{"id":6649,"date":"2024-10-21T10:29:57","date_gmt":"2024-10-21T08:29:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.lucianoberio.org\/homage-to-umberto-eco\/"},"modified":"2025-01-27T16:27:55","modified_gmt":"2025-01-27T15:27:55","slug":"homage-to-umberto-eco","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dev.lucianoberio.org\/en\/homage-to-umberto-eco\/","title":{"rendered":"Homage to Umberto Eco"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Umberto Eco has left us. Under media spotlights by now dimmed, the Centro Studi Luciano Berio wishes to remember this great protagonist of international culture by recalling the principal stages of the long personal and professional journey that tied him to Luciano Berio.<br \/>\nThe friendship between Umberto Eco and Luciano Berio began at the outset of the 1950s, when both worked for the Milanese headquarters of RAI on the Corso Sempione. The years immediately preceding and succeeding the foundation of the Studio di Fonologia were, on the creative and personal levels, significant for both: indeed it was to Berio, and to the research conducted in those years in the environment of the Milanese electronic studio, that Eco owed his acquaintance with the <em>Cours de linguistique g\u00e9n\u00e9rale <\/em>by Saussure and with <em>Principes de phonologie<\/em> by Troubetzkoy, volumes \u00abborrowed from the Studio di Fonologia, and which naturally I [Eco] have never returned through right of conquest.\u00bb It was again in the milieu of the electronic studio that ever new commonalities of life and work were established, ones that extended also to Roberto Leydi and Cathy Berberian.<br \/>\n<!--break--><br \/>\nDuring the 1950s, the most significant result of the collaboration between Eco and Berio was the realization of the radio transmission <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucianoberio.org\/en\/omaggio-joyce-documenti-sulla-qualit\u00e0-onomatopeica-del-linguaggio-poetico-0\">Omaggio a Joyce. Documenti sulla qualit\u00e0 onomatopeica del linguaggio poetico<\/a><\/em> [<em>Homage to Joyce: Documents on the Onomatopoeic Quality of Poetic Language<\/em>] (RAI, 1958), harbinger, for Berio, of new experiments in the complex territory of the sound-word binary, and prelude for the noted electronic work <em>Thema (Omaggio a Joyce)<\/em>. One important testament to the exchange of ideas and to the \u201cintellectual construction site\u201d in which Eco and Berio worked in the intense postwar years was their planning of new forms of cultural circulation and promotion: among these, one must surely remember the foundation, by Berio, of the music journal <em>Incontri Musicali <\/em>(published in four issues between 1956 and 1960), to which Eco participated in 1959 with a fundamental contribution entitled <em>L\u2019opera in movimento e la coscienza dell\u2019epoca<\/em> [<em>The work in movement and the era\u2019s conscience<\/em>], which anticipated by some years the reflections contained in one of his most well-known and widespread books, <em>Opera aperta<\/em> [<em>Open Work<\/em>] (1962). The presence of Eco was decisive also for the composer\u2019s first experiences of musical theater: from the conversations between Eco, Berio, and Furio Colombo was born the idea to write a \u201crepresentation\u201d of the sinking of the oceanliner <em>Titanic<\/em> (which thereafter merged into the theatrical production <a href=\"http:\/\/dev.lucianoberio.org\/en\/work\/opera\/\"><em>Opera<\/em><\/a> of 1970), while already on the occasion of the premiere of <em>Passaggio<\/em> at the Piccola Scala of Milan, in 1963, Eco signed the introductory text distributed to the audience. A new occasion for collaboration materialized for the Italian performance of the great \u201cmusical container\u201d that bears the title <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucianoberio.org\/umberto-eco-questo-vuol-dire-che-1\">Questo vuol dire che\u2026<\/a><\/em> [<em>This Means That\u2026<\/em>] (Rome, Foro Italico, October 24, 1970), for which Eco lent his voice as speaker. The ideas on musical theater also constituted the central theme of the interview <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.lucianoberio.org\/eco-ascolto-intervista-di-umberto-eco-luciano-berio-0?1960396896=1\">Eco in ascolto<\/a><\/em>[<em>Eco Listening In<\/em>] (1968)\u2014in whose title there is also a clear allusion to Berio\u2019s work <em><a href=\"http:\/\/https:\/\/dev.lucianoberio.org\/opera\/un-re-in-ascolto\/\">Un re in ascolto<\/a><\/em> [<em>A King Listening In<\/em>] (1986)\u2014a reflection, in two voices, that plays between provocation and perfect harmony between the two friends. Again, in 2000, it is to Umberto Eco that we owe the reprise, at the Universit\u00e0 di Bologna, of the famous <em>American Lectures<\/em> held by Luciano Berio at Harvard between 1993 and 1994. Published by Einaudi only after the death of the composer in 2006, those critical and theoretical pages by Berio were saluted by Eco as the reflections of \u201can across-the-board thinker, of whom these pages are perhaps the spiritual testament.\u201d The fraternal friendship between the two continued until Berio\u2019s last days: an intellectual and emotional commonality experienced through \u201cunderstatement\u201d and sweet irony. <\/p>\n<p>Translated by Bibiana Vergine<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Umberto Eco has left us. Under media spotlights by now dimmed, the Centro Studi Luciano Berio wishes to remember this great protagonist of international culture by recalling the principal stages of the long personal and professional journey that tied him to Luciano Berio. 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