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The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz
told in his own Words & Music
& in the Words & Music of Others

a Radio Series in Twenty-one Half-hour Parts,
consisting of a Prologue & Forty-one Scenes

based on the David Cairns translation of
The Memoirs of Hector Berlioz
with excerpts from the Jacques Barzun translation of
Evenings with the Orchestra
also from Fantasy Pieces by Harald Krebs,
& from Virgil's Aeneid


Berlioz 1846

~ Berlioz in 1846 ~

Compiled & directed by David Winn
a Co-production of the University of Victoria Department of Theatre &
CFUV 101.9 FM, Victoria's campus-community radio

Berlioz, from young to old:
Bronwyn Davies Glover; Melissa Robertson*; Dalal Badr*;
Meg Roe*; Robin Collins; Alex Robertson
Ernest Legouvé: Katie Lawson*
French prose: Katherine van der Gracht; French verse: Isa Sevrain
Other roles, & narrators: Shelley Dusterbeck, Kim Isbister (also readers marked *)
Sound Editor, & Series Host: Zeta Lay

Copyright 1996-2002 David Winn &
CFUV 101.9 FM
University of Victoria, PO Box 3035, Victoria, BC, Canada V8W 3P3
~ ~ ~
We thank Monir Tayeb
for her encouragement and steadfast support of this endeavour.

The Hector Berlioz Website

The latest broadcast of this series was from Victoria, BC, on CFUV 101.9 FM (104.3 on cable),
and simultaneously on the Internet through the CFUV website cfuv.uvic.ca
in eleven one-hour two-part instalments,
22nd September to 1st December 2006, Fridays at 3:00 pm (Pacific Time).

To help us plan further broadcasts,
please tell us through our Guest Book what times suit you
(and include your time zone).


Also visit the websites for two of our other radio productions:

a dramatisation of Thomas Love Peacock's satirical novel
Headlong Hall

a dramatisation of The Book of Job, with music by Ralph Vaughan Williams
Job: a production for Radio



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19th June 2007