{"id":890,"date":"2011-01-21T11:11:00","date_gmt":"2011-01-21T19:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/01\/the-return-of-franz-liszt.html"},"modified":"2011-01-21T11:11:00","modified_gmt":"2011-01-21T19:11:00","slug":"the-return-of-franz-liszt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/2011\/01\/the-return-of-franz-liszt.html","title":{"rendered":"The Return of Franz Liszt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I STILL remember the elementary school assembly in which a local musician in a long white wig came in to play piano and talk to us about classical music and the 19th century craze Liszt-omania.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TTnadOZWLmI\/AAAAAAAABCg\/G_IETdyR1CI\/s1600\/Franz_Liszt_by_Pierre_Petit.png\" imageanchor=\"1\"><img decoding=\"async\" border=\"0\" src=\"http:\/\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/_yrL6yfubw8g\/TTnadOZWLmI\/AAAAAAAABCg\/G_IETdyR1CI\/s1600\/Franz_Liszt_by_Pierre_Petit.png\"><\/a>And while it&#8217;s true that Franz Liszt inspired all kinds of insane behavior, especially from swooning young women, there&#8217;s more to the composer than that.<\/p>\n<p>In today&#8217;s LA Times I speak to Louis Lortie, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/news\/music\/la-et-liszt-lortie-20110121,0,4120860.story\">HERE<\/a>, a Berlin-based pianist who will perform Liszt&#8217;s seldom-played Annees de Pelerinage at Orange County&#8217;s Segerstrom Hall. The work, which translates as &#8220;years of pilgrimage&#8221; and last almost three hours, tells the story of Liszt&#8217;s life as well as the evolution of his compositional style.<\/p>\n<p>I also have a <a href=\"http:\/\/latimesblogs.latimes.com\/culturemonster\/2011\/01\/franz-liszt-the-most-intriguing-of-the-19th-century-composers.html\">sidebar<\/a> where Lortie talks about why Liszt is both the most intriguing 19the century composer and why he remains underrated.<\/p>\n<p>Tonight, by the way, I will be at Disney Hall seeing a pianist of a very different stripe, jazz giant <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laphil.com\/tickets\/performance-detail.cfm?id=4376\">Brad Mehldau<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I STILL remember the elementary school assembly in which a local musician in a long white wig came in to play piano and talk to us about classical music and the 19th century craze Liszt-omania. And while it&#8217;s true that Franz Liszt inspired all kinds of insane behavior, especially from swooning young women, there&#8217;s more [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[54,193,144],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-890","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-classical-music","7":"category-liszt","8":"category-orange-co","9":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.artsjournal.com\/culturecrash\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}