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the 2010 American liszt Society the four chopin Ballades and four Scherzos, conference and Festival will take place at and the three piano sonatas of Schumann. tAble oF contentS the university of nebraska at lincoln, with AlS board member Dr. paul barnes as host. Inspired by liszt’s unfailing support of those who were fortunate to have attended new music, the festival will also present the 1 Festival 2010 at the university of the 2005 AlS conference in lincoln world premier performance of a new version nebraska - lincoln will remember the excellent organization, of the Hexameron Variations, based on liszt’s facilities, and hospitality that paul, his own work, featuring six composers from 2 president’s message: colleagues, and insitution can provide, and new york city, performed by new york “the mozart effect” 2010 is sure to be the same!! pianist matthew cameron. the songs and chamber music of Schumann will also be represented. rounding out the academic 3 letter from the editor next year marks the bicentennial of the portion of the schedule will be engaging birth of two of the greatest composers for the piano, robert Schumann and lectures that will probe deeply into the 4 Winners of the 2009 liszt-Garrison issues surrounding much of this great music. Festival and International piano Frederic chopin. the 2010 Festival will competition celebrate the contributions of these two great composers at a three-day festival the Festival concludes with a grand banquet

thursday, April 8 through Saturday, in polish Style in the great hall of the new 6 member news April 10. Featured at the Festival will be Van brunt Visitor’s center. a unique piano concerto gala on Friday 7 chapter news evening at the lied center for performing plan to spend three beautiful days in Arts with world-renowned pianist Arnaldo lincoln in spring 2010 as we commemorate, celebrate, and appreciate 8 “cosmopolitan” - A tribute to cohen performing liszt’s Piano Concerto in the profound contributions of chopin and Joseph bloch E-flat Major with the lincoln Symphony orchestra conducted by edward polochick. Schumann to our cultural lives. liszt, Gilbert, and Sullivan!! Also featured on the program will be Festival registration: $90 performances of the chopin Concerto in F Festival banquet: $60 10 From the executive Secretary Minor, Alexandre Dossin, soloist, and the

Schumann Piano Concerto, Gila Goldstein, soloist. Festival hotel: holiday Inn Downtown 11 “odds and ends” $94 single, $94 double new books pianists from all over the world will be special rate held until march 7, 2010

last call - new Web Address coming to lincoln to perform, including charles Webb, evelyne brancart, luis de For more information, please go to the moura castro, members of the Korean liszt Festival website at www. unl.edu/music, Society, and Asaf zohar of the Jerusalem or contact paul barnes at pbarnes@unl. Academy of music and Dance. other edu, or by phone at 402-525-2778. For special events include a thursday evening a copy of the brochure, go to http:// piano gala featuring works of chopin, liszt, americanlisztsociety.net/AlS%202010%20 flier.pdf Perpetuating the ideas of and Schumann, including performances of Franz Liszt through excellence in music performance and scholarship preSIDent “Odds and Ends” New Books Member News thomas mastroianni (continued from page 7) t he catholic university of America President’s Message benjamin t. rome School of music Washington D.c. 20064 For a really nice overview of the 2009 Festival Oxford University Press (http://www.oup. Joshua Russell reports that he is now on at the University of Kansas last April, go to com/us/) has just released Dr. Alan Walker’s the piano faculty at Bradley University, in preSIDent emerItuS Frederic Chiu’s blog at http://fredericchiu. Peoria, Illinois, and may reached by email at Fernando laires new book, Hans von Bülow: A Life and blogspot.com/ Times. The 544-page book is available [email protected]. VIce preSIDent in a hardback version for $39.95 plus Jay A. hershberger shipping. According to OUP’s website, c oncordia college music Department “They Came to Play,” a feature-length the new book contains the “first full-length Zephyr Records has released the first moorhead, mn 56562 documentary about the International Piano biography of Hans von Bülow in English; two CDs in Ian Hobson’s monumental project of recording the complete works by executIVe SecretAry Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, hosted considers Bulow’s twin careers as concert Justin Kolb by The Van Cliburn Foundation, is available for pianist and virtuoso orchestral conductor, Chopin, including chamber music, vocal music, and juvenalia. Volume I, entitled 1136 hog mountain road purchase at http://theycametoplay.com/ and underlines Bülow’s central role in the Fleischmanns, ny 12430 “Awakening,”includes the Rondo, Op. 1, history of musical performance; and is five early polonaises, three ecossaises, and based on a bevy of previously untapped treASurer Dear lisztians, four mazurkas. Volume II is entitled “Hats nancy roldán Chaja Beck, of The Netherlands Music Institute, archival sources.” The book is organized off,” referring to the famous complimentary po 1707 has written the NMI “is the proud owner of a in three “sub-books”: I. On the Slopes remark made by Robert Schumann about owens mills, mD In preparing an article dealing with the “mozart effect,” the philosophy small but interesting Liszt collection, containing of Parnassus; II. Ascending the Peak; (410) 833-5782 Chopin, and includes the Sonata No. 1 in C [email protected] and spirit of Franz liszt invaded my thought process. liszt is such an music manuscripts, correspondence and other and III. Vistas from the Summit, plus a Minor, Op. 4, the Variations on Mozart’s “Là important resource for our age! items. In order to make some of this easily Prologue, three Appendices, and additional ci darem la mano,” three polonaises, and three AlS JournAl accessible to Liszt scholars and Liszt enthousiasts, information. dances. Hobson is performing a series of all- rena charnin mueller If one accepts the validity of a “mozart effect” (which seems to point we have launched a new web presentation: Four Chopin concerts in Lockport, Illinois during Faculty of Arts and Science letters of Franz Liszt to Espérance von Schwartz new york university out gains that exposure to music may have for other aspects of brain this and next year’s season. He will also be 24 Waverly place, room 268 function), one may be close to recognizing that traditional concepts of Oxford University Press has also just playing a series of all-Schumann recitals on new york, ny 10003 http://www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl/en/ published The Musician’s Way: A Guide to the University of Illinois campus, where he is linear compartmentalization of learning and thinking may be flawed. collections/web-presentations/liszt-letters Practice, Performance, and Wellness (360 pp. Swanlund Professor of Piano and a member AlS neWSletter $24.95), by Gerald Klickstein. Klickstein of the Center for Advanced Studies. edward rath the Age of enlightenment by its very name purported to have shown School of music This contains four letters by Liszt to Baroness is Professor of Music at the University of university of Illinois the way to truth through reason and logic. We can demonstrate certain von Schwartz, an interesting personality who North Carolina School of the Arts. The 1114 W. nevada Street truths. two plus two equals four. but who can explain “one”? holistic has received very little attention in the Liszt Musician’s Way presents comprehensive, urbana, Il 61801 concepts do form a distinct order of truth, as does intuition. music that literature. Under the pen name Elpis Melena, she research-driven guidance geared to all had some fame as a writer, philanthropist, and a boArD oF DIrectorS is merely an assembly of parts is not art. aspiring performers, especially college and paul barnes political activist. In this presentation, the letters pre-college music students, and it does so Last Call!!!! luiz de moura castro liszt rarely composed a musical work and left it for posterity in its are reproduced as high resolution images, in using conversational language and a clear- Alexandre Dossin transcription and translation, and accompanied original form. Who can study the Transcendental Etudes and not be cut format. It also employs an extensive Gila Goldstein by extensive commentary by musicologist companion website at www.MusiciansWay. Jay A. hershberger impressed by the miraculous unity and beauty of the final versions? And Please remember that the web address for Lodewijk Muns, NMI archivist and researcher. com, where you can view the book’s Table Geraldine Keeling who can identify and explain what liszt did to achieve the beauty of the American Liszt Society has changed in Justin Kolb of Contents and read reviews. The book the end result? Intuitively we recognize the beauty. this intuition is a a small but very important way. The new elyse J. mach is organized in three parts. Part I, “Artful address is thomas mastroianni discovery of truth. Practice,” describes strategies that empower rena charnin mueller edward rath musicians to interpret and memorize www.americanlisztsociety.net nancy roldán music deals with linear concepts of theory and construction, but it deals compositions, fuel motivation, collaborate, boaz Sharon with direct intuition also. We do not analyze and dissect a musical 2009 Great Romantics and more. Part II, “Fearless Performance,” If you have bookmarked the old address, Steven Spooner composition to find its beauty. We first experience its beauty and are led lifts the lid on the causes of nervousness and you need to change it to the new one, helen Smith tarchalski shows how musicians can become confident Alan Walker to further understand it in a linear way. Festival Postponed where the domain (end of address) is .net William Wellborn performers. Part III, “Lifelong Creativity,” and not .org. richard zimdars Keats pointed out that “beauty is truth and truth beauty.” to Dr. Alan Walker announced earlier this year surveys tactics that equip performers to that the 2009 Great Romantics Festival had understand this one must acknowledge that truth is the product of a prevent music-related injuries and thrive as The ALS website is available to you to be cancelled The 2010 Great Romantics creative artists. In the words of the author, dual cognitive process. A balanced and distributed neural activation for publicizing events and information Festival is scheduled to take place next fall in “The Musician’s Way serves students, concerning Franz Liszt. Send items for the generates the best learning. Is this not the best argument for the place Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Interested parties teachers, and performers who strive for of the arts in education? website to [email protected]!! Be sure to may find more information on the Festival musical excellence.” The author invites indicate ALS in the subject line!! website at www.artset.net/GreatRomantics/ your comments about the book to be shared let me know what you think. web-content/index.html or the ALS website at via his blog at http://musiciansway.com/ americanlisztsociety.net. blog/ yours in liszt,

