On Friday the NYT had an appreciation and short discography of five late twentieth century composers. It was a bit of an odd mix- Hartke, Corigliano, Schnittke, Berio, Messiaen. The last three are almost modern classics, after all, but the discographies are useful, and I was left quite eager to hear Hartke's music. There used too be more of this activity on our list. Steve Schwartz does a good deal of it, and others do so on occasion. I hope that still others convey their contemporary enthusiams as well. This list often seems preoccupied with the best performances of great symphonies, and the best performances almost invariably turn out to be fifity years old, lending a distinctly antiquarian cast to this list. Likewise many of us recently chose to discuss our "comfort music'. No reason to give any of that that up- but let us share our discoveries as well. Bernard Chasan