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Here’s a welcome development in the publishing business – a major sheet music provider debuts an attractive digital platform for promotion of and affordable access to new music:

PSNY is an edition, in the most fundamental sense of the word: a curated, highly selective collection of works by contemporary composers, instantly available for download by ensembles, programmers, and music fans alike. PSNY offers new music in the simplest ways we could think of: instant downloads of DRM-free scores and parts, or printed hard copies, beautifully designed by David Rudnick.

And from the PSNY about page:

PSNY employs an interactive, media-rich online interface connecting musicians and audiences directly with the creators of new work. Composers, performers, and music lovers will all play an active role on the PSNY site, which has been designed expressly to accommodate and promote a new online space for the discovery and discussion of new music.

I hope that the project [a spin-off of Schott/European American] lives up to its promise, as we desperately need resources like this in the concert music business. My only caveats thus far: not much large ensemble music, and flash-only audio. Presumably both will change as PSNY grows and responds to user feedback.

[via Timo Andres, a PSNY pilot composer and our guest artist at the WCFSO in February]