
Luciano Berio, Sequenza III per voce femminile, 1966
JD: Did his music fascinate you?
PB: Yes. It was a beginning, what he gave to us. That was the first thing he'd composed like that. Then he had a project with the Ensemble Modern, and everybody was surprised, and they tried to catch up with him. Unfortunately he died very soon afterwards.
Jed Distler, Pierre Boulez on Composers Past and Present, 2000