Jackie (magazine) especially if the story involved a "reader's true life experience". Both the comics and the short stories invariably dealt with either romance or family issues. The centre pages of the magazine usually contained a pull-out poster of a popular band or film star. The magazine featured a section called "Silly Star File", a humorous interview with figures from the world of pop music. "Jackie" became very popular with young teenage girls, not least because of the "Cathy and Claire" problem page, which received 400 reader letters a week and dealt with controversial issues that were nonetheless relevant to the readership.
Recital I (for Cathy) from Gaetano Donizetti's "Lucia di Lammermoor" and Giacomo Meyerbeer's "Dinorah" . She ends the piece with a prayer for liberation ("libera nos"), her vocal range reduced to a semitone. In "Quotation and Cultural Meaning in Twentieth-Century Music" by David Metzer, the sources of the musical fragments quoted in "Recital I (for Cathy)" are identified as follows —the track numbers and time indications refer to the only recording that exists of the piece (RCA 09026-62540-2, with Berberian and the London Sinfonietta conducted by Berio): Recital I (for Cathy) Recital I (for Cathy) is a stage work by the Italian composer Luciano