Word: berio
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Carnivorous Fleas. Berio's Allez Hop had to do with a flea escaped from a trained flea act and carried to an official government reception. There the flea so harried the politicians that they were driven to a declaration of war. In the opera's finale, the war was over and the world peaceful but so boring that the trainer decided to release the flea again and start the cycle all over. Although most critics found the atonal opera "a joke in bad taste," some had kind words for its opening striptease scene executed to a honky-tonk...
Absolutes. Last week's program featured the works of European composers. Italian Composer Luciano Berio's Homage to Joyce consisted of unintelligible recitations of the final pages of Ulysses. Also included were such numbers as the airy Suite in the Form of a Mushroom; Untitled, an explosive collection of train noises; and Dialogue for Man and Machine, which, in addition to the whoo-whoo effect and the obscure philosophizing about matchwood, contains this mysterious admonition...