Saturday, Oct 22, 2011
SOLD OUT Honoring the legendary composer and virtuoso with a concert, a lecture and a reception with Hungarian flavor.
by Anne Sears
Saturday, October 22 at 6:30 p.m. Westminster Conservatory faculty will join musicians around the world to celebrate the 200th anniversary of Franz Liszt’s birth with a Liszt Birthday Celebration on his date of the musical legend’s birth. The celebration will begin with a lecture about Liszt and his life presented by piano faculty member James Goldsworthy at 6:30 p.m. in Bristol Chapel on the Westminster Choir College of Rider University campus in Princeton. It will be followed by a concert of Liszt’s music at 7:30 p.m. and a post-concert reception with a Hungarian flavor.
The concert will feature some of Liszt’s most well-known works including Tre Sonetti di Petrarca, "Un Sospiro" from Caprices Poétiques, Grand Galop Chromatique, Liebestraum and Rhapsodie Hongroise No. 3. The program will also include Liszt’s arrangements of other composers’ works. The performers will be members of the Westminster Conservatory piano faculty: Natasha Agilina, Ena Bronstein Barton, Miriam Eley, Clipper Erickson, Inessa Gleyzerova, Larissa Korkina, Patricia Landy, Phyllis Alpert Lehrer, Esma Pasic-Filipovic, Elena Panova, Galina Prilutskaya, Kyu Rhee, Rita Shklar and Sylvie Webb. They will be joined by Elem Eley, baritone; Carol Redfield Vizzini, cello; Dezheng Ping, violin; and Mary Greenberg, reader.
Tickets to the Celebration are $15 for adults and $10 for students and seniors. They include the pre-concert lecture, the concert and the post-concert reception. To purchase tickets call the box office at 609-921-2663 or order online.