-Intended to be a `primary reference volume on contemporary women composers of serious music and their work,' Contemporary Concert Music by Women provides profiles of 72 composers plus six other women who specialize in presenting women's concert music to the public.... While the biographies are informal and thus do not always include all pertinent information, they provide data not readily available elsewhere, and the music listings are complete.... Of value to music libraries and scholars and to feminist groups interested in finding out about women composers and presenting their music to the public. —Reference Books Bulletin