American Composers Alliance
Overview
 
The American Composers Alliance is an American
United States
The United States of America is a federal constitutional republic comprising fifty states and a federal district...

 membership organization dedicated to the publishing and promoting of American contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music
Contemporary classical music can be understood as belonging to the period that started in the mid-1970s with the retreat of modernism. However, the term may also be employed in a broader sense to refer to all post-1945 modern musical forms.-Categorization:...

. Founded in 1937 by Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland
Aaron Copland was an American composer, composition teacher, writer, and later in his career a conductor of his own and other American music. He was instrumental in forging a distinctly American style of composition, and is often referred to as "the Dean of American Composers"...

, Milton Adolphus
Milton Adolphus
Irving Milton Adolphus was a pianist and American classical music composer.-Biography:Born in the Bronx, New York and educated at Yale University, his classical compositions include over 200 orchestral, vocal and chamber works, among them 13 symphonies and 35 string quartets...

 and others, it is the oldest national organization of its kind, and represents over 200 member composers.

The organization is based in Manhattan
Manhattan
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, New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...

, New York
New York
New York is a state in the Northeastern region of the United States. It is the nation's third most populous state. New York is bordered by New Jersey and Pennsylvania to the south, and by Connecticut, Massachusetts and Vermont to the east...

. Each year since 1951 it has presented the Laurel Leaf Award
Laurel Leaf Award
The Laurel Leaf Award recognizes the achievement of an individual or group in encouraging and fostering American music. The award has been presented annually by the American Composers Alliance since 1951...

 individuals and organizations in recognition of "distinguished achievement in fostering and encouraging American music."

The American Composers Alliance publishes musical scores under the imprint American Composers Edition (ACE).
Quotations

Two is the beginning of the end.

Ch. 1 : Peter Breaks Through

He got all of her, except the innermost box and the kiss. He never knew about the box, and in time he gave up trying for the kiss.

Ch. 1 : Peter Breaks Through

The many gentlemen who had been boys when she was a girl discovered simultaneously that they loved her, and they all ran to her house to propose to her except Mr. Darling, who took a cab and nipped in first, and so he got her.

Ch. 1 : Peter Breaks Through

... but at last Wendy just got through, with mumps reduced to twelve six, and the two kinds of measles treated as one.

Ch. 1 : Peter Breaks Through

As they were poor, owing to the amount of milk the children drank, this nurse was a prim Newfoundland dog, called Nana, who belonged to no one in particular until the Darlings engaged her.

Ch. 1 : Peter Breaks Through

John’s, for instance, had a lagoon with flamingoes flying over it at which John was shooting, while Michael, who was very small, had a flamingo with lagoons flying over it.

Ch. 1 : Peter Breaks Through

For instance, they may remember to mention, a week after the even happened, that when they were in the wood they met their dead father and had a game with him.

Ch. 1 : Peter Breaks Through

She had found her two older children playing at being herself and father on the occasion of Wendy’s birth.

Ch. 2 : The Shadow : The Shadow

I warn you of this, mother, that unless this tie is round my neck we don’t’ go out to dinner to-night, an dif I don’t go out to dinner to-night, I will never go to the office again, and if I don’t go to the office again, you and I stare, and our children will be flung into the streets.

Ch. 2 : The Shadow

‘That is not the point,’ he retorted. ‘The point is, that there is more in my glass than in Michael’s spoon.’ His proud heart was nearly bursting. ‘And it isn’t fair; I would say it though it were with my last breath; it isn’t fair.’

Ch. 2 : The Shadow

 
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