If you played the “Symphonie Fantastique” for neophyte listeners and told them it was a shining example of the Romantic period in classical music, they’d immediately understand. Vibrant and headstrong ...
Bloomington Symphony Orchestra's spring program will whirl attendees through Paris in a nontraditional eddy of obsessive, unrequited love and boundary-bashing harmonies. Two programmatic (written to ...
In 1969, in one of his Young People’s Concert episodes, conductor and composer Leonard Bernstein aptly defined Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie Fantastique as music’s “first psychedelic symphony in history, ...