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Founded in 1964 Founded in 1964 Volume Volume 35, 34, Number Number 1 2 Winter/SpringSummer/Fall 2019 2019

Martha Argerich Awarded TTABLEABLE OFOF CONCONTENTSTENTS The American Liszt Society Medal

11. MarthaOrgan HallArgerich at Arizona Awarded State ALS members attending the 2019 festival had the opportunity to witness the TheUni vAmericanersity, site Liszt of the Society 2019 Medal presentation of The American Liszt Society Medal to the great , . ALS Festival While Ms. Argerich was unable to attend, her daughter, Annie Dutoit, accepted the 2. President’s Message award on her mother’s behalf. The following is a slightly revised version of the nomination letter read by Gila Goldstein to Ms. Dutoit and ALS members at the 2 President Messages festival’s 1:30 session on Sunday, October 27. 3. Letter From the Editor It gives the President and the Board of Directors of The American Liszt Society great 34. RAe Conversationport from Washington, with Gila GoldsteinD.C. pleasure to award legendary pianist Martha Argerich, unarguably one of the greatest by Patrick Rucker of all time, the 2019 American Liszt Society Medal. An exceptional virtuoso whose innate musicality, astounding artistry, and incredible charisma have earned her 6. In Memoriam worldwide acclaim and enthusiastic followers, Ms. Argerich embodies the character and 4 2019 Festival ideals of in ways very few musicians can. 7. Picture Page Born on June 5, 1941, in , , Ms. Argerich began her 5 NewsMember studies with piano pedagogue and made her professional debut at age eight. When she was 14, she moved with her family to to further her 8. Chapter News training, studying with renown pianists Stefan Askenaze, , Mme. 6 Chapter News Madeleine Lipatti, Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli, and . In 1957, she 10. Member News won first prize in two major international piano competitions: the Concours de Genève in , and the in . Following these competitions, 7 “Cassandra Speaks,” a Guest Essay 11. New Books About Liszt she embarked on an intensive concert career. Her next victory, winning the 1965 by Alan Walker International Chopin Piano Competition in , established her universal Remembering Martin Canin recognition. 2020 Festival Martha Argerich frequently performs as a soloist with , in , FDeadlinerom a “F forriend” Next o fIssue Liszt and duo piano recitals. Among the many luminaries with whom she has collaborated are pianists , , , , and Deadline for Next Newsletter ; cellist ; violinists , , 12. Membership and ; and conductors , , , Seiji Time to Retire Ozawa, and . She has performed with major orchestras such as the 8 Picture Page Philadelphia , , Boston Symphony, Los Angeles Philharmonic, San Francisco Symphony Orchestra, , Philharmonic, Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and Symphony Orchestra. Ms. Argerich has received several Grammy awards as well as many other prestigious awards, among them the 2016 . Martha Argerich has been an avid Liszt performer in live concerts and recordings. She has recorded the Liszt for , as well as “Funérailles” and the Hungarian Rhapsody No. 6. She has performed numerous times both piano concerti and the . In 2016 and 2017, she performed Liszt’s No. 1 under the baton of Daniel Barenboim in London with the West-Eastern Divan (continued on page 12)

Perpetuating the ideas of PFranzerpetuating Liszt thethrough ideas excellence of in Fmusicranz performanceLiszt through and ex scholarshipcellence in music performance and scholarship PRESIDENT Jay Hershberger* President�s Message Concordia College Music Department Moorhead, MN 56562 [email protected] Dear Fellow Lisztians, VICE PRESIDENT Alexandre Dossin* University of Oregon Memories of the 2019 American Liszt Society Festival still occupy my thoughts as I write this School of Music and Dance column. Arizona State University hosted “War of the Romantics: Liszt and His Rivals” with Eugene, OR 97403-1225 terrific performances and thought-provoking lectures. My sincerest thanks go to Dr. Baruch Meir [email protected] for his oversight of the festival. The resulting feast of savory gourmet music was indeed an artistic EXECUTIVE SECRETARY culinary masterpiece. As well, I wish to express my admiration to the music faculty and students Justin Kolb* at ASU who participated in the festival. The American Liszt Society was privileged to be at an 1136 Hog Mountain Road institution that manifests such consistently high standards of musical excellence. Fleischmanns, NY 12430 During our annual board of directors meeting, I proposed that The American Liszt Society [email protected] should move more solidly into the digital age, especially regarding increased public awareness of MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY the ALS through the various social media and digital online magazine platforms available. Texts, Alexander Djordjevic* posts, tweets, articles, blogs, and vlogs, with all of their interactive multi-media possibilities, are PO Box 1020 an easy way to get the word out about The American Liszt Society. Liszt himself would not have Wheaton, IL 60187-1020 shied away from such expansive ways to advocate for high ideals in music. The future of The [email protected] American Liszt Society lies in that younger generation of aspiring artists and scholars - such as TREASURER we experienced at ASU - and it is up to us to draw them in to take up the cudgels on behalf of Daniel Paul Horn* high art and scholarship, and to do it in part through the digital communication language that is The American Liszt Society ubiquitous in this age. I encourage those members of the ALS who are adept and experienced PO Box 1020 Wheaton, IL 60187-1020 with social media and the digital paradigm to “put on their A-game” and advocate for the ALS. To [email protected] this end, the board is contemplating moves regarding this digital age concerning the ALS website, newsletters, JALS, and a heightened social media awareness. Stay tuned. ALS JOURNAL I also believe that a crucial aspect of increasing public awareness of the ALS lies within the gifts Jonathan Kregor, Editor and abilities of our members. We have the privilege to bring the work and ideals of Liszt to life Mary Emery Hall Room 4240 Cincinnati College-Conservatory for our local communities and through our professional connections. We cannot underestimate PO Box 210003 the reproducing power in seeking new members, advocating for artistic excellence, and creating Cincinnati OH 45221-0003 relationships of goodwill within our local arts communities. At our recent board meeting, I [email protected] challenged board members to lead the way in recruiting by seeking out at least one new member ALS NEWSLETTER/WEBSITE each year and then mentoring them to do the same. If we think of the power of exponential Edward Rath* progression, we might all catch the vision to preserve and extend the Lisztian ideals that we all hold 2603 Coppertree Road dear. Champaign, IL 61822-7518 Finally, I am pleased to announce that the 2020 Festival of The American Liszt Society will [email protected] take place at the University of Michigan on October 16 - 19. Dr. Matthew Bengston, Assistant BOARD OF DIRECTORS Professor of Music there, will be our festival director, and the theme of the festival will center on Paul Barnes “Liszt and Hungary.” Please see page 12 of this edition of the ALS Newsletter for more details. Luiz de Moura Castro Our next festival promises to be an outstanding gathering of performers, scholars, teachers, Alexander Djordjevic* students, and enthusiastic Lisztian aficionados, and I am looking forward to seeing all of you once Gabriel Dobner Alexandre Dossin* again. Gila Goldstein Jay Hershberger* Excelsior! Caroline Hong Jay Hershberger, President Daniel PaulHorn* Jonathan Kregor Barbara Mellon Kolb Justin Kolb* Elyse J. Mach Ksenia Nosikova Éva Polgár Edward Rath* Dmitry Rachmanov Steven Spooner Helen Smith Tarchalski Alan Walker William Wellborn Richard Zimdars

