INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY FOR CONTEMPO RARY MUSIC, an organization founded at Salzburg, in 1922, by a number of leading modern musicians, with the object of promoting closer international musical relations by means of annual festivals devoted to representative modern works drawn impartially from all countries. Edward J. Dent, now professor of music at Cambridge university, was elected president, and yearly festivals on the lines indicated have since been regularly held. The society now has some 20 different branches in the
principal countries, with headquarters in London at the offices of the British Music Society, which constitutes the British sec tion of the organization.