thomas mastroianni president, American liszt Society [email protected]

Volume 25, Issue 2, Summer/Fall 2009 11 From the Executive Secretary Letter from the Editor TO KEEP YOUR MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORIES CURRENT:

MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY NEW EMAIL ADDRESSES: UPDATES: AND NEW MEMBERS: Jamie Caridi [email protected] Laura M. Garritson Jill Coffman [email protected] 1 Maybeck Place Dennis M. DeSantis [email protected] Elsah, IL 62028 Koos Groen [email protected] H 618-786-2851 Jay Hershberger [email protected] Asst. Prof. of Music Daniel Lau [email protected] [email protected] Gabor Markus [email protected] Dear Readers, P. Michael McDermott [email protected] Moises Ruiz de Gauno Efrain Paesky [email protected] Where has the time gone? It seems like only yesterday that I was writing to you concerning 358 Shiloh St. #9 William Phemister [email protected] the excitement I felt about returning to Eisenstadt, Austria to visit the exhibits on display Cincinnati, OH 45220 Jeff Prillaman [email protected] celebrating the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn. Wow, you cannot H 513-289-8665 David Rostkoski [email protected] imagine what unbelievably fine exhibits they were. From the artificats and manuscripts Pianist/Teacher Joshua Russell [email protected] associated with Haydn’s religious life and works, at the Diocesan Museum next to the [email protected] Barry Wiener [email protected] Franziskanerkirche, to the surroundings of the Landesmuseum (where there is also the William Wright [email protected] Paulo Ricardo Gazzaneo famous “Blue Room” filled with Liszt furniture, clothing, instruments, etc.), to the exquisite Rua Artur Azevedo, 776 #31 displays of clothing, instruments, and musical scores from Haydn’s times juxtaposed with NEW POST OFFICE ADDRESSES: Sao Paulo, Brazil 05404 contemporary graphics, videography, and fabulous acoustics in the ground floor exhibition H 5511-3083-0199 spaces in what is called “Haydn Explosiv.” The quaint Haydnhaus on the Haydngasse Kris Becker John Salmon Musician/Pianist has been renovated and expanded. Here, where Haydn lived for some time before taking PO Box 25332 2509 Hillsdale Forest Ct. [email protected] leave of Eisenstadt for Vienna, you begin to appreciate what must have been the charming Houston, TX 77265 Summerfield, NC 27358 personalityof the composer. If you want to get a better feel for what I’ve been describing, go H 336-644-1695 Michael Hanson to http://americanlisztsociety.net/ALS%202010%20flier.pdf, where there is a good English Corinne Burkhartsmeier 400 E 2nd St #13 translation of the website. PO Box 73194 Bloomington, IN 47401 San Clemente, CA 94673 H 612-735-2702 It was such a pleasant surprise to “run in to” Dr. William Wellborn, ALS Board Member, MADE A CONTRIBUTION ABOVE Musician/Pianist who had brought a group of students to Eisenstadt for some touring. Exchanging greetings Gila Goldstein THEIR ANNUAL DUES. michanso@indiana.edu on the plaza in front of the Esterházy Palace, we lamented the fact that we could not spend Schwob School of Music THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!!! some time together over a glass of what the Austrians have “distilled from sunshine” - beer!!! 900 Broadway Nicholas Phillips The really neat thing was, however, that a very famous statue of Franz Liszt, with the title Columbus, GA 31901 Elyse Mach Univ. of Wisconsin-Eau Claire “Burgenland’s Greatest Son,” witnessed all of this meet-and-greet activity. I couldn’t help H 917-849-9916 Peter Willis 261 Haas Fine Arts/UWEC think that Liszt would have enjoyed the whole scene. And I couldn’t help think that he was Department of Music watching over our shoulder! Janice G. Hanke Eau Claire, WI 54702 PO Box 20161 Assistant Professor of Music/Piano Now, why all the fuss about Haydn and Eisenstadt. Well, it was great to be back where I Santa Barbara, CA 93120 PLEASE REMEMBER . . . H 715-830-9952 American Liszt Society spent 23 years corralling performers and observers, lining up buses, and hearing some of the [email protected] PRESIDENT greatest music ever written in the very places for which it was originally written. But I also Noel Hart to keep in touch with our office concerning Thomas Mastroianni began to ponder what we can expect a bit south of town in the quaint village of Raiding, 132/1 Queensberry St. changes or corrections in your addresses, where Franz Liszt’s 200th birthday will be celebrated in less than two years. The fabulous Alexander J. Schwarzkopf NEWSLETTER EDITOR Carlton, 3052 phone numbers, e-mails and other pertinent 2942 Riverview St. Edward Rath, Associate Director exhibits that I have seen in Austria over more than 30 years lead me to believe that 2011 Victoria, Australia information. Keeping our records current will Eugene, OR 97403 School of Music is going to be a “really big show,” to quote the late Ed Sullivan. I am certain that Raiding, ensure that you receive publications and other University of Illinois H 541-359-6641 Eisenstadt, Vienna, Budapest, Rome, Paris, Weimar, Bayreuth, and London, too, will all Steven Lee communictions from the Society in a timely Urbana, IL 61801 Pianist have great exhibitions dedicated to Liszt, and that’s as it should be. The magnitude of his 7673 Spatterdock Drive fashion. You may contact the Executive tel: (217) 244-2670 [email protected] [email protected] influence parallels the breadth of his activity and fame. Boynton Beach, FL 33437 Secretary by e-mail: Justin Kolb at mellon@ fax: (217) 244-4585 H 561-369-8401 catskill.net, or by USPS mail at 1136 Hog Watson University of KS So, fellow Lisztians, we have much to which we can look forward. It is my hope that all Mountain Road, Fleischmanns, NY 12430. Submit change of address information to: Retrieval Serv. Dept. Serl. of you will keep me informed of your Liszt activities planned for 2011, and that you will Dominique Piana EXECUTIVE SECRETARY also let me know if you hear of someone else’s Liszt plans. We will gladly include such 1425 Jayhawk Blvd. R 210S Justin Kolb 5662 Carnegie Way Thank you. Lawrence, KS 66045-7594 1136 Hog Mountain Road information in the Newsletter and also on the website!! Livermore, CA 94550 Fleischmanns, NY 12430 H 925-455-5333 [email protected] Edward Rath Original Design: Bonadies Creative, Inc. Editor Layout: Edward Rath

