National Jubilee 1/5

The first Jubilee concert is met with a Berlioz wave, with La Damnation de Faust , neither quite an opera nor quite a symphony, but "dramatic legend," Hector B. tells us, and whose Hungarian March, Ballet des Sylphes and Course à l'abîme contribute to the miracle of infernal hybridization, never as effective as in concert. Finally, should we recall that Berlioz, once celebrated by Charles Munch and Leonard Bernstein, is like no other in the genes...