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...this is not sheer madness. It is Sequenza III for female voice by Luciano Berio, one of the three or four most successful living composers. The words are incomprehensible, as the music also, seems to be, but as a dramatic stream of consciousness, this piece has the same kind of compelling emotional logic as Joyce's Ulysses...
Written ten years ago, Sequenza III is similar to many other Berio compositions in its use of "non-musical" effects. In addition to sighing, groaning and coughing at specified moments, their performer must portray carefully indicated emotional attitudes like "accusing," "Whimpering," and "langorous." The result is a tortuous emotional odyssey with no clearly articulated form. Yet there remains a strong subconscious sense of inevitable progression from moment to moment...
...Monday night, the Players will present Compositions of Schumann, Saint-Saens, Beethoven and Berio in Sanders Theater at 8:30. This will be the last time this season to hear the group perform chamber works--next week's gala finale will feature a massive Schumann work for chorus and orchestra...
Sharon Zukerman, flute; Alice Norton, harp. Works of J.S. Bach, Kodaly, Donizetti, Persichetti, Berio. Free. Sunday, March...
Much more successful were reprises of two of the most important works ever commissioned by Fromm: Luciano Berio's Circles (1960) and Elliott Carter's Double Concerto for Harpsichord and Piano with Two Chamber Orchestras (1961). These performances flanked a rare public appearance by Fromm in which he pleaded eloquently for better integration of contemporary and traditional music rather than a mere "busing of indiscriminately chosen new music to the halls of Brahms and Beethoven...