*Member, Executive Committee

DIRECTOR EMERITA Geraldine Keeling ALS Board of Directors and guest at its most recent meeting in Tempe, Arizona. Starting at bottom left and going clockwise: Jay Hershberger, Justin Kolb, Geraldine Keeling, Willam Wellborn, Daniel Paul Horn, Edward Rath, Gila Goldstein, Richard Fountain, Richard Zimdars, Gabriel Dobner, Ksenia Nosikova, Caroline Hong, Éva Polgár, Paul Barnes, and Alexandre Dossin. www.americanlisztsociety.net

2 The American Liszt Society - www.americanlisztsociety.net Letter from the Editor

Dear Friends of Liszt, As I have gotten older, I have become increasingly aware of the finality of things and the end of relationships due to someone’s death. Elsewhere in this issue, you will read the obituaries of two of our members who we recently lost, one to a long illness, and one to a sudden and fatal health issue. I was reflecting on the texts for both articles when my thoughts turned to a conversation I had this past summer just outside Red Lodge, Montana. I was seated at a small dinner party next to Mark Liebenow, whom I had just met that afternoon, and we started talking about our interests and what we do in our lives. I must confess that from my perspective, it seemed as though we had known one another earlier, but that was not the case. Perhaps our conversation revealed our common heritage as Wisconsinites, or that we both live in central Illinois and have deep interests in music. He told me that he was a writer, and if you visit his website (http://www.markliebenow.com/), you will find that he is an “essayist, poet, blogger.” Viewing the list of his awards and publications, one sees the variety of his topics - and also the frequent references to death and grief. So, as I pondered the loss of our two ALS colleagues, and then expanded my thinking to include my loss of close friends and being aware of physical difficulties some of my friends are facing, I wrote to Mark, saying, in part: “I am trying to find a way to connect Liszt and death with how we today approach death. I am still struggling with a path to something that would be meaningful to our readers without intruding on their thoughts or assuming anything.” In response, Mark wrote the following, beautifully (excerpted): “In the midst of our sorrow, we search for ways to affirm that life is still good, that there is beauty and joy, but this may be hard to find. In autumn, we see beauty when leaves die in a flurry of color and paper the landscape in yellow, orange, and red. This is harder to find in someone’s death. Perhaps the beauty that exists resides in seeing a life lived well, with honesty and compassion for others. “Liszt and Mozart, as well as probably every other composer, created music out of their tragedies because that’s what artists do. That’s how they express their emotions. They are skilled enough to create art out of sorrow. You’re more aware than I am of how Liszt’s grief for his father and son served as inspiration for a number of his compositions. While it’s helpful for everyone to be creative with their grief, as a way of taking back some control of their life, whether it’s painting, writing, music, or sculpture, I think professional artists have a duty to be creative with grief so that they can help others understand and process the grief they feel. “Liszt wrote, ‘I carry a deep sadness of the heart which must now and then break out in sound.’ From my limited knowledge of Liszt, I suspect that each death challenged him to go beyond the language of music he was taught in order to express the depth and breadth of his emotions. “Kevin LaVine, of the Library of Congress, wrote: ‘In Liszt’s later years, as he began The American Liszt Society to suffer from bouts of depression and deteriorating physical health, his music grew accordingly darker, freer and even ambiguous in its use of non-traditional harmony (akin PRESIDENT to that of Beethoven in his own later years). His use of chromatically dissonant textures Jay Hershberger [email protected] established a precedent that would inspire later composers, such as Wagner, Schoenberg, Berg; his use of harmonies based on whole tone and other non-traditional scales, as well NEWSLETTER EDITOR as bitonality, anticipated the musical impressionism of composers such as Debussy and Edward Rath Ravel.’ 2603 Coppertree Road Champaign, IL 61822-7518 “Once we accept that death has happened, that people of all ages die from all sorts of [email protected] causes, and that death is properly a part of life, then we don’t have to fight the philosophical ‘why’ when good, talented, and compassionate people die. Instead, we can focus on our Submit change of address information to: feelings of loss and figure out how we are going to keep their presence alive in our life. MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY “Every death is a tragedy for those who loved that person. Living a long life is not Alexander Djordjevic PO Box 1020 a guarantee, although we want to think so. Our focus should be on doing what is most Wheaton, IL [email protected] important for others today, because tomorrow one of us may not be here.” I cannot imagine a better way to remember Karen and Eugene - and the many other friends and colleagues who are no longer among us - “...doing what is most important for Layout: Lawrence Keach and Edward Rath others today....” I thank Mark for sharing so poignantly his thoughts on this subject. Printed by Insty-Prints of Champaign, IL This newsletter is published twice annually with a circulation of approximately 400 per issue. ED An official publication of the The American Liszt Society, Inc. ©2019 ALS, all rights reserved.

