Franz Liszt

BAY VIEW --  The Sunday sunset vesper concert series continues with a tribute to heroes at 8 p.m. Sunday, July 1. The concert features more than 25 professional musicians and singers in an hour-long program dedicated to the inspiration provided by...

Mark Swed looks back at the Liszt year....

Despite its full title of “A Natural History of the Piano: The Instrument, the Music, the Musicians – from Mozart to Modern Jazz and Everything in Between,” the book is intentionally not encyclopedic. Its vignette-like structure...

Ken Russell, the often controversial British director known for his flamboyant visual style in films such as "The Devils," "Altered States" and the Who's rock opera "Tommy," has died. He was 84. Russell, who lived in Lymington in southern England, died...

Auditions for the Aberdeen University/Civic Symphony will be from 6 to 8 p.m. Monday and from 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday in Room 109 of the Johnson Fine Arts Center. To sign up for an audition, email Robert. Vodnoy@northern.edu, call 605-626-2519 or stop...

The Hartt School honors longtime faculty member and Luiz de Moura Castro with three concerts this weekend to help him kick off his 70th birthday. Further reason to celebrate: rock-star pianist-composer Franz Liszt (1811–1886, pictured here in an...

Born 200 years ago on Oct. 22, Franz Liszt changed music history. Even if the Hungarian-born pianist/composer had not done so, people would probably still remember him, if only for his romances. There was the dancer, Lola, who got so mad when Liszt tired...

Concert series The Unitarian Universalist Chalice Concert Series will present a piano recital to celebrate the 200th birthday of composer Franz Liszt at 8 p.m. Nov. 5 at the Owen Brown Interfaith Center, 7246 Cradlerock Way. Regional and international...

"New Works" exhibit of oil and pastel paintings by Rana Geralis of her favorite subjects, horses and nature, is on view through Friday, Oct. 28, at Artists' Gallery, American City Building, 10227 Wincopin Circle in Columbia. Hours are 10 a.m. to 5 p.m....

To open its 92nd season, the Aberdeen University/Civic Symphony will join musicians throughout the world in celebrating the 200th anniversary of the birth of Franz Liszt. A three-day festival, running Nov. 10-12, will honor the great Hungarian pianist,...