When the Symphonie fantastique of French composer Hector Berlioz appeared in 1830, no one had ever heard anything quite like it. Beethoven's symphonies (particularly Nos. 3, 5, and 9) announced the ...

D. Kern Holoman, right, works with Bob Rucker, a professor of nutrition and biochemistry, and Rebecca Brover, a development assistant in the College of Letters and Science, who are among those going ...

The La Jolla Symphony and Chorus is doing something few orchestras are willing to try. They will perform composer Hector Berlioz's "Requiem," this weekend. The 19th century composition is rarely ...

Ludovic Morlot’s connection to Hector Berlioz goes deep. When he was 12, his parents moved to a house just a few miles from La Côte-Saint-André, the composer’s native village in the southeastern ...

Email notifications are only sent once a day, and only if there are new matching items. In 1827, French composer Hector Berlioz saw Irish actress Harriet Smithson as Juliet in an English-language ...

Conductor D. Kern Holoman works with his symphony on its last rehearsal before going to France. (Debbie Aldridge/UC Davis Mediaworks) The UC Davis Symphony will play before members of the French ...

Symphony in the Valley opens its 2003-2004 season with a celebration of the 200th anniversary of composer Hector Berlioz at 7:30 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 18, at the Waldorf School in Carbondale and at 2 ...

Acclaimed conductor JoAnn Falletta leads a massive musical force of over 100 musicians, including four antiphonal off-stage brass ensembles, and a chorus of 140 singers in a new recording of Grande ...

Witches take over the Houston Symphony this weekend. Classical fans can guess what that means: the return of Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique," a sound spectacular, and no more so than in its ...

This month the Seattle Symphony Orchestra offers a mini-festival of Hector Berlioz’s music — works for which music director Ludovic Morlot has an obvious affinity and many interpretive ideas. Judging ...