Volume 35, Number 1 - Summer/Fall 2019 3 A Conversation with Gila Goldstein

(Editor's Note: I first met Gila Goldstein more than 15 years GG: In addition to the arrival of the Beethoven’s “Tempest” Sonata; Chopin’s ago. Since then, I have grown increasingly appreciative of her musicianship, teaching, devotion to Liszt, and her vibrant piano and observing my sister’s lessons, it Ballade No. 1 in G Minor; and Prokofiev’s personality. We were able to have this conversation through was perhaps also the radio (which in , Op. 11. extensive e-mail correspondence. ER) is an essential item, turned on all day long as a result of reality and necessity) and ER: How did music shape your Edward Rath: Please tell us about where LPs that my father used to buy and bring university educational pursuits? you were born and something about your home. In Israel, we have always had an pre-college education. excellent station. More GG: It was clear to me as I progressed often, however, it was the news station with my piano studies during my teenage Gila Goldstein: I was born in Tel-Aviv, that was on and played music. Thanks years that I wanted to pursue a bachelor’s Israel. I began taking piano lessons to that, I heard an incredible number of degree in piano performance at the Tel- at age six with the same teacher who Israeli songs as well as popular songs Aviv University Academy of Music. taught my sister. At age 11, I changed to from around the world, including the another teacher who happened to be also Beatles! These were the first musical ER: When did Liszt come into your life? a soprano. I studied with her until age pieces I played by ear when I first “tackled 18, when I began my two-year military the ivories” at age four. However, my GG: Liszt was introduced to me by service. It was at this time that I began father used to buy LPs every few weeks my teacher during my undergraduate studying privately with Professor Victor when he would stop by the record studies, Prof. Derevianko. Victor was Derevianko, with whom I continued store on the way back from work. He - and remains - a perceptive man with throughout my bachelor’s degree years especially loved opera, and the very first incredible intuition. He knew from the at what was then known as Tel-Aviv recordings I heard as a child were of first moment when he heard a student University’s Rubin Academy of Music Callas, Tebaldi, Gigli, and Caruso. what would be the best repertoire for (now known as the Buchman-Mehta When I began taking piano lessons, he that person. He sensed that my strongest School of Music). Prof. Derevianko brought home recordings of Rubinstein composers were Bach, Schumann, Liszt, had immigrated to Israel from playing Chopin, Gould playing Bach, and and Prokofiev. The Liszt compositions in 1974; he was a student of Heinrich many more legendary pianists as well as he assigned to me during the years I Neuhaus at the Gnessin Institute of violinists such as Heifetz, Oistrakh, and studied with him were “La leggierezza,” Music. Francescatti. The first piano recital I ever “Transcendental Etude No. 10,” heard live was Daniel Barenboim playing Variations on Bach’s “Weinen, Klagen, Sorgen, ER: When were you first aware of your the Schubert impromptus at the Mann Zagen,” and Concerto No. 1. I recorded serious interest in music? Auditorium in Tel Aviv. It added to my “Weinen, Klagen” for Israeli Radio in determination that music was to be my 1987. GG: My parents believed in music main interest in life, and it is what I would education for their two daughters. When pursue as a profession. ER: Do you have a favorite Liszt work? I was four years old, they bought an Tell us about how you came to put this upright piano for my sister so that she ER: When and where was your first one work at the top of the list. could begin taking piano lessons. Shortly recital, and what did you play? after the piano arrived in our apartment, I GG: I have three! My most beloved found myself sitting at the instrument and GG: I believe that my first performance works by Liszt are Ballade No. 2, “Vallée playing by ear. I played popular songs was at age seven as part of the end-of- d’Obermann,” and “Funérailles” (the that I heard on the radio and some small the-year student recital that my teacher latter I have not yet played!). I connect pieces that my sister learned at the time. held. I do not remember what I played in to all three musically, pianistically, and My parents found it astonishing, but I this one, but I do remember a few pieces spiritually. They are utterly expressive, will mention that when I was two years that I performed a bit later in some of deep, and profound. They are also quasi- old, they already noticed my ability to sing these early concerts, such as Three Fantastic operatic and undoubtedly poetic and clearly some familiar tunes we all heard Dances, Op. 5 by Shostakovich and the rich in tone colors, and they all combine in those days. Therefore, as surprised Kabalevsky Sonatina. immense lyricism and exciting virtuosity as they were, they had recognized my My first public recital, which was in such a perfect way. One can most attraction to music since my infancy. perhaps a bit shorter than a full-scale likely perceive them as tone poems for I begged for piano lessons, as I saw program, was in an attractive, intimate piano, a genre that Liszt created, although my sister taking lessons, but my parents music club in Jaffa when I was about 15. for orchestra. decided to permit lessons only when I I recall playing, among other things, some entered first grade. It was clear to me small romantic miniatures by Chopin ER: You regularly perform as a pianist. from the first moment that this is what I and his, the Fantasy-Impromptu) and Do you have any upcoming plans for would like to do in my life: be a pianist! Mendelssohn (some Songs Without Words). recitals or recordings, and does Liszt have My first full public recital was at age 17 in a place in them? ER: Was there an event that captured a lovely venue for classical concerts that your interest in music, or someone who was also a cafe near Tel Aviv. There I GG: I perform mostly in the USA, sparked that interest? played Bach’s Partita No. 2 in C Minor; China, and Israel. Every few years, I will

4 The American Liszt Society - www.americanlisztsociety.net A Conversation with Gila Goldstein play in Europe; most recently, it was in ER: What would you recommend Society. How do you manage to balance Berlin with the Berliner Symphoniker. I to someone in high school or college all these things? have just returned from China, where I go (especially at BU) as to how best to yearly and where I performed and taught prepare for a musical career? GG: How do I balance performing, in Beijing and Shanghai. teaching, and administering? There is Between fall 2018 and fall 2019, I GG: Young musicians nowadays must be no such thing as “balance” in the life opened all my recitals with Liszt’s “Les versatile, innovative, and entrepreneurial. of an artist! I have aspired for balance Cloches de Genève.” My focus nowadays It is good to dream, and I encourage throughout my professional career, is the Bach WTC (I already performed six young musicians to keep aspiring for the but it is almost unattainable. Time preludes and fugues this past year), but I best possible performing career because it management, proper rest, and finding plan to include more Liszt in my future makes them work harder and accomplish some moments/hours for occasional recitals. I hope to learn “Funérailles” as more. For example, it is certainly fine downtime are the critical solutions to well as some other short works, and a few to prepare for some competitions, and perhaps improving balance. I am not more of his transcriptions, especially of it is also good to pursue higher degrees. often successful in it, but I try! vocal works. I also like to revive works I However, for most pianists - and I am have played in the past, such as the three focusing here only on pianists - it will be ER: In what must be rare moments of Petrarch sonnets. close to impossible to achieve a full-time relaxation and time for yourself, what performing career and often even a full- other interests do you pursue, such as ER: And Liszt in the future? Do you time teaching career in higher-education pastimes or hobbies? have any plans concerning your career, institutions, in spite of earning terminal and what do you hope for from others? degrees. GG: I enjoy visiting art museums, In order to make a living, pianists reading, traveling (which is mostly related GG: I intend to program Liszt in many will need to either teach or, if not to work, but even then, exploring new of my recitals. Liszt plays a significant interested in and devoted to teaching, places/cultures, sight-seeing, and fine role in my musical life and philosophy. need to choose additional ways to make dining are primary interests), and Pilates. I teach a lot of Liszt as well and try to a living such as collaborative pianists/ promote Liszt as much as I can, especially accompanists, vocal coaches, church ER: Anything else in conclusion? via the performances I host for the musicians/choral conductors, lecturers, New York/New Jersey chapter of The managers, organizers of community GG: I believe in the future of classical American Liszt Society. All performers series, record producers and/or engineers, music. It is our responsibility and mission for the chapter must be Lisztians at heart videographers, journalists, directors, etc. as professional musicians, performers, and capable of playing his technically Young musicians should acquire skills and teachers in the 21st century to keep demanding compositions. Liszt was a such as public speaking, organizational it alive and pass the tradition to our bit of a persona non grata for many decades pursuits, writing, technology, media, disciples. We must inspire the current in music circles, including in the eyes business, and the like. My advice: Be and future generations with our passion and ears of some very distinguished open-minded, and be creative. Connect and love for music. Liszt did that in the pianists who regarded him as a superficial and collaborate with other musicians nineteenth century, and we must never composer. But that has been proved to and artists, with composers. Do keep cease to follow in his footsteps. be profoundly wrong. Based on what I practicing and working on your beloved have heard and read, and especially during repertoire, and make sure you perform a and following the 200th anniversary year few times a year, even if it’s in the salon in 2011, I believe that the world has come of a friend in your neighborhood. If to recognize Liszt as one of the most you love it, just do it for yourself and serious and unique composers in history, your soul! Always remember that you and now has granted him the respect he never know who is going to listen to deserves. you, who may give you some unexpected Liszt possessed a larger-than-life opportunity; therefore, be both embracing personality and was unusually versatile. and realistic and work in/be open to He was a pianist, composer, arranger, many different directions in terms of the conductor, teacher, and author. Liszt scope of a full career in music. was also a priest, philanthropist, and humanist. I hope and believe that ER: In addition to performing here and pianists will continue to play Liszt for the abroad, you are a member of the piano generations to come and will preserve faculty and chair of the piano department Liszt’s name and legacy in the best at Boston University, Director of the possible way. The American Liszt Society Young Artists Piano Program at Boston has played a significant role in this regard University Tanglewood Institute, and and has now contributed for over 55 President of the New York/New Jersey years to that mission. Chapter of The American Liszt Gila Goldstein

