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17 October 2012

Style Fantastique? The Philharmonic performs Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique this week, under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. But in his own time, the composer’s trademark shock of red curly hair and eagle nose made him a prime target for cartoonists. Check out how our Facebook fans have been captioning this caricature.

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Style Fantastique?

The Philharmonic performs Hector Berlioz’s Symphonie fantastique this week, under the direction of Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos. But in his own time, the composer’s trademark shock of red curly hair and eagle nose made him a prime target for cartoonists. Check out how our Facebook fans have been captioning this caricature.

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  1. slcmusiclibrary reblogged this from nyphil and added:
    Poor Berlioz!
  2. seditious-smanger reblogged this from destruction-and-rebirth
  3. destruction-and-rebirth reblogged this from bachmaninovsky and added:
    I am going to see this friday and could not be more excited.
  4. bachmaninovsky reblogged this from nyphil
  5. jerilynstone reblogged this from nyphil
  6. ornamentedembellished reblogged this from nyphil and added:
    Basically, Berlioz had swag.
  7. nyphil posted this

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