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This classical thing has always been bad luck for me - Berlio (Original Post)
UTUSN
Mar 2014
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I played the Symphonie Fantastique in high school orchestra. Fun piece !!
Manifestor_of_Light
Mar 2014
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Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)1. Berlioz requiem mass???
Tuba mirum spargens sonum from the Berlioz Requiem Mass for the Dead:
A helluva fanfare!!!!!!!!
UTUSN
(77,302 posts)2. Nope, the "fantastique" thing - really bad luck for me & irrestitible n/t
Manifestor_of_Light
(21,046 posts)3. I played the Symphonie Fantastique in high school orchestra. Fun piece !!
You know the story behind it -- he falls asleep and dreams of his girlfriend represented by the flute theme (#1) they go to a ball and waltz (movement #2) they go to the country, he is convicted of murdering her and is hanged (March to the Scaffold, movement #4) and goes to a witches' sabbath (Hexensabbath, mvt. #5).
UTUSN
(77,302 posts)4. things are beautiful/gorgeous ain't they? n/t