Volume 35, Number 1 - Summer/Fall 2019 5 In Memoriam

He held full-time faculty positions unusually high praise from The New York at College, Pennsylvania (1999- Times critic Donal Henahan. Her debuts 2005), University of Wisconsin-Platteville in London and Berlin were received with (2005-2015), and finally Azusa Pacific equal praise and enthusiasm. In a series University (2015-2019); he was also on of concerts at , The New the piano faculty of the MasterWorks York Times praised her as a “persuasive Festival (2002-2018) and the Crescendo interpreter of .” Among Summer Institute (2015-2017). her numerous pupils are noted national An active member of The American and international performers as well as Liszt Society since 2011, he co-founded successful teachers at every level. its Southern chapter in 2016 In remembering Karen, ALS President Eugene Christian Alcalay and served as its first president. In 2003 Jay Hershberger said, “She was a stalwart 1966 - 2019 he married Ruth Elisabeth Mayers; their in her advocacy for Liszt as an artist/ Eugene Christian Alcalay, beloved daughter, Juliet Sharon, was born in 2016. teacher, and, if I am not mistaken, husband of Ruth Elisabeth Alcalay, He enjoyed swimming, hiking, cycling, perhaps she was the teacher of more devoted father of Juliet Sharon Alcalay, and travel. members of the ALS than any other and only son of Gina Sebastian died of a In remembering Eugene, ALS single teacher in the country. The loss heart attack in Azusa, California, on June President Jay Hershberger said, “Eugene of Karen is, in some ways, the end of 26, 2019, aged 52. He was preceded in was a rising star in The American Liszt an era, and one not easily recaptured or death by his father, Alexander Alcalay, in Society. His musical artistry was deep recreated. Her students consistently held 1994. and profound, and his commitment to her in high regard, and she was always Born in Bucharest, Romania, on the ideals of the Society was easily seen devoted to promoting their careers; many October 13, 1966, Eugene began playing in his playing, his teaching, his interaction of her students now hold piano positions the piano at age two and composing at with friends and colleagues, and his of prominence at institutions of higher age eight. In 1984 he came under the tireless efforts with his fellow co-founder, learning across the country. tutelage of the well-known composer- Dmitry Rachmanov, on behalf of the “I offer my heartfelt condolences to conductor , who Southern California chapter of the ALS. all, especially those of you who had the affirmed his “outstanding talent as both His love of music was surpassed only by distinct privilege to study with her. Let us a performer and composer.” Eugene his love for his family, spouse Elisabeth, keep her memory alive by modeling her became the first recipient of The Leonard and young daughter Julie. He also leaves deep commitment to musical beauty as Bernstein Scholarship for gifted young behind an elderly mother in Israel. His fellow artists and teachers.” musicians at Indiana University School facebook profile was always filled with She is survived by her sister, Sandra of Music, where he earned bachelor’s wonderful pictures of his family. He was Shaw Murphy; a niece, Merilee Macklin; degrees in both piano and composition. a proud and loving husband and father. nephew, Charles Murphy; a grandniece Aided by Maestro Bernstein, Eugene Our hearts go out to Elisabeth and Julie and grandnephew, Emma and Benjamin continued his studies at The Curtis with deep condolences.” Macklin; and grandniece, Samantha Institute of Music and then The Juilliard A fund for Julie’s future education is Murphy. School, where he attained master’s and described at https://www.gofundme.com/f/ A memorial service took place doctoral degrees in piano performance. college-fund-for-juliet-alcalay. Saturday, September 21, 2019, at His teachers included Seymour Lipkin, Greenfield Hill Congregational Church, Robert McDonald, Karen Shaw, James Fairfield. Tocco, Milton Babbitt, and Ned Rorem. Karen Shaw passed away on His performance career took him to Wednesday, July 3, 2019. A native of five continents and such Norwalk, Connecticut, she inherited venues as Alice Tully Hall and Carnegie the background of a musical family. Hall ( Auditorium). He spent After receiving her bachelor’s, master’s, summers at international music festivals and doctoral degrees from Indiana such as Tanglewood, Taos, Kneisel Hall, University, she joined the Jacobs School and Ravinia. of Music faculty at Indiana Unversity in In 2003 Eugene became a Fulbright 1968, serving as the chair of the Piano Scholar, teaching at the Universidad Department from 1977 - 82 and again Nacional Conservatory of Music in recently for four years. Bogota, Colombia; in 2005, he joined the A brilliant pianist, Shaw was widely prestigious roster of Steinway Artists. acclaimed and distinguished herself with His CD, Lyrical Liszt, released in 2008 on performances as recitalist and soloist the Partita Records label, was praised for across the United States, Europe, Canada, “poetry, sensitivity… admirable tonal and the Far East. Her first New York variety…beautiful playing throughout.” appearance was as winner of the Concert Karen Shaw (EPTA UK) Artists Guild Award, which prompted 1940 - 2019

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Daniel Glover (r) with ALS member Terry McNeill following Gila Goldstein teaching in a masterclass at Shanghai Normal University. Glover’s Amy Beach Concerto performance.

