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Berio, accompanied by technicians from Centro Tempo Reale, his electronic-music headquarters in Florence, and the Orchestra della Toscana, performed his work-in-perpetual-progress, Ofanim . The following week, Penderecki conducted a New York Philharmonic performance of Threnody and gave the New York premiere of a recent symphony-- No.
Four decades later, Penderecki has joined the ranks of those who renounce the achievements of his generation; Berio remains unabashedly highbrow and staunchly atonal, a true avant-gardist.
In Ofanim , Berio has combined his search for new technologies with a reverence for rituals and ancient theater: Microphones picked up sounds from the stage and computers tossed them to speakers in the balconies and back again, letting chords and passages hang in the air like incense.
Berio disassembled traditional techniques of playing, instrument by instrument, in a series of solo pieces called Sequenze , the most famous of which was Sequenza III (1966) for unaccompanied voice--eight minutes of theatrical giggling, clicking consonants, and heavy breathing.
In a landmark 1968 work, the wryly named Sinfonia , Berio made a musical palimpsest, thickly layering his new music and a jumble of spoken words over the foundation of a Mahler symphony.