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Word: composium (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1960-1969
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Usage:

...midconcert to civic-minded businessmen and, in one case, to a seven-year-old child. To warm an audience up, he may crack jokes between numbers or invite it to join him in singing The Star-Spangled Banner. Last week hard-selling Conductor Katims staged a concert titled "Composium Nineteen-Sixty," featuring works of five resident Seattle composers. Most of the works were pleasantly melodic exercises, more impressive for technique than for originality. But the concert was both a popular success and a major boost to Seattle's civic pride...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hard Sell in Seattle | 5/23/1960 | See Source »

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