Michael Parsons
About Michael Parsons
Michael Edward Parsons (born 12 December 1938) is a British composer. Since the 1960s, when he met Cornelius Cardew and helped found the Scratch Orchestra, Parsons has been strongly associated with the English school of experimental music. He was born in Bolton and studied at St John's College, Oxford before taking up composition lessons under Peter Racine Fricker at the Royal College of Music in London in 1961. In the 1960s he met Cornelius Cardew; Parsons attended Cardew's experimental music classes at Morley College since 1968.
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Michael Parsons: Siili (Erinaceus Europaeus)
Piano Piece 5
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Rhythm Studies, Nr II
Rhythm Studies, Nr. I
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Piano Piece May 2003
Parsons - Rhythm Studies, Nr. II
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