60x60 project Creating showcases Social_event sixty new works Action , each sixty seconds or less , by sixty composers in a continuous sixty-minute concert Social_event , for a one-hour cross-section of contemporary music .

60x60 was designed Creating to showcase the diversity of the contemporary music and has succeeded in presenting Presence thousands of composers in hundreds of performances around the world since 2003 .

Caramoor also features a composer in residence , with such composers as John Musto ( 2006 ) and Paquito D'Rivera ( 2007 ) holding Hold the post .

Between 1953 and 1971 , except in 1956 , each song was sung Perception_active twice by two different artists , each one using Using an individual orchestral arrangement , to illustrate Statement the meaning of the festival as a composers ' competition , not a singers ' competition .

The organisation supports Supporting and promotes Cause_to_make_progress musicians who specialise in historically informed Telling performance , performing Action on period instruments and exploring Scrutiny the sound world that composers of the past would have had in mind when writing Writing their music .