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Cornelius Cardew  Cornelius Cardew main page on UbuWeb Sound
Piano Music of the 1970s
01-9 performed by the composer 10 performed by Andrew Ball & John Tilbury 11 performed by Andrew Bottrill Born 1936 (Mother a painter, father a pioneer potter) 43/50 - Canterbury Cathedral School which had evacuated to Cornwall 53/7 - Royal Academy of Music (RAM) 56/81 - performer/concert organiser, 1st British perf. Boulez' "Structures 1" with Richard Rodney Bennet, RAM; also Cage, Stockhausen, etc., Worked with Bedford, Bryars, Chant, Hobbs, Nyman, Shrapnel, Smith, Tilbury, White & others 57- Electronic music, Cologne 58/60 - Stockhausen's assistant 65 - studied with Petrassi, Italy 66 - joined AMM 66 - Fellow RAM 67 - Prof. Composition, RAM 66/7 - Centre for Creative & Performing Arts, State Uni. NY 68 - Experimental Music class Morley College 69 - with Michael Parsons & Howard Skempton formed Scratch Orchestra, a large group of musicians and non-musicians, leads to question of 'art for whom'. Cornelius becomes more active as a Marxist-Leninist 73 - grant to work in W. Berlin, starts writing Piano Albums 74 - book: "Stockhausen Serves Imperialism", "I had been part of the 'school of Stockhausen'...I was also part of the 'school of Cage' & throughout the 60s I had energetically propogated, through broadcasts, concerts & articles in the press, the work of both composers. This was a bad thing and I will not offer excuses for it..." 74/8 - Peoples' Liberation Music Group: concerts, research, songbooks, played rallies, marches, benefits, picket lines, etc. 75/7 - Goldsmiths College class, Songs For Our Society 76 - Secretary, Progressive Cultural Association 78 - PCA Band 79 - PCA tour Canada; songbook We Sing for the Future 81 - 1st International Sports & Cultural Festival (ISCF) Canada 81 - Initiated work for 2nd ISCF Britain 81 - began Masters in Musical Analysis, Kings College London. Tragically killed 13th Dec 1981 by a hit-and-run driver near his home in East London RELATED RESOURCES: Cornelius Cardew's "Stockhausen Serves Imperialism" in UbuWeb Historical Cornelius Cardew's "Towards an Ethic of Improvisation" (1971) in UbuWeb Papers Itchy and Scratchy Orchestra in UbuWeb Sound |