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2017 American Liszt Society Festival

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Schedule

Justin Kolb, Master of Ceremonies

All events are in Galvin Recital Hall unless otherwise stated.

Thursday, April 27, 2017
4:00pm	ALS Board Meeting and Dinner Jean Gimbel Lane Reception Room
6:45pm	Registration and Shuttles Shuttles leave from the Hilton Orrington at 6:45pm and 7:00pm. Registration opens at 6:45 in the lobby of the Ryan Center.
7:30pm	Sergei Babayan, piano Liszt: Ballade No. 2 in B minor Vladimir Ryabov: Fantasia in C minor, Op. 21, in memory of Maria Yudina J.S. Bach: from the Klavierbüchlein for Wilhelm Friedemann Bach: Prelude in C Major, BWV 939 Prelude in C minor, BWV 999 Menuet-Trio in G minor, BWV 929 Prelude in E Major, BWV 937 Sinfonia in E-flat Major, BWV 791 Prelude in D minor, BWV 926 Prelude in C-sharp Major, BWV 872 Prelude in F Major, BWV 901 Chopin: Polonaise Op.26 in C-sharp minor Chopin: Valse Op.64 No. 2 in C-sharp minor Chopin: Barcarolle Op.60 in F-sharp major Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No.12
9:30pm	Reception Jean Gimbel Lane Reception Room Sponsored by Yamaha’s Institutional Solutions Group

Friday, April 28, 2017
9:00am	Registration opens Coffee and pastries will be available in the Jean Gimbel Lane Reception Room. Shuttles leave the Hilton Orrington for the Ryan Center at 9:00 and 9:15. Those who are able to do the 10 minute walk are encouraged to do so.
9:45am	Welcome Remarks
10:00am	Beginnings Liszt: Les Preludes trans. for two pianos by the composer Luiz and Bridget de Moura Castro Debussy: Prelude to the Afternoon of a Faun trans. by Mikhail Olenev Michael Boyd Wagner: Prelude to Parsifal trans. for two pianos by Engelbert Humperdinck James and Sevgi Giles
11:00am	Arnaldo Cohen Master Class Chopin: Concerto No. 1 in E minor, Op. 11 I. Allegro Maestoso Tian Tang Qiyun Dai, orchestra Schubert: Sonata in C minor, D. 958 I. Allegro Evan Wong
12:30pm	Lunch on your own Norris Student Center (several food options are available in Norris, the student union, which is adjacent to the festival site)
1:30pm	Liszt Repertorium, Lecture The transmission of information on virtuosity as seen through the volume Liszt Repertorium, a collection curated by Liszt’s early biographer Lina Ramann and containing commentaries by Liszt pupils on various works. Rena Mueller, New York University Ryan Opera Theater
2:15pm	Prometheus Unbound Alkan: Symphonie Jose Raul Lopez Liszt: Prometheus Matthew Gianforte and Mee Youn Park
3:00pm	Break
3:15pm	Faustian Fantasies Liszt: Danse des Sylphes, S.475 (1860) from Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust Gila Goldstein Liszt: Three Pieces from Goethe’s Faust S. 496 I. Osterhymne Caroline Hong II. Hoffest: Marsch und Polonaise Heejin An and Sean Yeh Beethoven: Aus Goethes Faust (Flohlied) Berlioz: Une puce gentille (Le damnation de Faust) Wagner: Lied der Mephistopheles I Busoni: Lied des Mephistopheles (aus Faust) Mussorgsky: Mephistopheles’s Song in Auerbach’s Cellar Schubert: Szene aus Faust (Pamela Hinchman, soprano) Kevin McMillan, baritone Gabriel Dobner, piano
4:00pm	Jeffrey Swann Lecture-Recital Liszt: “Gretchen” from the Faust Symphony Mephisto Waltz No. 1 Mephisto Waltz No. 2
5:00pm	Alan Walker Book Award Presentation
5:15pm	Dinner on your own in Evanston
7:30pm	Northwestern University Symphony Orchestra Victor Yampolsky, Conductor Xuesha Hu, Piano Yangmingtian Zhao, Piano Liszt: Legend of St. Cecilia Liszt: Piano Concertos Nos. 1 and 2 Bartok: Concerto for Orchestra Pick-Staiger Concert Hall, Evanston (adjacent to the Ryan Center)

