Hector Berlioz subtitled his Symphonie Fantastique "An Episode in the Life of an Artist."
What sort of an artist is it who has drug-induced nightmares of Jealousies, murder, and his own hanging and funeral culminating in a hellish celebration of death? Was this entirely a figment of Berlioz's imagination, or was there some basis for it all -- and if that was the case, Who was this artist?
We'll look into that this Thursday night.
