Sunday, September 28, 2025 at 4:00 PM to Sunday, September 28, 2025 at 6:00 PM
The Wende Museum, Culver City
As a special event for the American Freedom Alliance, Michael Walsh is coming to Los Angeles to perform a piano recital prior to his concert tour across Europe: **THE TRAGEDY OF FRANZ LISZT** 1) Liszt, Transcendental Etude No. 1 “Preludio” 2) Liszt, Five Hungarian Folksongs 3) Liszt: The Chapel of William Tell (Annees de pelerinage, Bk 1) 4) Wagner: Album-Sonata in A-flat (for Mathilde Wesendonck) **INTERMISSION** 5) Liszt: Angelus! Prière aux anges gardiens (Annees, Bk 3) 6) Liszt: Cypresses of the Villa d'Este II (Annees, Bk 3) 7) Liszt: Mephisto Waltz #4 8) Sursum Corda (Annees, Bk. 3) The recital is free, but you must pre-register as space is limited **About Michael Walsh** The author of 19 published novels and non-fiction books and a lifetime member of the Writers Guild of America, the Hollywood screenwriters' union, Michael Walsh was for 16 years the classical music critic and a foreign correspondent for *Time Magazine*, for which he covered Vladimir Horowitz's 1986 return to Russia as well as the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989 and the end of the U.S.S.R in 1991. He won the 2004 American Book Awards prize for fiction for his novel, *And All the Saints*, a fictionalized autobiography of the notorious Irish-American gangster, Owney Madden, bought before publication by MGM, and also wrote *As Time Goes By*, a licensed novelistic sequel to the movie *Casablanca* for Warner Books. In addition, he is the co-writer of hit Disney Channel movie *Cadet Kelly*, which at its debut in 2002 was the highest-rated show and highest-rated original movie in the history of the channel. His books *The Devil’s Pleasure Palace* and *The Fiery Angel* have become foundational in any discussion of the importance of restoring Western civilization. His book *Last Stands: Why Men Fight When All is Lost* has been described by Victor Davis Hanson as "a philosophical and spiritual defense of the premodern world, of the tragic view, of physical courage, and of masculinity and self-sacrifice in an age when those ancient virtues are too often caricatured and dismissed." HIs most recent book is *A Rage to Conquer: Twelve Battles That Changed the Course of Western History* which was the focus of an AFA-David Horowitz Freedom Center event at which he tied together great military battles and the music that formed their backdrop. It was that event that inspired this recital. Michael has spoken at several AFA events including last year's "War on Men" conference and the 2019 "Long March" conference, and the AFA looks forward to this special evening!