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On 23 Jan 2009 13:27:44 -0500, Jim Henderson <nos### [at] nospam com> wrote:
>On Fri, 23 Jan 2009 13:46:36 +0000, Stephen wrote:
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>> I also love Berlioz's The Damnation of Faust.
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>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.
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Regards
Stephen
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