Composers Recordings, Inc (also known as CRI) was founded in 1954 by Otto Luening, Douglas Moore and Oliver Daniel. The label's mission was the discovery, distribution and preservation of the finest in contemporary American music. Hundreds of American composers had their first recording released on CRI, making the label a mainstay of career development for several generations of composers — over 600 full-length recordings were released by CRI on LP, cassette and CD. CRI was also particularly successful in recording important talents early in their careers: of the thirty-seven Pulitzer Prize-winning composers on the label, twenty-seven were recorded by CRI before they won the prestigious award. The episode features: Charles Dodge, The Serpent, Space Guitars, James Tenney, Alice Shields, Priscilla Mclean, Earle Brown, Christian Wolff and Frederic Rzewski.