Order your scores and sheet music through the
link below and Sheet Music Plus will contribute a portion of the sale to the
consortium. The funds raised will support the hiring of
supplemental professional musicians for student composition performances, rental
fees for the repertoire performed by the New Music Ensemble, and residency fees
for guest composers and performers of the PCMC. The breakdown of the consortium
fund is as follows: 50% Student Composer Forum,
35% New Music Ensemble, 15% PCMC.
Thank you for your time and support of the
consortium.
The Students of the CSULA New Music
Consortium.
Frequently Asked Questions:
What's the reason for the high percentage of
funding going to the Student Composer Forum?
The Student Composer Forum currently does not
receive funding through college or departmental resources. However the need
for funding this project has increased as the population of student
composers has expanded by leaps and bounds every year.
What do you mean by "supplemental
professional musicians" and why are they needed?
The CSULA music department has an
extraordinary pool of student musicians and every effort is made to use as
many of these fine students as possible. They have performed well for their
colleague composers and every one of them has enjoyed the experience
immensely. On occasion, student composers require instruments not available
in the student population, or require a large number of instruments which
exceeds the availability of the student groups. For this reason,
professionals are called in to supplement the student groups for rehearsals
and performances.
Why does the New Music Ensemble rent music, I
thought purchasing is cheaper?
The mission of the New Music Ensemble is to
perform the works of composers active in the last 25 years and those
composers who have had an impact on the music of today. Many of these
composers' works are still under copyright and almost always under rental
agreements with their publishers. For example, our March 2005 concert
featured works of Tan Dun and Charles Ives. The rental costs for these works
exceeded $500, over 50% of the entire New Music Ensemble IRA funding.
