Since 1962, the program has provided more than $2 million in support to American composers.

American composers look across to Europe and long for all things old.

They are probably performed more often than any other serious American composer.

He is well known as a contemporary American composer and music technology professor.

Last week offered two opportunities to look in on American composers.

Of American composers still living, he has won the most awards.

"What happened to this brilliant young American composer after that?"

We listen carefully to works of some 80 American composers.

Now American composers feel free to write in any style they choose.

But he is often cited as one of the most original American composers.