The piece was first recorded in 1951 by the Polymusic Chamber Orchestra, under the direction of Will Lorin by Polymusic and has since been recorded by many orchestral groups.
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The first documented performance of the piece was in New York on May 11, 1946 by the chamber orchestra students from Juilliard Graduate School conducted by Theodore Bloomfield.
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He found that after a performance of Central Park in the Dark by the West German Radio Symphony Orchestra, Stockhausen came out with Gruppen fur Drei Orchester, which had very similar musical qualities to the Ives piece, such as independent lines represented through individual players and dividing the orchestra spatially.
Contemplations (music), work by American composer Charles Ives split into The Unanswered Question and Central Park in the Dark
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