March is Cornelius Cardew Month
Cornelius Cardew is making a small resurgence. Richard Gott has contributed this lengthy review-essay in the the March 12, 2009 issue of The London Review of Books. The essay provides a very good summary of Cardew’s life and work, from his early improvisational works, through the Scratch Orchestra and on to his rather sad, late, Maoist period. Cardew lived a rich and influential life, which, after reading Gott’s piece you can explore more fully in John Tilbury’s biography, Cornelius Cardew: A Life Unfinished
