From: mgresham@dscatl.UUCP (Mark Gresham)
Newsgroups: rec.music.classical
Subject: NISSAM/ASCAP Composers Competition (REPOST)
Date: 7 Sep 92 13:38:41 GMT
Organization: Digital Systems Co., Atlanta GA

[As the academic year is getting back in swing, I'm re-posting
this so that those who missed it in August will have another
chance to see it.]

[Poster's Note: Composers wanting to join ASCAP can write or
telephone the same ASCAP office listed at the end of this
announcement.  This announcement is posted as a public service to
the rec.music.classical readership.]


NISSAM/ASCAP COMPOSERS COMPETITION

Rudolf Nissam, former head of ASCAP's Foreign Department, left a
substantial part of his estate to the ASCAP Foundation.  It
provides for an annual prize to a serious composer member of
ASCAP.

ELIGIBILITY:  All living serious composer members of ASCAP.
Previous ASCAP/Rudolf Nissam Competition winners are ineliible.

MATERIAL TO BE SUBMITTED:  The score of one published or
unpublished concert work requiring a conductor scored for large
orchestra, chamber orchestra, or large ensemble (with or without
soloists and/or chorus) not previously performed professionally.
Works for band are ineligible.  A work with a performance history
will be eligible only if earlier performances were, in the
judgement of the Committee, clearly non-professional.  For this
exception to be granted, information regarding previous
performances (including programs and announcements) must be
submitted with the score, in a separate envelope.

Works which set a text protected by copyright must include
permission of the author.

JUDGES:  A committee of three distinguished conductors.

SUBMISSION DEADLINE:  Postmark no later than November 15, 1992.

ANONYMITY:  All works should be submitted anonymously, with a
pseudonym appearing on the score.  Aseparate letter containing the
pseudonym AND the actual name and address and biography of the
composer should be attached.

PRIZE:  $5,000.

It is the hope of the ASCAP Foundation that the award-winning
composition will be given its first professional performance by a
leading American orchestra or ensemble.  In that event, ASCAP will
make supplementary funds available for proper rehearsal
preparation.

Dr. Nissam joined the ASCAP staff immediately after he settled in
the Unietd States in 1940.  he had been Managing Director for
seven years of AKM, the Austrian Performing Rights Society.  His
first accomplishment at ASCAP was the establishment of a Serious
Music Department for licensing the performances of works by the
Society's concert composer members.  For nearly four decades
thereafter, his dedication to contemporary music and its creators
was an inspiration to his colleagues.

The ASCAP/Rudolf Nissam Composers Competition is a fitting
memorial to this devoted friend of composers.

INQUIRIES AND/OR SUBMISSIONS SHOULD BE ADDRESSED TO:
  Frances Richard, Director, Symphonic and Concert Dept.
  ASCAP/Rudolf Nissam Composers Competition
  One Lincoln Plaza
  New York, NY 10023
  (212) 621-6329

[END of ANNOUNCEMENT.  The above was transcribed from a flyer
released by ASCAP.]



Cheers,

--Mark Gresham

dscatl!mgresham@gatech.edu

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