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Friday, October 12, 2018 8:00 PM // Hill Auditorium

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

Performance
Photo credit: reproduced with permission from Monir Tayeb and Michel Austin www.hberlioz
 

Returning for the first time in a dozen years, Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s period-instrument group brings the music of Berlioz to Ann Arbor as part of a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s death.

Berlioz wrote Symphonie fantastique to woo a talented young actress who repeatedly toyed with his affections; his description of the hero of the work — “a young musician of unhealthily sensitive nature and endowed with vivid imagination” — was a reasonable image of himself at the time. Obsession, madness, murder, and redemption are all portrayed in this richly Romantic score. Berlioz’s rarely-heard Lélio uses many of the same melodic themes to tell of the hero’s awakening and his ultimate triumph as a composer.

Please note, there is no late seating during the first half of this performance.

PROGRAM

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Berlioz Lélio, or The Return to Life, Op. 14b

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Friday, October 12, 2018 8:00 PM
Hill Auditorium

Orchestre Révolutionnaire et Romantique

Performance

Returning for the first time in a dozen years, Sir John Eliot Gardiner’s period-instrument group brings the music of Berlioz to Ann Arbor as part of a commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the composer’s death.

Berlioz wrote Symphonie fantastique to woo a talented young actress who repeatedly toyed with his affections; his description of the hero of the work — “a young musician of unhealthily sensitive nature and endowed with vivid imagination” — was a reasonable image of himself at the time. Obsession, madness, murder, and redemption are all portrayed in this richly Romantic score. Berlioz’s rarely-heard Lélio uses many of the same melodic themes to tell of the hero’s awakening and his ultimate triumph as a composer.

Please note, there is no late seating during the first half of this performance.

PROGRAM (Fri 10/12/2018: Hill Auditorium)

Berlioz Symphonie fantastique, Op. 14
Berlioz Lélio, or The Return to Life, Op. 14b

Thank You to Our Sponsors

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  • Ilene H. Forsyth Choral Union Endowment Fund

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