Thu 2/20 @ 7:30PM
Fri 2/21 @ 8PM
Sat 2/22 @ 8PM
Sun 2/23 @ 3PM
Hector Berlioz wrote his Symphonie Fantastique in 1930 when he was just 26. It bears some of the earmarks of lingering youth, relating the story of a hyper-sensitive artist who dulls the pain and despair of unrequited love with opium. Conductor/composer Leonard Bernstein, who recorded it in the 70s, called it “this weird symphony,” “pretty spooky stuff” and “the first psychedelic symphony in history.”
It will highlight the Cleveland Orchestra’s concerts this week, led by another legendary conductor/composer Michael Tilson Thomas, music director of the San Francisco Symphony. Tilson Thomas’s own “Rilke Songs” opens the concerts, with mezzo-Soprano Sasha Cooke and bass Dashon Burton.
Tickets are $21-$165.