AN APPEAL TO COMPOSERS
		From Christopher Young I have always had tremendous respect and an insatiable passion for the great film music of our predecessors. I became involved with The Film Music Society because I shared its concern about the general lack of interest in preserving these works. It is really the only organization that focuses entirely on the preservation of film and television music. Some of the Society's past accomplishments include the salvation of several important archives, among them: Hugo Friedhofer, Scott Bradley, and a portion of the Republic Studios collection (including works by Aaron Copland, Jacques Ibert, and Erich Wolfgang Korngold). In the mid-1990s, the Society undertook one of the most ambitious projects in the history of preservation: restoring and cataloging the massive film music manuscript and orchestration archives at Paramount Pictures. More recently, the organization has increased its operations in the area of audio restoration and book publications, and has begun an oral history project to preserve the facts, the opinions and the colorful stories of Hollywood's past, as told first-hand by those who pioneered the fields of film and television music. Today, the FMS plays a critical role in film and television music preservation activities by surveying, analyzing, and proposing solutions to the problems involved in the preservation of film music materials. I hope you feel as I do that The Film Music Society needs to be supported. Since we are a non-profit organization, the only funding we receive outside of generous donations from Board members comes from our membership subscriptions. So please think about becoming a member. The FMS is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, and your subscription will be tax-deductible. More important, you need to start thinking about preserving your own music. If you are thinking of cleaning out and getting rid of your own music, or are aware of anyone else who is planning to do the same (be it scores, sketches, dats, tapes, discs, etc.), please call us at (310) 820-1909. We will be happy to help place the materials or help plan for the future of your music. Without an organization like this, the fate of our work is uncertain. Though, in our darkest hours, all of us may think that what we write doesn't mean much anyway, time will show that there are gems yet to be discovered within the volumes of each and every one of our works – all of which need to be preserved. CLOSE WINDOW