You are invited to examine the second issue of the free Audience-friendly Contemporary Art Music Newsletter Vol. 1 No. 2 - May 2006. This issue features composer John David Lamb, an editorial on "The Two Sides of Music", the flute and guitar duo Duozona, and new links to samples of selected compositions. The newsletter is found at http://cooppress.hostrack.net/afccmMay2006.html

Audience-friendly contemporary art music consists of modern compositions written by living composers that are based in tonality, that contain a recognizable melodic idea, that use dissonance with discretion, that exhibit craftmanship in keeping with the art music tradition, and are acoustic rather than electronic.
The purposes of the newsletter are:
1. To enable composers and performers to collaborate in building audiences for audience-friendly contemporary art music.
2. To disseminate information about the availability of audience-friendly contemporary art music compositions to interested performers.
3. To highlight the composers of these compositions through feature articles.
4. To highlight performers interested in performing audience-friendly contemporary art music compositions.
5. To promote selected compositions through the inclusion of mp3 or MIDI sound files.
6. To provide a place for announcements and a calendar of and upcoming performances of audience-friendly contemporary art music compositions.

Composers and performers are always invited to submit materials to cooppress@suscom.net to be considered for the newsletter.