Saturday, April 29, 2017
9:00am	Shuttles Shuttles will leave the Hilton Orrington for the Ryan Center.
9:15am	Liszt and Wagner Liszt: Totentanz Stijn de Cock Liszt: Hungarian Rhapsody No. 13 Enrico Elisi Wagner-Liszt Rienzi Overture Steven Spooner
10:00am	Historic Recordings of Liszt Orchestral Music Gregor Benko McClintock Recital Hall
10:30am	Presentation of the American Liszt Society Medal to Gregor Benko McClintock Recital Hall
10:45am	Break
11:00pm	Berlioz-Liszt: Symphonie Fantastique Kemal Gekic
12:00pm	Lunch (Preordered box lunches served in the Jean Gimbel Lane Reception Room) We recommend preordering the box lunch when you register since most campus dining options will be closed on Saturday.
1:00pm	Chamber Music Berlioz-Liszt: Harold in Italy III. Serenade Helen Callus, viola Toni-Marie Montgomery, piano Liszt: Orpheus (trio version by Saint-Saëns) Rodolfo Vieira, violin Riana Anthony, cello Yasuko Oura, piano Liszt: Tristia (Vallee d’Obermann) for trio Gerardo Ribeiro, violin Henry Chen, cello Alan Chow, piano Liszt: Malediction (version for string quintet) Jerome Lowenthal, piano Gerardo Ribeiro and Nanao Yamada, violins Helen Callus, viola Henry Chen, cello Andrew Raciti, bass
2:00pm	Presentation of the American Liszt Society Medal to Jerome Lowenthal
2:15pm	Liszt: Sonata in B minor Adam Gyorgy
2:45pm	Break
3:00pm	Bulow and Liszt Les cloches de Genève Orage Eugene Alcalay Bulow’s Sonnet von Dante arranged by Liszt for solo piano as Tanto gentile e tanto onesta, S.479 (1874) Roberta Rust Bulow: Mazurka-Fantasie Op. 13 Liszt: Dante Sonata Mark Anderson
3:45pm	Beethoven-Liszt: Symphony No. 7 Frederic Chiu
4:30pm	Improvising and Preluding in the Paris School, Lecture An examination of how conceptions of orchestral sonority and “bandwidth” were abetted by new methods (Colet and Kalkbrenner) which extended patterns across the whole keyboard. Robert Gjerdingen, Northwestern University McClintock Recital Hall
5:00pm	Dinner on your own in Evanston Evanston
6:45pm	Bus leaves for CSO concert from the Hilton Orrington
8:00pm	Chicago Symphony Orchestra Riccardo Muti, Conductor Radu Lupu, Piano Beethoven: Concerto No. 5 (Emperor) Liszt: Dante Symphony Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave. Click here to purchase tickets.

Sunday, April 30, 2017
9:00am	Shuttles Shuttles will leave the Hilton Orrington for the Ryan Center.
9:15am	Los Angeles Liszt Competition Winners Liszt: Waltz from Gounod’s Faust Michelle Fan Liszt: St. Francois de Paule Marchant sur les Flots Hillary Santoso Liszt: Tarantella from Venezia e Napoli Victor Shlyakhtenko
9:45am	Justin Kolb Lecture-Recital Chicago composers Margaret Bonds, Edward Collins, John Downey, William Ferris, Phillip Ramey, and Leo Sowerby
10:15am	Liszt and Mozart A la Chapelle Sixtine (Allegri Miserere and Mozart Ave Verum Corpus) Jose Ramon Mendez and Amy Gustafson Mozart-Liszt Requiem: Confutatis and Lachrymosa Jay Hershberger
10:45am	Beethoven-Liszt: Symphony No. 9 for two pianos, S. 657 Chicago Chapter of the ALS I. Allegro ma non troppo, un poco maestoso Alexander Djordjevic and Daniel Paul Horn II. Scherzo: Molto vivace Aaron Stampfl and George Radosavljevic III. Adagio molto e cantabile Karin Redekopp and Mark Edwards IV. Presto; Allegro molto assai; Andante maestoso; Allegro energico Claire Aebersold and Ralph Neiweem
12:15pm	Final Banquet The Farmhouse Restaurant in the Hilton Orrington, Evanston
3:00pm	Post conference bonus recital: Marc-Andre Hamelin and Leif Ove Andsnes (Transporation is on your own) Mozart: Larghetto and Allegro for Two Pianos Stravinsky: Concerto for Two Pianos Debussy: En blanc et Noir Stravinsky: The Rite of Spring Symphony Center, 220 S. Michigan Ave. Click here to purchase tickets.