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CORNELIUS CARDEW (AND FRIENDS)

— AMM — The Scratch Orchestra —

— Red Flame Proletarian Propaganda Team — People’s Liberation Music —

page 7 — List of Works, References & Concerts Timeline

page 1 (1958-1961) — page 2 (1961-1966) — page 3 (1966 - AMM) — page 4 (1968-1969) — page 5 (1969-1972) — page 6 (1972-1981)






chronological list of works(Edit)

  • Three Rhythmic Pieces, trumpet and piano (1955)
  • String Trio No. 1 (1955-56)
  • String Trio No. 2 (1955-56)
  • Why Cannot the Ear Be Closed To Its Own Destruction? (W. Blake), soprano/tenor and piano (1957)
  • Piano Sonata No. 1 (1955-58)
  • Piano Sonata No. 2 (1955-58)
  • 2 Books of Study for Pianists, 2 pianos (1958)
  • 1st and 2nd Exercises, electronic sound work (1958) (NWDR West German National Radio, studio for electronic music, Köln)
  • Piano Sonata No. 3 (1959)
  • February Piece 1959, piano (1959)
  • Octet 1959, picc, alto fl, ob, ob, Ebcl, bass cl, dbl bsn, vln, db (1959)
  • Autumn '60, orchestra (1960?)
  • Arrangement for Orchestra (1960)
  • Third Orchestra Piece 1960 (1960) [arr. as Material, harmony instruments, 1964]
  • Autumn '60, chamber ensemble (1960)
  • February Piece 1960, piano (1960)
  • Octet '61, undetermined forces (1961) [partly graphic] [dedicated to Jasper Johns]
  • First Movement for String Quartet (1961)
  • Piece (for Stella), guitar (1961)
  • February Piece 1961, piano (1961)
  • Movement for Orchestra (1962)
  • Ah Thel, chorus w/opt. piano (1963)
  • Solo with Accompaniment, undetermined forces (1964)
  • Volo Solo, undetermined forces (1964)
  • Bun No. 2, orchestra (1964)
  • Memories of You, piano (1964)
  • Three Winter Potatoes, piano (1961-65) [some material from Octet '61, 1961 and Material, 1964]
  • Material, harmony instruments (1964) [arr. from Third Orchestra Piece 1960 (1960)]
  • Bun No. l, orchestra (1965)
  • Treatise, undetermined forces (1963-67) [193 page graphic score]
  • Sextet - The Tiger's Mind, undetermined forces (1967) [text]
  • Schooltime Compositions, undetermined forces (1968) [text, graphic]
  • Schooltime Special, undetermined forces (1968) [text]
  • The Great Learning, 7 paragraphs, various performers (1968-70; paragraphs 1 and 2, rev. 1972)
  • Unintented Piano Music, piano (1970 or 71)
  • Octet '71, [undetermined forces?] (1971?)
  • Scratch Music, undetermined forces (1971)
  • The East is Red, violin and piano (1972)
  • Three Bourgeois Songs, soprano and orchestra or unison chorus and piano (1973)
    • Our Joy
    • High Heaven
    • The Turtledove
  • The Old and the New, soprano, chorus and orchestra (1973)
  • Piano Album 1973 (1973)
    • Charge!
    • Song and Dance
    • Bring the Land a New Life
    • Sailing the Seas Depends Upon the Helmsman
    • Red Flag Prelude
    • Soon (There Will Be A High Tide Of Revolution In Our Country) [one of Cardew's first political pieces]
    • The Croppy Boy
    • Father Murphy
    • Four Principles on Ireland
    • Long Live Chairman Mao!
  • Piano Album 1974 (1974)
    • Bethanien Song
    • Red Aid Song
    • Revolution is the Main Trend In The World Today
    • The East is Red
  • Thalmann Variations, piano / for violin, and marimba and xylophone (1974)
  • Vietnam Sonata, piano / for brass ensemble (1975)
  • Mountains, bass clarinet (1977)
  • Workers' Song, violin (1978)
  • Conciously, short orchestral piece (1978)
  • Dartmoor, short orchestral piece for large ensemble (1978-80?)
  • Political Songs, voice and piano (1971-81)
    • Consciously [written by Cornelius Cardew]
    • Founding of the Party [written by Cornelius Cardew]
    • Four Principles On Ireland [written by Cornelius Cardew] [based partly on an old Irish melody]
    • Law Of History (1975) [written by Cornelius Cardew]
    • Nothing To Lose But Our Chains [written by Cornelius Cardew]
    • Revolution Is The Main Trend [written by Cornelius Cardew]
    • Smash The Social Contract (1977) [written by Cornelius Cardew]
    • Song of the CYUB (Communist Youth Union of Britain) [written by Cornelius Cardew/Devenport]
    • There is Only One Lie, There is Only One Truth [written by Cornelius Cardew]
    • Watkinsons' Thirteens [written 1794; arranged by Cornelius Cardew]
    • We Sing for the Future (1979) [written by Cornelius Cardew/Hardial Bains]
    • The Workers of Ontario [written by Cardew/Canadian Cultural Workers Committee (CCWC); arr. Lamburn]
  • Boolavogue, 2 pianos (1981)
  • We Sing for the Future, piano (1981)



