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Coffee Classics Series
Thank you to Brown-Forman for their generous additional sponsorship of the Romeo and Juliet Coffee Classics Concert.
Thursday, February 21, 2008
10:30 AM - Whitney Hall
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Hilliard Lyons Classics Series
Thank you to Brown-Forman for their generous additional sponsorship of the Romeo and Juliet Hilliard Lyons Classics Concert.
Friday, February 22, 2008
8:00 PM - Whitney Hall
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Jorge Mester,
Conductor
Charles Robert Austin, Bass Baritone
Randall Bills,
Tenor
Shana Blake Hill, Soprano
Kent Hatteberg, Choir Master
Hector Berlioz Romeo et Julliette, op 17
(A Dramatic
Symphony)
Program Notes
“After the melancholy [of Hamlet], to be exposed to the ardent sun, the perfumed nights of Italy, to be present at the spectacle of this love quick as thought, burning as lava, imperious, irresistible, immense, and pure and beautiful as the smile of the angels, at these furious scenes of vengeance, at these distraught embraces, at these desperate struggles of love and death, it was too much. And so, by the third act, breathing with difficulty, and suffering as if an iron hand had squeezed my heart, I said to myself with utter convictions: Ah! I am lost.”
—Hector Berlioz, after seeing Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet for the first time
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