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 Mr. István Emri, Mr. Michael Reményi Liszt as Cultural Ambassador Reményi House of Music, Toronto Consul General of presentation the Republic of Hungary and piano recital Dr. Andrea Sass-Kortsák Wednesday, April 21, 2004 The Honey Bear Delicatessen / 7:30 pm at Remenyi House of Music, Toronto, Mézes Macko Polgar Tibor Room Ticket prices: Mrs. Kati Rekai Liszt as Helicon Society Members ...... $20.00 For non-members ...... $25.00 Mrs. Margit Lovrics Cultural

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Bedford Rd. Bedford Dr. Alan Walker #210 TTC TTC P and piano recital by Avenue RdAvenue Phone Ms. Valerie Tryon Bloor St. West ROM Please send your completed order form and payment (payable to Hungarian Helicon Society) to: Date: Wednesday, April 21, 2004 Hungarian Helicon Society Time: 7:30 pm St. George St. St. George St. Suite 811, 49 - 6A The Donway West Note: “TTC” denotes the St. George Don Mills, Ontario  subway station on the Bloor-Danforth line. Remenyi House of Music M3C 2E8 There are two exits, one on St. George and Queen’s Park 210 Bloor Street West one on Bedford. The Bedford exit is closer For more information, please contact Julie Spinelli to Remenyi House of Music. Polgar Tibor Room Phone: 905-420-8986 Email: [email protected] ALAN WALKER is Professor Emeritus of Music at The English-born pianist VALERIE TRYON’s career Liszt as Cultural McMaster University, Canada. Before settling in North began while she was still a child. She was one of the Ambassador America he was on the staff of the Music Division of the youngest students ever to be admitted to the Royal British Broadcasting Corporation in London. He has Academy of Music where she received the highest broadcast for the BBC, for the CBC, and for CJRT-FM award in piano playing and a bursary which took her to (Toronto), and gives regular public lectures on the music to study with Jacques Février. During his presentation, Dr. Alan Walker of the Romantic Era, a period in which he specializes. Her repertoire is enormous and ranges from Bach to will discuss and explore the following: His thirteen published books include A Study in Musical contemporary composers. She is well known for her Analysis, An Anatomy of Musical Criticism, and sensitive interpretations of the Romantics. Liszt spanned the Romantic Era. As a child symposia on Chopin, Schumann, and Liszt. On of her chief enthusiasms is chamber music. She he met Beethoven; as an elderly man, he was Dr. Walker recently finished a three-volume, prize presently plays with the Rembrandt Piano Trio (based introduced to Debussy. In between, this winning biography of , published by Alfred in Toronto). protean personality was intimately A. Knopf (New York), and Farber & Farber (London), a acquainted with many of the leading artistic project which took him twenty-five years to complete, Valerie has made commercial recordings of more than figures of his age. His circle was not and for which the President of Hungary recently four hundred individual piano compositions. Her latest confined to musicians. Among his friends bestowed on him the medal Pro Cultura Hungarica. CDs include: The biography also received the Royal Philharmonic and colleagues were painters, poets, writers Society Prize, presented by HRH The Duke of Kent in “An Ignaz Friedman Recital” (Appian) and sculptors. He mixed just as easily with London. “Bunte Reihe” Cycle by Franz Liszt (Naxos) politicians, and could count several of the Time Magazine hailed the biography as “a textured Valerie has been awarded several distinctions for her crowned heads of Europe among his friends. services to music. She was an early recipient of the We are not wrong to call Franz Liszt the portrait of Liszt and his times without rival”. The Wall Street Journal called it “The definitive work to which all Harriet Cohen Medal. More recently the Liszt Memo- cultural ambassador of the nineteenth- subsequent Liszt biographies will aspire.” The rial Plaque was bestowed on her by the Hungarian Min- century. Washington Post selected it as a Book of the Year. ister of Culture in recognition of her lifelong promotion of Franz Liszt’s music. In 1985 she was appointed Art- His latest book is called “The Death of Franz ist-in-Residence at McMaster University and received Dr. Walker’s lecture will be followed by a Liszt” (Cornell University Press, Ithaca, NY). It an Honorary Doctorate in 2000. describes the last ten days of the composer’s life in performance of the following Liszt pieces by Bayreuth. Based upon eye-witness accounts, and the Ms. Valerie Tryon: unpublished diary of a pupil, it tells a harrowing story of Liszt’s final illness, of medical malpractice, of family neglect, and of a callous disregard for Liszt’s final Concert Study no. 3, in D flat major wishes. (“Un Sospiro”) In keeping with his interest in the music and musicians Transcendental Study no. 11, in D of the Romantic Age, Alan Walker directs the annual flat major (“Harmonies du soir”) “The Great Romantics” international festivals for the Liebestraum no. 3 (“O lieb!”) City of Hamilton, Ontario in association with the American Liszt Society and McMaster University. For Funérailles (1849) his services to music, McMaster University bestowed on Hungarian Rhapsody no. 12, in C him last year the honorary degree of “Doctor of Letters, sharp minor honoris causa.”

Pastries, refreshments and coffee will be served following the performance.