La Jolla Music Society's Piano Series to Feature French-Canadian Artist Louis Lortie

From La Jolla Music Society:

LA JOLLA, CA – La Jolla Music Society’s Piano Series continues with French-Canadian artist Louis Lortie at MCASD Sherwood Auditorium on Saturday, Jan. 14 at 8 p.m.

The brilliant and highly-esteemed pianist Louis Lortie returns to La Jolla bringing “Liszt at the Opera – Mostly with Wagner,” his homage to the iconic opera composer. Featuring piano transcriptions by Liszt, Hugo Wolf, Mozart and Mr. Lortie himself, audiences will hear a program of music from Wagner’s operas that have been arranged for piano. Such arrangements were common in the nineteenth century, when virtuoso performers would use musical themes from popular operas–tunes their audiences would already recognize–to create completely new works so that they could demonstrate their own virtuosity. This program includes transcriptions of arias from Tristan und Isolde, Siegfried and Tannhäuser, among others.

La Jolla Music Society enhances the concert-going experience by presenting “Preludes” – pre-concert conversations and performances one hour prior to select performances and free to ticket-holders. Steven Cassedy will deliver this pre-concert lecture: Testing the Limits of the Pianoforte.

Tickets are $30-$80 and are available through La Jolla Music Society’s Ticket Services Office, 858.459.3728 or online at www.LJMS.org.

– Press release submitted by La Jolla Music Society / Photo courtesy of La Jolla Music Society