Nineteenth-century French composer Hector Berlioz was raised a Catholic but, by most accounts, became an agnostic or atheist later in life. “l’Enfance du Christ,” a work for chorus and chamber ...

The story of Christmas has always had a special resonance, for those concerned about the poor and dispossessed. But in recent years-the last 3 years, to be precise-the plight of the refugee, as found ...

From Handel's "Messiah" to Irving Berlin's "White Christmas," most everyone has his favorite seasonal music. Mine is Hector Berlioz's trilogy, "L'Enfance du Christ" (The Infancy of Christ), a ...

Composed to his own text, Berlioz recounts the tale of Herod’s dream of a child who will overthrow him, and of Mary and Joseph being warned by angels to flee to Egypt. Part 2 is their flight into ...

Hector Berlioz’s 1854 oratorio “L’Enfance du Christ” offers the composer’s version of the flight into Egypt: Mary, Joseph and baby Jesus escaping Herod’s decree to kill all of Bethlehem’s newborns.