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!!! Nov. 1, 1969 The first performance of the Scratch Orchestra takes place in Hampstead Town Hall.{br}Had you attended a Scratch Orchestra concert you would have been reminded more of a workshop or schoolroom or market place or even farmyard than of a concert hall. The first concert in Hampstead Town Hall found a large number of participants spread generously over stage and floor engaged, mostly individually, in activities aural, visual and ambulatory. Sitting in your seat, you might have heard nothing but a recording of The Nun's Chorus' from Casanova (which because it was amplified tended, unfortunately, to colour everything else -otherwise their performances are blissfully free from electronics, from the at- titude which dictates that everything that sounds be amplified or ring-modulated). But had you wished to sample all the wares you would have found a very carefully prepared and executed performance of Cardew's ''The Great Digest Paragraph 6'', early rock records and 'Teddy Bears Picnic', sound poetry from Bob Cobbing, a lone cello, toy instruments, home-made instruments, games of patience and many other things all happening independently and innocently of each other and structured according to the particular `scores' that the performers had chosen to realise. — {small}([Michael Nyman, "Music Scratch and Co.", In The Spectator, 12 DECEMBER 1969, p. 33\|http://archive.spectator.co.uk/article/13th-december-1969/33/music-scratch-co]){/small}{br}The first four Scratch Orchestra concerts took place in November 1969 at Hampstead, Islington, Chelsea and Ealing Town Halls on the 1, 8, 15, and 25 November respectively. — {small} (In John Tilbury, "Cornelius Cardew, a life unfinished"){/small} {br}{br}----
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