Word: berlioz
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...screenplay presents not so much a plot as an intermingling of the past with the present. His torrid, impossible liason with the leonine Liliane (Dani) mirrors his student infatuation with Colette (Marie-France Pisier), the bouffant-haired, Capri-painted flirt he had met 20 years before at a Berlioz Youth concert. Antoine runs past her outside the courthouse where his divorce from Christine has just been made official, only to see her at the railroad station when, always the incurable romantic, he jumps aboard her train. First seen in The 400 Blows, his mother's lover comes back to show...
Welcoming banners festooned Shanghai, celebrating the Boston Symphony's first concert. The program included Verdi and Mozart, but it was Ozawa's showy reading of Berlioz's Symphonic Fantastique that drew an ovation from the normally reserved Chinese. At times the sheer commotion of the visit threatened to engulf any real musical results. The center of excitement was the conservatory. When Violinist Joseph Silverstein wandered into a studio where Situ Dahong, 18, was practicing, the room was quickly jammed by other students, teachers and members of the press, including a CBS camera crew in full armor...
McCarty Erickson--Peter Middleton, flute Performing Avant-qarde flute techniques, New England Conservatory, 290 Huntington Ave., 7 p.m., New England Conservatory Repertory Orchestra will perform works of Berlioz. Ravel, and Wagner...
...Francisco Ballet Orchestra. One musician came all the way from Florida. Brant's music is fairly frequently played by major ensembles, but he has no illusions about the practicality of a work for 80 trombones. "I think no further than the first performance," he says. "Probably when Berlioz wrote his Requiem, which needs four brass bands, it didn't appear practicable either. But he wrote it, and it got played...
...Navy minesweeper through North Atlantic gales with the skill of a yachtsman handling a racing sloop. He plays an aggressive, three-plus-handicap game of polo and is a qualified paratrooper. He is a gifted amateur cellist who can be moved to tears while listening to the music of Berlioz. He has scuba-dived in the Caribbean, schussed down Alps, sambaed into the night with Brazilian beauties. A keen student of history, he can discourse persuasively on the neglected virtues of his ancestor King George III, and is host and interviewer on a TV series on anthropology...