Association for Contemporary Music

Association for Contemporary Music (ACM) ( _ru. ACM - Ассоциация Современной Музыки, "ASM - Assotsiatsiya Sovremennoy Muzyki") was an alternative organization of the composers in Russia orientated to avant-garde music. Founded by Nikolai Roslavets in 1923, it ran concert series and published magazines promoting the modernist music of Mahler, Schoenberg, Berg, Webern, Krenek, Hindemith, etc. as well as the work of its members. Its representatives were Dmitri Shostakovich, Nikolai Myaskovsky, Vissarion Shebalin, Alexander Mosolov, Gavriil Popov, Vladimir Shcherbachev, and others. It existed until 1932, when it was banned by Stalin and other Communist Party leaders with the enthusiastic support of the Russian Association of Proletarian Musicians.

Russia's new ACM - Association for Contemporary Music (or ACM-2), the revival of the previous, was established in Moscow in 1990 with its chairman a composer Edison Denisov. The co-founders of the ACM were Elena Firsova, Dmitri Smirnov and Nikolai Korndorf. Among the members of the ACM were Leonid Hrabovsky, Alexander Knayfel, Sergei Pavlenko, Alexander Voustin, Vladislav Shoot, Viktor Yekimovsky, Faraj Karayev, Vyacheslav Artyomov, Vladimir Tarnopolsky, Alexander Raskatov, Ivan Sokolov, Yuri Kasparov, and others. The eminent composers like Sofia Gubaidulina, Alfred Schnittke, Valentin Silvestrov, and Tigran Mansuryan were invited to join the ACM. ASM became the part of "The International Society for Contemporary Music" (ISCM).

After the collapse of the Soviet Union in 1991 and following the emigration of many members of the ACM to the West, and also the death of Denisov in Paris in 1996, the ACM was split into two parts. One, based in the Union of Composers and led by Victor Yekimovsky, adopted the title RNS-ISCM - "Russian National Section, the International Society for Contemporary Music" with the ensemble MCME – "Moscow Contemporary Music Ensemble". The other, based in the Moscow Conservatory and led by Vladimir Tarnopolsky, took the name CCMM - "Centre for Contemporary Music, Moscow". It was the ISCM Associate Member, and ran the ensemble "Studio of New Music".

External links

* [http://iscmrussia.ru/index1.html RNS-ISCM page]
* [http://www.ccmm.ru CCMM page]
* [http://iscmrussia.ru/index10.html RNS-ISCM page] ru icon
* [http://www.ccmm.ru/index_r.html CCMM page] ru icon