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writings by Cornelius Cardew(Edit)


(selection)

  • Cardew, Cornelius. Cornelius Cardew: A Reader, edited by Edwin Prévost, introduction by Michael Parsons. Harlow, Essex: Copula, 2006. ISBN 0-9525492-2-0. — (A collection of Cornelius Cardew's published writings together with commentaries and responses from Richard Barrett, Christopher Fox, Brian Dennis, Anton Lukoszevieze, Michael Nyman, Eddie Prévost, David Ryan, Howard Skempton, Dave Smith, John Tilbury and Christian Wolff.)



  • 1959 -
    Cardew, C. (1959), The Unity of Musical Space, New Departures, no. 1, pp. 53–56.
  • 1961 -
    Cardew, C. (1961), Report on Stockhausen's 'Carré’ - Part 1, In The Musical Times - Vol.102, No.1424, Oct. 1961: 619-22) - Part 2, In The Musical Times - Vol. 102, No. 1425, Nov. 1961: 698-700).

    Cardew C. (1961), Notation - Interpretation, etc., In Tempo, New Series, No. 58 (Summer, 1961), Cambridge University Press, pp. 21-33.
  • 1962 -
    Cardew, C. (1962), In Re La Monte Young, In New Departures. Double number 4, 1962 — [Editor's note : "In Re", Latin for "in the matter [of]", means : in reply or in reality].
  • 1964 -
    Cardew C. (1964), New Music Has Found Its Feet, in Financial Times, 31 July 1964; reprinted in Gianmario Borio and Hermann Danuser (eds.), Im Zenit der Moderne, vol. 3 (Freiburg-im-Breisgau: Rombach, 1997), p. 509.

    Cardew, C. (1964), Cage and Cunningham, In The Musical Times, Vol. 105, No. 1459 (Sep., 1964), pp. 659-660.

    Cardew, C. (1964), Modern Music Has Found Its Feet but on What Low Ground, In The Musical Times, Vol. 105, No. 1459 (Sep., 1964), p. 674.
  • 1972 -
    Cardew, C. (1972), Scratch Music (Scratch Orchestra draft constitution, notes, scores, catalogue, and 1001 Activities), edited by Cornelius Cardew, The MIT Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA ISBN 0-262-53025-2.

    Cardew C. (1972), John Cage — Ghost or Monster ?, In The Listener, BBC Publications, May 4, 1972. Reprinted in "Stockhausen Serves Imperialism", Latimer New Dimensions, 1974. Reprinted in LMJ Leonardo Music Journal, Vol. 8, issue "Ghosts & Monsters - Technology and Personality in Contemporary Music", The MIT Press, 1998, pp. 3-4.
  • 1974 -
    Cardew, C. (1974), Stockhausen Serves Imperialism, and Other Articles: with Commentary and Notes, Latimer New Dimensions (1974)

    Cardew, C. (1974), Wiggly Lines and Wobbly Music, In Studio International, November/December 1976, 192:247-55 (part of their Art and Experimental Music issue.) Re-published In Breaking the Sound Barrier: a Critical Anthology of the New Music, ed. Gregory Battcock (New York: 1981)