10 American Liszt Society - www.americanlisztsociety.net Volume 25, Issue 2, Summer/Fall 2009 3 And the Winners are - - - Liszt, Gilbert, and Sullivan!! The 2009 Liszt-Garrison Festival and International Piano Competition! started, he was always far ahead of me on all enchantment of a different reality - it was The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of the latest books, films,After moving to the the very gold of Joseph Bloch’s realm. How Northwest Louisiana (G&S) premiered YOUNG ARTIST II CATEGORY [Ages 15 – 19] The 2009 Liszt-Garrison Festival and International Piano Canadian west coast seven years ago, I made he loved creativity and adventure in all its The Golden Legend, a cantata that uniquely Competition was entitled, “At the Heart of Nations: A Celebration of it a point to visit Joseph Bloch every time I forms Beyond the facts of piano repertoire combines the music scores of Arthur Marilyn Neeley Award the Creative Spirit Around the World.” Indeed, the event has become returned to New York, usually twice a year. that he endeavored to teach us, I think he Sullivan and Franz Liszt setting the words of I. Yon-Joon Yoon poet laureate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. an international event, drawing participants from more than two Until our last visit, he insisted on driving to tried to impart to all his pupils the very dozen countries. Here is a list of winners in the various categories of II. Michael Stewart The concert took place on Saturday, August the Mamaroneck train station to pick me up, magic of such music - its ability, like the 22, 2009 at St. Joseph Catholic Church in the competition: and we’d have lunch at one of his favorite movies, to move us, tell us fantastic tales, Honorable Mentions Shreveport, LA. For the first time ever, the nearby restaurants followed by chat and piano take us to faraway lands, to bring us into an Kimberly Hou music of Franz Liszt and Arthur Sullivan, playing back at the house. His home was a altogether different and more enchanting ARTIST CATEGORY [AGES 25 – 40] Chelsea Wang written for Longfellow’s popular epic poem formidable Tudor-style castle, filled with the reality. called The Golden Legend, written in the most precious of books and artwork, and could 19th century, were integrated together Franz Liszt Award Performance Awards have been a cold place had it been inhabited into a unified whole that tells the medieval I. Esther Park Buckingham Choice Series: Chelsea Wang by anyone less gracious and enchanting. It was Time, the cursed progression of time. Many Faust-like legend of Prince Henry, the II. Michael Berkovsky Music at CND – Festival 2011: Yon-Joon Yoon warmed to perfection by his hospitality and dear friends have departed, some painfully maiden Elsie, and the cunning temptations infectious humor. Those times together over young, and to some extent I felt guilty to of Lucifer. In 1874, Franz Liszt composed Honorable Mentions the last few years are probably my very favorite weep so for the passing of Joseph Bloch. his “Excelsior,” the prelude from The Bells Xiaochun Liang memories of Jimmy, when I felt closest to His extraordinary 91 years were full of of Strasbourg cantata based on Longfellow’s Liza Stepanova him as a person and a friend. It was ironic yet adventure, delight, accomplishment and poem in 1874 after meeting the poet in CONCERTO COMPETITION Rome several years earlier. Arthur Sullivan Directors’ Award: sweet to deepen our connection after so many passion. But no loss has saddened me more. Best Interpretation Awards composed his own cantata, The Golden I. Liudmila Georgievskaya years, myself now relocated to a place so far I find myself saying, often, that the world Franz Liszt: Esther Park Legend, based on the same text in 1886 just II. Sun Young Ju away. Triumph over distance and time was an is just a far less colorful place now without American Composer: Liza Stepanova days after Franz Liszt left England on his important part of Joseph Bloch. The globe fit Joseph Bloch in it. The delightful and final tour prior to his death in July 1886. snugly into his hand, and no place on earth, unforgettable times we shared only made Sullivan’s work became one of the most Performance Awards or period in history, was really far away or me hungry for more, and I selfishly dreamt Performance Awards popular choral works in the late Victorian Concert Artists of Baltimore, Edward Polochick, Artistic Director: unknown to him. He had travelled everywhere, of our luncheon visits extending into his period and his most successful “serious” University of Colorado at Boulder Recital Series: Esther Park Liudmila Georgievskaya knew everyone (“and had the stories to prove 100s. How immeasurable is the loss as well, piece of music outside of his Savoy Operas Despy Karlas Prize, University of Georgia: Liza Stepanova it,” as Stuart Isacoff said), and therefore any to his family and to the countless pupils and in conjunction with W.S. Gilbert. The Music at CND – Festival 2011: Michael Berkovsky and all subjects were open and eager for friends Jimmy accumulated over his long performance of Franz Liszt’s composition discussion. When our conversations started, lifespan and all around the world. We pick The Legend of St. Cecilia, written in 1874 at COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS COMPETITION he was always far ahead of me on all the latest up the pieces, remember the stories, pay our the same time as “Excelsior,” was included books, films and plays, to my never-ending homage, and do our best to continue in the in the concert in a premiere performance of YOUNG ARTIST I CATEGORY [AGES 20 – 24] this stunning musical work in the United George Shields Award – Violin-Piano Duo exasperation. and plays, to my never-ending vein of those we have loved and lost. But States. Proceeds from the performance will I. Joanna Kaczorowvska (violin) and Pablo Lavandera (piano) exasperation. Joseph Bloch - well, he’s just a very tough William Garrison Award act to follow. go toward supporting a staged adaptation I. Alexei Ivanchenko of the work in 2010 in conjunction with a Best Interpretation Award II. Stephanie tour to the United Kingdom. The concert Franz Liszt: Joanna Kaczorowvska and Pablo Lavandera We shared a passion for silent movies. Having featured chorus and orchestra conducted American Composer: Katarzyna Bryla (violin) and had a lifelong fascination with them, I’ve A cosmopolitan toast to you, Joseph Bloch. Best Interpretation Awards by Maestro Marc-André Bougie, with Li-Tan Shu (piano) enjoyed playing piano scores to them from May we meet again in that different and Franz Liszt: Stephanie soloists include Susan Ruggiero as Elsie, time to time. Jimmy had adored the cinema more enchanting reality; one full of song Ryan McDonald as Prince Henry, Steven American Composer: Sun-A Park Performance Awards since childhood, and kept many lovingly- and dance, juicy gossip, ebullient wit, McDonald as Lucifer, and Erin Roth as Chamber Music on the Hill Series, MD preserved fan books and magazines from that Virginals music, silent movies, and those Ursula. Performance Awards Spencerville SDA Chamber Music, MD time. We pored over them and I roared at his wondrous moments when we may both UUCC – Chalice Concert Series of Columbia, MD Summer Music Series, Hood College gossipy tales of such now-forgotten stars as simply smile in delight, celestial drink Dr. John Goddard, M.D., of the The Gilbert and Music at CND – Festival 2011: Alexei Ivanchenko Ramon Navarro and Nita Naldi. How his in hand, and say to each other: “Ah.” and Sullivan Society of Northwest Louisiana Music at CND – Festival 2011 (www.gsnla.org), has asked the following Joanna Kaczorowvska (violin) and Pablo Lavandera (piano) eyes glistened in the recalling of such stories. -- June 26, 2009 question of the American Liszt Society: “Do At such times I could easily envision him as a you have any other information regarding young boy, sitting entranced in the fantastical a U.S. performance of The Legend of St. 2009 SPECIAL AWARD picture palaces of Indianapolis or Chicago Sara Davis Buechner is a pianist living in Cecilia? Many thanks in advance for any Courtesy of Udo Steingraeber Vancouver, BC, where she is Associate Professor information that you can provide.” You can Nancy Roldán and Ernest Ragogini, Directors of the Liszt- ca. 1925 with their rococo architectural A performance at the 2010 Wagner Festival, Bayreuth, Germany of Piano at the University of British Columbia. write to Dr. Goddard in care of the Gilbert Garrison Festival and International Piano Competition, adornment and thumping, live orchestral Her website may be viewed at http://www. and Sullivan Society at the web site shown extend heartfelt thanks to all who selflessly contributed of accompaniments. Song, dance, moving above. Joanna Kaczorowvska (violin) and Pablo Lavandera (piano) sarabuechner.com/ their time and expertise to the success of the 2009 event! images, the stars, dreams, and the

