KPFA-FM Music Dept. ➔ Mauricio Kagel’s Anagramme

Analog Audio

Event Type

Interview and Music

Origin

KPFA

Identifier

C.1963.08.28

Program Length

69 min

Dates

1963-08-28 | broadcast
| 402 | created

Description

The Argentine composer residing in Germany discusses his "Anagramme" for chorus and instruments, and is questioned after the music by Pauline Oliveros, Ramón Sender, and Will Ogdon. One of his more famous compositions, “Anagramme” takes as the inspiration for it’s text a Latin palindrome found in Dante’s Divine Comedy. Broken down into a variety of phonemic anagrams in four different languages, French, Spanish, Italian, and German the resulting “chorus” is at times abrupt and noisy. Prior to hearing the work, Kagel, from a lecture given at Mills College, goes into considerable detail about how he wrote the piece. Kagel died in 2008.

Genres

Avant-garde
New music

Musical Selections

Anagramme (”Anagrama”) (1957-58) / Mauricio Kagel

Subjects

New music
Avant-garde (Music)
Cantatas, Secular
Anagrams

Related place

Berkeley (Calif.) (was broadcast at)

Related Entities

Kagel, Mauricio
Oliveros, Pauline, 1932-2016
Sender Barayón, Ramón, 1934-
Ogdon, Will, 1921-