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 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 ...

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 ...

A page from the composition "Treatise" by Cornelius Cardew, an example of graphical notation, which is a form of sheet music using images to instruct musicians how it should be performed. From the ...

'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 ...

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 ...

About 20 men and women assembled in a ballet studio in Chinatown on a recent Monday evening to rehearse a sequence of austere and meticulously choreographed movements in silence. Peering over a piece ...

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 ...