Franz Liszt) and you have an idea of the melding of meditation and bewilderment. Advertisement. (City Pages)
If Wuthering Heights is a love story, Hamlet is a sitcom Aug 11, 2007
An accomplished pianist, she played Beethoven and Handel all her life, and she may even have heard no less a musician than Franz Liszt give a recital in Halifax in February 1841. This picture of a woman who read newspapers, who was interested in the transport revolution and the markets, who could use a gun and make bread and who may even have been able to play the Appassionata Sonata, needs to be given its proper place. (Guardian Unlimited)
Brits Are Coming Aug 5, 2007
While the band's rock edge was influenced by a childhood of watching Rage Against the Machine perform live, the band's piano- driven sound was the result of listening to works by composers including Sergei Rachmaninoff, Franz Liszt and Philip Glass. Bellamy says it's always been his goal to "find ways to make the piano the lead instrument in a rock band," which he does in "Take A Bow.". (New York Post -- Entertainment)
Piano Pops provides particular package of pleasure Jul 20, 2007
Earlier in the mid-1800s, the piano recital as we know it today was being created by the Romantic virtuosos Frederic Chopin and Franz Liszt, and in this country, Louis Moreau Gottschalk. They were dazzling in their ability to compose the most challenging piano music, and then go out and play it effortlessly. (Westerly Sun, RI)
All dressed for the fest, but no ticket to see Wagner Jul 6, 2007
Wagner's Festspielhaus, in Bayreuth, Germany, scene of an annual festival for which there is a several-year waiting list for tickets. (Oliver Hartung for The New York Times). (International Herald Tribune -- Arts)
Turkish delight Jul 3, 2007
And in spending the afternoon at this 18th century-era Hamman, youll be following in the footsteps not only of countless Turks, but also Franz Liszt, Florence Nightingale and Kaiser Wilhelm, all of whom got the treatment when in Istanbul. 7 p.m.-10 p.m.: Hop aboard the private skiff of the restaurant for a sunset sail across the Bosporous and across continents. (MSNBC -- Travel)
Violently happy Jun 24, 2007
In Nottingham, meanwhile, Chris Urbanowicz was getting to grips with symptoms of synaesthesia (a neurological disorder where one sense can trigger another, so sound can be "seen" as colours), something he shares with Franz Liszt, Duke Ellington and Pharrell Williams, among others. The more intense the music, the more powerful the colours. (Guardian Unlimited)
Hilton Sandcastles pianist a delight Jun 8, 2007
He yearned to become a concert pianist, ala Franz Liszt, as he says, but that just didn't happen. "I was seduced into playing in the rock 'n roll industry and was asked to play the keyboard in a New Wave rock band, where we thought we would make our millions," Ferenz explained. (Marco Island Sun-Times, FL)
* Life is like a seriesof preludes May 25, 2007
Franz Liszt, a pioneer if ever there was one, named them Symphonic Poems, and wrote 13 of them. Richard Strauss was to take over the same technique and re-name them Tone Poems. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World Business)
Classical music May 11, 2007
Program includes works by Richard Wagner and Franz Liszt. Featuring Gerhardt Zimmerman, director. (Akron Beacon Journal, OH -- Entertainment)
How moving a 50000 piano ended on a flat note Apr 12, 2007
Having spent two years raising the 26,000 needed to buy a grand piano for the Two Moors Festival in Devon, the organisers were keenly awaiting its delivery. But their 9ft-long Bsendorfer will sadly not be playing any part in this year s programme after the delivery men accidently dropped it 13ft off the back of a lorry. (Times Online)
Moving a piano is obviously not their forte Apr 11, 2007
It supplied the composer Franz Liszt and most of the imperial courts of Europe in the 19th century. Today, its instruments are to be found in concert halls around the world. (Telegraph.co.uk)
Alexandre Dossin in concert Apr 8, 2007
Pianist Alexandre Dossins program will include works from Tchaikovsky, Kabalevsky and the Sacred Dance and Final Duet from Giuseppe Verdis Aida by Franz Liszt. Dossin recently received the first prize at the second Martha Argerich International Piano Competition in Buenos Aires, Argentina. (Pensacola News Journal)
NSO's showy, eclectic 20th century (T.L. Ponick) Apr 7, 2007
The National Symphony Orchestra, under the baton of music director Leonard Slatkin, performed an eclectic program of showy, largely 20th-century music Thursday evening at the Kennedy Center, highlighting works by Maurice Ravel, Franz Liszt and Sergei Prokofiev and featuring rising young Chinese pianist Yundi Li. The concert opened with four short works by Ravel -- two familiar, two less so. (Washington Times)
Uitsonderlik| Apr 5, 2007
Laasgenoemde was n student van Franz Liszt. Twee jaar later is hy na London om by die Royal College of Music onder Cyril Smith te studeer. (iAfrica.com)
Mark Pair to perform at FBC 04-04-2007 Apr 5, 2007
Pair also will perform Liebestraume, one of the highlighted classics of all time, by Hungarian composer Franz Liszt. Three pieces by Chopin will be featured: Military Polonaise, Nocturne in E-Flat and the familiar Minute Waltz. (Plainview Daily Herald, TX)
How love begat a classical hoax Mar 3, 2007
Mr. Rose soon found that on a CD of Ms. Hatto performing the music of Hungarian composer Franz Liszt, 10 of the CD's 12 tracks were identical to a prior recording by Mr. Simon. Mr. Barrington-Coupe is said to have appeared befuddled when approached about the discovery in mid-February. (Globe and Mail)
Chailly, Li Wow Audience Feb 28, 2007
Performing the music of the German Romantic composer Richard Strauss and Hungarian Romantic composer Franz Liszt, the Gewandhaus Orchestra wowed the audience with its powerful performance. Opening the program was Strauss's tone poem, "Don Juan Op. 20." The piece was emotional, even during its quieter parts. (The Daily Campus, CT)
Past students salute beloved piano teacher Feb 25, 2007
He's another former student who has relocated to Los Angeles and is working in the movie business -- though he made it into the final cut for both the USC Piano Concerto Competition and the Los Angeles International Franz Liszt Competition. "I would not have made it to this level of musical fervor if it were not for Svetlana," he wrote. (Anchorage Daily News)
Curious George: Revisiting a writer's turbulent, adventurous life Feb 19, 2007
The 1991 film "Impromptu " featured Judy Davis as Sand, and took as its subject the household Sand formed for a time with Chopin, Franz Liszt, and Liszt's mistress. Dan Hofstadter's chapter on Sand in his 1996 "The Love Affair as a Work of Art " emphasized the most literary of Sand's affairs, that with de Musset, which generated an astonishing record of back-and-forth autobiographical accounts, published literary letters, and posthumously published private letters. (Boston Globe)
* Events and Entertainment Feb 9, 2007
As part of the center's Musical Soiree concert series, this concert will feature soprano Chen Hsin-ying (), who received an artist diploma from the Hochschule fur Musik Franz Liszt at Weimar. Accordion player Primoz Parovel and Stefan Hussong, both based in Weimar will present a program of accordion and vocal works tonight. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
