This article appeared in yesterday’s New York Times, calculated to whet the appetite for the impending Bard Music Festival, “Hector Berlioz and His World.”

It concludes with a great assessment of the composer by his contemporary, Ferdinand Hiller. I like the thought that Berlioz doesn’t belong in our solar system. It’s a very Berliozian observation.

https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/06/arts/music/hector-berlioz-bard.html?unlocked_article_code=1.BU4.gbDn.2Q7ZYb3t6L4y&smid=url-share

The festival begins tomorrow night, August 9, at Bard College in Annandale-on-Hudson, NY, and runs through Sunday, August 18.

For more information, visit https://fishercenter.bard.edu/whats-on/programs/bard-music-festival/

Fisher Center at Bard