I have begun some volunteer web work for the Orchestra of Our Time. Over the years they have done numerous concerts in New York City, including performances of Erik Satie’s Socrate, staged with a set designed by Alexander Calder, and work with Frank Zappa on his Grammy winning album Zappa’s Universe, release shortly before Zappa passed.

My web design/programming skills are limited, but they are gracious enough to let me join the project. In the planning stages is a call for scores, intended for composers with limited means of having a professional recording of their music made. Not everyone who is writing music is always “on the same team”, but it should be argued that everyone is as equally deserving of having their pieces played and received in some fashion, on a less discriminating basis than the current classical establishment can offer.

Better to play any new piece than to only play Mozart.