ALS President Jay Hershberger in conversation with ASU piano faculty Britton Recital Hall, University of Michigan. member Caio Pagano.

Watkins Lecture Hall, University of Michigan. Jay Hershberger introducing Gila Goldstein and Annie Dutoit. Ms. Dutoit accepted The American Liszt Society Medal on behalf of her mother, Martha Argerich.

Volume 35, Number 1 - Summer/Fall 2019 7 Chapter News

Chicago/Midwest Chapter James Madison University/ Oregon Chapter President: Alexander Djordjevic. Shenandoah Valley Chapter President: Alexandre Dossin http://facebook.com/LisztChicago President: Eric Ruple [email protected] [email protected] The chapter continues to actively promote The chapter offered three days of the music and ideals of Liszt through The chapter will present a solo lecture- programs dedicated to the 208th birthday its annual Liszt Birthday Gala concerts recital by Jeremiah Padilla, on December of Franz Liszt. Every end of October and “Piano Encounters” community 8, featuring selected lieder transcriptions for the past 14 years, the Chapter and concert series, which is designed to bring by Franz Liszt and Leopold Godowsky. the University of Oregon School of great classical music free of charge to the An on-campus Liszt event presented Music and Dance have offered a variety general public who may not be regular by one of our more popular graduate of events celebrating the music of Liszt concertgoers. pianists should inspire the next generation and his contemporaries. This year’s topic On Saturday, June 1, 2019, the chapter of graduates to become members. The was “Late Piano Music by Liszt.” It presented “Piano Encounters III: A recital will focus on comparing the was a unique opportunity to experience Celebration of Women Composers,” at compositional techniques that Liszt and live performances of fascinating, lesser- Wheaton College’s Armerding Center Godowsky used to reflect the text of the known works that took the listener on a for Music and the Arts. ALS members original lieder. journey to a different musical universe. Jennifer Allor, Alexander Djordjevic, A second recital for the spring of 2020 This was definitely not your “usual” Liszt! Karin Redekopp Edwards, Mark is in the works, entitled “Liszt, Before This year, the chapter extended the Edwards, Daniel Paul Horn, George and Beyond,” to be performed by JMU festivities with a “Mini-Festival,” including Radosavljevic, Leo Radosavljevic, students and faculty. This will most likely solo performances, a lecture, a master Aaron Stampfl, and Alex Yuill take place in three different churches in class, and an orchestral performance performed. Women composers featured town. Program details have not yet been with outstanding Hungarian pianist Éva included Cécile Chaminade, Clara Wieck set in stone. We are hoping to schedule at Polgár. Schumann, Hilary Tann, Sophie-Carmen least one of these concerts during one of Eckhardt-Gramatté, , our three audition days, thus giving some San Francisco Bay Area Chapter Caroline Shaw, Dora Pejačević, Iris de additional exposure to The American President: William Wellborn Cairos-Rego, and Carol Ann Weaver. Liszt Society. [email protected] On Friday, February, 15, 2019, Joseph We will be establishing a Facebook Kingma, first prize winner in the 2017 page shortly, along with Instagram and The chapter continues its series of guest Franz Liszt International Competition other social media. Check the ALS pianists. In 2020, three concerts will take at The Ohio State University, performed website for updates on information place. One will feature Jeffrey LaDeur a free recital at Wheaton College’s included in this notice. performing and discussing Liszt’s Swiss Armerding Center for Music and the Arts, Years of Pilgrimage. Richard Fountain is featuring Mozart’s Nine Variations on a New York/New Jersey Chapter also playing, and the third is still in the Minuet by Duport, K 573, the Mendelssohn President: Gila Goldstein scheduling stage, as are house concerts in Fantasie, Op. 28, and the Liszt Sonata. [email protected] San Francisco and San José for spring and ALS New York/New Jersey chapter fall of 2020. president and pianist Gila Goldstein The chapter continues its yearly series of performed in recital Saturday, September piano recitals with a program by Joseph South Florida Chapter 21, in Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University. Kingma and Yi Zhong. The event will President: José Raúl López The concert included Liszt’s “Les cloches take place on Wednesday, January 8, 2020, [email protected] de Genève,” Six Preludes and Fugues at 7:30 p.m., in the Yamaha Piano Salon, from Bach’s Well-Tempered Clavier, and 689 Fifth Avenue (3rd floor), New York The chapter presented two concerts Schumann’s Kreisleriana, Op. 16. City. Kingma was the winner of the 2017 in October 2018 at the Deering Estate On Saturday, October 19, 2019, the Ohio International Liszt Competition, (October 19) and at Florida International chapter celebrated Franz Liszt’s 208th and Yi Zhong was the third prize winner University (October 20). The repertoire birthday with a free concert at Nichols of the Los Angeles International Liszt at the Deering included Liszt’s first Concert Hall in Evanston. Chicago- Competition. Their program will include version of “Vallée d’Obermann” and based pianists Jennifer Allor, Pawel works by Liszt, Rachmaninov, and various opera transcriptions by 19th-century Checinski, Matthew Hagle, Weiwen transcriptions by Liszt and others. Cuban composer Nicolás Ruiz Espadero. Ma, George Radosavljevic, Alex Yuill, The series continues on Friday, April The FIU program concentrated on and Music Institute of Chicago Academy 24, 2020, at 7:30 p.m., also in the Yamaha transcriptions by Espadero and the student pianist Eriko Darcy performed. Piano Salon, with a program presented addition of Liszt’s paraphrases on themes The Chicago/Midwest Chapter can by Jay Hershberger, President of The from Verdi’s Aida and Il Trovatore. be accessed on social media by searching American Liszt Society. He will perform Grigorios Zamparas presented a “LisztChicago” on Facebook, YouTube, works by Chopin and Liszt. recital at FIU’s Wertheim Concert Hall on Instagram, Twitter, and at its website at Looking ahead, the 2020-2021 season September 22, 2018, that included Liszt’s LisztChicago.com. will feature Beatrice Long, location and Sonata in B minor and his St. Francis of Paola date to be announced. Walking on the Waves. (continued on next page)

