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He settled on Thelonious Monk's "Round Midnight," a jazz standard that Monk composed in the 1940's, and he solicited contributions from composers of every stripe.

This year's lineup features a typically diverse selection from composers of eclectic musical aesthetics.

He occasionally commissioned new works from composers like André Jolivet, Henri Tomasi and Jean Langlais.

She has commissioned and championed works from composers including Krzysztof Penderecki, Sofia Gubaidulina and André Previn.

Lectures, visits from composers, breakfast seminars and home-based recitals keep the group active.

Cadenzas were usually improvised, so there was no need for written guidance from composers.

Reviews have included accolades from composers and journalists in Turkey, India, Germany and China.

"Very early on, instead of acquiring new works, they started commissioning works from composers and artists," Ms. Hansen said.

But the ensemble also commissioned works from composers like Hans Werner Henze, Richard Rodney Bennett and Toru Takemitsu.

Where influences can be heard, they are from composers who, like Mr. Rorem, were rooted in a post-Romantic continuum.

And aside from composers like Shostakovich and Bartok, who accepted the genre's ambitions, 20th-century composers generally had other concerns.