(above photo of Mauricio Kagel from www.chamberoperamemphis.org)
Argentinian composer Mauricio Kagel died yesterday (from the Guardian’s obituary):
An artist’s originality depends less on ingenious invention than a strongly personal point of view. Mauricio Kagel, who has died aged 76, held a unique position in music of the last half century.
While widely celebrated elsewhere, in Britain he remained [...]