The London premiere of Cornelius Cardew's Bun No 1 was one of the highlights of last year's Proms. It was the first time anything by Cardew had been heard there since 1972, when the first paragraph of ...

Cardew's political enthusiasms may have been questionable, but a recent memorial concert demonstrated the glorious range of his experimental spirit, says Richard Gott To the Warehouse on Sunday for an ...

The English composer Cornelius Cardew (1936-81) was among the most adventurous, controversial and innovative musicians of his generation. After an initial association with Stockhausen and the European ...

Cornelius Cardew (1936-81) developed a philosophy of experimental notation and indeterminacy that influenced art music throughout the world. He was a deeply moral thinker, engaged in a constant ...

Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) was a core figure of the British avant-garde of the 1960s and 1970s. A student of Karl-Heinz Stockhausen and a follower of John Cage, he formed the Scratch Orchestra with ...

'Filling but not substantial,’ said Cornelius Cardew of his composition 'Bun No 1’. The Proms revival will be mouth-watering. Ear to the ground: Cornelius Cardew in search of inspiration This year’s ...

The realisation crept up on me very slowly, as I began to approach what I thought was the end. Over the space of two or three years, I had interviewed almost two hundred people for the book I was ...

Monumental in its scope and revolutionary in its implications, Treatise is often called the Mount Everest of graphic notation, and for good reason. The challenging work, penned between 1963 and 1967 ...

I AM researching the work of the composer Cornelius Cardew, particularly his work with an ensemble called the "Scratch Orchestra" during the late 1960s/1970s. I AM researching the work of the composer ...

Last night, I replaced the Gompertz household's Match World Cup 2010 wallchart with the BBC Proms 2010 Plan Your Summer at a Glance wallchart; replacing one set of international stars with another.

Pianist and Scratch Orchestra member John Tilbury speaks up for The Great Learning by the radical British composer and political activist Cornelius Cardew. Paul Griffiths its... Show more Pianist and ...