4 American Liszt Society - www.americanlisztsociety.net Volume 25, Issue 2, Summer/Fall 2009 9 Cosmopolitan A Tribute to Joseph Bloch by Sara Davis Buechner

If our human experience is just one big of this historic collection, the composers all. But the tastiest memory of that day was party, then Joseph Bloch was the most and works contained within, nor the a walk through that old Juilliard delightful and mesmerizing guest in the instrument for which they were written. building with Jimmy as he pointed out JUDGES FOR THE 2009 COMPETITION LEARNING INSTITUTIONS REPRESENTED room - the one to whom you gravitate with Yet here we were suddenly and company various places he remembered fondly -- Boston University drink in hand and listen to for as long as of our very talented peers. I determined particularly room 605, the studio wherein Michael Adcock, Andrew Cooperstock, José Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing you can. He was for me, as for so many to further crack this tasty nut, and spent the legendary pianist Olga Samaroff had Miguel Cueto, Alexandre Dossin, Giulio City University of New York others, my Professor of Piano Literature the following week in my practice room taught him, as well as fellow luminaries Draghi, Ruth Drucker, Andrew Gerle, Cleveland Institute of Music at The Juilliard School. That fact in itself plowing through as much of the collection like Eugene List and William Kapell. The Daniel Glover, Gila Goldstein, Louis Nagel, College-Conservatory of Music, University of Cincinnati; hardly begins to describe an individual as I could. In particular I practiced now-somewhat shabby facilities held a José Ramos Santana, Nadejda Vlaeva, and Eastman School of Music whose life’s embrace was so joyous and all- the difficult“Woody-cock” Variations of much greater presence for me after that Richard Zimdars. École Normale de Musique, Paris encompassing as to be scarcely believable. I Giles Farnaby. At the next week’s class, day -- though I reflected upon Woody Escola Superior de Artes Aplicadas de Castelo Branco dare suggest that all those who studied with I could scarcely contain my enthusiasm Allen’s commentary in his nostalgic film Preliminary Audition Judges: Florida State University Mr. Bloch over the course of his 47-year as I played through the piece (without Radio Days, that even the memories of a José Cueto, Kyle Engler, David Kreider, Noel George Mason University tenure write to Webster’s Dictionary with much subtlety or accuracy, I confess). glorious time tend to fade more and more Lester, Ernest Ragogini, and Gilardi Conservatory the request to update their definition of the “Ah! You were BORN to play Farnaby!” with each passing year. As a teacher, I Nancy Roldán Hochschule für Musik, Hanover word “cosmopolitan.” Their entry needs exclaimed our delighted teacher - another worry profoundly about musical legacies, Indiana University, Bloomington two accompanying illustrations - one of the of his convenient catch-phrases, with the even Jimmy’s. Who will remind our young Coordinators: Patricia Graham, The Juilliard School sophisticated drink, and another of Joseph substitution of whichever composer was people now that once upon a time there was Shannon Harmon, and Daniel Lau The Juilliard School Pre-College Division Bloch holding one in a toast. being played on such occasion. Over the greatness in room 605 at Manhattan School of Music years I heard him drop this line on many 120 Claremont Avenue? Mannes College students, occasionally with an ironic air if The New School for Music There are, of course, legions of stories the work being played, or the level of the COUNTRIES REPRESENTED AT THE Mariinsky Young Singers Academy of the Moscow State Conservatory about Joseph Bloch’s intellectual depth, performance, was of specious quality. After moving to the Canadian west coast 2009 COMPETITION Mozarteum, Salzburg pianistic acumen and brilliant witticisms. I seven years ago, I made it a point to visit Argentina National Music Academy, Kiev witnessed more than my share of the latter Joseph Bloch every time I returned to Australia New England Conservatory and they are jewels in my own crown of I called upon Mr. Bloch’s treasure trove of New York, usually twice a year. Until Belarus Ohio State University party bon mots. But on recent occasions knowledge when I was asked to re-vamp our last visit, he insisted on driving to the Brazil Oklahoma City University when I have been asked to speak of the and teach the Piano Literature program Mamaroneck train station to pick me up, Bulgaria Peabody Conservatory, The Johns Hopkins University man, I find myself recalling the simplest at the Manhattan School of Music in the and we’d have lunch at one of his favorite Canada Peabody Institute of moments - a personal snapshot of early 1990s -- phoning him frequently nearby restaurants followed by chat and Croatia Peabody Preparatory Division his famous smile, or conjuring up his for advice, and modelling the course after piano playing back at the house. His China Poznan Academy of Music, Poland legendarily satisfied “Ah!”... released often, his own, naturally. Graciously Jimmy home was a formidable Tudor-style castle, France Roman Maciejewski State Music School, Leszno, Poland at moments of intellectual or gossip- visited the “old Juilliard building” (which filled with the most precious of books Greece Roosevelt University mongering ecstasy. To be around Mr. Manhattan School had purchased upon and artwork, and could have been a cold Israel Rowan University Bloch, to be in Juilliard classroom no. Juilliard’s move to Lincoln Center) one place had it been inhabited by anyone less Japan Rutgers University 549, sitting and “clutching the hem of his September day in 1994 to watch me teach gracious and enchanting. It was warmed to Malaysia Seoul National University garment” (one of his signature phrases), was a large class of graduate pianists, lecturing perfection by his hospitality and infectious Netherlands Southern Methodist University to be in delightful rapture with learning about the same Fitzwilliam Virginal Book humor. Those times together over the last Phillipines SUNY at Stony Brook itself. Finding new pianistic treasures in the and a few works of Sweelinck. I assure few years are probably my very favorite Poland University New South Wales, Australia Bloch classes was the most fun to be had you all that I was more nervous for those memories of Jimmy, when I felt closest to Portugal University of Illinois anywhere - a formidable statement really, 90 minutes than for any performance him as a person and a friend. It as ironic Taiwan University of Iowa when you consider all the many pleasures anywhere else, ever, in my life. And of yet sweet to deepen our connection after so Russia University of Kansas available in fabled Gotham. course, I made a few gaffes with dates many years, myself now relocated to a place South Korea University of Macedonia, Thessalonika and details, all of which were caught so far away. Triumph over distance and Spain University of Maryland, College Park One of my treasured Piano Lit moments and critiqued by the master -- over the time was an important part of Joseph Bloch. Turkey University of Massachusetts is from an early class, in which Mr. Bloch luncheon I paid for in return for his time The globe fit snugly into his hand, and no Ukraine University of Michigan opened the volumes, and the world, of and counsel. It was one of the tastiest, place on earth, or period in history, was United States of America University of Missouri the Fitzwilliam Virginal Book to us. We most delightful, and most expensive I have really far away or unknown to him. He had Venezuela University of North Texas wholly immersed in an enormous trove of ever enjoyed in New York, at the Terrace travelled everywhere, knew everyone (“and University of South Carolina, Columbia dazzling keyboard music, and asked to read Restaurant with its magnificent panorama had the stories to prove it,” as Stuart Isacoff University of Southern California through a few selections in the were green of Manhattan. Who would dare take said), and therefore any and all subjects University of Tennessee undergraduates, and none of us knew Joseph Bloch any place lesser, after were open and eager for discussion. When University of Utah our conversations Voronezh State Academy of Arts, Russia Washington Conservatory, Bethesda, MD Private Piano Studios

