On 23 Jan 2009 13:27:44 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospamcom> wrote:

>On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:46:36 +0000, Stephen wrote:
>
>> I also love Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust.
>
>That's a good one.  I also like the Symphonie Fantastique.  

Especially the movement with the 13 timpani.

Harold in Italy?  

>There is a 
>certain irony in KBYU broadcasting that one, it's like they don't know 
>what the story behind the music is.  

Fourth movement: "Marche au supplice"

Convinced that his love is spurned, the artist poisons himself with opium. The
dose of narcotic, while too weak to cause his death, plunges him into a heavy
sleep accompanied by the strangest of visions.

Fifth movement: "Songe d'une nuit de sabbat"

>(KBYU is the radio station run by 
>Brigham Young University, which is owned by the LDS Church - a very 
>conservative organization).
>

I always read that as "LSD Church". It must be a Freudian slip.
-- 

Regards
     Stephen

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