Hector Berlioz

...Theatre, Exhibition Place. Toronto Symphony Orchestra with conductor Sir Andrew Davis and pianist Andre Laplante offer Beethoven, Berlioz and Strauss, Thurs. 8 p.m.; the TSO commemorates Remembrance Day with Britten's War Requiem Wed....

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...- they're archetypes, but, at the same time, very human. Dido is a woman in love, but she's also a queen, and that juxtaposition - which Berlioz examines more clearly in his five-act version of the story - fascinates me. Q: That also...

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...Symphony under the direction of Rice University's Larry Rachleff. The program includes Mendelssohn's violin concerto and works by Berlioz and Elgar. In a career of more than half a century, Itzhak Perlman has performed with every major...

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...me a year ago, "the economy has hit a speedbump without the seatbelts on." Editor - Can the "Keeping Score" producers explain why Hector Berlioz speaks English with a French accent? (" 'Keeping Score' is back for encore with drama," Oct....

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...Motion; Gilbert says this is Lepage's avant-garde way of deconstructing the story linked to the period when Berlioz wrote the piece. (Berlioz actually composed the work in 1845.) Lepage runs a shadowy image of a horse racing, duplicated 24...

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...repertoire during the 2006-07 season when he sang Romeo in another Gounod work, "Romeo et Juliette." That same season, he took the lead in Berlioz's "Beatrice et Benedict" at Chicago Opera Theater. At the rate he is progressing, can...

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...rolling (including it thumping onto the floor)? Yes, Heinz Hall was the place for one of classical music's most ghoulish music in Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique" conducted by Marek Janowski. Camille Saint-Saens' "Danse Macabre"...

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...high-tech production cannot overshadow the Metropolitan Opera's towering musical performance of this masterpiece by Hector Berlioz. The composer conceived this version of the legend about an elderly philosopher who sells his soul to...

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...to simulate the experience of conducting, and tested different music track segments against the tool. They chose two selections from Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique." "We did have to take couple of tiny liberties with the piece to...

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...Mady Mesple, Edda Moser, Jennie Tourel, Marilyn Horne, Frederica von Stade, Nicolai Gedda and Jose van Dam. The program will include works by Duparc, Berlioz and Richard Strauss, as well as a group of American tunes. Tickets are $10-$3.

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