 Incorporated as a California non-profit public corporation in 1984, the organization changed its name to The Film Music Society in 1997.The current president is composer David Newman, son of the celebrated film composer, Alfred Newman.In 1990, William H. Rosar went on to found the International Film Music Society, a learned society of scholars studying film from the standpoint of musicology, and which in 2011 established the Institute for Film Music Studies for that purpose.