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The Song Company: Accidental Plans presents the extraordinary life and death of Cornelius Cardew in graphic scores and group improvisation.
Following Cardew?s journey from bourgeois artistic revolutionary to post-Marxist populist, and finally his untimely demise in suspicious circumstances (having upset significant parts of the Establishment), this operetta-esque happening gives some hindsight to his turbulent times and upside-down thinking.
Threads in the story created with designer and writer Adrian Self include Cardew?s Forrest Gump-like involvement with major developments in 20th-century music, the trajectory of radical left-wing politics contemporaneous with the march of Reagonomics and the neocons, and the question: can popular music and culture still change the world today?...
