Hello, everyone.  Did you miss me? Just kidding.  I have to tell you that
I stumbled across a great find that will help me in my quest for composers
since 1945!!  In a little used bookstore in Port Townsend, WA (great place
if you've not been there), I came across a gigantic book (in a purple
binding no less...) called Contemporary Composers.  It's published by St.
James Press, and edited by Brian Morton and Pamela Collins.  It has a
preface by Brian Ferneyhough (one of the "new complexity" composers).
Pub.  date is 1992.  Apx.  1017 pp., 11.25x9.0 in.  Sewn in signatures,
HC, mint condition.  The level of quality of the bios is very high (IMO).

Of course it doesn't have everybody but I thought I would scan the list
of entries and if you think of someone born since 1945 who should be on
the list you can let me know!  Their selection criteria stipulated that an
entrant must have been living at the time the decision to include was made.
This could eliminate a few names from my personal list.  It did eliminate
Scelsi, for example, although I don't know when he was born.  Are you ready
for the GREAT NEWS?? Amazon.com lists this book at US$189.00.  My price?
US$15.00 (note decimal point.) Now is that the deal of the century or
WHAT???? I am so jazzed....

Chris Bonds