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On November 4, 2018, at FIU’s October 13 saw Éva Polgár of Azusa guest pianist William Westney from Texas Wertheim, Kemal Gekić performed Pacific University playing a fundraiser Tech University presented a program Liszt’s transcription of Berlioz’s Symphonie concert on behalf of the chapter. including Liszt’s “Liebestraum No. 2” and Fantastique with narration by Frank Another fundraiser followed on October the 11th Hungarian Rhapsody. In spring Cooper. 20 with Ivana Malo, Yue-Fun Chuang, 2019, chapter president Richard Fountain We welcomed guest pianist Éva Ruby Wang, Judy Tran, and Dmitry continued his cycle of Liszt-Beethoven Polgár who presented a recital at the Rachmanov performing in Altadena. , performing the Seventh Steinway Gallery in Coral Gables on The most recent event was to yake Symphony and Beethoven’s Sonata in A January 24, 2019, and a master class for place on November 23, the Second ALS Major, Op. 101 on February 7; the Eighth FIU students on January 25. SoCal Chapter one-day Mini-Festival, Symphony and Beethoven’s Sonata in F Prior to this year’s conference at ASU, at Asuza Pacific University. Featured Major, Op. 10, No. 2 on March 7; and the South Florida chapter presented two were to be a pre-college master class with the Fifth Symphony and Beethoven’s concerts, at FIU on October 18 and a Rufus Choi, a college master class with Sonata in C Minor, Op. 10, No. 1 on April repeat of the program at Lynn University Antoinette Perry), pre-college and college 16. For the final concert, the chapter on October 20, featuring FIU Piano student recitals, and a Eugene Alcalay invited faculty and students from WBU’s faculty members Kemal Gekic, José Memorial Tribute Concert. School of Fine Arts to display original López, and guest pianist Roberta Rust. artwork responding to Beethoven’s Fifth The program centered around Liszt’s University of Hartford Chapter Symphony. circle, especially commemorating Clara President: Luiz de Moura Castro The chapter also welcomed guest Schumann’s bicentennial, with music by [email protected] pianist Clara Christian from College Liszt, Clara and , Fanny of the Ozarks on February 28 for Hensel, , and C.V. Alkan. On Saturday afternoon, April 6, Luiz and a master class and recital, featuring Bridget de Moura Castro presented several movements from Liszt’s first Southern California Chapter three pianists on behalf of the University Années de Pèlerinage. To close the year, President: Dmitry Rachmanov of Hartford Chapter in a concert several members of the chapter made a [email protected] held at the New Britain Museum of pilgrimage of their own to Liszt’s grave American Art. The full-house audience in Bayreuth on May 19 as part of a study The chapter sponsored many events enthusiastically welcomed performers tour to . during the past year, starting on October Justin Kolb, Margarita Nuller, and 26, 2018, with an Artist Recital and Corbin Beisner. Kolb opened with The most recent listing of ALS a master class presented by Daniel a group of impressionistic pieces, chapters will be found on the website Glover. The program featured Liszt which included one American work at www.americanlisztsociety.net. and his influence on French composers. to complement the museum�s current On November 15, 2018, Alexandre exhibit of a substantial number of works Dossin offered a Guest Artist Recital by Georgia O’Keeffe, and concluded with and masterclass. The concert featured Ravel’s “Alborada del gracioso.” Ms. works by Chopin, Liszt, Villa-Lobos, and Nuller performed the Prélude, Choral, et Gershwin. Both programs were part of Fugue of César Franck. Beisner ended the the California State University Northridge program with Chopin’s Ballade No. 3, the (CSUN) series “Sonetto del Petrarca No. 104” (“Pace On January 23, 2019, our late colleague non trovo”), and the work that many and former president Eugene Alcalay Lisztians affectionately call “The Dante”: presented a faculty recital at Asuza Pacific “Après une lecture du Dante: Fantasia University, in a concert that included quasi Sonata.” Liszt’s “Psalm 43” from Album d’un Voyageur. West Texas Chapter On February 24, the ALS SoCal President: Richard Fountain Fundraiser concert took place at the Judy [email protected] Tran Gallego residence in Altadena, CA, with performers Eugene Alcalay, The newly established West Texas Antoinette Perry, Judy Tran, and Dmitry Chapter of The American Liszt Society, Rachmanov. housed at Wayland Baptist University, On May 5, Éva Polgár performed a under the guidance of President Richard Guest Artist Recital as part of the CSUN Fountain and Vice President Kennith series, with works by Haydn, Liszt, Freeman, had an exciting first year of Bartók, and Bernstein. events. July 16 marked the day of Eugene ALS Executive Secretary Justin Kolb ’s Memorial Service. Mourners Portrait. Drawing by Friedrich Preller the Elder (1804-1878). Alcalay presented a memorable lecture and recital Liszt Museum. . . gathered at Grace Community Church in on August 30, 2018. On November 1, PRISMA ARCHIVO/Alamy Stock Photo, used by permission. 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Francis Brancaleone, Ph.D., is the Gila Goldstein performed several WBU Concert Hall describing Liszt to author of a fifth article to appear inSacred recitals in the past six months: at Yamaha the audience. They performed a few of Music, published in the Spring 2019 issue Piano Salon in New York, in Lenox, Liszt’s works. (Vol.146, No.1). “The Golden Years Massachusetts (as part of the Boston John has a new collection of of an American Catholic Institution: University Tanglewood Institute BUTI), arrangements for the intermediate level an Annotated Chronicle of the Pius X Ganz Hall at Roosevelt University in piano student. Pop Piano Favorites contains School of Liturgical Music from 1946 Chicago, Steinway Hall in Beijing, and eight arrangements of music from the to its Transformation as the Music Shanghai Normal University (SHNU). movies Coco, Les Miserables, Pirates of Department of Manhattanville College She also gave masterclasses for the the Caribbean, La-La Land, The Sound of 1969 - 1970” (Part I of III: 1946-1952). Tanglewood Learning Institute, at Music, and others. Schaum/Hal Leonard Together with four of the preceding Chicago’s Roosevelt University College publishes the collection, and it is available articles, when complete, these will form a of Performing Arts, University of Notre in your local music store or the usual comprehensive history of that institution’s Dame in Indiana, and Beijing and internet sources. most important influence on twentieth- Shanghai Normal Universities. John will be one of the lead pianists century Catholic liturgical music. Hard Donald Isler reviewed her New York for “Room Full of ” at the NAMM copies of the journal are available, and recital, which she performed for the NY/ Show in Anaheim, CA in January 2020. the articles are also posted online at the NJ ALS Chapter in June 2019: He has been asked to review and provide Church Music Association of America “Goldstein is always worth hearing, comments to arrangers regarding an (Musica Sacra) site, https://musicasacra.com/ because she is a wonderful pianist arrangement of Liszt’s Hungarian Rhapsody music/. with a flair for creative programming. No. 2 for ten pianos. The performance Her Liszt’s “Cloches de Genève” was will have three pianists on each part Madeleine Hsu Forte was the pianist gorgeous.... She played Schumann’s and a conductor. The group will also in the Lillibridge Ensemble when it Kreisleriana with passion and many original perform an arrangement for ten pianos of performed two major works by Brahms. touches…. Gila Goldstein is also a “Bohemian Rhapsody” by Queen. She partnered with violinist Rafael Ryger terrific Bach player....” and cellist Karen Ryger in a performance Justin Kolb, pianist, and Carey Harrison, of the Brahms Piano Trio No. 3 in C John S. Hord was in west Texas for playwright/author, marked the tenth Minor, Op. 101. Madeleine and Rafael a week during October 2019. On the anniversary of the Phoenicia International also played Brahms’s Sonata for 19th, he made two presentations to the Festival of the Voice with two No. 2 in A Major, Op 100. The Teachers’ Association in Lubbock. performances of a unique collaboration took place on Sunday, September 15, The first, “Composition = Farming; celebrating, in music and narrative in the Cultural Arts Center in Hamden, Arranging = Sherlock Holmes,” was recitation, the African diaspora experience Connecticut. an interactive workshop to encourage so resonant across the world today. Their Madeleine is preparing chamber music teachers to include composition and/or performances on Saturday, August 3, and concerts featuring the music of Dvořák arranging in their studios. The second Sunday, August 4, set forth Harrison’s (“Dumky” Trio), and Franck, Strauss, and presentation was, “Fear is my Friend; personal story of his service as a “mole” Brahms , with some Bartók for the How to make Fear your Friend.” This for the African National Congress during future. Many of Madeleine’s recordings contains technics for teachers to use Nelson Mandela’s incarceration on are available at https://madeleineforte.music. with students to realize the presence and Robben Island, “illustrated” by Kolb’s unt.edu/recordings.html. purpose of anxiety and how to use this rendition of piano music “inspired” by the Her godchild, pianist Dr. János Kéry, extra energy to one’s benefit. African experience in the slave trade and is teaching at the Franz Liszt Academy in On October 21, he presented “The in diaspora. The story of an undercover Budapest. Beauty of Symbolism; Poe, Debussy, freedom fighter is echoed in music by Baudelaire,” a lecture-recital to explore composers directly descended from Daniel Glover, vice president of the San the use of symbolism and the great slaves or celebrating the slave heritage Francisco Bay Chapter, played a recital admiration Debussy and Baudelaire had through native African lyrical melodies, in Old First Church, with a program of for Poe. John was assisted by Wayland polyrhythms, and the powerfully complex music by modern Polish composers and Baptist University Language faculty textures of everything from to Chopin’s complete Twenty-Four Preludes, member Maria O’Connell in her reading gospel. Previous collaborations of this Op. 28. On September 14, he appeared of “The Raven” and faculty member unique pianist-and-playwright duo include as soloist with the Bay Area Rainbow Sarah Fountain in her interpretation of the hilarious “The Seven Maladies of Symphony (BARS) in Amy Beach’s rarely “Harmonies du soir.” John performed ”; “Enoch Arden,” heard Concerto, composed in 1899. Dawn several works of Debussy. The lecture- setting Tennyson’s epic poem to music Harms conducted the BARS orchestra, recital was held in the WBU Library by ; and the profoundly which also performed Humperdinck’s Atrium and next to the Abraham Art ironic Mark Twain’s “War Prayer,” all “Overture” to Hansel and Gretel and Gallery, which displayed the complete presented in earlier Phoenicia Voice Shostakovich’s Symphony No. 10. Daniel works of “Marc Chagall and the Bible.” Festival seasons. will be attending ’s 100th On October 22, John and Richard Birthday Party in Genève, Switzerland. Fountain staged a conversation in the

