Word: liszt
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...York of 19th and 20th century American popular songs, and he owns an extensive collection of turn-of-the-century sheet music. He relaxes from his musical chores in his Greenwich Village high-rise at his own piano, an 1892 mahogany Steinway, playing the late music of Brahms and Liszt, or Schumann's Kinderszenen...
Plano Recital--Craig Smith, planist; music of Schubert, Rachmaninoff and Liszt; Peasant Stock Restaurant, 415 Washington St., Somerville...
...Franz Liszt Birthday Bash--Jane Struss, mezzo-soprano, David Witten and Hung-Kuan Chen, plano, and the New England Woodwind Quintet; music of Chopin, Liszt and Beethoven; New School of Music, 25 Lowell...
...paper. Heloise would not have written Abelard; Abelard would not have written back. Ben Franklin would have quashed his flirting wit; James Joyce his raging jealousies. There would have been none of the sublime torture of the letters of Swift and Vanessa; none of the zest of Franz Liszt...
...their pioneering work in ethnomusicology, traveling the back roads of Hungary armed only with an Edison phonograph and insatiable curiosity. They discovered the authentic tunes of the Magyars, largely based on modal orpentatonic (five-note) scales and sung to jagged, irregular rhythms, rather than the gypsy melodies used by Liszt, Brahms and even BartÓk in such early works as the Op. 1 Rhapsody that had previously passed for Hungarian folk music. On later journeys, BartÓk studied the music of the Rumanians, Bulgars, Slovaks and a group of Arabs in North Africa...