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In April, Justin Kolb participated with For Justin the summer ended on 2009, he gave four master classes and ALS President Thomas Mastroianni October 4th she performed the world special addition to this great evening, Dr. Alan composer/author Kyle Gann, composer September 25th when he opened the a series of four lecture-recitals entitled, has developed a series of pedagogical premiere of Fred Cohen’s Piano Concerto Walker agreed to address the pianists and the William Bolcom, and others in New “Celebrity Concert Series” at McMaster “Highlights of the United States Piano workshops entitled “To Teach Is to Serve.” No. 1 with the Columbus State University audiences in a recorded video that was shown at York’s Symphony Space on the “Cutting University in Hamilton Ontario. A second Repertoire” at the Federal University of Seven topics have evolved thus far, and Philharmonic at the Schwob School of Music the start of the concert. Edge Concerts New Music Festival 2009.” summertime collaboration occurred with Goiás, Goianias, Brazil. At the Federal you can visit Tom’s website at www. in Columbus, GA, where she has begun Kolb has dedicated his performing career the performance artist, Mikhail Horowitz. University of Rio de Janeiro he presented thomasmastroianni.com to find out more her second year as a piano professor and to music of American composers as well It included a reading of poetry of Langston a lecture-recital titled “Piano Music of about the project. Plans for the Amalfi Hughes along with music by composer coordinator of the keyboard area. San Francisco Bay Chapter as lesser known works of 19th century Persichetti and Pupils.” Richard has also Coast Music and Arts Festival next summer Liszt’s relationship to the philosophy of Arthur composer Franz Liszt. Music composed Margaret Bonds. The collaboration was been named a Contributing Editor of (July 1 - 13) are quite exciting. The Kolb’s annual appearance at the popular Schopenhauer was the subject of a lecture given by Bard College composer and faculty Clavier Companion magazine. festival features outstanding piano faculty, After serving as host for the 2009 ALS Festival to the San Francisco Bay ALS Chapter at its Belleayre Music Festival in the Catskills. including many ALS members, and a new member Kyle Gann is a recent addition to During the concert, Justin included the first (“Liszt and the Art of Transcription”) at the October 18 meeting in Tiburon, just north chamber music approach. See http:// Kolb’s repertoire of American composers. performance of Tango quasi una Fantasia University of Kansas, Steven Spooner has of the Golden Gate Bridge. San Jose State Elyse Mach, Distinguished Professor of www.musicalstudies.com/welcome.asp for Gann, the former new music writer for by New York composer Robert Cucinotta, performed and taught in numerous locations University Philosophy Professor Peter Hadreas the Village Voice, is well known for his Music at Northeastern Illinois University more information. The La Gesse Festival, and in between the Bonds and Cucinotta including appearances in Brazil, Russia, was the speaker. In addition to a stimulating book, The Music of Conlon Nancarrow in Chicago, was invited to teach at the for which Mastroianni has coordinated pieces he played Mendelsohn/ Liszt song Hungary, Canada, and Italy. His latest talk about 19th-century philosophical issues, (Cambridge University Press, 1995) and transcriptions. Summer Piano Institute at Kongju programs this fall, presented 12 artists in other scholarly publications. More recently, Communication Arts University in August three concerts in Carnegie Hall’s Weill project, a recreation of Anton Rubinstein’s he also illustrated from the piano, including Justin appeared in concert with acclaimed of this year, where she gave piano lessons, Auditorium November 2 - 4. The festival Historical Recital Series, was awarded a a resounding performance of Liszt’s Paganini vocalists Kerry Henderson, Louis Otey Alexandre Dossin announces that his latest presented lectures, and gave master classes. honors Sidney Forrest, and Mastroianni research grant by the University of Kansas to study . The meeting was hosted by Chapter (Metropolitan Opera), and Maria Todaro Naxos CD (the third one with that label) The Korean translation of her book, Great will participate with Marc Schlosberg in produce a 5-CD set of live recordings from the member Donna Kline, the author of an as part of “Opera in the Park” in the was released in July: the Complete Preludes Contemporary Pianists Speak for Themselves, a performance of Nocturne, op. posth., by 18-recital series, which culminated in a DVD acclaimed biography of Olga Samaroff and village of Phoenecia, NY. Proceeds from by Kabalevsky. His first work for Schirmer a collection of 25 interviews with world Chopin/Forrest and Sonata for Clarinet of the Liszt B Minor Sonata played on one of the producer of a soon-to-be-released video this musical event will be contributed to Performance Editions will be published renowned concert pianists, along with an and Piano by Bernstein. Tom will also be Liszt’s last pianos, an 1886 Bechstein featured documentary on Samaroff. Chapter President purchase equipment/facilities for the village in August. Alexandre also performed and introduction by Sir Georg Solti, has been performing two concerts at the National at the 2009 ALS Festival. His performances William Wellborn welcomed 25 guests to the playground. A village chorus partnering edited Tchaikovsky’s The Seasons. He is published by Dongmoonsun in Seoul. Gallery of Art November 18 and 21. in the coming year will take him to Asia for meeting and spoke of several exciting Chapter with members of Richard Tucker’s Catskill working on another project for Schirmer Other publications of the book include These programs, entitled “Bergamasque,” a month-long tour, and he will be on the events in 2010. The ALS is hosting a recital for Community Chorus also performed known (Tchaikovsky’s Children’s Album), to be Dover (New York), Robson (London), a will be presented in collaboration with faculty of the Amalfi Coast Music Festival, the Hungarian pianist Peter Toth January 17 in the recorded and edited in December/2009). light opera and popular operatic themes. Japanese translation, Ongaku-To-Tomo Steven Ackert who will speak and present International Institute for Young Musicians, Green Room of the downtown San Francisco The World Piano Conference in He recently signed a contract with Naxos (Tokyo), and a Chinese translation in images of Commedia del’arte influences for another CD to be included in the and is a founding member of a new festival Herbst Hall. On April 24, in collaboration with Novi Sad on the Danube River invited a progress through Jack Liu Publishers in in art and music. The performance will featuring faculty from Budapest’s Liszt the San Francisco Conservatory of Music, the International Liszt Series. It will be Taiwan. include Suite Bergamasque and three number of American Liszt Society pianists recorded in December, 2010, with the Academy of Music, called the Gyorgy Castle Chapter will produce its annual “Young Pianists to participate. The five-day conference theme “Liszt in Russia.” other Debussy pieces that are considered Academy. His student, Joshua Charles, was Play Liszt” concert. Finally, a Liszt gala will be to be a second Suite Bergamasque by consisted of a lectures taking place at the His performance schedule is packed awarded Second Prize at the Poland Summer presented Oct. 23 in San Francisco’s famous ALS member John Maltese had an editorial some scholars. These programs will be Isador Bajic Music Conservatory and a with concerto performances in the US Music Festival International Competition. Old First Church, a venue of many memorable piece published in the Sunday Washington repeated in New York at Nyack College recital roster with its venue at the historic and Brazil. He recently performed Liszt’s performances of Liszt’s music. Additional and beautiful Novi Sad Synagogue. Post (May 3, 2009) in the company of and the Carnegie Room Concert Series Totentanz in São Paulo; just returned from announcements were made by chapter members Attending the conference and participating Senator Diane Feinstein and several well- on December 11 and December 12. In Porto Alegre, where he performed Rhapsody Lydia Youmans, senior piano student of were ALS members Ksenia Nosikova known legal scholars: The article may spring 2010, Mastroianni’s recording of Maria Watts and Terry McNeill. Ms. Watts, the in Blue; will return to Rio in August for two Richard Zimdars, is the recipient of the 2009 and Justin Kolb. Both presented recitals. performances of Villa-Lobos’ ; be accessed via the internet at www. music by Debussy will be released. This daughter of the late Hungarian pianist and San Momoprecoce University of Georgia Franz Liszt Award. Ksenia presented an all-Liszt program. will perform Beethoven’s Concerto No. 1 with washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/ CD will include Twelve Preludes (Book II), Francisco resident Sari Biro, told the Chapter The award is a package of scores, books, Justin performed the European premiere the Eugene (OR) Symphony in December, article/2009/05/01/AR2009050102116. Suite Bergamasque, and L’isle joyeuse. And that a four-CD set of her mother’s recordings, CDs, and a year’s student membership with of the classically formatted and Chopin’s Concerto No. 2 with the html?hpid=opinionsbox1. John is head of our ALS President is also preparing an with a lavish booklet, will be issued soon by Afro-Cubano ALS. The annual award, inaugurated in composed by Alfredo Diez Lincoln Symphony during the 2010 the University of Georgia’s Political Science article and a presentation entitled, “The Cambria Records. Mr. McNeill related that Gran Sonata 2004, is supported by the Despy Karlas Piano Nieto. Justin also delivered a lecture at American Liszt Society Festival in Lincoln. Deaprtment, a Grammy winner, and Mozart Effect: Duality in Human Cognitive he is lecturing on “Liszt’s life after 1860” in Professorship, currently held by Richard the conservatory entitled, “Music Career recent producer of a Heifetz 2-CD set on Processing,” to which he refers earlier in his Oakmont, a suburb of Santa Rosa. Zimdars. (continued on page 11.) Development from the Point of View of a Deutsche Grammophon and a 3-CD set on “President’s Message” this Newsletter. Businessman.” Following the extraordinary On July 1, Albany Records released a new Marston Records of the earliest recordings international piano festival Ksenia headed CD by Richard Zimdars. It contains Ives’ of classical music discovered so far. John New York/New Jersey Chapter for Russia and Justin (with Barbara) to First Piano Sonata, Cowell’s Three Irish and his father, also named John and an Pianist Gila Goldstein gave recent recitals Legends, Copland’s Piano Variations, and Yamaha Artist Services, Inc, the American Liszt Budapest. ALS member, were presenters at the 2006 in Beijing and San Francisco, as well as Society NY/NJ Chapter, Boston University’s Dane Rudhyar’s Third Pentagram (first Conference in Athens, Georgia. In June the Austrian Embassy in Ottawa complete recording on this disc). In New master classes in Beijing’s middle-school Chapter News School of Music, the Russian American Cultural presented Justin and author/psychiatrist York City in November 2008, Zimdars attached to the Central Conservatory of Center, and the New York Consulate General Dr. Francois Martin Mai in their completed a three-year term as a member Music, San Francisco Conservatory Pre- Oregon Chapter of the People’s Republic of China, New York collaboration, “Love, Rage, and Altered of the National Fulbright Screening Madeleine and Allen Forte were honored College Division, and the Boston University To celebrate October 22nd in a very special presented a concert on September 24 performed States: Beethoven’s Mind and Music.” Mai Committee for piano applicants. In at the National Symposium of Musical Tanglewood Institute. She also adjudicated way, the Oregon Chapter of the American by Arseny Aristov, Grand-Prix Winner, and Analytics at the Shanghai Conservatory. is the author of “Diagnosing Genius: The Atlanta in April 2009, Richard adjudicated the piano competition at the International Liszt Society organized a performance of Nansong Huang, First Prize Winner in the 2008 Madeleine performed two piano recitals Life and Death of Beethoven.” (See http:// the Music Teachers National Association Keyboard Institute in New York and the complete Transcendental Etudes with Moscow International Liszt Piano Competition. mqup.mcgill.ca/book.php?bookid=2089 collegiate and high school solo piano including music by Chopin and Messiaen, the Liszt-Garrison International Piano University of Oregon graduate piano students. and conducted a piano masterclass. Go to The program included works by Chopin and national competitions. In September Competition in Baltimore. On The performers are listed on the Chapter’s http://www.amacn.org.cn/ to learn more Liszt. about the Symposium website at liszt.uoregon.edu. As a