10 The American Liszt Society - www.americanlisztsociety.net 2020 Festival Homage to Martin Canin Judith Neslenyi is the subject of a Matthew Bengtson and The University Juilliard Professor Martin Canin passed film released in 2018 by the Hungarian of Michigan School of Music, Theatre, away in May of 2019 after a long illness. Academy of Arts (MMA). Attol Kezdve and Dance will host the 2020 American Madeleine Hsu Forte writes, “When Beszeltunk (From Then On We Could Speak) Liszt Society festival October 16 - 19, our teacher, Rosina Lhevinne, became is in Hungarian, but there is much music beginning with an opening concert on ill, Martin Canin, then her assistant at and many interesting historical clips. Friday evening, October 16. The , took over her whole Judith is working on having the film The theme of the festival is “Liszt and class. When I was teaching at Boise translated, so it will reach more people Hungary,” and the major event will be the State University, I invited Martin many globally. George Batyi Band (Hungarian-Gypsy times to be our Artist-in-Residence. “The emphasis is on the 1956 music in its “native form”). There will Recently, I found a cassette-tape of Revolution, in which my brother and I be demonstrations of Gypsy instruments our collaboration as duo-pianists and participated, and when our home there and also of Hungarian dance steps. Talks made a CD that I sent to Martin for his was destroyed. As a result of injuries by major musicologists on Hungarian birthday. He was delighted. That CD sustained in the Revolution, I spent music will include Jonathan Bellman, is available on YouTube as Homage to almost a year in hospital. My brother, Lynn Hooker, Peter Laki, and Shay Loya, Martin Canin, https://www.youtube.com/ Ede Pfeiffer, wrote a book in London, whose Liszt�s Transcultural Modernism and watch?v=CVYsTK5b-hA. The program The Child of Communism, which has been the Hungarian-Gypsy Tradition (Rochester: includes En Blanc et Noir by Debussy, translated into 16 languages during the University of Rochester Press, 2011) won Waltzes, Op. 39, by Brahms, and Variations past 60 years. the ALS-sponsored Alan Walker Prize in on a Theme by Paganini, by Lutoslawski.” “The movie is more than an hour 2014. long, and does not concentrate only Performances will include the on a piano player, but lets other artists complete Liszt Hungarian Rhapsodies, speak. There is a lot of beautiful music incorporating some in their earlier Deadline for Next and many photos of my Alma Mater, forms, and Liszt works closely related to the Franz Liszt Academy in Budapest. Hungarian subjects. Also featured will Newsletter is You’ll see and hear many selections be nineteenth-century works related to May 15, 2020! from my composition, ODE to 1956. I Hungarian, Gypsy, or Rhapsody themes wrote both the music and libretto; it is a by Schubert and Brahms, as well as by Send all news by e-mail to [email protected]. work for choir and narrator and features less well-known composers. Twentieth- Please be sure to put ALS Newsletter in the vocal solos and small ensembles. I am century works by Dohnányi, Bartók, subject line. E-mail text, MSWord .doc or hopeful that the work will be performed Kodály, Kurtág, Ligeti, and others will .docx, or editable .pdfs only. Black/white by an orchestra and choir in fall 2020, round out the musical offerings. In and color photos encouraged, acceptable in in the cities of Budapest and Miskolc in addition to ALS performers, University .jpeg format only. Hungary.” of Michigan students and faculty will also present performances of associated solo, Steven Spooner will join the faculty chamber, and vocal repertoire. of the Peabody Conservatory of Johns The festival website is http://smtd. New Books About Hopkins University beginning in the umich.edu/liszt2020. Franz Liszt 2020 - 21 academic year. He is the first The 2020 festival will prove to be eye- new full-time faculty artist to join the and ear-opening, and the ALS Board of Daniela Bloem-Hubatka is the author of piano faculty at Peabody in more than Directors encourages all members to join a new book on Liszt. Franz Liszt and St. a decade. Spooner has released more in the celebration of Liszt�s Hungarian Elisabeth describes the special connection than 30 recordings on the Naxos, A Life roots!! between Franz Liszt and St. Elisabeth of Music, and other labels, including of Thuringia. The book is available a 2016 project 16 CDs honoring his by contacting Ms. Bloem-Hubatka at heroes called Dedications, which met with [email protected] enormous critical acclaim. A prizewinner at each of the seven international piano Harald Herresthal is the author of The competitions he has entered, Spooner is Door Openers - Franz Liszt and Ole Bull. also an active collaborator and performs The book describes the lifelong friendship with a diverse and distinguished list of between Liszt and the Norwegian musicians. In addition to teaching at virtuoso violinist. Available through Ad the University of Kansas for the past Notam Vorlag, Oslo. several years, Spooner is in increasing demand as a presenter of masterclasses, and he has just been appointed the artistic director of the Chicago International Music Competition and Festival. He has also served as guest artist-in-residence at Matthew Bengston, 2020 Festival Chair, University of Michigan. Pariso Conservatory Summer Sessions.

