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...think that his own brand of "indeterminacy" is the ultimate in pure chance. But he will have to go some to surpass English Composer Cornelius Cardew, 26, who in his Octet '61 for Jasper Johns* includes a vague injunction to "Do something completely different," or Argentine-born Mauricio Kagel, 30, who in his Sonant, made himself obsolete...
...Mauricio Kagel: TransiciÓn II (Time). With its suddenly splatted chords, its plocks and thunks and harplike glissandos. Argentine-born Composer Kagel's piece for piano, percussion and magnetic tapes suggests a very drunk fraternity pianist trying to play Stardust in pitch darkness, occasionally mashing his fingers with the piano lid. Weirdly compelling, but likely to make few converts to the electronic school...
Joining the ensemble, U.S. Pianist David Tudor clomped the keyboard for Transición II while a colleague plucked the strings of the open-topped grand piano, occasionally walloping them with a variety of drumsticks. Offstage, Argentine Composer Mauricio Kagel tape-recorded snatches of the performance, played them back while Tudor and friend banged on. After more such pyrotechnics, Schoenberg's Pierrot Lunaire sounded almost romantic. At concert's end Keleman waited nervously for the commissar's reaction. Schoenberg, said Vucinic, was merely a "hybrid"-a musical petit bourgeois. "I prefer the outright revolutionary techniques," Keleman sighed...
Gologne (June 10-19). The most ambitious of contemporary music festivals offers 16 world premieres by such avant-garde composers as Mauricio Kagel, Herbert Eimert, Pierre Boulez, Wolfgang Fortner, Karl Blomdahl and Karl-heinz Stockhausen, whose Contest Between Electronic Sound and Instruments is expected to be the festival's most impressive explosion of sound...
...heralded as one of the best photographs of the year is this actively impressionistic photograph of Bandleader Cab Calloway by Bert Longworth. It is reprinted here by special permission of the editors of U. S. Camera 1936. He'd make a swell interference runner Giant Neil Simpson and Gerald Kagel, coaches the South Dakota School of Mines 1037 graduates shake hands with Tyramusruns Rex, a reptile what the Redlands 40,000,000 years ago and is now a resident of the WPA's Dinosaur Park near Sioux Falls...