Cardew: Treatise

MUSIC
SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 23, 2020
6:00 PM

Spectrum
70 Flushing Avenue, Garage A, Fort Greene, Brooklyn

$15; $10 students/seniors
https://tammen.org/Cardew-Treatise

Treatise is a great work from British composer Cornelius Cardew's experimental avant-garde period in the '60s — before he went Marxist-Leninist and forswore experimentalism as bourgeois.  This graphic score gives the performers a good deal of latitude in formulating how the music will come out (another aspect of the piece Cardew later renounced, having come to feel it gave the composer too little control over the work).  Here, the three-hour piece is performed by some 40 musicians led by Hans Tammen, no stranger to the creation of new kinds of sound.

MAKE A NIGHT OF IT:  A nice glass of wine, some conservas or other snacks at Rhodora.