From: Notes | Date: September 1, 1994| Author: McCredie, Andrew D. | COPYRIGHT 1994 Music Library Association, Inc. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group.Copyright information

The flood-tide of new compositions by Mauricio Kagel, and the accompanying surge in publications both by the composer himself and a committed following of commentators continues unabated. In Kagel's scores and performances, so also in the stream of articulately supportive and, as a rule, critically affirmative literature, there is the dialectal grouping of topoi. Systematicism is juxtaposed by surprise and often intentional ambiguity. In any case, Kagel's evolution has always been on...