NEW MUSIC Reports: The Luciano BERIO & Cathy BERBERIAN vocal revolution (1959-1969)

FULL report pdf [1Mb] http://www.picture-poems.com/pdfs/the-berio-berberian-vocal-revolution.pdf The six essential keystone BERIO / BERBERIAN works, written and recorded between 1959 and 1969 are: The six keystone works are: (1) Thema (Omaggio a Joyce) (1958) (2) Luciano Berio Epifania 1961 (with Cathy Berberian); (3) Passaggio (1962), subtitled Messa in scena (with Edoardo Sanguineti) (4) Laborintus II 1965 (with Cathy Berberian and Edoardo Sanguineti); (5) Sequenza III (with Cathy Berberian); (6) Sinfonia 1969 The two of these I think are most important are Epifanie and Laborinttus II. Conclusion: The Silence of the Renaissance The Berio-Berberian renaissance (1961–1969) represented a pinnacle of Italian vocal-instrumental innovation, born from the anti-fascist resistance and sustained by the intellectual "openness" of the post-war progressive left. Their work used the voice to expose the "non-identity" of individual and society, providing a "negative truth" against the reification of the Cold War state. However, the lack of continued exploration of their insights can be understood as a casualty of the "Cold War mold" established in 1948, which eventually gave way to a neoliberal institutionalism and, finally, a reactionary nationalist resurgence. The Meloni government’s "occupation" of culture seeks to erase the radical potential of the avant-garde, replacing the "pluralistic dialogue" of Berio’s vocal theater with a monolithic "cultural hegemony" that prizes national identity over progressive aesthetic truth. As music education fails and economic barriers rise, the radically progressive voice of Cathy Berberian and the revolutionary new architectures of Luciano Berio remain artificially "isolated"—a haunting reminder of an exploration that was interrupted, leaving a generation once again "starved" for a modernism that is being—similar to a keystone ecological species, say, like salmon in great Pacific Nortwest—systematically erased from the public consciousness Luciano BERIO / Cathy Berberian: Epifanie (1961) RCA recording 1971, BBC Orchestra, Berio conducting LISTEN to mp3 [20Mb] http://www.picture-poems.com/mp3/berio-berberian_epifanie.mp3 EXCELLENT background webpage [web 1.0 at its best] is: Joyce Music - Berio: Epifanie –Shipwreck Library https://shipwrecklibrary.com/joyce/joyce-music-berio-epifanie/ INTRO: NIGHTWIND from PHAROS / ASKO Ensemble / CODA: StarCYCLE DUO “Eltanin” for two timpanists, Both pieces are on Soundcloud….