Kwon Younghee asks:

>Can anyone recomemend a recording of contemporary music composer? I
>would like listen to the music at first, but I have no idea about that.

And Dave adds:

>[Just for grins let's define "contemporary" as "living".  -Dave]

No problem.  I'd recommend anything by Arnold Rosner or Christopher Rouse.
There's a marvelous sampler on Argo called "Dance Mix" with a bunch of
contemporary composers, all eminently listenable.

A partial list follows (no composer born before 1940) of music I've heard
in the last few years available on CD:

Adams: Gnarly Buttons, Violin Concerto, John's Book of Alleged Dances
Kernis: New Era Dance
Daugherty: Metropolis Symphony
Rabushka: Harp Concerto
Scurria: Beyond All Walking
Zaimont: Serenade to Music, Symphony No. 1, Elegy for Strings, choral music
Schiff: Divertimento from "Gimpel the Fool"

Steve Schwartz