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