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Miguel Cortez,
Small Business Owner
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Reveries from Symphonie Fantastique (Hector Berlioz)
Hector Berlioz: Damnation of Faust (Hungarian March) Johann Strauss Jr.
Hector Berlioz was the first known composer to use this instrument in his overture to Les frans-juges in 1826.
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Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder
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In this respect, Hector Berlioz's Fantastic Symphony is supposed to be the archetype of narrative music in the 19th century, while Igor Stravinsky is known as one of the leading champion of abstract music in the 20th century.
Hector Berlioz' Harold en Italie, written more than 100 years earlier, is a surprising complement to the more modern opus.
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Billie Kirgan,
Machinist
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The Spokane Symphony celebrates the 200th birthday of Hector Berlioz by performing his dramatic cantata, The Damnation of Faust.
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Anita Ganesh,
Poet
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• Those who love Hector Berlioz's opera would do well to read the original Autobiography of this great Renaissance goldsmith and sculptor whose adventurous life is without parallel in the annals of art history.
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Pete Trengle,
Bass Player
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Hector Berlioz would have been 200 years old this year and as a tribute, the Boulder Philharmonic Orchestra performs his first two, and best known, symphonies.
Celebrate the 200th anniversary of the birth of French composer Hector Berlioz with a performance of his choral masterpiece Messe Solennelle, a long-lost work that was discovered as recently as 1991.
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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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Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent
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Safranek Hector Louis Berlioz (1803 - 1869) Berlioz's early attempts at composition were not well received, having rebelled against the rigorous methods of his teachers, and he had to support himself as a chorus singer at a vaudeville theater.
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Jack Crawford,
WWII Veteran
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Set to the five movements of Hector Berlioz’s 19th-century classical composition, the hour-long SYMPHONIE FANTASTIQUE is performed by five puppeteers in a 1000-gallon tank (twice as large as the 500-gallon tank used in the original New York production)
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