Founded in 1964 Volume 33, Number 1 2017 Franz Liszt Festival & TABLE OF CONTENTS International Piano Competition Announces Winners 1 Winners List: 2017 Franz Liszt Festival & International Piano The Franz Liszt Festival & International Piano Competition took place recently on the Competition campus of The Ohio State University. Here is a list of winners. 2 President’s Message COLLABORATIVE ARTISTS CATEGORY 3 Liszt Publications of Interest Special Award for Artistic Collaboration 2017 ($1500.00) 4 A Conversation with Ian Hobson, Yaroslava Poletaeva, violin, and Darren Matias, piano Pianist/Conductor/Educator Honorable Mention 8 Jerome Lowenthal at 85, an Interview Chih-Jung Hsu, violin, and Sheng-Yuan Kuan, piano by Donald Isler Best Interpretation Award of a composition by Franz Liszt ($200.00) 10 Justin Goes to Camp Yaroslava Poletaeva, violin, and Darren Matias, piano 11 Thank You from 2017 ALS Special Award: Membership in The American Liszt Society presented Festival Director James Giles to both duos listed above Member Updates ARTIST CATEGORY 12 Member News First Prize ($1000.00) 13 Chapter News Joseph Kingma 14 In the Next Issue Second Prize ($500.00) Chen-Shen Fan 15 Jerome Lowenthal Receives The American Liszt Society Medal Honorable Mention Sardanapalo, Liszt’s Lost Opera Inyoung Kim 16 Gregor Benko Receives Best Interpretation Award of a composition by Franz Liszt ($100.00) The American Liszt Society Medal Chen-Shen Fan Abbey Simon’s Autobiography Best Interpretation Award of a composition by an American composer ($100.00) John Wilson 17 Alan Walker Book Award Dr. Caroline Hong, Director and Competition Chair, and Dr. Nancy Roldán, Founder 18 Picture Page and Executive Advisor, extend their thanks to all contestants, judges, presenters, and volunteers, all of whom worked together to make the Festival & Competition a great success! The American Liszt Society extends its congratulations to all the performers! Perpetuating the ideas of Franz Liszt through excellence in music performance and scholarship PRESIDENT President’s Message Jay Hershberger* Concordia College Music Department Moorhead, MN 56562 [email protected] VICE PRESIDENT Alexandre Dossin* University of Oregon School of Music and Dance Eugene, OR 97403-1225 [email protected] Greetings, Fellow Lisztians! EXECUTIVE SECRETARY Justin Kolb* I trust that your summer provided you with much-needed rest, renewal, and repast with family, 1136 Hog Mountain Road friends, and colleagues at home, on vacation, or at the various festivals and summer music venues Fleischmanns, NY 12430 [email protected] inhabited by so many ALS members. My mind, heart, and soul still resonate with the musical memories generated by the recent ALS festival at Northwestern University. My heartfelt thanks go MEMBERSHIP SECRETARY to Dr. James Giles for his great artistic and administrative oversight of the festival. “Liszt and the Alexander Djordjevic* Orchestral Imagination” now joins the upper ranks of many of our past festivals. The bar remains PO Box 1020 Wheaton, IL 60187-1020 high for the future, and I am confident, as we look towards the festival at Furman University in [email protected] October of 2018, that the same artistic spirit that descended upon us at Northwestern and other past festivals will INHABIT our time together in South Carolina. More details will follow in TREASURER subsequent ALS newsletters and on the web. Daniel Paul Horn* I want to highlight The American Liszt Society’s commitment to students. Liszt knew all The American Liszt Society PO Box 1020 too well the need to mentor the next generation of musicians, whether performers, composers, Wheaton, IL 60187-1020 conductors, or teachers. The train of descendants he bequeathed to the next century remains [email protected] alive in the many dedicated artist/teachers across the continent and even the globe - a number of whom are ALS members - who are tireless in their commitment to students. The ALS honors this ALS JOURNAL Jonathan Kregor, Editor teaching commitment through its support of the Los Angeles International Liszt Competition Mary Emery Hall Room 4240 and the recently completed Franz Liszt Festival & International Piano Competition this fall at The Cincinnati College-Conservatory Ohio State University. Both of these competitions have, over the years, identified budding young PO Box 210003 artists who show an affinity for the music of Liszt. The