Liszt in Paris - American Liszt Society

Conservatory of Music
San Francisco
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Festival accommodations
Ramada Plaza Hotel: 415-626-8000 www.ramadaplazasf.com
Email: [email protected] or [email protected]
1231 Market Street, San Francisco, CA 94103
Festival rates: $99 single or double occupancy
$119 triple occupancy
$189 suite
Reservation deadline for festival rate: February 28, 2007
Non-Profit Organization
Location
The San Francisco Conservatory of Music and the Ramada Plaza Hotel are
located in the Civic Center district of San Francisco. The Conservatory is
at 50 Oak St. between Franklin and Van Ness Street, accessible by the Van
Ness MUNI stop or the Civic Center BART stop (see www.sfcm.edu).
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San Francisco is accessible from either San Francisco International Airport or Oakland International Airport. Super Shuttle and other commercial shuttles are available from either airport for between $15-20.
Taxi service from SFO to Civic Center is about $35-40. BART train service
is available from either airport to the Civic Center stop.
Registration
Mail application form to: Dr. William Wellborn
San Francisco Conservatory of Music
50 Oak Street
San Francisco, CA 94102
Postmark deadline: February 28, 2007
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Registration fee $100 (includes lunch on March 31 and all events, excluding festival banquet)
ALS members, CAPMT, MTAC, seniors (over 65) – $85
One day registration – $40 $
Festival Banquet Saturday March 31, 7:30 p.m.,
Ramada Plaza Hotel
Please select one:
Grilled chicken breast
Duck breast, cherry port reduction
Vegetarian
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Liszt in Paris
Virtuosity, Philosophy, and Romance
A Festival of Concerts and Lectures
William Wellborn, Festival Coordinator
March 29-31, 2007
A Message from 2007 Festival Coordinator
William Wellborn
It is my pleasure to invite you to attend the 2007 ALS festival, “Liszt
in Paris.” Our theme focuses largely on the exciting era of the 1830s
and 40s, when Paris was, in the words of Alan Walker, “a riot of pianists.” Along with several fascinating lectures, our musical program
offers a riot of pianistic virtuosity, with performances of many lesser-known works of Liszt,
Chopin, Herz, Thalberg, Czerny, Pixis, and Heller. One special highlight is the American debut
recital of Pétér Tóth, winner of the Budapest Liszt Competition.
Paris was a focal point for many important events in Liszt’s development. In this city he
found love, inspiration, fame, notoriety, success, scandal, and heartbreak. The inspiration of
Paganini proved crucial in his development as a virtuoso, the encounters with Lamartine and
Lamennais solidified his artistic and philosophical credo, and here he met the woman who
would bear him three children- the Countess Marie d’Agoult. I hope you will join us for these
three exhilarating days of concerts, lectures, and champagne receptions as we explore the
intriguing world of Liszt in Paris.
The San Francisco Conservatory is pleased to host the 2007 American Liszt Society Festival
in its brand new facilities. Please visit our website at www.sfcm.edu.
2007 ALS Festival Schedule
Thursday March 29
9:00-9:45 a.m. Registration
9:45 a.m. Introduction and Opening Remarks
10:00 a.m. Lecture Ghosts of the past, spirits of the future - Paris in the 1830s
Nikolaus Hohmann
10:30 a.m. Recital Paganini and his Influence
Paganini: Caprices op. 1 (#1, 5, 6, 9, 17, 24)
Ian Swenson and SFCM students
Chopin: Souvenir de Paganini
Sandro Russo
Liszt: Etudes d’exécution transcendente d’après Paganini (1838 version)
Michael Boyd
11:45 a.m. Recital Nocturnes and Waltzes of Chopin and Liszt
Chopin: Nocturne in B-Flat Minor op. 9#1
