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PSO Soundtracks Lecture: The Paris of Berlioz, 1830

PSO Soundtracks Presents “The Paris of Berlioz, 1830: Revolution Romanticism, and
the Artist as Symbol”

Dr. Jerrold Seigel, Professor Emeritus of History at New York University, will discuss the romanticism of Hector Berlioz's Symphonie fantastique as it relates to the culture and politics of Paris in 1830. He will explain what it was, about that time and place, that encouraged Berlioz to develop a symphonic narrative of a painful, personal history to serve as a metaphor for the lives of other people. The talk is presented in partnership with the Princeton Public Library and will be held in the library's Community Room. Free and open to the public; light refreshments will be served.

 












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