Word: berio
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Daniel Seltzer, director of the Loeb, said yesterday that Monteverdi's "Il Combattimento di Tancredie Clorinda," and Luciano Berio's "Passagio" will coincide with the 400th anniversary of Monteverdi's birth...
...professional actors and singers in the opera will mean that only 20 Harvard and Radcliffe students will be cast in acting and singing roles, Seltzer said. Students will perform the unusual second chorus of Berio's "Passagio" in which they will be seated among the audience during the play...
...Passagio" was written in 1962, and was performed at La Scala in Milan two years ago. Berio is presently at Harvard on a one semester teaching fellowship...
Mino Pirrotta, chairman of the Music Department, yesterday described Berio's work as "musical and optical realizations outside of any genre." Berio uses language as a basic element in music, and creates emotional effects by distorting the phonetic emphasis of words...
...frighten. Through nine adventuresome days at the Warsaw Autumn Festival, mocking smiles and catcalls were stillborn while Warsaw held fast to its reputation as the only city in the world where people really like contemporary music. Berberian sang Circles, a free and atonal composition by her husband, Luciano Berio, in which even punctuation marks in an E. E. Cummings poem have musical counterparts-an aspirate gasp, for example, indicating an exclamation point. Warsaw was delighted...