LISZTIAN LOVES: A Theatrical & Musical Portrait of Franz Liszt
André Watts, piano
Michael York as Franz Liszt
Written and conceived by Harry Clark
Directed by Troy Hollar
Commissioned and first performed
by Chamber Music PLUS, Tucson, Arizona.
$65 reserved
$10 lawn
Program
"Art is God made manifest - It enobles the human race." Franz Liszt
After the death of Richard Wagner, an aging Franz Liszt in reverie recounts his many loves -- parents, piano, composing, conducting, lovers, children, students, priesthood, his native Hungary, and in the telling prepares himself for his own death: "The artist is a bearer of the beautiful, he is like a priest ministering to his congregation."
Music selections include a broad spectrum of the virtuosic Liszt to some of his most intimate late period works, and the rarely heard melodrama for speaker and piano, THE SAD MONK.
