The Group for Contemporary Music

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The Group for Contemporary Music is an American chamber ensemble dedicated to the performance of contemporary classical music. It was founded in New York City in 1962 by Joel Krosnick, Harvey Sollberger and Charles Wuorinen and gave its first concert on October 22, 1962[1] in Columbia University's MacMillin Theatre. Krosnik left the ensemble in 1963. It was the first contemporary music ensemble based at a university and run by composers.[2] The Group was based at Columbia University from 1962 until 1971, when it took up residency at the Manhattan School of Music.[3] Initial support was provided by the Alice M. Ditson Fund of Columbia, followed later by support from a broad range of foundations and public sources. The Group's success led the Rockefeller Foundation to form lavishly-funded "spin-off" ensembles at Rutgers University, the University at Buffalo, the University of Iowa and the University of Chicago in the middle 1960s. Early supporters of the Group included such Columbia faculty as Jack Beeson, Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky. Edgard Varese and Aaron Copland were also among its champions. The early years of the Group were tied in, as well, with the early development of electronic music in the United States. Early on the Group affiliated itself with the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center, and many premieres of important new works involving instruments and electronics by such composers as Milton Babbitt, Mario Davidovsky and Vladimir Ussachevsky were pre

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String Sextet / String Quartet No. 2 / Piano Quintet / Divertimento

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Babbitt: Soli e Duettini

String Quartet

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Feldman: String Quartet

Jacob Druckman: String Quartets No. 2 & 3 - Reflections on the Nature of Water - Dark Wind

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Druckman: String Quartets Nos. 2 And 3

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ROGER SESSIONS: String Quintet / String Quartet No. 1 / Canons

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Milton Babbitt: Soli e Duiettini

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Morton Feldman - String Quartet (1979)

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Soli e duettini

Wuorinen - Trios (Group for Contemporary Music)

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Music of Jacob Druckman

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