  • Books and articles translated by Cornelius Cardew
    • Karlheinz Stockhausen, "...how time passes..." (1955), English translation by Cornelius Cardew. (in "Die Reihe" issue #1, p. 10, 1958) (In Die Reihe, Issue.3, 1959)
    • Willi Reich, "The Life and Work of Alban Berg" (With three articles by Berg) (1937), English translation by Cornelius Cardew. (Thames & Hudson, London, 1965) & (New York: Vienna House, 1965) & (New York: Harcourt, Brace and World, 1965)
    • György Ligeti, "Metamorphosis of Musical Form", in Form — Space, "Die Reihe" issue #7 (English edn, trans. Cornelius Cardew, Bryn Mawr), PA : Theodore Presser, 1965, p.15.



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papers(Edit)




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1965-1973 Concerts Timeline (Cardew, AMM, Scratch Orchestra, etc.)(Edit)


(In progress)



September, 1965

  • — Keith Rowe + ???
  • — Stratford
  • — Treatise (Cardew)

January 15, 1966

  • — John White (trombone), John Tilbury (piano), David Bedford (accordion), Keith Rowe (electric guitar), Peter Greeham (Hammond organ), and Cornelius Cardew (piano, gongs, and radios)
  • — recording broadcast by the BBC in the series ‘Composer’s Portrait’,
  • — Treatise (Cardew)

March 13, 1966

  • — AMM (+ Pink Floyd)
  • — The Spontaneous Underground event, The Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London

March 23, 1966

May, 1966

  • Cornelius Cardew participated in a AMM concert at the Conway Hall in May 1966

June, 1966 ????

  • — AMM (+ Pink Floyd)
  • — The Spontaneous Underground event, The Marquee, Wardour Street, Soho, London

June, 1966

  • — AMM Music (LP)
  • — Recorded on the 8th and 27th June 1966 at Sound Techniques

October, 1966

  • — AMM (+ Pink Floyd)
  • — The International Times launch party at the Roundhouse

November 28, 1966

  • — Creative Associates at the University of Buffalo & Head of the Composition Department at Western Illinois University
  • — Baird Music Hall, University of Buffalo campus
  • — Works : Niccolo Castiglioni, Paul Zonn, Cornelius Cardew, Williams Karlins
  • — link

December 17, 1966

  • — Creative Associates at the University of Buffalo
  • — Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo NY
  • — Canzoni (Niccolo Castiglioni), Treatise Fragments, American Pages (Cornelius Cardew) — and compositions by Chavez, Syteman, Dougoszewski and Maretirano.
  • — link

January 16, 1967

  • — David Bedford and John Tilbury with Francine Elliott
  • — Arts Council of Great Britain, Great Drawing Room, 4 St. James's Square
  • — Cornelius Cardew, Solo with accompaniment (first public performance)

January 27, 1967

  • — AMM (+ Pink Floyd)
  • — UFO club, London

March 19, 1967

  • — Creative Associates (12 members of the Creative and Performing Arts Center at the University of Buffalo) (Shaul Ben Meir, flute ; Edward Burnham, percussion ; Cornelius Cardew, composer and pianist ; Jean Dupouy, violin ; Anne Graff, contralto ; Makoto Michii, contrabass ; Robert Martin, cello ; Andrew White, oboe, saxophones ; Jan Williams, percussion ; Klaus von Wrochem, composer and violonist ; Paul Zonn, composer and clarinetist ; Richard Duffalo, associate conductor)
  • — Hamilton College Chapel, Buffalo NY ?
  • — Concert, « An Evening in New Music »
  • — link

April 30, 1967

  • — Creative Associates (12 members of the Creative and Performing Arts Center at the University of Buffalo)
  • — Albright-Knox Gallery, Buffalo NY
  • — Concert, « An Evening in New Music » — Tie (William Albright), Two Pieces for Kettledrums (Elliot Carter), Sonata for Cello and Piano (Carter), Axis' for flute, oboe, clarinet, cello and percussion (Steve Syverud), Plus-Minus'' (Karlheinz Stockhausen) (performed by Cornelius Cardew, Burham and William)
  • — link

