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Winter 2010 Joan Tower's Pittsburgh residency, Thomas at University of Chicago, Peter Lieberson's Remembering JFK, Winnipeg New Music Festival, Welcome Helen Grime and Britta Byström, Remembering Geoffrey Burgon and Henryk Górecki, Daniel Catán's operas, Richard Rodney Bennett at 75, Aaron Jay Kernis on Q2, orchestra premieres

Fall 2010 Daniel Catán's Il Postino, Fall Dance!, Focus on Avner Dorman, Arne Nordheim Remembered, Red Poppy Season, Philip Glass receives 2010 NEA Opera Honors, New Operas from Henze and Ruders, Augusta Read Thomas on NewMusicBox, Harbison BSO Symphony Cycle, Levine / Met Opera CD/DVD Box Sets

Summer 2010 Summer Reading featuring Lewis Spratlan's Life is a Dream, Poul Ruders' Dancer in the Dark, Daniel Catán's Il Postino, Hans Werner Henze's Gisela! and Alexander Raskatov's A Dog's Heart; 2010 Summer Festivals; Julia Wolfe nominated for Pulitzer Prize; OPERA America's annual top operas list - Menotti, Adamo, Corigliano; New York City Ballet season — Salonen and Greenberg; Karel Husa @ 90; Joby Talbot Ballets

Spring 2010 John Harbison Premieres; Peter Lieberson: Songs of Love and Sorrow; Augusta Read Thomas: Jubilee; Lera Auerbach: Little Mermaid; Tan Dun: Winter into Spring; Grammy Winners; Saariaho: Léonie Sonning Music Prize

Winter 2009 Gabriela Frank, Los Mitos; Leon Kirchner, In Memoriam; Red Poppies, Gordon, Lang, Wolfe; Barber and Schuman, On Facebook; Joan Tower and Thea Musgrave, Flute Premieres; Yehudi Wyner, Grammies; Peter Lieberson, Ma and Axe premiere; Rob Kapilow Tap Dance Concerto; Richard Danielpour Piano Concerto; Kaija Saariaho; Émilie; Hans Werner Henze, Operas; Civil War, 150 Years; Tan Dun, Tea in Philly; Tavener, Cello Concerto; Simon Holt, Percussion Concerto; Ernst Bacon, Performance Grants; SchirmerOnDemand, 700 and Counting

Fall 2009 Tan Dun, Earth Concerto; Richard Danielpour, A Woman's Life; Peter Lieberson, The Coming of Light; Avner Dorman, Lost Souls; John Corigliano Mr. Tambourine Man; John Harbison Leonard Stein Anagrams; Augusta Read Thomas, BBC Proms premiere; Aaron Jay Kernis Concerto of Echoes; Joan Tower Ivory and Ebony; What's New on Schirmer on Demand; Chester Music Signs Nigel Kennedy; Alberto Iglesias Premiere; Saariaho Portrait Concerts

Summer 2009 John Corigliano, The Ghosts of Versailles; Aaron Kernis, Symphony of Meditations; Sofia Gubaidulina receives an honorary doctorate from Yale; Richard Danielpour, Souvenirs; Yehudi Wyner turns 80; Jay Greenberg, Skyline Dances; Kaija Saariaho's Laterna Magica; Mark Adamo Concertino for Two Flutes and String Quintet; Robert Kapilow, M42 premiere; Summer Festivals

Spring 2009 André Previn, Brief Encounter; Avner Dorman at the New York Philharmonic; Peter Lieberson, The World in Flower; Robert Kapilow and Fred Newman on M42; John Tavener, Towards Silence; new film score by John Corigliano; John Harbison premieres; Daniel Catán, Von Liebe, Krieg und Anchovis; Robert Xavier Rodríguez, Taking Time; Nathaniel Stookey, The Composer Is Dead; 2009 Grammy Awards

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Winter 2008 Augusta Read Thomas World Premieres: Helios Choros II, Violin Concerto No. 3, and Absolute Ocean; Robert Kapilow, Jabberwocky; John Corigliano, Winging It; Samuel Barber, Antony and Cleopatra; Gunther Schuller, Where the Word Ends; Gabriela Lena Frank, Peregrinos; More news about John Harbison, Leon Kirchner, Joan Tower, Bright Sheng, Sofia Gubaidulina, and the YouTube Symphony Orchestra

Fall 2008 Leon Kirchner, The Forbidden; Andre Previn, Owls; Tan Dun and the Olympic Games; Bright Sheng, Never Far Away; Marc Neikrug, Through Roses; Nathaniel Stookey, Zipperz; Gabriela Lena Frank, Hispanic Leadership; Kevin Volans Signs with Chester Music; Joan Tower at 70

