For more than a year, Groupmuse has been organizing classical music house parties in the Boston area. It all started with a group of New England Conservatory students who regularly got together in one musician's apartment to socialize and play chamber music until the wee hours of the morning.
Sam Bodkin, a Columbia University student who attended some of these get-togethers, was taken with the mixture of serious music and socializing that spontaneously sprang up at these convivial events.
Bodkin decided to organize similar events in people's homes in and around Boston, featuring performances by New England Conservatory chamber ensembles.
He was inspired by his use of the CouchSurfing.org site, which hooks up travelers with people who have a couch to rent, to build a social media tool that connects classical musicians in the area to people who have living rooms in the area.
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