I changed the one note in Prelude (no fugue) No. 4 that I was unsure about.

I futzed around and designed an iTunes “album cover” for Six Preludes (No Fugues). I just hate to see my music in iTunes with one of those blanks. It makes me feel like some unappreciated amateur. Oh, wait…

New opportunities from the American Composers Forum:

• 2010 Finale® National Composition Contest: score for eighth blackbird (9/15)
• Park Avenue Christian Church: SATB (9/1)
• Lynn University Conservatory of Music: short orchestral (9/15) [Milky Way?]
• Austrian Composer Society: orchestral work (9/30) [Milky Way]
• National Lutheran Choir: SATB (9/30)
• University of New Mexico: vocal or instrumental, solor or chamber, based on themes of folk songs available online (10/1)
• Boston Metro Opera: vocal, choral, and operatic work (10/15) [William Blake]
• Soli fan tutti: short chamber score (10/31) [Bassoon/String quartet]
• Imagine Music Publishing: string orchestra (11/1)
• Renée B. Fisher Foundation and the Neighborhood Music School: short piano works for student competition (11/13) [some of the Preludes?]
• Opera Southwest: “a short opera in English using original music as a tool for educating elementary through middle school audiences in the areas of the sciences or humanities.” (12/1)
• City Chorus (London): SATB for amateurs, 90th anniversary celebration (12/3)
• Orchestra of Our Time: short score for chamber ensemble (12/31) [Bassoon/String Quartet]
• Butler County Symphony Orchestra: an original 10 minute orchestral composition on the theme of “Space Exploration.” (2/1) [Milky Way, duh]
• Earplay New Music Ensemble: scores for 1-6 players (3/31) [Preludes]
• Second Life Virtual Concert Hall: “Especially interested in art noise, ambient, minimalism, computer music, music influenced by popular styles.” (ongoing)
• Opus 21: solo/chamber ensembles (ongoing) [Preludes, Bassoon/String Quartet]
• New York Miniaturist Ensemble: works composed of 100 notes or less [ed.: I think they mean “fewer”] (ongoing)
• Ann Arbor Cantata Singers: SATB (ongoing)

Any suggestions about any of these? Discuss in comments.