Annie Neuburger J’ai rencontré Luciano pour la première fois en 1968 à l’occasion du premier festival des SMIP (Semaines Musicales Internationales de Paris, ancêtre du Festival d’Automne) pour lequel je travaillais sous la direction de Maurice Fleuret. Peu de temps avant, j’avais découvert Laborintus II que dirigeait Diégo Masson… et ce fût le premier choc!Puis Luciano m’a demandé si […]
Fabio Nieder …il frammento si focalizza progressivamente su E si fussi pisci. Anche le dissonanze si stemperano progressivamente: dalla seconda minore del lamento iniziale, alla seconda maggiore, poi la settima minore, poi ancora la quinta e poi… il canto siciliano come sogno che si svela dal trillo sugli intervalli di quarta e quinta…10 anni sono passati e le […]
Roger & Kay Norrington Perhaps the artistic high point of our lives was our “historical” presentation of Monteverdi’s Orfeo at the Maggio Musicale in 1984. This was entirely due to the imagination, the daring, and the generosity of Luciano, the Artistic Director of the Festival for that year. We remember him with so much affection and joy, for that occasion, and […]
Betty Olivero Mi è capitato spesso, pensando a Luciano dopo la sua scomparsa, di tornare ad una canzone d’amore sefardita che l’amico Aldo Bennici mi fece ascoltare parecchi anni fa, raccontandomi che quando la fece ascoltare a Luciano, egli si commosse fino alle lacrime, e anch’io ne rimasi molto colpita. Si trattava di Morenica sos.Un paio d’anni dopo, […]
Peter Otto & Terri Tunnicliff Here are a few humble remembrances of Luciano. – Long talks about music technology… he so forcefully asserted that «music technology is all about music and NOT so much about technology… music technology is best when it is transparent, invisible, in service of musical ideas.» – I realize now, more than 20 years after last […]
Susan Oyama Earlier this year Talia contacted me about a short, humorous (but also serious) piece that Luciano wrote during the period when I was married to him: The Kind Lady of Baltimore. Although I wasn’t able to give Talia some of the facts she was seeking, rereading it and corresponding with her about it led me to […]
Uri & Nirit Packer Between Luciano and me there was no need for many words and not even for sounds. I could feel with every nerve when he was free and approachable and when he was impatient. Without any words I felt his great love for Talia, for his children, for my mother. For me the contact between us […]
Pnina & Nali Packer A memory of Luciano – Rome, November 2002 On a rainy afternoon a man sitting by his desk his neck held in a bandage reclining on an open music score as if embracing each note. The man and his work are one, conquering pain, making music, making life. Pnina & Nali Packer
Fabián Panisello My fascination with the work of Berio dates back to my time in Buenos Aires: through recordings and scores, I discovered works such as Circles, Sinfonia, Chemins IV, Coro, Visage … I then had my first personal encounter in Salzburg when I was a student there, and I still vividly remember how he spontaneously stepped before the orchestra that was performing Requies in […]
Marcello Panni Roma, 25 maggio 2013 Cara Talia,per questo triste anniversario ti mando un foto che mi è molto cara.È questa forse l’occasione per parlarti una volta dei miei trascorsi con Luciano … Per la cronistoria qui siamo all’Opera di Roma nel maggio 1981. Elisabetta Catalano, la grande fotografa romana, ci ha ripresi dalla buca d’orchestra alle […]
