Fresh Meat

I'm scoping out some more local ensembles as candidates for score submissions. It never ceases to amaze me, the reactions from players when you approach them with contemporary compositions. They are nice about it and usually eager to try them out, but it's as if the thought never occured to them to play music by someone not dead for centuries.

Also, what is a "tresemble"? Interesting new term opted by a local chamber group.