{"id":1797,"date":"2018-12-19T18:25:21","date_gmt":"2018-12-19T18:25:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=1797"},"modified":"2018-12-20T12:49:40","modified_gmt":"2018-12-20T12:49:40","slug":"hector-berlioz-his-music-and-times","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/?page_id=1797","title":{"rendered":"Hector Berlioz: his music and times"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Gareth Curtis<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Though Hector Berlioz died a century and a half ago, he remains an intriguing and strangely isolated figure in the music of his day. His symphonies are like no others before them, he was the first composer to cultivate <g class=\"gr_ gr_11 gr-alert gr_gramm gr_inline_cards gr_run_anim Grammar multiReplace\" id=\"11\" data-gr-id=\"11\">serious<\/g> as opposed to purely picturesque programme music, he composed the first \u2018monster\u2019 Requiem, and his <em>Damnation of Faust&nbsp;<\/em>seems to have been one of the first significant attempts at secular oratorio \u2013or is it radio opera before its time? \u2013 and, besides, he invented a completely new approach to orchestration.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This course will explore the rich variety of his output, looking particularly at how it does and does not fit in with the musical world he inhabited, and at the rewarding legacy which he left for those later composers who cared to engage with it.<br><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recommended reading:<\/strong><br>D. Cairns: <em>Berlioz i: the Making of an Artist 1803\u20131832.<\/em> (London, 1989)<br>D. Cairns: <em>Berlioz, ii: Servitude and Greatness 1832\u20131869. <\/em>(London, 1999)<br>P. Bloom (ed.): <em>The Cambridge Companion to Berlioz. <\/em>(Cambridge, 2000)<br>H. MacDonald: <em>Berlioz<\/em> (<em>Master Musicians Series<\/em>). (London, 2000)<br>H. Berlioz (transl. J. Barzun): <em>Evenings with the Orchestra<\/em> (London, 2002)<br>H. Berlioz (transl. D. Cairns): <em>The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz<\/em> (London, 2002)<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Ten weeks, starting<strong>\u00a014 January &#8211; 18 March, 2019<\/strong>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Day<\/strong>: Mondays&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp;<strong>Time<\/strong>: 2pm\u2013 4pm<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Venue<\/strong>:<br>Brook Road Methodist Church,<br>Davyhulme,<br>Urmston<br>M41 5RQ<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong><em>Need to book before 29th December, 2018<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<table class=\"wp-block-table\"><tbody><tr><td><strong>Price<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Concessions<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Minimum No.<\/strong><\/td><td><strong>Maximum No.<\/strong><\/td><\/tr><tr><td>\u00a390<\/td><td><\/td><td>10<\/td><td>30<\/td><\/tr><\/tbody><\/table>\n\n\n\n<p>To book, complete the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/07\/MANCENT-booking-form-new.pdf\">MANCENT booking form<\/a>&nbsp;and send it with payment to Gareth Curtis, 25 Westbourne Park, Urmston, Manchester, M41 0XR<br><strong>email<\/strong>:curtismusic@btinternet.com&nbsp;<strong>phone<\/strong>:0161 747 8687<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><br><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gareth Curtis Though Hector Berlioz died a century and a half ago, he remains an intriguing and strangely isolated figure in the music of his day. His symphonies are like no others before them, he was the first composer to cultivate serious as opposed to purely picturesque programme music, he composed the first \u2018monster\u2019 Requiem, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1797","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1797","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1797"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1797\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1862,"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1797\/revisions\/1862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mancent.org.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1797"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}