In the halls of the Museum of History of Sviyazhsk, in performance by the unique Moscow orchestra, a concert by Cornelius Cardew "Great Teaching" will sound

March 30, at the Sviyazhsk  museum of history, the  unique Moscow  orchestra will perform a concert by Cornelius Cardew "Great teaching." The concert starts at 13.00.

Cornelius Cardew (1936-1981) - an Englishman, an experimenter, a composer,  a pianist , a graduate of the Royal Academy of Music in London, a member of the premiere performances of music by Pierre Boulez and Karlheinz Stockhausen, Stockhausen's assistant ( 1958-60 ), the European popularizer of  John Cage, Morton Feldman, La Monte Young , Christian Wulff , a member of the improvisational group AMM (1966), inspired by Ludwig Wittgenstein graphic scores «Treatise» (1963-67), one of the founders of experimental ensemble of  amateur musicians Scratch Orchestra (1968-72), author of "The Great Teaching " ( 1968-70 ), member of the Communist Party of Britain (1970), author of the article «Stockhausen serves imperialism» ( 1972), a Marxist - Maoist , was hit by a car near his home in London in December 1981,  the author of a crime  has been found.

" Great Teaching "   was written by K. Cardew  on  texts of Confucius and consists of seven sections . Composer dedicated this work to non-professional orchestra musicians of  Scratch Orchestra, formed on the basis of musical- theoretical class of Cardew at London's Morley College. The concert will perform  the Russian premiere of the fifth section of the "Teaching ."

Moscow Scratch Orchestra ( as we conventionally call this orchestra without a name ) - a collective  of enthusiasts , performing contemporary classical music , continuing the traditions of the eponymous English  commune improvisers. It was gathered  in Moscow recently, but to its  credit,  several serious outstanding performances  took place , such as the Russian première of   few paragraphs of the "Great teaching"   by Cornelius Cardew at the center of contemporary culture "Garage" and impressive rendition of " Rondo" by  composer George Dorokhova within the festival " The future of music . "

 The uniqueness of the orchestra is that more than half of  its  participants do not have academic musical education, but every musician enthusiast is no less important in the orchestra,  than  for example, its member composers  Vlasic, Sysoev and Shirokov, whose works are played in a variety of stages, stating  from conservatories and galleries up  to theaters and festivals of contemporary culture.

Press service Ministry of Culture of Tatarstan