A Celebration of Cornelius Cardew – review

Purcell Room, LondonSeveral current events and exhibitions celebrate the composer Cornelius Cardew (1936-81), who sought to remove divisions between life and music, and whose influence transcends the marks he left on paper.This concert tackled two facets of his work: five piano pieces played by John Tilbury and a performance by AMM, the turbulent improvisation ensemble Cardew joined in the mid-1960s. AMM is now a duo, what percussionist Eddie Prevost calls "the rump" of himself and Tilbury.T...

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