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This successful conference included 17 paper sessions, workshops and panels, and 12 concerts representing 70 works of composers present. SCI thanks Orlando Garcia who hosted the 4-day event at the beautiful new performing arts center on the campus of FIU, to Fred Kaufman, the director of the School of Music, and to Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner who worked behind the scenes on all things technical and electronic in nature.

The following composers were represented:

Charles Argersinger
Larry Austin
Virko Baley
Jeremy Beck
Burton Beerman
Charles Bestor
Peter Blauvelt
David Brackett
Scott Brickman
Margaret Brouwer
Zack Browning
Ron Caltabiano
Richard Cameron-Wolf
Timothy Vincent Clark
Robin Cox
James F. Crowley
Sue Dellinger
Kui Dong
Jacob Druckman
Paul Epstein
Don Erb
Elisenda Fabregas
Margaret Fairlie-Kennedy
Don Freund
Orando Jacinto Garcia
Maurice Gardner
Bernard Gilmore
Frederic Glesser
Michael D. Golden
Luis Jorge Gonzalez
Bruce Hamilton
Dorothy Hindman
James Neng-Hsien Ho
Fredrick Kaufman
Karl Korte
Keith Kothman
Joseph Koykkar
David Lang
Elaine F. Lebenbom
Hye Kyung Lee
Bobby Lombardi
Pamela A. Madsen
Melissa Maier
Ursula Mamlok
Charles Norman Mason
Gustavo Matamoros
Daniel McCarthy
James Mobberly
Jon C. Nelson
William Ortiz
Apostolos Paraskevas
Martin Rokeach
Joseph Rubenstein
Elena Ruehr
James Paul Sain
Elliott Schwartz
Francis Schwartz
Laura Elise Schwendinger
Judith Shatin
Paul A. Siskind
Stuart Saunders Smith
Pieter Snapper
Robert Starer
Karen P. Thomas
Reza Vali
John Van der Slice
Beth Wiemann
David Vayo
Yang Yong.

Kristine Burns and Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner had CD-ROM installations each morning, and the following presented papers: Cleve L. Scott, Deborah Weagel and John D. White (AL) on Wednesday; David Brackett, George Warren, E. Michael Richards, Richard Brooks, Maurice Wright, Pieter Snapper and Steve Duke on Thursday; Elizabeth Hinkle-Turner, Larry Austin on Friday; Sally Reid and Richard Power on Saturday. The committe on Minorities met on Thursday, Marshall Bialosky presiding, with Dolores White and Cherilee Wadsworth presenting papers.

Finally, a panel was held on Friday, entitled Composition in the 21st Century. Roger Johnson, moderator, presented panelists James Mobberly, Stephen Montague, Luis Jorge Gonzalez, and Kristine H. Burns. A second panel discussion was held on Saturday, entitled, The Composition Curriculum in the 21st Century, with Roger Johnson as moderator, and included Don Freund, Francis Schwartz, Fredrick Kaufman, and Judith Shatin.

Guest ensembles included Continuum (Cheryl Seltzer and Joel Sachs, directors), The Other Music Ensemble from the University of Miami, Dennis Kam, director, the Bergonzi String Quartet, and the Miami String Quartet.¥