June 2, 1967

  • — ?
  • — Friday 2nd June 1967 — BBC Third Programme, 3.pm,
  • — Cornelius Cardew, one hour performance of Treatise
  • — link

November 29, 1967

  • — Creative Associates (members of the Creative and Performing Arts Center at the University of Buffalo). Performers : Stuart Dempster, trombone ; Robert Martin, cello ; Jan Williams, percussion ; Margaret Hassell, piano
  • — Baird Hall, Buffalo NY
  • — Blackboard Piece With Girls and Loops (Jon Hassell) — Scan (Jon Hassell)— Autumn ’60 (Cornelius Cardew) — Trio for Trombone, Cello and Percussion (Carlos Alsina) — Music for Trombone and Piano (Barney Childs)
  • — link — link

December 12, 1967

  • — Lou Gare, Susan Gittins, Robin Thompson, Samuel Richards, Keith Rowe, Eddie Prévost, Christian Wolff, Paul Rutherford, Cornelius Cardew, Colin Wood, Christopher Hobbs, Hugh Shrapnel, David Conway, Bernhard Living, Laurence B. Crawley, Howard Skempton
  • — 43 King Street, London
  • — The Tiger’s Mind (Cornelius Cardew)

January 14, 1968

  • — Festival of New Music at the Arts Laboratory, 182 Drury Lane
  • — New England Music : Cornelius Cardew, Anna Lockwood, Richard Orton, Richard Topp, Hugh Davies, etc.
  • — link

January 19 - February 1, 1968

  • — LONDON'S ANTI-UNIVERSITY will be opening on February 12th at 49 Rivington Street, E.C.2 (Old Street tube station).
  • — Cornelius Cardew, the experimental composer, will cover experimental music.
  • — link

February 3, 1968

  • — Tim Souster (piano, tape? and other instruments)
  • — Birmingham
  • — part of Cardew's Treatise, Piano Piece 1 (Tim Souster), piano pieces by Morton Feldman, Zyklus (Karlheinz Stockhausen) (performer : John Donaldson, percussion)
  • — link

February 17, 1968

  • — Cornelius Cardew (other things), David Bedford (accordion)
  • — Birmingham
  • — Solo with Accompaniment (Cornelius Cardew)
  • — link

February 28, 1968

  • — AMM (Gare, Prévost, Rowe), Cornelius Cardew
  • — Workshop Repertory Theater, 1685 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo N.Y
  • — Improvisation
  • — link — link

March 1, 1968

  • — AMM (Gare, Prévost, Rowe), Cornelius Cardew, and Buffalo Musicians (members of the Creative and Performing Arts Center at the University of Buffalo)
  • — Workshop Repertory Theater, 1685 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo N.Y
  • — Treatise (Cardew)
  • — link — link — link

March 2, 1968

  • — AMM (Gare, Prévost, Rowe), Cornelius Cardew
  • — Workshop Repertory Theater, 1685 Elmwood Ave., Buffalo N.Y
  • — Improvisation
  • — link — link

March 6-9, 1968

  • — AMM (Gare, Prévost, Rowe), Cornelius Cardew
  • — Steinway Hall, New York (produced by Ben Patterson)
  • — four concerts of improvised music (with probably the inclusion of performance of Cardew's Treatise)
  • — link

March 10-11, 1968

  • — Christian Wolff, John Tilbury, Lou Gare, Robin Page, Mark Boyle, and an amateur chorus
  • — International Students' Theatre, International Students' Centre, Great Portland Street, London
  • — Schooltime Compositions (Opera / Audio-visual) (Cornelius Cardew)
  • — link

May 18, 1968

  • — Cornelius Cardew Ensemble
  • — Music Now, I.C.A., 195 Piccadilly
  • — Deathchant (La Monte Young) — In C (Terry Riley)

May 23, 1968

  • — AMM (Cardew, Gare, Prévost, Rowe, Hobbs, Wolff)
  • — Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
  • — Improvisation

June 12, 1968

  • — CONCERT AMM with Cornelius Cardew and Christopher Hobbs,
  • — The Crypt, Notting Hill Gate, London
  • — Improvisation

