THE BERLIOZ SOCIETY



click to see a larger picture
click to see a larger picture
(founded 1952)

President: Professor Jacques Barzun

Patron:  Sir Colin Davis CH


The Berlioz Society is a Registered Charity
No. 1124443

 

Chairman and  Bulletin Editor:

David Cairns CBE

 

  

Hon. Secretary:

Simon Jones

 

  

Hon. Treasurer:

Alastair Aberdare

 

  

Administrator:

Dr. Harold Hughes OBE

 

  

Media Manager:

Simon Holder

 

  

Website Co-ordinator:

Brian Godfrey
















 


--  Who we are  --

The Berlioz Society is a non-profit-making organisation of persons with an 

interest in and a love of the music of the great French Composer Hector Berlioz (1803 - 1869).

Chaired by David Cairns, author of the definitive two-volume life of the composer, the Society has an

international membership including the world-renowned conductor Sir Colin Davis

and Professor Hugh Macdonald, editor of the New Berlioz Edition.



--  What we do  --


The Society's aim is to increase the public's awareness of the life and works

of this great composer, especially the lesser known works.

To this end the Society organises meetings, weekends, 

conferences and publications, and other events.


-------ooooooo0000000ooooooo-------



After years of being considered an eccentric outsider in classical music, Berlioz is now recognised as a true original and one of the greatest innovators ever. Even his detractors have always had to concede his supremacy as an orchestrator, but now, with all his large scale works available on recordings, his great melodic gifts and unique compositional imagination are in the public arena for all to appreciate.  In addition, his writings display the warmth and wit of his personality and his immense critical intelligence, showing him to be one of the most engaging of the great composers. 

 

"Which of these two powers, love or music, can elevate man to the sublimest heights? 

Why separate them? They are the two wings of the soul."  Hector Berlioz 1803–1869



-------ooooooo0000000ooooooo-------


MEMBERS' WEEKEND

Full details of the Weekend on La Damnation de Faust now available!

TO SEE DETAILS JUST  CLICK HERE 

Places still available,  BOOK NOW!



-------ooooooo0000000ooooooo-------



-- On other pages --



    

		Complimentary free membership competitionClick here

		The ladies in Berlioz' lifeClick here to see more.

		ReviewsClick here

		Concessionary ticketsClick here

		To see more on Berlioz  himself, visithttp://www.hberlioz.com
		
   




	
News Flash

Live showings in the UK of the performance by the Metropolitan Opera New York of  Berlioz’s La Damnation de Faust.

Our Member, John Ogden, draws attention to these performances to take place on Saturday November 22nd  at 6pm, 
to be conducted by James Levine.  HD showings are scheduled in the following theatres/cinemas around the UK in 
the Picturehouse group.  Further information and ticket sales are on the Picturehouse central telephone number 0871 704 2068. 


These showings are part of the Metropolitan Opera Live series during the 2008-2009 season which comprise in all 
ten such transmissions, though this is the only performance of a Berlioz work.  Single full price tickets are 
£25, with concessions at £20; membership of the Picturehouse Group brings a further reduction.  



	

		
		

			
Duke of York’s, Brighton; 

			Clapham Picturehouse, London;
		

		

			Phoenix Picturehouse, Oxford; 
				
			
			Arts Picturehouse, Cambridge; 
		

		

			Picturehouse, Greenwich; 
				
			
			The Gate, Notting Hill, London; 
		

		

			The Ritzy, Brixton; 
				
			Picturehouse, Stratford London;
		

		

			City Screen, York; 
				
			
			Regal Picturehouse, Henley-on-Thames; 
		

		

			Harbour Lights Picturehouse, Southampton;
			
			The Little Theatre Cinema, Bath;
		

		

			The Belmont Picturehouse, Aberdeen; 
				
			Picturehouse at FACT, Liverpool;
		

		

			Picturehouse, Exeter; 
				
			
			Cameo Picturehouse, Edinburgh; 
		

		

			Cinema City, Norwich; 
				
			Picturehouse, Stratford-upon-Avon.
		

	

	



-------ooooooo0000000ooooooo-------


Special offer - for a limited period!
 New members of the Society will receive a free copy of a 32-page illustrated
monograph by Dr Philip Mansel on Paris in the Age of Berlioz, published by the Society in November 2006.

If you wish to join the Society, or obtain more information, please contact us as below.  





  

    
      
To contact the Society, email to
(not clickable, as an antispam measure)

-------ooooooo0000000ooooooo-------

This page last updated 21st October 2008


This website prepared and maintained by Ian Hickman Partners (Eur. Ing. D.I. H. May BSc.Hons, C.Eng, MIEE, MIEEE, and D. M. May B.A.Hons, A.I.L.)
 www.ianhickman.org.uk