Chopin: Grande Valse Brillante in E-Flat Major op. 18
Liszt: Les cloches de Genève (first version)
Liszt: Grande Valse di Bravura (Le bal de Berne)
Gila Goldstein
12:15 p.m. Lunch
2:15 p.m. Lecture Liszt, the Countess, and Lammartine
Rena Charin Mueller
3:30 p.m. Recital Liszt: Harmonies poétiques et réligieuses (1834); Lyon (1834)
Justin Kolb
Liszt: 3 Apparitions (1834)
Victoria Neve, Machiko Kobialka, and Daniel Glover
4:30 p.m. Duo Recital Moscheles: Grand Sonata for Piano Four Hands
Lutoslawski: Variations on a Theme by Paganini
Castelnuovo-Tedesco: Alt Wien
Chasins: Carmen Fantasy
Marilyn Neely and Andrew Gerle
5:30 p.m. Dinner on your own
8:00 p.m. Gala Piano Concert A Night at the Opera
Liszt-Hermann: Introduction of the Guests from Wagner’s Tannhäuser
Jay and Sandra Mauchley, John Touchton, William Wellborn
Liszt: Reminiscences of Meyerbeer’s Robert le Diable: Valse infernale
Stephen Spooner
Liszt: Miserère from Verdi’s Il Trovatore
Alexandre Dossin
Thalberg: Caprice sur l’opèra Le Prophète de Meyerbeer op. 57 #9
William Wellborn
Schuett: Paraphrase on Strauss’s Die Fledermaus
Ed Rath
Liszt: Reminiscences of Mozart’s Don Giovanni
Jay and Sandra Mauchley
Liszt: Concert paraphrase of Verdi’s Rigoletto
Robert Schwartz
Liszt: Reminiscences of Bellini’s Norma
Mack McCray
Gimpel: The Marine’s Song from Offenbach’s Genévieve et Brabant
Sandro Russo
9:45 p.m. Champagne Reception
Friday March 30
9:30-10:00 a.m. Registration
10:00 a.m. Recital Liszt and the Song Transcription
Chopin-Liszt: Six Chants Polonaises
Wojciech Kocyan
Liszt: Grosses Konzertstück über Mendelssohn’s Lieder ohne Worte
Howard and Frances Karp
10:45 a.m. Lecture- Liszt and Heller in Paris: Two versions of Schubert’s
Recital
Ave Maria and Die Forelle
Paul Barnes
11:45 a.m. Recital Liszt’s songs on texts of Victor Hugo
S’il est un charmant gazon; La tombe et la rose;
Comment, disaient-ils; Enfant, si j’étais roi; Oh! quand je dors
Rebecca Plack (soprano) and Marilyn Swan
12:15 p.m. Thalberg: Casta Diva from Bellini’s Norma
Robert Schwartz
Pixis: Variations on “God Save the King” op. 101
Giulio Draghi
Czerny: works TBA
Mikhail Yanovitsky
4:30 p.m. Recital Hexaméron- Morceau de concert: Grandes variations
de bravuore sur le marche des Puritains de Bellini
Giulio Draghi (Pixis), Daniel Glover (Liszt), Wojciech Kocyan (Chopin), Thomas Otten (Thalberg),
Jane Solese (Herz), Mikhail Yanovitsky (Czerny)
5:00 p.m. Dinner on your own
8:00 p.m. Recital Péter Tóth, winner of Budapest Liszt competition
(Old First Church)
Works of Schubert and Liszt
Saturday March 31
9:30-10:00 a.m. Registration
10:00 a.m. Lecture Liszt and the Paris Conservatoire
Charles Timbrell
11:15 a.m. Recital French Music after Liszt
Saint-Saëns-Liszt-Horowitz: Danse macabre
Sandro Russo
Saint-Saëns: Allegro appassionato op. 70, Valse mignonne op. 104,
Etude de Rhythme op. 52#4, Etude en forme de valse op. 52#6
David Witten
Franck: Prelude, Chorale, and Fugue
Luiz De Moura Castro
Debussy: Three Preludes
Thomas Otten
Ravel: Gaspard de la Nuit
Dean Kramer
Ravel: La Valse
Mikhail Yanovitsky
1:00 p.m.
Box Lunch at the Conservatory
2:15 p.m. Recital Young Pianists Play Liszt
SFCM students and winners of the 2006
Los Angeles Liszt Competition
3:45 p.m. Lecture Liszt’s later years in Paris and the Gran Mass fiasco
David Cannata
Lunch
2:15 p.m. Lecture Parisian Pianists in the New World: The American Tours of
Henri Herz and Sigismund Thalberg
R. Allen Lott
3:30 p.m. Recital Works of Herz, Thalberg, Czerny, and Pixis
Herz: La Californienne-Grand Polka Brillante op. 167
Herz: Variations Brillantes et Grandes Fantasie sur des Airs
Nationaux Américains op. 158
Jane Solese
5:00 p.m. Recital Scarlatti: 3 Sonatas
Ravel: Jeux d’eau
Liszt: Les jeux d’eaux à la Villa d’Este
Schubert-Liszt: Gretchen am Spinnrade
Liszt: Mephisto Waltz #1
Yoshikazu Nagai
7:45 p.m. Festival Banquet