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2012 Los Angeles International Liszt Competition Gears up for Its Founded in 1964 Volume 28, Issue 1, Winter/Spring ALS Directory Updates More Chapter News (continued from page 9) (continued from page 7) Matthew Gianforte •Thursday, December 6, 2012 (7:00 p.m.) Sixteen-year-old Korean pianist Gyu 1517 Oxford Dr. Tae Ha will perform a program including works by Chopin, Liszt, Prokofiev, and Murray, KY 42071 others. Gyu Tae Ha won the Korean Liszt Society's first piano competition, as well [email protected] as the Steinway competition of Korea. Please help us to keep the Membership •Friday, January 11, 2013 (8:00 p.m.) - Beatrice and Christina Long, duo Directory up to date and accurate by pianists, in a program of works by Liszt and others (http://www.longduopiano.com)./ sending us any new information about •Thursday, March 7, 2013 (7:00 p.m.) - Young Artists Concert, featuring your address, e-mail, phone number, prodigies from Los Angeles, Boston, and New York performing an exciting program AN OFFICIAL PUBLICATION OF THE AMERICAN LISZT SOCIETY, INC. etc. If you notice an error, for which of piano works mostly by Liszt. we apologize in advance, please send your corrections to the Membership •Tuesday, May, 14 2013 (7:00 p.m.) - pianist Viktor Valkov and cellist Lachezar Secretary, Barbara Mellon Kolb, at Kostov, the winners of the collaborative competition at the 2011 Liszt-Garrison International competition. Alumni of Juilliard and Yale, the two are stunning [email protected]. Thank you! performers who will also play their own arrangements for cello/piano of several of Liszt's Hungarian Rhapsodies (http://www.viktorvalkov.com/viktorvalkov.com/The_ 2012 Los Angeles International Valkov-_Kostov_Duo.html). For information, please e-mail Gila at gilagoldstein@aol. Membership com. TABLE OF CONTENTS Liszt Competition Gears Up For Its Dues to Increase Still More Member News Twelfth Anniversary (continued from page 8) 1 2012 Los Angeles International Alexandre Dossin writes that in addition to his work preparing the 2012 Festival Liszt Competition January 1, 2013 in Eugene, he has been busy with performance and recordings. He has three new At its annual meeting in May 2012, CD releases: the first one is his fourth Naxos CD, and his second contribution to The twelfth biennial Los Angeles International Liszt Competition will be held the ALS Board of Directors voted to the label's Liszt series: Russian Transcriptions (Eugene Onegin, Ruslan and Ludmilla, 2 An Essay: “Thoughts on Hearing a November 16 - 18, 2012, at Azusa Pacific University and Trinity United Methodist increase annual membership dues as and other great transcriptions inspired by Liszt's travels to Russia). Also available R ecital Performed by Luiz Church. The competition features only the music of Liszt and is for pianists, vocalists, follows: in the fall are Rachmaninov's Preludes Op. 3 No. 2 and Op. 23, as part of Schirmer de Moura Castro,” by Alan Walker Performance Editions (the score/CD publication, with Alexandre's own editorial and organists ages 35 and under. The registration deadline is Monday, October 1, work, is published by Hal Leonard, and it is Alexandre's fifth contribution to the 2012. Individual was $ 40 now $ 50.00 series). His third upcoming CD release is a collaboration with American soprano 3 Letter from the Editor: “A Conver- Organization was $ 60 now $ 75.00 sation with Jonathan Kregor” Honored guest and voice judge will be Dr. Mária Eckhardt, Senior Adviser and Charlotte Pistor in a lieder program called, Water Songs: in Life, Love and Legend. Scientific Director of the Liszt Ferenc Memorial Museum and Research Centre in Family was $ 50 now $ 62.50 It will be released in the fall by MSR Classics and includes two songs by Liszt ("Die Student was $ 20 now $ 25.00 Lorelei" and "Der Fischerknabe"), four songs by Schubert, and songs by many more Budapest. She was the inspiration for the founding of this Competition in 1990. Life was $400 now $500.00 4 New Procedures for the ALS composers. Dossin's web site (www.dossin.net) has complete information. His Newsletter and Website There are eleven divisions. The divisions and rules of the competition will remain Family Life was $500 now $625.00 recent performances in Brazil include participation in international music festivals mostly as in 2010 (see http://www.lisztcompetition.com/en/). However, the Competition Contributor was $100 now $125.00 Meet our New Treasurer, Cindy in Santa Catarina and Uberlândia, and orchestral appearances in Rio de Janeiro, São organizers have added an organ division in which the required piece is the Fantasy and Chapter Dues was $ 10 now $ 12.50 Paulo, Minas Gerais, Santa Catarina, and Porto Alegre, and he was the featured artist Hershberger in a recent concert/interview broadcast by KING-FM in Seattle. Fugue on the Name "B.A.C.H." The Competition is being co-sponsored by the Pasadena Branch of the Music 5 Member News Teachers' Association of California, Azusa Pacific University, Trinity United The 2012 ALS Festival