You are invited to examine the second issue of the free
Audience-friendly Contemporary Art Music Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 2 -
May 2006. This issue features composer John David Lamb, an editorial on
"The Two Sides of Music", the flute and guitar duo Duozona, and new
links to samples of selected compositions. The newsletter is found at
http://cooppress.hostrack.net/afccmMay2006.html

Audience-friendly contemporary art music consists of modern
compositions written by living composers that are based in tonality,
that contain a recognizable melodic idea, that use dissonance with
discretion, that exhibit craftmanship in keeping with the art music
tradition, and are acoustic rather than electronic.
The purposes of the newsletter are:
1.      To enable composers and performers to collaborate in building
audiences for audience-friendly contemporary art music.
2.      To disseminate information about the availability of
audience-friendly contemporary art music compositions to interested
performers.
3.      To highlight the composers of these compositions through feature
articles.
4.      To highlight performers interested in performing audience-friendly
contemporary art music compositions.
5.      To promote selected compositions through the inclusion of mp3 or
MIDI sound files.
6.      To provide a place for announcements and a calendar of and upcoming
performances of audience-friendly contemporary art music compositions.

Composers and performers are always invited to submit materials to
cooppress@suscom.net to be considered for the newsletter.