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From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo)
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Subject: Re: Cardew
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Date: Wed, 23-May-84 19:57:14 EDT
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There's an interesting article on Cardew in an issue of the New Yorker
published sometime in the last year.  Yes, he did die in a car crash,
but I'm not sure when (he was dead when the article came out).

I've heard a section of one of his choral works performed at the Relache
Center in Philadelphia: an a capella cantata based on a quotation from
the Confucian classic THE GREAT LEARNING and employing (of course) ama-
tuer singers.  It surprised me: I found it not only interesting but
engrossing & even beautiful, even though the musical materials consisted
of musical recitations of each phrase of the text.

I don't know of any recordings of Cardew, but then I haven't really looked.

					Ron Rizzo