Summer 2008 David Lang wins Pulitzer; Summer Festivals featuring Carter, Harbison, Lieberson, Sheng, Tower and more; Sergei Prokofiev and the Bard Music Festival; Avner Dorman, Ellef Symphony US premiere; Kaija Saariaho, Adriana Mater; Karel Husa, Music forPrague 40th Anniversary; Rued Langaard, Music of the Spheres;Hens Werner Henze, Phaedra; Ernst Bacon, Ford's Theatre

Spring 2008 Aaron Jay Kernis returns to Schirmer; John Harbison, Symphony No. 5; Tan Dun Piano Concerto; Jay Greenberg, Concerto for Piano Trio and Orchestra; André Previn Harp Concerto; Michael Gordon, David Lang, and Julia Wolfe singing in the dead of night; Kirke Mechem, John Brown; Thea Musgrave at 80; 2008 Grammy Winners!; World Premieres by Gabriela Lena Frank, Stewart Copeland, Joan Tower, and John Tavener

Winter 2007 Peter Lieberson's Neruda Songs wins Grawemeyer!; John Corigliano, Conjurer; Avner Dorman, Frozen in Time; Carter Centenary Celebration; Kaija Saariaho, Musical America's 2008 Composer of the Year; Michael Gordon and Bill Morrison collaboration; Poul Ruders, Cembal d'Amore Augusta Read Thomas, Helios Choros III; Music for Dance; Tikhon Khrennikov in Memoriam

Fall 2007 G. Schirmer Welcomes Jay Greenberg; Richard Danielpour, Margaret Garner; Philip Glass, Appomattox; Michael Nyman returns to Chester Music; Alfred Schnittke, Symphony No. 9; Samuel Barber and William Schuman Centenaries; more news about Joan Tower, Tan Dun, and John Tavener

June 2007 Mark Adamo, Four Angels; Bright Sheng, The Nightingale and the Rose; Alfred Schnittke, Nagasaki and Symphony No. 0; Anne Phillips, Bending Towards the Light... A Jazz Nativity; Avner Dorman, Mandolin Concerto; Joan Tower, Trio La Jolla; Mstislav Rostropovich, in memoriam

May 2007 Augusta Read Thomas, Helios Choros I; Sergei Prokofiev, Romeo and Juliet; Mark Adamo, Little Women; Bright Sheng, Nanking! Nanking! and Tibetan Swing; John Corigliano, Jamestown Hymn

April 2007 Daniel Catán, Carribean Airs; André Previn, Double Concerto for Violin, Contrabass, and Orchestra; Sergei Prokofiev, Boris Godunov; Grigori Frid, The Diary of Anne Frank; Julia wolfe, Fuel

March 2007 Richard Danielpour, Rocking the Cradle and River of Light; Gabriela Lena Frank, Compadrazgo; Tan Dun, The First Emperor; Daniel Catán, Florencia en el Amazonas; Music Sales and G. Schirmer Grawemeyer Winners; Giya Kancheli, Amao Omi; Philip Glass, The Juniper Tree; more news about Elliott Carter, John Corigliano, John Harbison, and Joan Tower

February 2007 Gian Carlo Menotti, in Memoriam; Robert Kapilow, Paddywak: A Tapdance Concerto; Gabriela Lena Frank, La Llorona: Tone Poem for Viola and Orchestra; Galina Ustvolskaya, in Memoriam; more about Sofia Gubaidulina, Avner Dorman, Tan Dun, and Leon Kirchner

Winter 2006-2007 Tan Dun, The First Emperor; Susan Feder, 20 Years at G. Schirmer; Robert Xavier Rodríguez, El Día de los Muertos; Leonardo Balada, No-res

November 2006 Augusta Read Thomas, The Sould Is Light; John Corigliano, Circus Maximus; John Tavener, Kaleidoscopes; Rolf Wallin, Das war schön! Sofia Gubaidulina; Lera Auerbach; Gunther Schuller, Chamber Symphony; Tan Dun, The First Emperor

October 2006 Stewart Copeland Joins the Music Sales Group; Avner Dorman, Violin Concerto; André Previn, Night Thoughts; Michael Gordon, What to Wear; Tan Dun, The First Emperor; Danny Elfman, Serenada Schizophrana; Joan Tower, Made in America; Giya Kancheli, Symphony No. 5; Bright Sheng

September 2006 Gabriel Yared Joins Chester Music; Nathaniel Stookey, The Composer is Dead; Dmitri Shostakovich Centennial; Gabriela Lena Frank, Ritmos Anchinos; Elliott Carter turns 100; The John Adams Reader; Jeff Tyzik, The Big Movie Suite; Augusta Read Thomas, Astral Canticle; Michael Gordon, Rewriting Beethoven's Seventh Symphony

June 2006 Augusta Read Thomas, Prayer and Celebration; Richard Danielpour, Pasttime; Joan Tower, Made in America; George Antheil, Dada at the Movies; Michael Tilson Thomas, Stay Together; Gabriela Lena Frank, Requiem for a Magical America: El Día de los Muertos; Billy Joel in the Concert Hall

