2025 News of Note Puzzle Contest

Hello puzzle fans!  This year’s puzzle by Susan Alexander is a riff on the NY Times’s Connections. 

Your job is to sort the composers in the grid into 4 groups of 3 by determining what each group has in common.  For example, if the composers Glass, Field, and Beach were in the grid, you might guess that they were connected by being a word that is often followed by “house.”  But that is just one kind of connection.  It’s not an easy puzzle, so here’s a hint: Two of the categories have connections to ACMP activities from this past year; two are pure wordplay.  

Submit your answers here by July 1 – for glory, and the chance to win any piece of ACMP merchandise of your choice!

More hints and answers will appear here after the contest deadline.