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Cathy Berberian: “Ticket to Ride”
This is opera singer Cathy Berberian’s cover version of the Beatles’ “Ticket to Ride,” off of her album of Beatles covers, Revolution.
Cathy Berberian was a darling of the experimental music scene back in the day, married to Luciano Berio, writing her own experimental music, and performing works written for her by John Cage.
I don’t know what else to write. This either says something about the effects of taking a holiday blog break or something about the effects of listening to A WHOLE ALBUM OF OPERATIC BEATLES COVERS.
Welcome to 2010.
In this video, avant-garde opera singer Cathy Berberian performs her piece “Stripsody,” so named because the score is based on comic book sounds. (The video displays the score while she performs, so you can follow along.)
A nice example of an existing visual language adapted into a notational system, with a correspondingly unusual performance as the result!
