We designed ChoralNet Communities flexibly in order to permit ChoralNet users to create their own ways of communicating. The community Composers of Choral Music has been very active, perhaps because there isn’t any other established forum for such composers to get together.
Their latest project is a Composition Showcase. When you go into a music store and rifle through stacks of octavos, you get to look at a lot of pieces in one place. But looking at composer websites is a much more tedious business, because they’re all different. The Showcase is intended to be an opportunity to look at a lot of pieces in one place. All the pieces have sample pages in PDF format.
You’ll still have to go to each composer’s page individually (or send them an email or something) if you want to buy their pieces, so it doesn’t have the one-stop-shopping convenience of a music store (yet), but it’s a good first step.
I make it a point to include a lot of 21st-century music in my programs, and I hope you will too. Drop by and take a look at the showcase and see if there’s anything you might be interested in. But they’re only just getting started — there’s only about 50 pieces there at the moment — so plan to come back in a month or two and take a second look.
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