June 15, 1968

  • — AMM (Cardew, Gare, Hobbs, Prévost, Rowe) — Eddie Prévost’s Spirals
  • — Commonwealth Institute, Kensington High St., London City Hall, Carlisle
  • — Rowe, Tilbury, Gare, Cardew, Prévost, Hobbs Improvisation — MUSIC: "Spirals' with Keilh Rowe, John Tilbury. Cornelius Cardew, Lou Gare, Eddie Prévost. Presented by Music Nov at Commonwealth Institute, Kensington High St., W.8. 8p.m. Tickets 6/- available from Box Office.
  • — link

June 23, 1968

  • — ?
  • — University Arts Festival; Warwick
  • — ? Incredible String Band, Cornelius Cardew, Chris McGregor, guerilla drama &. Underground films. 12/6, two-day ticket 22/6.
  • — link

July 9, 1968

  • — ?
  • — Kingston School of Art, London, Cheltenham Festival (Macnaghten concert)
  • — The Great Digest (Confucius) for chorus and organ (Cornelius Cardew) (commissioned for a Macnaghten concert)
  • — link

October 18, 1968

  • — Cornelius Cardew takes part in a free improvisation entitled 'Spacecraft'.
  • — In 'Music in our time' BBC Music programme.
  • — link

November 3, 1968

  • — Mark Boyle, George Brecht, Cornelius Cardew, John Tilbury
  • — Water Yam (George Brecht)
  • — link

February 3/17/24, 1969

  • — John Tilbury
  • — Purcell Room, London
  • — Pianist John Tilbury is giving three concerts of contemporary music in the Purcell Room (February 3, 17, and 24), playing music by Webern, Stockhausen, Cage, Cardew and others.
    In the third concert (February 24) he will use electronics in a version of Cornelius Cardew's 'Treatise' — sounds produced in and around the piano will be amplified, modulated and relayed through loudspeakers placed around the hall. 'Treatise' is a score made up of graphic symbols which have no fixed meaning — the player has to find ways of using them to suggest actions, sounds and relationships which suit his medium — it is a map of an unknown territory, and performance is an exploration.
  • — link

March 16, 1969

March 23, 1969

  • — The pre-Scratch performance at the ICA, March 23rd 1969 was of Cardew’s Schooltime Compositions. Amongst all the cacophony, It is almost certainly Lou Gare on sax, Alec Hill on clarinet and squeaky sounds made by Dave Jackman letting out air slowly from inflated balloons.
  • — (directed by John Tilbury)
  • — ICA, Nash Hse., The Mall, London, 10.30am - 7.30pm
  • — Schooltime Compositions (Cornelius Cardew)

April 16, 1969

  • — ...
  • — ICA, Purcell Room, London
  • — ICA Music section presents Thirty Years of the Music of John Cage (Directed and devised by Tim Souster) : Radio Music (1956) for 1-8 players (Gavin Bryars, Cornelius Cardew, Misha Donat, Christopher Hobbs, Tim Souster, Robin Thompson, John Tilbury, Bill York, performers) — 34’46 776" for two pianists, a string player and a percussionist (1954-56) (John Tilbury, Cornelius Cardew, prepared pianos ; Tim Souster, violin ; Christopher Hobbs, percussion) — Variations VI (1966) for a plurality of sound systems (any sources, components and loudspeakers) (Cornelius Cardew, Christopher Hobbs, Time Souster, John Tilbury, performers) with Music for Amplified Toy Pianos (1960) (Gavin Bryars)
  • — link link — link

May 4, 1969

  • — Music Now Ensemble, dir. Cardew
  • — Roundhouse, London
  • — Atlas Eclipticalis (John Cage) — Stones (Christian Wolff) — Scumbling (Skempton) — Silver Pyramid (Prévost) — String Trio (La Monte Young) — String Quartet (Jennings) — Candle Piece for Radios (George Brecht) — Voicepiece (Christopher Hobbs) — Paragraph 2, The Great Digest (Cornelius Cardew)

May 9, 1969

  • — AMM (Rowe, Prévost, Hobbs, Gare, Cardew)
  • — Roundhouse, London
  • — Improvisation

June 15, 1969

  • — a recital by AMM, featuring Cornelius Cardew and friends and the following.
  • — Clapham Common
  • — In the bandstand on Clapham Common (where it really does all happen), on Sunday June 15 at 3pm there is a recital by AMM, featuring Cornelius Cardew and friends.
  • — link