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Orchestra and in Vienna with the Vienna DONATIONS ABOVE AND When the late Thomas Mastroianni, Philharmonic. In addition, she has BEYOND NORMAL DUES previous president of The American performed several of Liszt’s works for Liszt Society, asked me to join the board two pianos, such as Les Préludes, Concerto Carl DiDonato of directors and serve as editor of the Pathétique, and Don Juan Fantasy. In Jerome Lowenthal society’s newsletter and webmaster, I September 2017, she played the rarely Éva Polgár hadn’t a clue as to what I was in for - heard monodrama, “Lenore,” at the Dmitry Rachmanov terminal preposition notwithstanding! Jerusalem Chamber Music Festival in Robert L. Vogt Less you think this a negative Israel, with her daughter Annie Dutoit as Renata Yuill assessment, I had no idea of the many narrator. wonderful opportunities I would have Martha Argerich has also dedicated NEW MEMBERS to meet people who were Liszt scholars, much of her time to support and nurture performers, teachers, and aficionados. young artists. She has been a judge at Tekla Babyak Of course, The American Liszt Society major international piano competitions Sarah Braverman membership provided most of my such as the Chopin in Warsaw, Arthur Robert Carlson communications, but there have been Rubinstein in Israel, Geneva, Hamamatsu Alain Chateauvert numerous chances to go beyond that in , and the Bösendorfer Yamaha Wendy Chen august group and write about and publish US at Arizona State University. She Sookkyung Cho the work of people from many parts of has frequently collaborated with young Jessica Crowell the world: Singapore, Canada, Australia, pianists and string players, assisting Judy Tran Gallego Europe, etc. a significant number of them in their Susan Gouthro However, there is a time when one careers. Shiloh needs to hand over the reins to others to In September 1999, the Martha Jordan Hickerson get fresh ideas and procedures in place for Argerich International Piano Competition Xinrong Linlin Huang the next generation. With this in mind, I was launched in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Jooyoung Kim have asked President Jay Hershberger to From November 2001, the Martha Kyle Knappenberger accept my retirement from both positions Argerich Festival in Buenos Aires was Tsai-Wei Li effective with the second Newsletter at held under her direction as a sister festival Elaine Lim the end of 2022: Volume 38, No. 1. I also to the Beppu Argerich Music Festival Beatrice Long mentioned this intention to the members in Japan. Martha Argerich became the Chyh Shen Low of the board who were at the most recent director of the Beppu Argerich Festival Rosanna Marzaroli meeting in Tempe, Arizona. (called “Argerich’s Meeting Point”) Caroline Owen If anyone reading this announcement in 1996. In her festivals in Japan and PROQUEST has an interest in serving in one or both , and on other occasions, she has Vedrana Subotic positions, I am sure Jay would gladly always listened to, guided, and presented Yuta Sugano know of your interest. And if a new numerous young pianists. In June 2018, Alexandre Tchaykov editor or webmaster is interested in taking a new Martha Argerich festival was Han Wang over earlier than 2022, that would be fine, established in Hamburg, Germany, where Scott Watkins too. she continues to present both established Cynthia Wohlschlager For my part, I will continue to be and young artists. Sonny Yoo active in The American Liszt Society. Martha Argerich shares common Jonathan Young Moreover, I fully intend to remain an avid ground with Franz Liszt due to her Ziwei Zhou promoter of Liszt and his music. phenomenal virtuosity, musical versatility, To the many people who have been generosity, and deep commitment helpful to me, either by providing news to support the future generation of EXISTING MEMBERS TO or articles, participating in the interviews young pianists. Her artistic and human LIFE MEMBERS or conversations, and supportive of my contributions to the world of classical Mark De Zwaan efforts through their encouragement, I music have been colossal. William Hughes say, “Thank You most sincerely.” We are deeply pleased to award the 2019 American Liszt Society Medal to Martha Argerich. NEW LIFE MEMBERS Ji Hyun Kim (Editor’s Note: The presenation and Ms. Dutoit’s reply may be viewed on line at https://youtu.be/xV5-MkHMYBQ.)

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