Reason in the spiral: Liszt, Germany and the Kissinger Prize at the Guggenheim
A pianist performed music by Franz Liszt at the Guggenheim Museum during an event featuring the Kissinger Prize.
Before diplomacy took the microphone, Franz Liszt had already claimed the Guggenheim’s air. On Sept. 22, a pianist sent one of my favorite—and most deliciously controversial—composers curling through Frank Lloyd Wright’s rotunda with all the grandeur, seduction and barely governed extravagance Liszt understood so well. Statecraft rarely receives such a magnificent soundtrack. Perhaps it should...
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