Kevin Sutton, responding to John Parker:

>>To suggest that there are no composers writing music for musicians to
>>play seems simply absurd.
>
>If it is so absurd, kindly list me 10 compositions since Britten's War
>Requiem (1962) that are as significant, well constructed and original as
>said same.

Now, it's my turn ;-) These are ten GREAT works composed after 1962:

   Adams: Nixon in China (+ Violin Concerto, Chairman Dances...)
   Arnold: Seventh Symphony (+ many chamber and orchestral works...)
   Dutilleux: Metaboles (+ Cello Concerto)
   Kancheli: Sixth Symphony (+ Simi)
   Ligeti: Horn Trio (+Etudes for piano, Viola Sonata, Piano Concerto...)
   Lutoslawski: Third Symphony (Cello Concerto, Livre for orchestra...)
   Penderecki: St Luke's Passion (+ Clarinet Concerto)
   Schnittke: Second String Quartet (+ Requiem)
   Shostakovich: Symphony no 14 (+ last string quartets...)
   Simpson: Fifth Symphony (+ Ninth Symphony)

And I should perhaps add Boulez's Repons and "Dialogue de l'ombre double" ;-)

Daniel B