How do you get someone to fall in love with you when the person's clearly not interested? It's been a challenge through the ages. French composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869) came up with an ingenious ...
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA's 2024-2025 season continues with two of the most celebrated masterworks on February 22 at 7 p.m. and February 23 at 3 p.m. at Skyview Concert Hall. The program ...
When London’s Drury Lane theatre reopens this time next year following renovations, it will be with a run of Disney’s Frozen. You'd wonder what Hector Berlioz might make of Disney's Frozen. Isn't it ...
Under the direction of Music Director Alastair Willis, the South Bend Symphony Orchestra opens its Masterworks Series with a unique blend of music and visuals. The concert, titled "Viva la Música & ...
Prepare yourself for a hallucinatory trip April 13 and 14 when the Allentown Symphony Orchestra performs Berlioz’ opium-induced paroxysm of lovesick despair, the “Symphonie Fantastique.” Accompanying ...
Hector Berlioz's musical story of unrequited love embodies a sweeping range of emotions that proves a welcome challenge for conductors. “Love is in the air”, as the lyrics of the pop classic profess, ...
In music, Franz Liszt was the quintessential Byronic Hero. Like his modifying Romantic namesake, George Gordon (Lord Byron), Liszt was a beautiful, talented, and fundamentally flawed artist. Where ...
There was no one man in the French Romantic Movement more hot-blooded than composer Hector Berlioz (1803-1869). Proficient in no particular instrument, Berlioz's talent lay in composition, arrangement ...
Claudio Abbado died on 20 January 2014. He had given his last concerts in Lucerne, Switzerland, the previous August, a programme of unfinished symphonies by Schubert and Bruckner with the Lucerne ...
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Most portraits of composers tend to paint a similar picture: austere, grumpy and – to put it bluntly – fairly unattractive. They certainly don’t tend to scrub up well. And yet, many of the shots of ...
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