February 05, 2004

Bizarre music: Beatles goes opera Revolution - An Operatic First by Madame Cathy Berberian
posted by marx 20 years ago
  • Cathy Berberian (wife of the composer Luciano Berio) was a brilliantly gifted singer who knew exactly what she was doing. Unfortunately, not everyone gets the joke. Apparently the idea of "making fun of the Beatles" is just too shocking and heretical for some people to grasp .. like making fun of Jesus .. On second thoughts, listening to the record again, I realise that the joke is not so much on the Beatles themselves, as on people who take the Beatles too seriously.
  • I don't really know if I get the Berio joke yet.
  • i was listening to the grey album prior to this and will now mix the two. why don't we do it in the road?
  • No one will be watching us.