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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 ...

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.

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 ...