With “Hadestown” in The Bushnell’s Mortensen Hall and the Hartford Symphony Orchestra playing Berlioz’s “Symphonie Fantastique” in its Belding Theater the same weekend, there’s enough supernatural ...
This year has flown by with so many performances and great artists that it’s hard to believe we’ve come to the final classical concert of the season. As we approach our 75th season next year, there is ...
“Our season finale highlights three masterful French composers,” MSO Music Director Scott Speck said. He said Maurice Ravel’s La Valse will open the concert, and pianist Charlie Albright will return ...
Two decades ago, a little off-off-Broadway puppet show called Symphonie Fantastique became an unlikely sensation in the NYC theater word. Created by visionary puppeteer Basil Twist, the 55-minute show ...
The Vancouver Symphony Orchestra USA's 2024-2025 season continues with two of the most celebrated masterworks on February 22 at 7 p.m. and February 23 at 3 p.m. at Skyview Concert Hall. The program ...
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In music, Franz Liszt was the quintessential Byronic Hero. Like his modifying Romantic namesake, George Gordon (Lord Byron), Liszt was a beautiful, talented, and fundamentally flawed artist. Where ...
In 1969, in one of his Young People’s Concert episodes, conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein aptly defined Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique as music’s “first psychedelic symphony in history, ...
From cackling witches and crashing guillotines to opium-fueled fantasy and a rollicking ending to wake the dead, Berlioz’s visionary Symphonie fantastique is classical music’s wildest ride - and it’s ...