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Not that you want to hear more from me on this topic, but there are some more composer names that ought to be added to my list; Michel van der Aa, Du Yun, Scott Pender. They all write outstanding music, and are very different from one another. Also, I wanted to clarify something: I wrote, "Orchestras still need to work to overcome the "new music scare factor" that emerged at the end of the 1980s." That is, they need to do something more effective than say 'It's the composer's fault" and not to program any new music. Actually, composers are coming around, it seems; they want audiences, and don't mind working for them. Here I should mention Henri Dutilleux, who is still living, but not active; he was the scapegoat of the 1990 NY Phil subscriber sickout that broached the new music scare factor as a public phenomenon. Poor Henri hardly deserved it; he is Boulez' arch-enemy, and is stylistically rather conservative in direct comparison. David N. "Uncle Dave" Lewis Lebanon, OH