Berlioz

[David]

When Berlioz was reading Lamartine in Rome, he found him "delicate, celestial" but regretted that the poet was "so incomplete: he never leaves the skies."

[strandinthewind]

Perhaps true, but his "Dream of the Witches' Sabbat" is sublime despite its overexposure.

[ragandbone]

This is in answer to your comment in "What are you Listening to..." (which I just noticed) not your post above, but it was about Berlioz.
Unfortunately, my library does not have the book, "Berlioz & the Romantic Century", but I still have my San Francisco library card, so I will look for the book up there. Thanks for the tip! *I have yet to get the New Yorker spoof you talked about a while back, but I haven't forgotten. ;^)