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Alan Brett (b. 1948) is a cellist and composer, member of the Scratch Orchestra.
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I first became aware of Cornelius Cardew and his music in 1968, when I was a first-year cello student at Trinity College of Music, London.
I think it was in autumn 1968, that I attended a piano recital by Cornelius’s friend John Tilbury at London’s Purcell Room, which included Cardew’s Stockhausen-influenced February Pieces. (Earlier that year, Tilbury had been a prizewinner at the Gaudeamus International Competition.)
In early 1969, I attended Cornelius’s Experimental Music classes at Morley College; and in May 1969, I went to the all-day presentation of his Schooltime Compositions at the ICA in The Mall, London.
Subsequently, Cornelius sent me a kindly letter to see if I was interested in going to the first meeting of the Scratch Orchestra on July 1st 1969, at a disused warehouse in St Katherine’s Dock.
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