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The Orckestra were a 12-piece English avant-garde jazz and avant-rock ensemble formed in March 1977 with the merger of avant-rock group Henry Cow, the Mike Westbrook Brass Band and folk singer Frankie Armstrong.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Henry Cow )〕 They gave two performances in London in March and June 1977, and then embarked on two tours of Europe between September 1977 and May 1978, where they performed in Italy, France and Sweden.〔 ==History== Henry Cow and the Mike Westbrook Brass Band crossed paths several times before they merged in 1977. Westbrook was one of the guests at Henry Cow's Rainbow Theatre concert with Faust in London in October 1973,〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Henry Cow Chronology )〕 and the Brass Band played for the audience in the foyer of the auditorium before the concert began.〔Lake 1977.〕 At the November 1975 Sigma Festival in Bordeaux, France, Henry Cow and the Brass Band performed in different parts of the same building, and at the end of Henry Cow's set, the Brass Band played a New Orleans funeral march from the audience while the members of Henry Cow danced together on stage.〔 Then in October 1976, Henry Cow, the Mike Westbrook Brass Band and folk singer Frankie Armstrong performed different sets on the same bill at Goldsmith College in New Cross, London.〔 When they appeared on the same bill again on 13 March 1977, this time at the ''Moving Left Revue'' at The Roundhouse in London, Henry Cow, the Brass Band and Armstrong decided to merge and gave their debut performance under the banner of "The Orckestra".〔〔 The ''Moving Left Revue'' was a Communist Party benefit concert that the Brass Band's Paul Rutherford had helped to organise.〔 Steve Lake of the British music newspaper, ''Melody Maker'' described the three-hour concert as "a great success", and said that this merger was the "most exciting" of Henry Cow's succession of projects.〔 Their drummer, Chris Cutler said that they had always wanted the explore the potential of an orchestra, and their "ideological common ground" made a cooperative venture inevitable.〔 On 26 June 1977 The Orckestra performed at the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park. In September 1977 they embarked on a three-month tour of Europe where they played at Milan and Modena in Italy, and at Nancy and Paris in France. In March 1978 The Orckestra returned to Europe where they played in Stockholm, Norrköping and Gothenburg in Sweden, Oslo in Norway, and Paris, Nancy, Longlaville, Loos-en-Gohelle, Poitiers, Orléans and Bordeaux in France.〔 Apart from appearing as The Orckestra, Henry Cow, the Brass Band and Frankie Armstrong continued to perform individually. But when Henry Cow split up in August 1978, no further performances by The Orckestra took place. Their last concert was on 24 May 1978 at the Althagore Festival at the Salle des Fêtes du Grand Parcin in Bordeaux.〔 Georgie Born and Lindsay Cooper from Henry Cow, however, continued to collaborate with Westbrook for several more years. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「The Orckestra」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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