Methodist Church, and members of the American Liszt Society and of the Hungarian (continued from page 8) 7 Chapter News News from the truly transcendent. The great masterpiece of Liszt's Weimar years, his Sonata in B community. minor, was presented from three different angles: an exciting performance by Mikola The Piano Budapest Concert winner will receive a $1,000 prize and an all-expenses- Korean Liszt Suk, followed by insightful lectures by Dean Kramer and Tibor Szász (read by 8 Liszt-Garrison Competition paid trip to perform an all-Liszt recital at the Liszt Museum and other venues in 2013. Thomas Mastroianni), offering different views on this landmark of piano literature. Winners: Recent Accomplishments The Voice New York Concert winner will receive a cash prize and an all-expense-paid Society In general, all events allowed the listener to hear Liszt not as empty virtuosic The 2012 ALS Festival bombast, but as spiritual and emotional artist. The lectures of renowned Liszt trip to New York City to present an all-Liszt recital at the Hungarian Consulate. First- specialist Alan Walker, Richard Zimdars, and Jonathan Kregor helped listeners place winners in all eleven divisions will perform on the Competition's final event, The Korean Liszt Society (President better understand the absolute beauty of the music of Liszt. John Perry's master class 9 ALS Directory Updates a concert and award presentation ceremony taking place at 7:30 p.m. on Sunday, Yun Ha Hwang), comprised of 264 was, as usual, informative, exciting, and entertaining, bringing us back to the great November 18. members, presented 41 events during master classes in Weimar. As has been the practice for many years, most of the adjudicators will come from Reflecting on the brief four day festival, I am once again reminded of Liszt’s 10 Membership Dues to Increase the Liszt Festival year in 2011. This the membership of the American Liszt Society. The Competition founders are grateful included a performance of Liszt's genius and overwhelming contribution to the arts. What a special way to remember News from the Korean Liszt Oratorio, Christus, on October 22, his many accomplishments! The festival triumphed in its ability to touch each Society to the judges and to the American Liszt Society for helping to maintain the highest Liszt's actual birthday. The year-long attendee in many ways: intellectually, emotionally, and spiritually. In an atmosphere standards of performance in the promotion of Liszt's music. of warmth and acceptance, artists of all levels united in the spirit of love and music, For further information, please contact the co-directors of the Competition: celebration also included an all-Liszt exactly as Liszt would have wanted it. song recital, a concert by pianist Jeno Thank you to all who attended what was a very inspiring festival. On behalf of Geraldine Keeling (626-286-4593) [email protected] Jando, and the Third Korean Liszt the Oregon Chapter of the American Liszt Society, many thanks to all festival artists Judith Neslény (626-798-1562) [email protected] Competition. and scholars, who delivered outstanding performances and lectures. Thank you very much for your generosity and willingness to share your talents. Perpetuating the ideas of Franz Liszt through excellence in music performance and scholarship 10 The American Liszt Society PRESIDENT Guest Commentary ALS Directory Updates Thomas Mastroianni* T he Catholic University of America An Essay by Alan Walker School of Music Washington, D.C. 20064 A special "Thank You" to Georgia Carolyn McHan Georgia Mangos [email protected] Mangos and Louise Mangos for their 34324 Deerwood Drive [email protected] Those of us who were privileged to hear Luiz de Moura Castro's all-Liszt recital in financial contributions to ALS above Eugene, OR 97405 PRESIDENT EMERITUS Eugene in May, witnessed some unforgettable piano playing. This was music-making of Fernando Laires and beyond normal yearly dues. H 541-746-5568 Louise Mangos a kind that comes along but rarely. I have heard many Liszt recitals across the years, but [email protected] [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT can recall nothing quite like the one that Mr. de Moura Castro offered us on this occasion. CURRENT MEMBER TO Piano Teacher Jay Hershberger* Like some "Merlin of the Piano" he cast his spells across the keyboard, drew us into his LIFE MEMBER: Anthony Tam C oncordia College Music Department charmed circle, and beguiled us with one magical effect after another. Here was piano Lori E. Piitz [email protected] Moorhead, MN 56562 Rene Lecuona 1045 Sherwood Court [email protected] playing from a Golden Age that most of us thought had vanished beyond recall. Mr. de Moura Castro walks on stage very slowly and advances towards the keyboard as Harrisonburg, VA 22801 Dale Wheeler NEW MEMBERS: H 540-438-0277 [email protected] EXECUTIVE SECRETARY if he is reluctant to offer the bounty he has so lovingly prepared and is about to present to Justin Kolb* [email protected] us.
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