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98:. The ensemble's precursor was an ensemble featuring "the Refuseniks" featuring Hollenbeck and future Quintet member Ted Reichman. The quintet gets its eponymous name from a woman named Claudia who had briefly interacted with the Refuseniks; "Claudia" became an Refuseniks inside joke after she praised a performance and promised to return, but never did.
223:. He theorized that the high-brow style of the music, complete with clashing tones and Hollenbeck's "heap of little percussion toys", gave the group a charm that simultaneously prevented it from reaching more people. Ratliff also quipped that "if the music were a little bit dumber, it would resemble the music of the rock band
190:, playing as the "Refuseniks". One night, a woman named Claudia approached the three, expressing significant enthusiasm for the band's work and promising to tell her friends about the Refuseniks and return for future performances. After she left, Redding whispered to Hollenbeck, "She's never coming back".
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