I will give a noontime talk about Franz Liszt and his transcription for piano and orchestra of Schubert’s “Wanderer Fantasy,” for the Rittenhouse Square committee at the Doubletree Hotel on Broad and Locust Streets, Center City Philadelphia. Proceeds to benefit the Philadelphia Orchestra.

(photo: Rittenhouse Square in Autumn)

I will give a lecture about the life, work and legacy of pianist Alberto Jonás (1868 – 1943), author of the “Master School of Modern Piano Playing and Virtuosity” and longtime pedagogue in New York City and at Philadelphia’s Coombs College of Music. The re-publication of Jonás’ essential 7-volume pianistic treatise was my first reprint project for Dover Publications as chief music editor in 2010.

The lecture will be followed by a Master Class.

Both events at Rock Hall, Temple University, at Broad Street and Cecil B. Moore Avenue, beginning at 2:00 p.m.

(photo of Alberto Jonás in 1905 from collection of Sara Davis Buechner)

I will perform the two Piano Concertos of Frédéric Chopin — Op. 11 in E minor, and Op. 21 in F minor. Bahman Saless conducts.