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Foss was appointed professor of music at the University Of California At Los Angeles in 1953, replacing Arnold Schoenberg . While there he founded the Improvisation Chamber Ensemble . He founded the Center For Creative And Performing Arts in 1963 while at the University At Buffalo . He has been Professor of Music, Theory and Composition at Boston University since 1991. His works include '' Baroque Variations '', '' Time Cycle '' (1960), '' Thirteen Ways Of Looking At A Blackbird '' (1978), '' Echoi '' (1963), '' Renaissance Concerto '' (1990). His early works are neoclassical in style, he began using controlled Improvisation and Chance Procedures with the Twelve Tone Technique and Serialism , while his later works are Polystylistic . He is grouped in the "Boston school" along with Arthur Berger , Irving Fine , Alexie Haieff , Harold Shapero , and Claudio Spies . EXTERNAL LINKS
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