You are invited to a very special online performance
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Saturday 17 July, 8pm
A special addition to close out the online Festival program: Fantastique! The Life and Loves of Hector Berlioz - written by Karen Van Spall and Lucy Esdaile. Presented by Parlour Music.
Grab a cognac and settle in at home to watch this performance recorded live at 45Downstairs.
We may think we know a major musical figure, but the information we base this on usually comes from just a handful of standard sources. If you really want to know what a composer was like, ask his landlord, his housekeeper or his ex-wife!
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Hector Berlioz was a giant figure on the 19th century’s musical landscape. Probably best known for his opium induced, epic ‘program’ symphony, the Symphonie Fantastique. Conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein said of the work: “Berlioz tells it like it is – you take a trip, you wind up screaming at your own funeral”.
Berlioz’s songs are no less evocative, provoking, haunting and yet charming. With so many great men of Art, it is the women in their lives who can shine a focused light on their inner world.
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