Bernard Chasan:(the writer)

>It would be an interesting exercise for interested members of this
>list to put down their favorite classical music of the last twenty
>years.  I think that describing them as "masterpieces" is perhaps
>not needed at this point.  "Excellent" or "interesting" will do fine.

And Jim Tobin rose to the challenge- as did Steve Schwartz. Here is mine:
  Schnittke: Viola Concerto
               Eighth Symphony
               Concerto for piano and Strings
  Adams: Naive and Sentimental Music
  Ligeti: Violin Concerto
  Norgard: Third Symphony, Sixth Symphony
  Rzewski: The peple united will never be defeated
  Panufnik: Arbor Cosmica
  Part: Fur Alina
  Gubadalina: Viola Concerto, Canticle of the Sun
  Lindberg: Corrente 11, Arena
  Lehrdahl: Points of Departure
  Lewensohn: Odradek
  Marshall: Kingdom Come; Fog tropes
  Lutoslawski: Third and Fourth Symphonies
  Tsontakis: Four Symphonic Quartets, string quartets
   Ruders: Second Symphony
  Holmboe: Symphony number Twelve
   Maw: Odyssey, Violin Concerto
   Lentz: caeli enarrant III and IV
   Carter: Quartet # 4.

   Bernard Chasan