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 ...

Literally a fixated idea. This musical motif appears in variations throughout his 50-minute, five-movement epic Symphonie fantastique, (yes, with a lower case ‘f’). Subtitled Episode in the Life of an ...

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In music, Franz Liszt was the quintessential Byronic Hero. Like his modifying Romantic namesake, George Gordon (Lord Byron), Liszt was a beautiful, talented, and fundamentally flawed artist. Where ...

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NEW YORK — A most uncommon and exquisite troupe of dancers has returned to New York, to the HERE arts compound in SoHo where they made their debut 20 years ago. And aren’t we glad that these ...

The Chicago Symphony Orchestra is relying on a handful of familiar guest conductors to take charge of subscription concerts through the end of the calendar year. None of these returnees is more ...