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Liszt Birthday Concert features MIC students, alumni and faculty!

Liszt Birthday Concert features MIC students, alumni and faculty!

Saturday, October 22 at 7:30 pm
Nichols Concert Hall |  1490 Chicago Avenue, Evanston

 

Tickets:
$20 General Admission  |  $10 for American Liszt Society Members
FREE for Students 17 and under
FREE for Music Institute of Chicago Students/Staff
Tickets are available for purchase at the door or at LisztChicago.tix.com >>


Come celebrate Franz Liszt's 205th birthday with a grand evening of music performed by some of the Chicago area's finest pianists!  Presented by the Chicago/Midwest Chapter of the American Liszt Society, this year's theme is "Liszt Times Two-A Celebration of Liszt's Piano Music for Four Hands."

 

Performers include: MIC's resident piano duo Claire Aebersold & Ralph Neiweem, Daniel Paul Horn & Alexander Djordjevic, Alex Yuill & Andrew Guo, Matthew Hagle & George Radosavljevic, Karin Redekopp & Mark Edwards, and James & Sevgi Giles.


PROGRAM


Mephisto Waltz No. 1 (Episode from Lenau’s Faust), LW A189 ,Transcribed by Isodore Phillip (1863-1958)
     Karin Redekopp & Mark Edwards

Orpheus, LW C12
    Andrew Guo & Alex Yuill

Les Préludes, LW C11
    Matthew Hagle & George Radosavljevic

Intermission
Adagio (“Der welcher wandelt dieser Strasse”) from Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, LW B47
Festpolonaise, LW B48
    James & Sevgi Giles

Der Nächtliche Zug (Episode from Lenau’s Faust), LW B15
    Claire Aebersold & Ralph Neiweem

Concerto pathétique, LW C18
Daniel Paul Horn & Alexander Djordjevic