June 21, 1969

  • — AMM (Rowe, Prévost, Hobbs, Gare, Cardew)
  • — Corn Exchange, Bristol
  • — Improvisation

Aug. 13, 1969

  • — AMM (Hobbs, Prévost, Gare, Rowe)
  • — Artists’ Place, 17 Dukes Rd., London
  • — Improvisation

Dec. 16, 1969

  • — AMM Christopher Hobbs, Cornelius Cardew, Eddie Prévost, Keith Rowe, Lou Gare
  • — Aarhus unge tonekunstnere, kl.20, det jydske musik-konservatorium
  • — Improvisation

Dec. 20, 1969

  • — Scratch Orchestra Nucleus Group (SONG)
  • — The Theatre, Southeast Berkshire College, Bracknell
  • — Composition 1960 No. 7 (La Monte Young) — Breath (David Jackman) — Private Company Plays Cricket as Drama (Michael Chant) — Tonic Formula (Cornelius Cardew) — Song 1 (Christopher Hobbs) — Actions I and II, 120869 (Harris) — Waves of Bracknell and Scumbling (Skempton) — Space Time Music (Shrapnel) — Scratch Music (Parsons)

January 20, 1970

  • — AMM
  • — London
  • — link

February 3, 1970

  • — AMM
  • — London
  • — link

February 8, 1970

  • — ??
  • — BBC broadcast
  • — Treatise (Cardew)

April 2, 1970

  • — Scratch Orchestra
  • — St. Pancras Town Hall, London (Program devised by Mike Harper)
  • — Great Digest (Paragraph 6) (Cardew)

April 9, 1970

  • — Scratch Orchestra
  • — International Student House, London (Program devised by Roger Sutherland)
  • — Play (Christian Wolff) — Distance (Ichiyanagi) — Poem (La Monte Young) — Space-Time Music (Shrapnel) — World II (Von Biel)

April 16, 1970

  • — Scratch Orchestra, Rocks
  • — St. Pancras Town Hall, London (Program devised by Diane Jackman)

April 24, 1970

  • — Scratch Orchestra, Roger Smalley Memorial Concert
  • — St. John the Evangelist, Smith Square, London (Program devised by Bryn Harris)
  • — Death Chant (La Monte Young) — Composition 1960 #7 (La Monte Young) — Study for Pulses 1 (Smalley) — Lyric (Michael Chant) — Treatise (Cardew) — In Memoriam Roger Smalley and Tim Souster (Harris) — Sixties Reunion in Seventy (Harris)

April 30, 1970

  • — Scratch Orchestra, Prizewinners’ Concert
  • — St. Pancras Town Hall, London (Program devised by Howard Skempton)

Nov. 23, 1970

  • — Scratch Orchestra, Pilgrimage from scattered points on the exterior surface of the body to the brain, via the stomach, the heart and the inner ear
  • — Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
  • — Mindfulness Occupied with the Body (Parsons) — Improvisation Rite HSTPR41 — Rationalization of Realization (Ascough) — 1812 Overture (Tchaikovsky) — Blue Danube Waltz (Strauss) — In C (Terry Riley) — Sixth Symphony (Mahler) — 101 Activities

May 17, 1971

  • — John White and Cornelius Cardew
  • — Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
  • — Machine for Tuba and Cello (John White)

June 10, 1971

  • — AMM (Gare, Prévost, Rowe, Cardew)
  • — Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
  • — Improvisation

November 10, 1971

  • — AMM Music Group and Cornelius Cardew
  • — Main Theater of the Performing Arts Center at Albany State University
  • — Improvisation
  • — link

January 21, 1972

  • — Scratch Orchestra supplemented by groups from Portsmouth Polytechnic Department of Fine Art and Morley College, London, with Brian Dennis, Josephine Nendick, Doreen Price, Howard Skempton and Sue Gittin (vocal) (with notes by Cornelius Cardew)
  • — Cecil Sharp House, 2 Regent's Park Road (performances given by the Macnaghten Concerts, in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain)
  • — The Great Learning, paragraph 5, composed for any number of trained and untrained musicians, on a text by Confucius (Cornelius Cardew) — The programme also cites Supplementary Compositions by Greg Bright, Michael Brawner, Dave Jackman, Hugh Shrapnel, Ian Ward, Alan Brett, Chris May and Penny Jordan.

