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Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner
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Hector Berlioz: Gang zum Hochgericht aus der Symphonie fantastique.
Hector Berlioz was born on December 11, 1803 in La C te-Saint-Andre, Is re, a small town between Lyon and Grenoble.
Hector Berlioz was the first known composer to use this instrument in his overture to Les frans-juges in 1826.
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Ben Werner,
Student Newspaper Editor
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Kern Holoman The following index of Berlioz's work by category of performing force has been assembled to assist musicians in planning for bicentennial performances of the Berlioz repertoire; it is a constituent of the activities of the international commission organizing Berlioz 2003, the Paris-based festival series expected to run from 1999 to December 2003.
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Athena Mondale,
Spiritual Consultant
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Titanic and shocking in the extreme to the listeners of his day, Berlioz's masterwork retains the ability to conjure up just the grotesque and frightening images of nightmare and death he had in mind when he named movements of the symphony March to the Scaffold and Dream of a Witch's Sabbath.
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Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer
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Music Director Lan Shui leads the SSO in Hector Berlioz's Symphonie Fantastique, commemorating the 200th anniversary of the birth of music’s early Romantic genius.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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Berlioz's Les Troyens, which was released in Summer 2001 has become one of the fastest-selling opera recordings ever in the UK, and won two Grammy Awards (Best Opera; Best Classical Recording) in February 2002.
The third orchestral concert of the seasons opens with one of Berlioz's most splendid overtures, during the course of which we hear a section which became very well known during the 1960s when it was used as the signature tune for those memorable and often searing television interviews with personalities of the day conducted by John Freeman and entitled Face to Face.
Berlioz's position in 19th-century music is that of a seminal figure, directly influencing symphonic form and the use of the orchestra as well as musical aesthetics; to many he exemplifies the Romantic image of the composer as artist.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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Berlioz's high tenor resounded along the empty avenue and as Mikhail Alexandrovich picked his way round the sort of historical pitfalls that can only be negotiated safely by a highly educated man, the poet learned more and more useful and instructive facts about the Egyptian god Osiris, son of Earth and Heaven, about the Phoenician god Thammuz, about Marduk and even about the fierce little-known god Vitzli-Putzli, who had once been held in great veneration by the Aztecs of Mexico.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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Liszt had made several attempts at writing a symphony: in Berlioz's "Symphonie Fantastique", Liszt heard precisely the sort of work he would have liked to compose.
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Sasha Prevette,
Kindergarten student
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Hector Berlioz should also be mentioned, but his operas failed dismally at their premieres, and did not really come into their own until both he and Halévy were long dead.
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