Norman Boehm and Annaliese Crosmer will perform a two-piano version of Franz Liszt’s Faust Symphony at 7:30 p.m. Friday, Nov. 11, at the Stella Boyle Smith Concert Hall in the Fine Arts Building. The event is free and open to the public.

Boehm is the resident pianist at Hendrix College in Conway. He holds both a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. from the Eastman School of Music.

Boehm has performed in Europe and South Africa as well as the U.S., and he specializes in music of the 19th and early 20th centuries. In addition to performing as a soloist and chamber musician, he is also a composer, arranger, and conductor.

Crosmer is currently a sophomore at Hendrix College majoring in music and chemical physics. A current student of Boehm, she began piano studies at the age of seven.  Since then, she has studied with exceptional pianists such as Teodora Adjarova, Gary Hammond, and Dr. Neil Rutman.

Liszt’s Faust Symphony premiered in Weimar, Germany, in 1857 at the opening of the Goethe-Schiller monument.

“There are two important points concerning this work. First, it was not intended as a musical retelling of Goethe’s drama, but rather as a series of character studies of three of the principal characters,” said Robert Boury, professor of music and UALR’s resident composer.

“Secondly, by calling it a symphony, Liszt clearly intended that this is not merely a cycle of tone poems but a fully integrated, large scale multi-movement symphonic conception.”

For more information contact the Department of Music at 501-569-3294.