How To Use Berlioz In A Sentence
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Berlioz even went so far as to describe the overture as _une niaiserie incroyable_, and the vocal part sometimes shows the influence of the empty formulas from which Gluck was trying to escape.
The Opera A Sketch of the Development of Opera. With full Descriptions of all Works in the Modern Repertory.
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Harriet Smithson may have been the muse who inspired Berlioz's most celebrated symphony but she herself dies in obscurity and misery.
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Berlioz called it a ‘Sacred Trilogy’, and the work is in a style between that of opera and the type of orchestral-vocal scena Berlioz experimented with in works such as Cleopatra.
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In the case of "Tree," almost every scene is scored with a piece from Brahms, Mahler, Berlioz, or my favorite selection which Malick used in his "New World" Smetana's haunting "Moldau.
Rev. James Martin, S.J.: Spiritual Reflections On 'The Tree Of Life'
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Moving with a kind of idee fixe -- in the manner of Berlioz -- the dominant motif refuses to succumb totally to the disturbing forces around it.
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Berlioz tried such a depiction at the end of the Damnation, and in spite of the strange vocabulary of the chorus, “Irimiru Karabrao, Sat raik Irkimour,” and other pretty tricks, he succeeded no better than Liszt.
Musical Memories
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Unless you count the Halloween-ish stuff, like Moussorgsky or Liszt or Berlioz.
Rites of Autumn
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These ideas were shared by many Romantic artists, and in his early works Berlioz seems to conform to the popular image of the inspired creative artist, cutting new paths and discarding outworn forms.
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Musical settings of the requiem may be very public (Berlioz's, for example), or almost painfully private.
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After retirement he was chairman of the trustees supervising the definitive edition of the music of Berlioz.
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In Berlioz, he planted the two harps in front of the orchestra, on either side of his rostrum, and banished bells and drums to the unseen backstage.
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Berlioz wrote a severe test of tuning for unaccompanied choir in the final ‘mystical chorus’, and here the Elysian singers came up trumps.
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A nice dash of melodrama for a composer as romantic as Berlioz.
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A nice dash of melodrama for a composer as romantic as Berlioz.
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Berlioz is a composer, conductor and music critic with distinctive character in the Romanticism Times.
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I have some time to spare and would like to sit down and read my copy of the biography of Berlioz.
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Messiaen's diary for that day recorded what must have been a memorable occasion: ‘I play an introit and sortie fortissimo, and improvise on themes by Berlioz.’
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A nice dash of melodrama for a composer as romantic as Berlioz.
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Elsner was entrusted by the minister Staszyc with the direction of a school of dramatic singing and recitation; and in 1821, to crown all previous efforts, a conservatorium was opened, the programme of which might almost have satisfied a Berlioz.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician
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Berlioz has been here since Sunday, and is busily engaged conducting rehearsals for the performance of his "Trilogie Sacree" ( "L'Enfance du Christ") and his "Symphonic Phantastique," including the second part thereof, which he calls a monodrame lyrique.
Correspondence of Wagner and Liszt
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Perhaps more than any other Romantic composer, Berlioz found inspiration for his music in literature.
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The material from the two Faust treatments is perhaps less convincing, and Berlioz's arrangement of The Marseillaise at the end the disc is an unnecessary potboiler.
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Berlioz, an opera composer denied access to the Opéra for years, used deliberate archaisms in L' Enfance du Christ, notable for its beautiful but un-Handelian choruses.
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Berlioz got him to rescore a number of his earlier pieces to remarkable effect, and the influence lasted.
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Moreover, the Romantic painter's impulsion to take risks, eloquently discussed in Anita Brookner's Romanticism and its discontents, throws valuable light on Berlioz's use of rhetoric.
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In the meantime, the miraculous score is nobly treated by Levine and a superior cast of singers, and for that alone, the Met's efforts on behalf of Berlioz deserved all the opening-night bravos.
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He has harmony without melody; he invents and executes marvellous variations upon verse; he has footed the tight-rope of the galliambic measure and the swaying planks of various trochaic experiments; but his resolve to astonish is stronger than his desire to charm, and he lets technical skill carry him into such excesses of ugliness in verse as technical skill carried Liszt, and sometimes Berlioz, in music.
Figures of Several Centuries
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Lieberson gets her own diva showcase at the Met later on this season, as Dido in Berlioz's Les Troyens, and I can't wait.
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After retirement he was chairman of the trustees supervising the definitive edition of the music of Berlioz.
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