Berio

[robert wiener <wiener...>]

Francesco,

Please tell us more about Luciano Berio's works that have a Jewish
connection.  Are recordings available, for example, of "Ofanim"?

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Francesco Spagnolo <yuval (at) powerlink(dot)it>
To: World music from a Jewish slant. <jewish-music (at) shamash(dot)org>
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 1999 3:50 PM
Subject: Esti Kenan Ofri in the US

Her voice has inspired Italian composer Luciano Berio's work "Ofanim",
a "cantata" for solo voice, children's choir and orchestra written on
a Hebrew (biblical) text. The libretto was written by Berio's wife,
Israeli musicologist Talia Pecker. The work was last performed by Esti
and conducted by the author on April 11, 1997 in Turin, Italy, to
commemorate the decennial of Primo Levi's death.

Of course, Berio's works (there is a new "Hebrew" composition of his
that has been announced) should be the topic of a different post.

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