Hector Berlioz

...Spring by Igor Stravinsky on Feb. 20, with violinist Sarah Chang, and Requiem, "Grande messe des morts" by Hector Berlioz on April 24. The Berlioz piece was written for 429 musicians, including a huge choir. According to Herald-Leader...

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...and was an expert in Byzantine music. Also at Oxford, Jack Westrup, a professor of music, heard her and engaged her to sing Dido in Berlioz's epic opera The Trojans, which was staged for the first time in its entirety by the Oxford...

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...perform in Oxford, at the Wigmore Hall and on the Third Programme. In 1950 she made her opera debut at Oxford as Dido in the second part of Berlioz's Les Troyens. The following year she appeared at the Mermaid Theatre as the First Witch in...

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...Alsop drove home in her latest Baltimore Symphony Orchestra collaboration, one overflowing with references to the "Dies Irae. " Anchored by Berlioz' "Symphonie fantastique" - the finale's depiction of a Witches' Sabbath makes fabulous use of...

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...and operatic, and Cooke practically danced off the stage, playing the part of a lovestruck teenager at a gondola regatta. Hector Berlioz's "Summer Nights" (Les Nuits d'Ete) were tender and passionate, allowing Cooke to go from...

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Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils - Hector Berlioz GOOGLE has been trying to impress the world plus dog with its new operating system, which it says boots up in only seven seconds. The Android based...

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...with French Impressionism and Argentine ballet music. But Grams was certainly up to the challenge. If the opener, Le Corsaire by Berlioz, was so relentlessly pushed as to turn hyper, Debussy s landmark tone poem La Mer unfolded in...

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...Welser-Moest in Cleveland. Grams inherited an unusual program that might have challenged any conductor. The first half was familiar enough: Berlioz's overture "Le Corsaire" and Debussy's "La Mer." But the second part took a Latin American...

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...night at the Clay Center. Each was a revolutionary in his approach to composition and orchestration. Berlioz and Wagner were contemporaries. Berlioz made his mark first, and Wagner made part of his career by ruminating through and...

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