May 2006 Yehudi Wyner's Piano Concerto "Chiavi in Mano" wins Pulitzer; Richard Danielpour, Triptych; Thea Musgrave, Remembering Harriet; Anthony Davis, X - The Life and Times of Malcolm X; Robert Xavier Rodríguez, La Curandera; Mark Adamo, Lysistrata; more premieres by Joan Tower, Bright Sheng, and Avner Dorman

April 2006 Gabriela Lena Frank, Requiem for a Magical America: El Día de los Muertos; Avner Dorman, Spices, Perfumes, Toxins!; John Harbison, Concerto for Bass Viol; Transient Glory commissions: John Corigliano, Mark Adamo, and Thea Musgrave; Daniel Catán, Florencia en el Amazonas; Sergei Prokofiev, Alexander Nevsky; Robert Xavier Rodríguez, Musical Dice Game

March 2006 Augusta Read Thomas; Mark Adamo, Lysistrata; John Harbison, But Mary Stood; Kaija Saariaho, Adriana Mater; Mozart!; Ali-Zadeh and the Kronos Quartet; 2006 Grammy Winners

February 2006 Bright Sheng, Concerto for Orchestra: "Zodiac Tales"; John Harbison, Milosz Songs; Ezra Laderman elected President of the American Academy of Arts and Letters; Richard Danielpour, Margaret Garner; Sofia Gubaidulina, Feast During a Plague; Kaija Saariaho, L'amour de Loin; more on Tan Dun and Raymond Scott

Winter 2005-2006 Richard Danielpour, Washington Speaks; Elliott Carter at the BBC; Gian Carlo Menotti, Amahl and the Night Visitors; John Corigliano and Aaron Copland; Tan Dun wins Duisburg Prize; Dave Brubeck, La Fiesta de la Posada; John Adams in Sweden; Alfred Schnittke, Symphony No. 1

November 2005 Joan Tower, Purple Rhapsody; Gabriela Lena Frank, Inkarri and Manchay Tiempo; Gunther Schuller Turns 80; Augusta Read Thomas and The American Music Center; Elliott Carter, Pocahontas; Michael Tilson Thomas wins Gramophone Artist of the Year; Dmitri Shostakovich, The Overcoat; Philip Glass, Symphony No. 8

October 2005 John Corigliano, Concerto for Violin (The Red Violin) and Mr. Tambourine Man: Seven Poems of Bob Dylan; Bright Sheng and Tan Dun at the 'Amsterdam China Festival' and the 'Festival of China' in Washington DC; Karel Husa, Apotheosis of this Earth; George Antheil and the Philadelphia Virtuosi Chamber Orchestra; Dmitri Shostakovich, Jazz Suites; more on Michael Gordon, David Lang, Julia Wolfe and Robert Kapilow

September 2005 Joan Tower, Made in America; Shostakovich Centennial Preview; Aaron Kernis in residence with the Moab Music Festival; David Diamond; Tan Dun, Tea; Richard Danielpour, Margaret Garner

June 2005 Avner Dorman Signs with G. Schirmer; Danny Elfman, Serenada Schizophrana; Michael Gordon, Acquanetta; summer seasons for Mark Adamo, John Corigliano, Richard Danielpour, Gabriela Lena Frank, Philip Glass, John Harbison, Robert Kapilow, Aaron Jay Kernis, Peter Lieberson, and Leon Kirchner

May 2005 Richard Danielpour, Margaret Garner; Peter Lieberson, Neruda Songs; Augusta Read Thomas, Credences of Summer; Sofia Gubaidulina, The Deceitful Face of Hope and Despair; more news on Tan Dun, John Barry, Robert Xavier Rodríguez, and Gian Carlo Menotti

April 2005 Augusta Read Thomas Composer Portrait at the Miller Theater; Michael Tilson Thomas at Carnegie Hall; Gabriela Lena Frank, Ghosts in the Dream Machine; John Corigliano, Circus Maximus; Mark Adamo, Lysistrata; William Schuman, A Free Song, Secular Cantata No. 2

March 2005 Mark Adamo, Lysistrata, or the Nude Goddess; John Harbison, Darkbloom: Overture for an Imagined Opera; Samuel Barber and the New York Virtuoso Singers; Paul Creston; Tan Dun, Tea released on DVD; Gabriela Lena Frank, Ccollanan María; André Previn wins Glenn Gould Prize

February 2005 John Corigliano, Circus Maximus; Yehudi Wyner, Piano Concerto "Chiavi in Mano"; Bright Sheng, La'i (Love Song) for Orchestra without Strings; Hans Werner Henze, Fünf Botschaften für die Königin von Saba; Morton Gould wins Lifetime Achievment Award at 2005 Grammy Awards

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