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Count me in! I liked your last suggestion where we pick any word from a dictionary and try compose something based on that one word. I definitely think our themes should be bare bones though, and leave a lot to the imagination.

We write little themes for this competition for other composers to develop into a bigger work. Sometimes you recieve something completely different from your style. Sometimes fits like a glove. That's the challenge! So, for this one, I was thinking on having some particularity, some simple but significative guideline for us to compose the themes. It could be something like "write in a range of 1 octave" or "write a single melody without accompaniment" or "exclude one note (in any octave) from the theme" or "make it programmatic" or "make an hommage" or "make it modal" or "use an exotic scale"... well, some sort of guideline, just one, to make things more interesting, so that we can remember this challenge as "that one in which we had to ________". What do you think?

I wish I could commit, but I'm still attempting to comply with No. 3. Still, I'd be interested.

Bernstein died from envy. The story has it, as told by Merle Sequest, that The Meastro was feeling down in the dumps. He was sullen and argumentitive when a friend approached him and said, Lenny, Why the long face? And Bernstein replied only, "I just saw Sweeney Todd." Good. Better. Best. Bested.