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The MusicUNTOLD Orchestra and Los Angeles Master Chorale present the West Coast premiere of American composer Roy Harris’ Bicentennial Symphony.
A one-time prodigy from Hungary, who was composing music at age 5, wowing audiences with his percussive piano playing in his teens and being called the second coming of Mozart and Liszt, Erwin Nyiregyhazi, ended his days as a denizen of L.A’s Skid Row. It was here that PKM’s Anthony Mostrom spotted him in the late 1970s not long after he’d been “rediscovered” and his career revived. His lifestyle as a younger man would have put most punk rockers to shame—married ten times, a companion to Gloria Swanson, friends with Bela Lugosi and Harold Lloyd, an itinerant resident of flophouses....