# Berkeley Symphony Orchestra with Lisa Delan & Lester Lynch at Zellerbach Hall Auditorium, February 1, 2018

[Berkeley Symphony Orchestra](http://www.berkeleysymphony.org/symphonic-series/) presents a program of Fauré, Getty, and Berlioz, featuring [Lisa Delan](http://www.lisadelan.com/) and [Lester Lynch](http://www.lesterlynch.com/) and the Berkeley Symphony Chorus  
[Zellerbach Hall Auditorium](http://www.calperfs.berkeley.edu/)  
[U.C. Berkeley, Bancroft Way at Telegraph Ave, Berkeley, CA 94305 USA](http://maps.google.com/maps?q=U.C.+Berkeley,+Bancroft+Way+at+Telegraph+Ave,+Berkeley,+CA+94305+USA&hl=en)  
8:00 PM, Thursday, February 1, 2018

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## Tentative Program

* Gabriel Fauré: _Cantique de Jean Racine_
* Gordon Getty: _Joan and the Bells_
* Heitor Berlioz: _Symphonie Fantastique_

## Set One

[8:04 PM Introduction by Rene Mandell]

### Gabriel Fauré: Cantique de Jean Racine

Gabriel Fauré (1845–1924): _Cantique de Jean Racine_, Op. 11 (1864-65), featuring the Berkeley Symphony Chorus

01. [8:07 PM] _opus_  
[work ends 8:11 PM]

### Gordon Getty: Joan and the Bells

[Gordon Getty](http://www.gordongetty.com/) \(b.1933\): _Joan and the Bells_ (1997), featuring [Lisa Delan](http://www.lisadelan.com/) and [Lester Lynch](http://www.lesterlynch.com/)

02. [8:10 PM] _Judgment_
03. [8:18 PM] _Joan in Her Chamber_
04. [8:25 PM] _The Square at Rouen_  
[set ends 8:34 PM; applause; presentation of flowers to Getty & soloists; all off after a few minutes more applause]

## Set Two: Berlioz: Symphonie Fantastique

[8:56 PM lights down, announcements, band out]

Heitor Berlioz (1803–1869): _Symphonie Fantastique_

01. [8:58 PM] _Rêveries – Passions_
02. [9:15 PM] _Un bal (A Ball)_
03. [9:22 PM] _Scène aux champs (Scene in the Fields)_
04. [9:37 PM] _Marche au supplice (March to the Scaffold)_
05. [9:44 PM] _Songe d'une nuit du sabbat (Dream of the Night of the Sabbath)_  
[set ends 9:54 PM; applause for a few minutes, all off by 9:57 PM]


## Performers

### Berkeley Symphony Orchestra

[Berkeley Symphony Orchestra](http://www.berkeleysymphony.org/)

* Joana Carneiro: music director;
* [Keitaro Harada](http://kharada.com/): conductor;
* performers vary by program, see http://www.berkeleysymphony.org/about/musicians/.


### Berkeley Symphony Chorus

[Berkeley Symphony Chorus](http://www.berkeleysymphony.org/)

* [Eric Choate](http://www.ericchoate.com/): chorusmaster;
* Chorus members TBD

### Solo Performers

* [Lisa Delan](http://www.lisadelan.com/): soprano vox;
* [Lester Lynch](http://www.lesterlynch.com/): baritone vox.

## Notes

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Even though the Faure was calm and tranquil, it seemed like the BSO rushed through it -- and coming in at about half the advertised time, they must have! Maybe they decided to omit a repeat that reprises the whole thing? An odd start!

Getty's work seemed interesting enough to me -- I'm glad to have heard it once -- and the ending aria was pretty exciting!

I thought the Berlioz piece came off as under-rehearsed: there was a general lack of crispness, and whenever things got loud, I felt like the musicians were even more out of sync with one another. Clocking in at almost an hour -- nearly 10% longer than advertised in the program -- this work also felt a little tedious. I suppose I'll give it another chance sometime in the future, but it's not going to be soon!

Jeff Kaliss posted a [review](https://www.sfcv.org/reviews/none/berkeley-symphony-pulls-off-dramatic-program-of-saints-and-sinners) of the later SFCM performance of the same program.

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