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unusual facts about Charles Wuorinen


1970 Pulitzer Prize

Time's Encomium by Charles Wuorinen (C. F. Peters)
Premiered in its entirety at the Berkshire Music Festival on August 16, 1969.


Fine Arts Quartet

The Quartet also performed contemporary music in performances, commissions, and recordings, and helped to make composers such as Bartók, Shostakovich, Bloch, Babbitt, Wuorinen, Martinon, Hindemith, Shifrin, Crawford-Seeger, Johnston, and Husa better known and accessible to the public.

Jeffrey Milarsky

In the United States and abroad, he has premiered and recorded works of many contemporary composers, including Charles Wuorinen, Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter, Lasse Thoresen, Gerard Grisey, Jonathan Dawe, Tristan Murail, Ralph Shapey, Luigi Nono, Mario Davidovsky, and Wolfgang Rihm.


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