Ian Brady, seen here in police custody prior to a court appearance, was sentenced to life in prison after killing five children. Ian Brady killed five children in the 1960s, in an infamous case of ...
Why is it human nature to want what we can’t have? In 1827, the 23-year-old Hector Berlioz attended a performance of Shakespeare’s Hamlet at the Odéon Theatre in Paris; Harriet Smithson, a charismatic ...
Witches take over the Houston Symphony this weekend. Classical fans can guess what that means: the return of Hector Berlioz's "Symphonie fantastique," a sound spectacular, and no more so than in its ...