WHAT DO Claudio Monteverdi, Ludwig van Beethoven, Johannes Brahms, Fanny MendelssohnHensel, Claude Debussy, Francis Poulenc, Alma Mahler, Erik Satie, Anton Webern and Benjamin Britten have in common?

If these composers were American and alive today, they would love the Houston Composers' Alliance (HCA) (Music by Living American/ Houston Composers) because we would produce and perform concerts of their music.

WERE Houston Composers' Alliance (Music by Living American/Houston Composers) able to produce concerts and perform the music of Charles Ives, Aaron Copland, Scott Joplin, Roger Sessions, Roy Harris, Harry Partch, Amy Beach, George Chadwick, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Henry Cowell, Paul Cooper, Morton Feldman, Howard Hanson, David Diamond and Miriam Gideon-all American composers who are not alive today-they would also love us.

THESE living American/Houston composers: Reynaldo Ochoa, Paul English, John Anthony Lennon, Janice Misurell-Mitchell, Carl Schaer, Patrick Clark, Russell Sarre, Robert Avalon, Alexis Bacon, Gunther Schuller, Stuart Hinds, George Crumb, Sally Reid, Scott Wheeler, Edward Applebaum, Charles Fitts, John Eaton, Richard Lavenda, Ellsworth Milburn, Mario Davidovsky, Lynette Westendorf, Daniel Adams, Daniel Kramlich, Jody Rockmaker, Anthony Brandt, Arthur Gottschalk, John Harbison, Chris Theofanidis, Pierre Jalbert, Robert Nelson and Ann Gebuhr positively do love Houston Composers' Alliance (Music by Living American/Houston Composers) because we have programmed and performed concerts of their music. The Houston Composers' Alliance presents concerts of music composed by American/Houston composers who are alive and composing today-as we speak -music hot off the press-music on which the ink has not yet dried. We are talking cutting-edge, brand new, world-premiere stuff.