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X-TREME COMPOSITION & AGONY OF INDIFFERENCE
“The opposite of love is not hate, it’s indifference. The opposite of art is not ugliness, it’s indifference. The opposite of faith is not heresy, it’s indifference. And the opposite of life is not death, it’s indifference.” ( Elie Wiesel … Continue reading
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AN AURAL EROTIC:DRUNK WITH PASSION
It was infinite ecstasy with ”la belle dame sans merci”. By the time of Berlioz’s ”Symphonie Fantastique” , he had won the Conservatoire’s Prix de Rome, a five year fellowship that entailed two years of residence at the French Academy … Continue reading
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BERLIOZ: VIBRATIONS OF THE UNEXPLORED DEPTHS
”As a conductor of his own compositions he was incomparable […] His music, frequently rugged in contrasts and daring leaps, is also insinuating and suave at times, and so too was his conducting; one moment he would be high in … Continue reading
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Tagged Anton Seidl, Beethoven, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Gaspard Deburau, Hector Berlioz, Jean-Gaspard Deburau, John Everett Millais, Julian Rushton, Karl Ludwig Sand, Leopold Stokowski, Marcel Carne Les Enfants du Paradis, Peter Gay, Raphael, Robert Schumann, Thomas F. Bertonneau, Tom S. Wotton, Walt Disney fantasia, William Holman Hunt
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ECSTASY OF ROMANTIC APOCALYPSE
Set me as a seal upon your heart, as a seal upon your arm; for love is strong as death, jealousy is cruel as the grave. Its flashes are flashes of fire, a most vehement flame. Many waters cannot quench … Continue reading
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Tagged Benvenuto Cellini, Berlioz March to the Scaffold, Berlioz Rakoczy March, Camille Moke, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Legouve, Ernest Newman, Felix Mendelssohn, Hector Berlioz, Horace Walpole, John Mallard William Turner, Lord Byron, Marie Recio, Mayerbeer, Mendelssohn, Niccolo Paganini, Pinchas Steinberg, Shakespeare, Shakespeare Romeo and Juliet, Turner, William Hazlitt, William Shakespeare
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THE ROMANTIC AGONY: FATAL ATTRACTION
It was while he was still a student that Berlioz discovered Shakespeare; ”Shakespeare and Goethe! The mute witness of my torments, who have explained my whole life to me”, and he simulataneously fell in love with the blond Irish actress … Continue reading
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Tagged Anthony Burgess, Beethoven, Children of paradise, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Eugene Delacroix, Francisco Goya, Franz Liszt, Goethe, Harriet Smithson, Hector Berlioz, Hugh MacDonald, jacques Prevert, Marcel Carne, Mario Praz, mario Praz The Romantic Agony, Marquis de Sade, Mick Jagger, Mozart, Pablo Picasso, Peter Cowie, The Rolling Stones, Victor Hugo, William Shakespeare, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
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MAESTRO OF LOVE & BETRAYAL
”Nothing in my artistic career hurt me more deeply than this unexpected indifference. It was a painful discovery, but it was at least salutary, in that I learnt from it, and from then on I have not gambled even twenty … Continue reading
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Tagged Beethoven, Benvenuto Cellini, Dante Alighieri, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Newman, Franz Liszt, George Bernard Shaw, Georges Tiret-Bognet, Gustave Flaubert, Hector Berlioz, Heinrich Heine, Herbert Wernicke, Julio de Diego, Martin Cooper, Paul Gottfried, Richard Wagner, Shostrakovich, Sylvain Cambreling, The Aenid, Thomas F. Bertonneau, Virgil Aenid, www.brusselsjournal.com, www.salomon.org.uk
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BE AWARE OF THOSE AUDITO-VISCERAL TYPES
“To render my works properly requires a combination of extreme precision and irresistible verve, a regulated vehemence, a dreamy tenderness, and an almost morbid melancholy.” All his life Hector Berlioz tried to set the musical world straight and win acceptance … Continue reading
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Tagged A. Grevin, Berlioz, Classical Music France, Classical Music Romantic, Eleanor Holmes, Ernest Legouve, Ernest Newman, Etienne Carjat, Franz Liszt, Georges Tiret-Bognet, Grandville, Gustave Dore, Hector Berlioz, Heinrich Heine, Jean Ignace Isidore Gerard, Katherine Kolb, Kyle Gann, Louis Reybaud, Philip Gengembre Hubert, Richard Wagner, Virgil Thomson, Weber and Gluck, www.artsjournal.com
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