Word: berlioz
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...still managed to win the coveted Grand Prix de Rome by tossing off a composition (L'Enfant Prodigue) in deliberate imitation of Lalo and Delibes, the popular French composers of the day. Debussy was no admirer of either man, or of any other French contemporary. To him Berlioz was "a tremendous humbug, Charpentier was "downright vulgar," Massenet a panderer of "stupid ideas and amateur standards...
...Berlioz: Romeo and Juliet (Mezzo-Soprano Rosalind Elias, Tenor Cesare Va-letti, Bass Giorgio Tozzi; the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Munch; RCA Victor, 2 LPs). Berlioz' "symphony with chorus" is given a soaring, beautifully proportioned reading by Munch, and all three soloists contribute performances that are almost without flaw. As satisfactory a performance as the work is likely to find...
...Milano of the mandolin orchestras. Amateur bandsmen travel thousands of miles to compete in Kerk-rade's concours-this year there were 3,000 of them in 215 bands from 21 countries. When any sizable number of them tuned up and started blasting away together at, say, Berlioz' Roman Carnival overture, the sound smashed across the borders of Belgium and Germany like an invading army...
Friday, August 17: 3:15 p.m. Chamber Music Hall - Friends Event Aspects of Music 8 p.m. Shed - Boston Symphony Orchestra Conductor: Charles Munch. Kirchner: Sinfonia Conducted by the Composer; Berlioz: Harold in Italy (de Pasquale) - Mendelssohn: Symphony No. 5, Reformation...
...palmy years, from 1890 to 1925, the Monte Carlo gave the world premieres of major works by Berlioz, Ravel, Faure, Honegger, Poulenc and Milhaud, attracted the famed Diaghilev Ballet. More recently it had become little more than a second-rate casino group catering to the international gambling set. Then, six years ago, in an effort to alter the popular, frivolous image of Monte Carlo as a playboy playground. Rainier set out to refurbish his concert orchestra. His first-and canniest-move was to hire ex-French Foreign Legion Officer Frémaux...