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8 American Liszt Society - www.americanlisztsociety.net Volume 25, Issue 2, Summer/Fall 2009 5 And the Winners are - - - Liszt, Gilbert, and Sullivan!! The 2009 Liszt-Garrison Festival and International Piano Competition! started, he was always far ahead of me on all enchantment of a different reality - it was The Gilbert & Sullivan Society of the latest books, films,After moving to the the very gold of Joseph Bloch’s realm. How Northwest Louisiana (G&S) premiered YOUNG ARTIST II CATEGORY [Ages 15 – 19] The 2009 Liszt-Garrison Festival and International Piano Canadian west coast seven years ago, I made he loved creativity and adventure in all its The Golden Legend, a cantata that uniquely Competition was entitled, “At the Heart of Nations: A Celebration of it a point to visit Joseph Bloch every time I forms Beyond the facts of piano repertoire combines the music scores of Arthur Marilyn Neeley Award the Creative Spirit Around the World.” Indeed, the event has become returned to New York, usually twice a year. that he endeavored to teach us, I think he Sullivan and Franz Liszt setting the words of I. Yon-Joon Yoon poet laureate Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. an international event, drawing participants from more than two Until our last visit, he insisted on driving to tried to impart to all his pupils the very dozen countries. Here is a list of winners in the various categories of II. Michael Stewart The concert took place on Saturday, August the Mamaroneck train station to pick me up, magic of such music - its ability, like the 22, 2009 at St. Joseph Catholic Church in the competition: and we’d have lunch at one of his favorite movies, to move us, tell us fantastic tales, Honorable Mentions Shreveport, LA. For the first time ever, the nearby restaurants followed by chat and piano take us to faraway lands, to bring us into an Kimberly Hou music of Franz Liszt and Arthur Sullivan, playing back at the house. His home was a altogether different and more enchanting ARTIST CATEGORY [AGES 25 – 40] Chelsea Wang written for Longfellow’s popular epic poem formidable Tudor-style castle, filled with the reality. called The Golden Legend, written in the most precious of books and artwork, and could 19th century, were integrated together Franz Liszt Award Performance Awards have been a cold place had it been inhabited into a unified whole that tells the medieval I. Esther Park Buckingham Choice Series: Chelsea Wang by anyone less gracious and enchanting. It was Time, the cursed progression of time. Many Faust-like legend of Prince Henry, the II. Michael Berkovsky Music at CND – Festival 2011: Yon-Joon Yoon warmed to perfection by his hospitality and dear friends have departed, some painfully maiden Elsie, and the cunning temptations infectious humor. Those times together over young, and to some extent I felt guilty to of Lucifer. In 1874, Franz Liszt composed Honorable Mentions the last few years are probably my very favorite weep so for the passing of Joseph Bloch. his “Excelsior,” the prelude from The Bells Xiaochun Liang memories of Jimmy, when I felt closest to His extraordinary 91 years were full of of Strasbourg cantata based on Longfellow’s Liza Stepanova him as a person and a friend. It was ironic yet adventure, delight, accomplishment and poem in 1874 after meeting the poet in CONCERTO COMPETITION Rome several years earlier. Arthur Sullivan Directors’ Award: sweet to deepen our connection after so many passion. But no loss has saddened me more. Best Interpretation Awards composed his own cantata, The Golden I. Liudmila Georgievskaya years, myself now relocated to a place so far I find myself saying, often, that the world Franz Liszt: Esther Park Legend, based on the same text in 1886 just II. Sun Young Ju away. Triumph over distance and time was an is just a far less colorful place now without American Composer: Liza Stepanova days after Franz Liszt left England on his important part of Joseph Bloch. The globe fit Joseph Bloch in it. The delightful and final tour prior to his death in July 1886. snugly into his hand, and no place on earth, unforgettable times we shared only made Sullivan’s work became one of the most Performance Awards or period in history, was really far away or me hungry for more, and I selfishly dreamt Performance Awards popular choral works in the late Victorian Concert Artists of Baltimore, Edward Polochick, Artistic Director: unknown to him. He had travelled everywhere, of our luncheon visits extending into his period and his most successful “serious” University of Colorado at Boulder Recital Series: Esther Park Liudmila Georgievskaya knew everyone (“and had the stories to prove 100s. How immeasurable is the loss as well, piece of music outside of his Savoy Operas Despy Karlas Prize, University of Georgia: Liza Stepanova it,” as Stuart Isacoff said), and therefore any to his family and to the countless pupils and in conjunction with W.S. Gilbert. The Music at CND – Festival 2011: Michael Berkovsky and all subjects were open and eager for friends Jimmy accumulated over his long performance of Franz Liszt’s composition discussion. When our conversations started, lifespan and all around the world. We pick The Legend of St. Cecilia, written in 1874 at COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS COMPETITION he was always far ahead of me on all the latest up the pieces, remember the stories, pay our the same time as “Excelsior,” was included books, films and plays, to my never-ending homage, and do our best to continue in the in the concert in a premiere performance of YOUNG ARTIST I CATEGORY [AGES 20 – 24] this stunning musical work in the United George Shields Award – Violin-Piano Duo exasperation. and plays, to my never-ending vein of those we have loved and lost. But States. Proceeds from the performance will I. Joanna Kaczorowvska (violin) and Pablo Lavandera (piano) exasperation. Joseph Bloch - well, he’s just a very tough William Garrison Award act to follow. go toward supporting a staged adaptation I. Alexei Ivanchenko of the work in 2010 in conjunction with a Best Interpretation Award II. Stephanie tour to the United Kingdom. The concert Franz Liszt: Joanna Kaczorowvska and Pablo Lavandera We shared a passion for silent movies. Having featured chorus and orchestra conducted American Composer: Katarzyna Bryla (violin) and had a lifelong fascination with them, I’ve A cosmopolitan toast to you, Joseph Bloch. Best Interpretation Awards by Maestro Marc-André Bougie, with Li-Tan Shu (piano) enjoyed playing piano scores to them from May we meet again in that different and Franz Liszt: Stephanie soloists include Susan Ruggiero as Elsie, time to time. Jimmy had adored the cinema more enchanting reality; one full of song Ryan McDonald as Prince Henry, Steven American Composer: Sun-A Park Performance Awards since childhood, and kept many lovingly- and dance, juicy gossip, ebullient wit, McDonald as Lucifer, and Erin Roth as Chamber Music on the Hill Series, MD preserved fan books and magazines from that Virginals music, silent movies, and those Ursula. Performance Awards Spencerville SDA Chamber Music, MD time. We pored over them and I roared at his wondrous moments when we may both UUCC – Chalice Concert Series of Columbia, MD Summer Music Series, Hood College gossipy tales of such now-forgotten stars as simply smile in delight, celestial drink Dr. John Goddard, M.D., of the The Gilbert and Music at CND – Festival 2011: Alexei Ivanchenko Ramon Navarro and Nita Naldi. How his in hand, and say to each other: “Ah.” and Sullivan Society of Northwest Louisiana Music at CND – Festival 2011 (www.gsnla.org), has asked the following Joanna Kaczorowvska (violin) and Pablo Lavandera (piano) eyes glistened in the recalling of such stories. -- June 26, 2009 question of the American Liszt Society: “Do At such times I could easily envision him as a you have any other information regarding young boy, sitting entranced in the fantastical a U.S. performance of The Legend of St. 2009 SPECIAL AWARD picture palaces of Indianapolis or Chicago Sara Davis Buechner is a pianist living in Cecilia? Many thanks in advance for any Courtesy of Udo Steingraeber Vancouver, BC, where she is Associate Professor information that you can provide.” You can Nancy Roldán and Ernest Ragogini, Directors of the Liszt- ca. 1925 with their rococo architectural A performance at the 2010 Wagner Festival, Bayreuth, Germany of Piano at the University of British Columbia. write to Dr. Goddard in care of the Gilbert Garrison Festival and International Piano Competition, adornment and thumping, live orchestral Her website may be viewed at http://www. and Sullivan Society at the web site shown extend heartfelt thanks to all who selflessly contributed of accompaniments. Song, dance, moving above. Joanna Kaczorowvska (violin) and Pablo Lavandera (piano) sarabuechner.com/ their time and expertise to the success of the 2009 event! images, the stars, dreams, and the

