ABSTRACT
Carol Plantamura was still a student when she had her professional debut in 1963, performing Pierre Boulez's Improvisations sur Mallarmé I and II with Boulez conducting. Lawrence Morton, the director of the influential Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) series of Monday Evening Concerts phoned Plantamura in her dormitory room at Occidental College. The author had the pleasure of interviewing Carol Plantamura in her La Jolla home on May 18, 2010 about her work and close friendship with Cathy Berberian. Giacinto Scelsi formally introduced them, she explains, in 1967, at a cocktail party in his flat overlooking the Forum in Rome. Carol Plantamura and Cathy Berberian met again, and performed together for the first time in Spoleto the following year, in 1968. When Cathy died, Carol performed a tribute to her at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art for the Monday Night Concerts.
