Zeitgeist is an American

contemporary classical music Contemporary classical music is classical music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 modern forms of post-tonal music after the death of Anton Webern, and included seria ...

group based in

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. It was founded in 1977. In 1986, the group comprised Jay Johnson and Joseph Holmquist (percussion), Robert Samarotto (clarinet and saxophone), and Gregory Theisen (piano), and played a piece they had commissioned from

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two years before.New York Times review, ''Music: Cage via Zeitgeist'', by Bernard Holland (November 24, 1986), accessed 8 September 2010
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Discography

*1993 - ''If Tigers Were Clouds''. Innova. *1994 - ''Intuitive Leaps: Zeitgeist plays Terry Riley''. Sony Music Entertainment. *1995 - ''A Decade: Zeitgeist Plays Rzewski''. O.O. Discs.

References

External links

Zeitgeist website, accessed 16 February 2010
Contemporary classical music ensembles Musical groups from Minnesota Musical groups established in 1977 Culture of Saint Paul, Minnesota {{US-band-stub