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MEMBERSHIP DIRECTORY UPDATES: AND NEW MEMBERS:

Laura M. Garritson Moises Ruiz de Gauno Paulo Ricardo Gazzaneo Michael Hanson Nicholas Phillips Alexander J. Schwarzkopf Dear Readers, Watson University of KS Retrieval Serv. Dept. Serl. Where has the time gone? It seems like only yesterday that I was writing to you concerning the excitement I felt about returning to Eisenstadt, Austria to visit the exhibits on display celebrating the 200th anniversary of the death of Joseph Haydn. Wow, you cannot Personal information about imagine what unbelievably fine exhibits they were. From the artificats and manuscripts members has been deleted to protect associated with Haydn’s religious life and works, at the Diocesan Museum next to the members' privacy. Franziskanerkirche, to the surroundings of the Landesmuseum (where there is also the famous “Blue Room” filled with Liszt furniture, clothing, instruments, etc.), to the exquisite displays of clothing, instruments, and musical scores from Haydn’s times juxtaposed with contemporary graphics, videography, and fabulous acoustics in the ground floor exhibition spaces in what is called “Haydn Explosiv.” The quaint Haydnhaus on the Haydngasse has been renovated and expanded. Here, where Haydn lived for some time before taking leave of Eisenstadt for Vienna, you begin to appreciate what must have been the charming personalityof the composer. If you want to get a better feel for what I’ve been describing, go to http://americanlisztsociety.net/ALS%202010%20flier.pdf, where there is a good English MADE A CONTRIBUTION ABOVE translation of the website. THEIR ANNUAL DUES. THANKS FOR YOUR GENEROSITY!!! It was such a pleasant surprise to “run in to” Dr. William Wellborn, ALS Board Member, who had brought a group of students to Eisenstadt for some touring. Exchanging greetings Elyse Mach on the plaza in front of the Esterházy Palace, we lamented the fact that we could not spend Peter Willis some time together over a glass of what the Austrians have “distilled from sunshine” - beer!!! The really neat thing was, however, that a very famous statue of Franz Liszt, with the title “Burgenland’s Greatest Son,” witnessed all of this meet-and-greet activity. I couldn’t help think that Liszt would have enjoyed the whole scene. And I couldn’t help think that he was PLEASE REMEMBER . . . watching over our shoulder!

