Talk:Scratch Orchestra

Draft List of Concerts

Would be very instructive and useful to have a list of all the concerts performed here. Anyone? Szczels 21:46, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

SCRATCH ORCHESTRA CONCERTS
(Compiled by original member Michael Chant and given to me during the 50th Anniversary celebrations in Morely College, London (not necessarily complete, and not including concerts or events of associated ensembles)

Sat 1/11/69 Hampstead Town Hall

Sat 8/11/69 Islington Town Hall

Sat 15/11/69 Chelsea Town Hall (Journey of the Isle of Wight – westwards – by iceburg – to Tokio Bay [spelling as advertised])

Tues 25/11/69 Ealing Town Hall

Sat 20/12/69 S.E. Berks College

Sun 11/1/70 New Arts Laboratory (Presentation No.8)

Sat 7/2/70 Group Shout in National Gallery

Sun 1/3/70 New Arts Laboratory (Music Now Instrumental Ensemble)

25/3/70 Pavilions in the Parks, Greenwich Arts Festival (for one week)

Thurs 2/4/70 St Pancras Town Hall, now, Camden Town Hall (Presentation No.12 ‘No Title’)

Thurs 9/4/70 International Students House (Presentation No.13)

Thurs 16/4/70 St Pancras Town Hall, now, Camden Town Hall (Presentation No.14 Rocks)

Sat 16/5/70 Richmond Journey Stefan Szczelkun's perambulatory concert

Fri 24/4/70 St John the Evangelist, Smith Square (Presentation No.11 Roger Smalley Memorial Concert)

Thurs 30/4/70 St Pancras Town Hall, now, Camden Town Hall (Presentation No.15 Prizewinners’ Concert)

Thurs 4/6/70 St Stephen’s Walbrook

Sat 11/7/70 (Presentation No.17, Regent’s Park boating lake concert)

Sat 11/7/70 (viewing of “Fantastic Journey”, Starlight Cinema, Mayfair Hotel)

July 25 – August 8, 1970 Village Concerts (Cornwall, Anglesey)

Fri 25/9/70 Purcell Room, Beethoven Today

From 11/10/70 Zees Arts, gallery in Chiltern st.Afternoon Teas

Mon 23/11/70 Queen Elizabeth Hall, Pilgrimage from Scattered Points on the surface of the body to the brain, the inner ear, the heart & the stomach

Sat 28/11/70 University of Essex (ICE NINE)

Fri 11/12/70 German Institute (is this the Goethe Institute? (Presentation No.7)

Tues 29/12/70 Masked Ball

Sat 6/2/71 Seaside Concert, Dorset coast

Thurs 25/2/71 Ealing Town Hall, The Balkan Sobranie Smoking Mixture

Fri 5/3/71 concert

Thurs 13/5/71 German Institute, Wandelkonzert

Sat 15/5/71 Afterdark at Primrose Hill

Sat 22/5/71 beauty, promise of happiness, between Hampden rd & Ruper rd, N19

Sat 5/6/71 Holland Park Comprehensive School, GYMNASIUM

Sun 6/6/71 concert in a field at Tatsfield (flyer says 6/5/71)

Sat 19/6/71 (and following week) North East of England camping and concerts trip

11 - 30 August 1971 The Scratch Orchestra Cottage at Art Spectrum in Alexandra Palace

30 Aug – 3 Sept 1971 Scratch Orchestra Summer School at The Place

Fri 21/1/72 Cecil Sharp House, Cornelius Cardew's The Great Learning Paragraph 5

Wed 26/1/72 Liverpool

Tues 28/3/72 Burdocks

Thurs 25/5/72 Conway Hall, The Jenny Robbins Concert

Sat 17/6/72 In the Shadow of Westway

Thurs 24/8/72 Royal Albert Hall (Promenade Concert)

Aug 27 – Sept 9, 1972 Munich fortnight

Sat 9/12/72 Birmingham Arts Lab

Fri 11/5/73 London School of Economics Old Theatre, The explorers club

Fri 25/1/74 Institute of Contemporary Arts, Art to Serve the People

Tues 5/3/74 Cornelius Cardew Revolutionary songs and arrangements

The British Sound Archive at the British Library has archive materials from Cardew.

Szczels (talk) 17:14, 12 December 2019 (UTC)

relation to Fluxus

I think of the Scratch Orchestra as the British version of 'Fluxus' anyway many agree with this connection and it would be good to make it here with a link Szczels 21:48, 7 February 2007 (UTC)

NY Times article

This NY Times article on the Really Terrible Orchestera includes mention of Scratch Orchestra. [1] --Larrybob 21:54, 28 August 2007 (UTC)

Finally the definitive book on the SO?

• John Tilbury: Cornelius Cardew: a life unfinished has a chapter on the Scratch Orchestra but the book is over 1000pp Copula 2008

Tilbury is an excellent writer so it doesn't seem so long. —Preceding unsigned comment added by Szczels (talk • contribs) 21:04, 5 December 2008 (UTC) Szczels (talk) 21:42, 5 December 2008 (UTC)

• Michael Parsons (ed.) 25 years from scratch: The Scratch Orchestra (London: London Musicians’ Collective, 1994) - a smallish publication I've seen but I don't have a copy of my own to refer to. If you google Michael, you'll also find a few shorter articles he's written about SO.

Footnote73 (talk) 19:45, 1 April 2013 (UTC) Excellent, I just found an online PDF - i'll add the details to the main article shortly but here it is: [2] Footnote73 (talk) 00:08, 5 April 2013 (UTC)

I cannot edit the ref list !! Please help

Here is the info: "Exploding Cinema 1991 - 1997: culture and democracy" PhD (RCA) 2002 pp 18 - 23 (no longer online, printed copies at the British Library and Royal College of Art (RCA))

Cornelius Cardew, "[title]", The Musical Times [vol.], [issue no.] (June 1969) "The Scratch Orchestra: draft constitution" The Musical Times, Vol. 110, No. 1516, 125th Anniversary Issue. (June, 1969), pp. 617+619

If someone can help me find a page that shows how to access and edit the ref list I'd appreciate that. Szczels (talk) 21:06, 12 December 2019 (UTC)