Zeitgeist is an American

contemporary classical music Contemporary classical music is Western art music composed close to the present day. At the beginning of the 21st-century classical music, 21st century, it commonly referred to the post-1945 Modernism (music), post-tonal music after the death of ...

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

Frederic Rzewski Frederic Anthony Rzewski ( ; April 13, 1938 – June 26, 2021) was an American composer and pianist, considered to be one of the most important American composer-pianists of his time. From 1977 up to his eventual death, he lived mainly in Be ...

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 Saint Paul, Minnesota Musical groups established in 1977 Culture of Saint Paul, Minnesota {{US-band-stub