Society has further encouraged these Cincinnati OH 45221-0003 young musicians in their growth by featuring them at our festivals. Also, local ALS chapter events [email protected] often focus upon students through recitals and masterclasses where they gain valuable insight ALS NEWSLETTER/WEBSITE and experience in their studies. All of these speak well of the Society’s commitment to the next Edward Rath, Editor/Webmaster* generation of our artistic descendants. Even so, there is always more that could be done to foster 2603 Coppertree Road such positive musical growth in our students. Champaign, IL 61822-7518 [email protected] I would like to invite all ALS members to consider what more the Society might do and be for the next generation of Lisztians. Are there creative ideas, yet untapped, that the Society could BOARD OF DIRECTORS ponder and act upon to further the growth of young musicians? Are there ways in which the Paul Barnes ALS could encourage further excellence in teaching, scholarship, and mentoring, whether for Luiz de Moura Castro students or teachers? What other kinds of support could our local chapters offer students? Can Alexander Djordjevic* Gabriel Dobner we use the ALS network to connect our students with their peers and with us? Our members Alexandre Dossin* are our most significant resource for mining and implementing ideas that might emerge from Gila Goldstein such consideration. One might paraphrase and re-imagine an old proverb thus: “Those who love Jay Hershberger* the music and ideals of Liszt spoke often with one another….” Conversation over ideas fosters Daniel Paul Horn* Geraldine Keeling further ideas, strengthens the bonds of our common cause, and renews and reinvigorates our Jonathan Kregor friendships and collegial cooperation. It is also a tried and true way of encouraging and mentoring Barbara Mellon Kolb our students. Justin Kolb* Finally, when thinking about the future, one must honor the past. G.K. Chesterton once Elyse J. Mach quipped that tradition is the democracy of the dead; giving your ancestors a vote. When I think Ksenia Nosikova Edward Rath* about the future of the ALS, I always reflect back upon the legacy, example, and model that Steven Spooner our beloved Lisztians of blessed memory left behind for us to carry forward. Just as Thomas Helen Smith Tarchalski Mastroianni and Fernando Laires had a lasting impact on all of us over the years, that impact Alan Walker inspires us to move forward. It is certain that their commitment to students was always above William Wellborn Richard Zimdars and beyond the call of duty, and so they challenge us to think about students. Our task is to think creatively about fresh ways to animate the spirit of their commitment to students in our teaching, *Member, Executive Committee scholarship, and performance, as well as our work as members of The American Liszt Society. With regard to our responsibility to the next generation, this is one such incarnation of the word, www.americanlisztsociety.net “Excelsior!” Jay Hershberger, President 2 The American Liszt Society - www.americanlisztsociety.net Liszt Publications of Interest* Liszt Publications of Interest* Front cover of a new edition of Liszt’s “Die Macht der Musik,” for voice with piano accompaniment. First edition of the second version published by BKHZ Edition, original presently in the Franz Liszt Memorial Museum and Research Center, Budapest. Introduction Front cover of Liszt’s Final Decade, by in Hungarian, English, and Germany by Dolores Pesce, winner of this year’s Alan Maria Eckhardt. Edited by Maria Eckhardt Walker Book Award. Eastman Studies in and Geza Gemesi. Music, vol. 112, University of Rochester Press. The book is available from Boydell and Brewer, amazon.com, et.al. Print ISBN: 9781580464840, 158046484X, eText ISBN: 9781580468800, 1580468802. 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Volume 33, Number 1 3 Volume 33, Number 1 3 A Conversation with Ian Hobson, Pianist/Conductor/Educator (Editor’s Note: I first met Ian Hobson you were born, I thought of some idyllic which everybody had to take, and it backstage of the Great Hall at Krannert village in the countryside, but a little determined whether you went on to Center on the University of Illinois research indicates that’s not all there is to a “secondary’’ modern school or a campus in the mid-1980s, not too many it, right? “grammar’’ school.