In addition to the outstanding feature article about the Mizzou New Music Initiative in the May issue of St. Louis magazine linked here a few days ago, the MNMI and affiliated composers and musicians also have been the subjects of various other recent items in the media.

* Composer, clarinetist and Mizzou alumna Stephanie Berg was profiled in the Columbia Missourian after the announcement that the St. Louis Symphony Orchestra would play her work Ravish and Mayhem during their 2013-14 season.

Patrick Harlin, who attends the University of Michigan and, like Berg, was a resident composer at the 2012 Mizzou International Composers Festival, also will have a work played next season by the SLSO.

* The recent awarding of prizes in this year’s Creating Original Music Project (C.O.M.P.) and the culminating C.O.M.P. Festival also got some media attention, including photo coverage from the Columbia Daily Tribune and stories about individual winners from local editions of Patch.com, the Suburban Journals in St. Louis, and the Ladue School District, home to three-time C.O.M.P. winners Ande Siegel and Menea Kefalov.

* And in more C.O.M.P. related news, the singing-songwriting sisters and former C.O.M.P. winners Bella and Lily Ibur have just successfully completed a Kickstarter campaign to raise money to record their first CD of original music, which they hope to release later this year.