February 4, 1972

  • — Steve Reich, Jon Gibson, Steve Chambers, Art Murphy, James Preiss, Russ Hartenberger, Joan Labarbera, Jay Clayton, Judy Sherman, Cornelius Cardew, Gavin Bryars, Christopher Hobbs and Michael Nyman
  • — Hayward Gallery ((performances given by the Macnaghten Concerts, in association with the Arts Council of Great Britain)
  • — Drumming (Steve Reich) (first performance of the full version outside the USA) — The programme notes are provided by Reich (including an essay entitled 'Music as a Gradual Process') and there are biographical notes on the various artists.

March 26, 1972

  • — AMM with the Gunter Hampel Group
  • — Frankfurt Germany
  • — link — link

June 17, 1972

  • — Scratch Orchestra
  • — Westway Theatre, London
  • — Scratch, In the Shadow of Westway

August 13-26, 1972

  • — AMM (Gare, Prévost)
  • — ICES72 THE INTERNATIONAL CARNIVAL OF EXPERIMENTAL SOUND, London Roundhouse
  • — Improvisation
  • — ICES’72 devised by Harvey Matusow and held at the Roundhouse and The Place in August 1972 was the final British experimental festival associated with the counterculture. ICES’72 featured nearly 300 experimental composers and performers, including Cage, Charlotte Moorman, Gavin Bryars and the Portsmouth Orchestra. White and Hobbs played as a duo, as the Promenade Theatre Orchestra had dissolved on political lines. The Scratch did not play at ICES’72; AMM also played as a duo, as Rowe and Cardew had this time left AMM on political grounds (Hobbs had left earlier).

August 13, 1972

  • — John Cage Conductor ; Cornelius Cardew, Richard Bernas, Roger Woodward, David Tudor, Annea Lockwood, Frederick Page, John Tilbury : harpsichords ; sound projection
  • — The Round House (Proms 72)
  • — HPSCHD (John Cage) (UK premiere)

August 24, 1972

  • — Noël Lee piano ; Roger Woodward piano ; Cornelius Cardew Conductor ; Michael Chant organ ; The Scratch Orchestra ; Jane Manning soprano ; Matrix Tristan Fry percussion ;James Holland percussion
  • — Royal Albert Hall (Proms 72)
  • — Concerto for Two Solo Pianos (Stravinsky) — The Great Learning: Paragraph One (and Two ?) (Cardew) — Nenia: the Death of Orpheus (Sir Harrison Birtwistle) — Sonata for Two Pianos and Percussion, Sz 110 (Bartók)

August ?, 1972

  • — ?
  • — Radio Munich
  • — Burdocks (Christian Wolff)
    Other concerts by the transitional Scratch included Wolff’s Burdocks on Munich radio that month, where the controversy was experimental, as Carole Finer interpreted a number ‘7’ in the score by playing seven folk songs on her banjo. Cage, Feldman and Tudor condemned the Scratch because they ignored Wolff’s intentions, but Wolff, who did not attend, said « given the nature of [the Scratch…] it would have been very beautiful.

Oct. 5–11, 1972

  • — Cardew, Scratch Orchestra , and Promenade Theatre Orchestra (Hill, Hobbs, Shrapnel, White)
  • — Henie-Onstad Foundation, Oslo, Norway

March 2, 1973

  • — Eddie Prévost’s Spirals (large ens. version : For Spirals: Stevens, drums leader; Gare, winds leader; Bryars, strings leader; White, percussion leader) and AMM (Prévost and Gare)
  • — Round House, London
  • — Spirals (Prévost) — Improvisation (AMM)

April 1, 1976

  • — Cornelius Cardew (piano, electric piano), Marcio Mattos (double bass), Eddie Prevost (drums), Keith Rowe (electric guitar), John Wesley-Barker (soprano saxophone, flute)
  • — Drill Hall, 16 Chenies St.
  • — Concert of Music
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