
“Symphonie Fantastique” with Guillermo Figueroa
12/7/2023 | 56m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
The conductor leads the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra in Hector Berlioz’s masterpiece.
Join acclaimed conductor Guillermo Figueroa as he leads the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra through Hector Berlioz’s masterpiece, “Symphonie Fantastique.” Figueroa, a Berlioz specialist, has made recordings of all the composer’s works. “Symphonie Fantastique” tells a musical story of an unrequited love affair and features giant bells loaned to UNCSA by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
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“Symphonie Fantastique” with Guillermo Figueroa
12/7/2023 | 56m 55sVideo has Closed Captions
Join acclaimed conductor Guillermo Figueroa as he leads the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra through Hector Berlioz’s masterpiece, “Symphonie Fantastique.” Figueroa, a Berlioz specialist, has made recordings of all the composer’s works. “Symphonie Fantastique” tells a musical story of an unrequited love affair and features giant bells loaned to UNCSA by the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra.
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Learn Moreabout PBS online sponsorship[bright piano music] ♪ [bright piano music continues] ♪ [bright piano music continues] - Hello, I'm Guillermo Figueroa.
I'm the guest conductor for the wonderful Orchestra of UNCSA where I'll be doing Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique.
One of the great seminal revolutionary works in the history of music.
Berlioz was one of the great manipulators of the orchestra and with this work he sets out to do something that symphonies had not done before, which is actually tell a story.
This is what is called a programmatic symphony.
There is a story that goes along an artist that is madly in love and sees the woman of his dreams, and he creates a musical motif that describes this beautiful woman and that motif is present in every single movement of the symphony, something that had never happened before.
The story progresses through nightmares.
At the end, he has dreamt that he taken a drug that induces a powerful coma in him.
And when he wakes up, he finds out he has murdered his lover.
And then at the end, the last movement is an infernal orgy in hell that breaks loose every single instrument in the orchestra, including beautiful bells that we have acquired for this particular purpose.
So a tremendous explosion of sound and inventiveness of color, something that was never done in an orchestra before.
I fell in love with Berlioz when I was very young, and I remember very well that sparked that thrill of the discovery of this music, and I am so happy to be able to bring it to them here.
It is always great to work with students, particularly when, like at the first rehearsal, I asked the orchestra, how many of you have ever played Berlioz Symphonie Fantastique before.
So the one of the most famous worked in all of music, three students raised their hands, meaning that what I do is going to influence the way they think about music for the rest of their lives.
It is an awesome responsibility.
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Preview | “Symphonie Fantastique” with Guillermo Figueroa
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Preview: 12/7/2023 | 29s | The conductor leads the UNCSA Symphony Orchestra in Hector Berlioz’s masterpiece. (29s)
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