ADVENT CALENDAR – DAY 12

I used to have Hector Berlioz’s hair. I wish I had his audacity.

Today is Berlioz’s birthday (1803-1869). Enjoy one hour and 40 minutes of “L’enfance du Christ.”

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yi8vWzJCqmI

Or, if you prefer, from roughly the same period (the 1850s), at 52 minutes, his monumental “Te Deum”:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XlHnjXlIFu0

The “Te Deum,” literally “To God,” was originally intended as the climax of a grand symphony in celebration of Napoleon Bonaparte.

PHOTO: Middle-aged and dreaming of days of wilder hair