HARBISON'S MASTERLY TOUCH WITH `MOTTETI DI MONTALE' From: The Boston Globe | Date: February 16, 2000| Author: Richard Dyer, Globe Staff | Copyright 2000 The Boston Globe. Provided by ProQuest LLC.Copyright information

"Motteti di Montale," a song cycle John Harbison composed in 1981, represented a turning point for the composer. It was both a summation of everything he knew how to do at that point and also a breakthrough to things he didn't know he knew how to do. The implications of what he accomplished in that piece gave him ideas and directions he has been pursuing ever since.

The "Motteti" is a setting of all 24 "motets" in a cycle of poems by Eugenio Montale. "Motteti di Montale" was never a pr...

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