Hector Berlioz
Composer
Review: 'Secret Lives of Great Composers'...stories already are widely known. Most people know that Beethoven became deaf at an early age and lived like a slob. Most fans of Berlioz, however, would not be familiar with the episode in which the French composer dressed as a woman to... In this article: Hector Berlioz, Philip Glass, Antonio Vivaldi, Richard Wagner, and Fort Worth |
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Lexington Herald-Leader | 1 day ago
UK Symphony grows to meet challenge of playing Mahler
...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...
In this article: Gustav Mahler, Symphony No. 1, Symphony No. 8, Johannes Brahms, and UK
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Houston Chronicle | 1 day ago
KUHF's Carl Ladau plays favorites for classical night owls
TOP SIX: LADAU'S MOST REQUESTED WORKS Who do you call if it's 3 a.m. and you've got a craving to hear Glazunov's Symphony No. 5 or Berlioz's Te Deum or just anything by Tikhon Khrennikov? Most nights of the past 22 years, classical music...
In this article: KUHF, Tikhon Khrennikov, Christmas Eve, NPR, and James Horner
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Guardian Unlimited | 4 days ago
Arda Mandikian obituary
...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...
In this article: Franz Schubert, Benjamin Britten, Oxford University, London, and Moussaka
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Telegraph.co.uk - Obituaries | 6 days ago
Arda Mandikian
...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...
In this article: Benjamin Britten, Peter Grimes, Maria Callas, Oxford, Covent Garden, Rum, and Apollo
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Baltimore Sun | 7 days ago
Alsop, Thibaudet, Baltimore Symphony face 'judgment day' in style
...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...
In this article: Marin Alsop, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Dies Irae, Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, Symphonie, Michael Daugherty, E mail, South Florida Sun-Sentinel, and BBC Music Magazine
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Times Union | 7 days ago
Cooke enchants in Schenectady
...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...
In this article: Trouble in Tahiti, Union College, Robert Schumann, Leonard Bernstein, and John Adams
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the INQUIRER | November 20, 2009
Google pushes new OS
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...
In this article: Google, Chrome OS, Microsoft, Atom, Dog, Phoenix Technologies, and Intel
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Detroit Free Press | November 20, 2009
DSO does jazzy, classical, Latin-tinged piano
...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...
In this article: Michel Camilo, Leonard Slatkin, Sergei Rachmaninoff, George Gershwin, Le Corsaire, Roberto Sierra, Detroit Symphony Orchestra, Neeme Jarvi, and Free Press
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Detroit News | November 19, 2009
Substitute DSO conductor steps up to challenge
...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...
In this article: Alberto Ginastera, Swoops, Rodeo, Le Corsaire, and Detroit Symphony Orchestra
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Charleston Gazette | November 13, 2009
Symphonie fantastique fantastic at Clay Center
...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...
In this article: Orchestration, West Virginia, Symphony, and Charleston
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Louis Hector Berlioz (December 11, 1803 – March 8, 1869) was a French Romantic composer, best known for his compositions Symphonie fantastique and Grande Messe des morts (Requiem). Berlioz made significant contributions to the modern orchestra with his Treatise on Instrumentation. He specified huge orchestral forces for some of his works; as a conductor, he performed several concerts with more than 1,000 musicians. He also composed around 50 songs for voice and guitar.
- Birth Date:
- December 11, 1803
- Birthplace:
- La Côte-Saint-André, Isère, France
- Death Date:
- March 08, 1869
- Place of Death:
- Paris
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