The Society for New Music Promotion ( SPNM ), originally called Committee for New Music Promotion , was established in January 1943 in London by Francis Chagrin, to promote creation and new music performances by young and unlisted composers. Since 1993, he has won the annual Butterworth Prize for Composition. In 2008, joined three other networks to form Sound and Music.
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The Society for New Music Promotion was founded in January 1943 in London by Francis Chagrin, to promote the creation, performances, and new music awards by young and unlisted composers. This is a membership organization that seeks to find the best new composers and helps support their careers, especially in the UK.
Ralph Vaughan Williams agrees to be president of the newly formed Committee for New Music Promotion, provided that "avoid all clicks [and] welcome to any work in either style or school." Other committee members are Arthur Bliss as vice president, and Francis Chagrin is described as the "organizer and head shift spirit" of the committee. The activities were initially subsidized by the wartime Council for the Encouragement of Music and Art and by private donations from Vaughan Williams and Bliss among others, and remain the basis for much of the subsequent work: a "list of recommendations" of the created works, resulting in increased broadcasting by the BBC and in some recording works of "recommendation lists", published in the 1940s on 78 rpm discs by Decca.
In October 1951, a draft amendment to the Constitution was prepared, and on May 27, 1952 the Society for New Music Promotion met for its inaugural meeting. From 1993 onwards, the SPNM provided the annual Butterworth Prize for Composition.
On October 1, 2008, SPNM joined the British Music Information Center (BMIC), Contemporary Music Network and Sonic Arts Network, forming a new organization to promote contemporary music in the UK called Sound and Music.
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