Showing posts with label Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment. Show all posts

Wednesday 15 February 2012

Harriet and Hector

More views of - or after - Cambridge Film Festival 2011
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15 February

Perhaps evidence for 'the collective unconscious', perhaps the Orchestra of the Age of the Enlightenment has just been reading my mind (or I its), but Berlioz was on my mind yesterday, when I heard announced on Radio 3 how he had wrought his own libretto for The Trojans, just as he did - as I blogged about last year - with L'enfance du Christ.

He was still on my mind just now, as I indulged one of the themes from the symphony that both threatened his union with Harriet Smithson and, strangely, brought them together. Still loudly humming it, I was moved to search for (the name of) Harriet, and soon found this link to the OAE for last night's concert*:

http://www.oae.co.uk/tag/harriet-smithson/


I have no doubt that it was good, and I wish well all who had the chance to hear it!


End-notes

* My mistake for assuming - there was no concert, but this was 'a trail-blazer' for things Berlioz to come from the OAE, so maybe see you there...