to keep in touch with our office concerning Now, why all the fuss about Haydn and Eisenstadt. Well, it was great to be back where I changes or corrections in your addresses, American Liszt Society spent 23 years corralling performers and observers, lining up buses, and hearing some of the phone numbers, e-mails and other pertinent PRESIDENT greatest music ever written in the very places for which it was originally written. But I also information. Keeping our records current will Thomas Mastroianni began to ponder what we can expect a bit south of town in the quaint village of Raiding, ensure that you receive publications and other where Franz Liszt’s 200th birthday will be celebrated in less than two years. The fabulous NEWSLETTER EDITOR communictions from the Society in a timely Edward Rath, Associate Director exhibits that I have seen in Austria over more than 30 years lead me to believe that 2011 fashion. You may contact the Executive School of Music is going to be a “really big show,” to quote the late Ed Sullivan. I am certain that Raiding, Secretary by e-mail: Justin Kolb at mellon@ University of Illinois Eisenstadt, Vienna, Budapest, Rome, Paris, Weimar, Bayreuth, and London, too, will all catskill.net, or by USPS mail at 1136 Hog Urbana, IL 61801 have great exhibitions dedicated to Liszt, and that’s as it should be. The magnitude of his Mountain Road, Fleischmanns, NY 12430. tel: (217) 244-2670 [email protected] influence parallels the breadth of his activity and fame. fax: (217) 244-4585 Thank you. So, fellow Lisztians, we have much to which we can look forward. It is my hope that all Submit change of address information to: of you will keep me informed of your Liszt activities planned for 2011, and that you will EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Justin Kolb also let me know if you hear of someone else’s Liszt plans. We will gladly include such 1136 Hog Mountain Road information in the Newsletter and also on the website!! Fleischmanns, NY 12430 [email protected] Edward Rath Original Design: Bonadies Creative, Inc. Editor Layout: Edward Rath

10 American Liszt Society - www.americanlisztsociety.net Volume 25, Issue 2, Summer/Fall 2009 3 preSIDent “Odds and Ends” New Books Member News thomas mastroianni (continued from page 7) t he catholic university of America President’s Message benjamin t. rome School of music Washington D.c. 20064 For a really nice overview of the 2009 Festival Oxford University Press (http://www.oup. Joshua Russell reports that he is now on at the University of Kansas last April, go to com/us/) has just released Dr. Alan Walker’s the piano faculty at Bradley University, in preSIDent emerItuS Frederic Chiu’s blog at http://fredericchiu. Peoria, Illinois, and may reached by email at Fernando laires new book, Hans von Bülow: A Life and blogspot.com/ Times. The 544-page book is available [email protected]. VIce preSIDent in a hardback version for $39.95 plus Jay A. hershberger shipping. According to OUP’s website, c oncordia college music Department “They Came to Play,” a feature-length the new book contains the “first full-length Zephyr Records has released the first moorhead, mn 56562 documentary about the International Piano biography of Hans von Bülow in English; two CDs in Ian Hobson’s monumental project of recording the complete works by executIVe SecretAry Competition for Outstanding Amateurs, hosted considers Bulow’s twin careers as concert Justin Kolb by The Van Cliburn Foundation, is available for pianist and virtuoso orchestral conductor, Chopin, including chamber music, vocal music, and juvenalia. Volume I, entitled 1136 hog mountain road purchase at http://theycametoplay.com/ and underlines Bülow’s central role in the Fleischmanns, ny 12430 “Awakening,”includes the Rondo, Op. 1, history of musical performance; and is five early polonaises, three ecossaises, and based on a bevy of previously untapped treASurer Dear lisztians, four mazurkas. Volume II is entitled “Hats nancy roldán Chaja Beck, of The Netherlands Music Institute, archival sources.” The book is organized off,” referring to the famous complimentary po 1707 has written the NMI “is the proud owner of a in three “sub-books”: I. On the Slopes remark made by Robert Schumann about owens mills, mD In preparing an article dealing with the “mozart effect,” the philosophy small but interesting Liszt collection, containing of Parnassus; II. Ascending the Peak; (410) 833-5782 Chopin, and includes the Sonata No. 1 in C [email protected] and spirit of Franz liszt invaded my thought process. liszt is such an music manuscripts, correspondence and other and III. Vistas from the Summit, plus a Minor, Op. 4, the Variations on Mozart’s “Là important resource for our age! items. In order to make some of this easily Prologue, three Appendices, and additional ci darem la mano,” three polonaises, and three AlS JournAl accessible to Liszt scholars and Liszt enthousiasts, information. dances. Hobson is performing a series of all- rena charnin mueller If one accepts the validity of a “mozart effect” (which seems to point we have launched a new web presentation: Four Chopin concerts in Lockport, Illinois during Faculty of Arts and Science letters of Franz Liszt to Espérance von Schwartz new york university out gains that exposure to music may have for other aspects of brain this and next year’s season. He will also be 24 Waverly place, room 268 function), one may be close to recognizing that traditional concepts of Oxford University Press has also just playing a series of all-Schumann recitals on new york, ny 10003 http://www.nederlandsmuziekinstituut.nl/en/ published The Musician’s Way: A Guide to the University of Illinois campus, where he is linear compartmentalization of learning and thinking may be flawed. collections/web-presentations/liszt-letters Practice, Performance, and Wellness (360 pp. Swanlund Professor of Piano and a member AlS neWSletter $24.95), by Gerald Klickstein. Klickstein of the Center for Advanced Studies. edward rath the Age of enlightenment by its very name purported to have shown School of music This contains four letters by Liszt to Baroness is Professor of Music at the University of university of Illinois the way to truth through reason and logic. We can demonstrate certain von Schwartz, an interesting personality who North Carolina School of the Arts. The 1114 W. nevada Street truths. two plus two equals four. but who can explain “one”? holistic has received very little attention in the Liszt Musician’s Way presents comprehensive, urbana, Il 61801 concepts do form a distinct order of truth, as does intuition. music that literature. Under the pen name Elpis Melena, she research-driven guidance geared to all had some fame as a writer, philanthropist, and a boArD oF DIrectorS is merely an assembly of parts is not art. aspiring performers, especially college and paul barnes political activist. In this presentation, the letters pre-college music students, and it does so Last Call!!!! luiz de moura castro liszt rarely composed a musical work and left it for posterity in its are reproduced as high resolution images, in using conversational language and a clear- Alexandre Dossin transcription and translation, and accompanied original form. Who can study the Transcendental Etudes and not be cut format. It also employs an extensive Gila Goldstein by extensive commentary by musicologist companion website at www.MusiciansWay. Jay A. hershberger impressed by the miraculous unity and beauty of the final versions? And Please remember that the web address for Lodewijk Muns, NMI archivist and researcher. com, where you can view the book’s Table Geraldine Keeling who can identify and explain what liszt did to achieve the beauty of the American Liszt Society has changed in Justin Kolb of Contents and read reviews. The book the end result? Intuitively we recognize the beauty. this intuition is a a small but very important way. The new elyse J. mach is organized in three parts. Part I, “Artful address is thomas mastroianni discovery of truth. Practice,” describes strategies that empower rena charnin mueller edward rath musicians to interpret and memorize www.americanlisztsociety.net nancy roldán music deals with linear concepts of theory and construction, but it deals compositions, fuel motivation, collaborate, boaz Sharon with direct intuition also. We do not analyze and dissect a musical 2009 Great Romantics and more. Part II, “Fearless Performance,” If you have bookmarked the old address, Steven Spooner composition to find its beauty. We first experience its beauty and are led lifts the lid on the causes of nervousness and you need to change it to the new one, helen Smith tarchalski shows how musicians can become confident Alan Walker to further understand it in a linear way. Festival Postponed where the domain (end of address) is .net William Wellborn performers. Part III, “Lifelong Creativity,” and not .org. richard zimdars Keats pointed out that “beauty is truth and truth beauty.” to Dr. Alan Walker announced earlier this year surveys tactics that equip performers to that the 2009 Great Romantics Festival had understand this one must acknowledge that truth is the product of a prevent music-related injuries and thrive as The ALS website is available to you to be cancelled The 2010 Great Romantics creative artists. In the words of the author, dual cognitive process. A balanced and distributed neural activation for publicizing events and information Festival is scheduled to take place next fall in “The Musician’s Way serves students, concerning Franz Liszt. Send items for the generates the best learning. Is this not the best argument for the place Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. Interested parties teachers, and performers who strive for of the arts in education? website to [email protected]!! 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