我们的沟通方案是相当简单的：在莫里康内国际论坛上发布有关"音乐大师"出版第一期的消息，之后又对那些似乎没有反应的人发送电子邮件。这期间显示出只有大约35次的下载，远低于我们的预期。所以我们决定到其他莫里康内爱好者常去的地方去发布消息（注1），包括“电影配乐月刊”（ Film Score Monthly），乐谱 （Underscores），“莫里康内雅虎小组（“Morricone” Yahoo Group），和雅虎欧洲音乐公社（“Euro Film Score Society” Yahoo Group）.与此同时，我们还按照www.chimai.com过去十年间注册的1200个电邮地址发送了电子邮件。发送结果显示，其中三分之一是无效的地址。可能它们本身就是无效的，因为我们没有进行过注册邮箱的验证工作，或者它们在这些年的过程中变成了无效的地址。不过效果是很好的。几天之内，下载的次数就达到了120次

When you embark on a new undertaking, you must have objectives and you must measure them as you go. Otherwise you are going nowhere. We launched Maestro as if it was simply the sequel of MSV, and since MSV lived on for more than 30 years, how would Maestro, with the many advantages it has over its predecessor, fail to perpetuate the tradition? But it’s not that easy.

Our objectives were: continuity, quality and sustainability. We wanted to carry on what MSV had established, to ensure a high level of quality, and to make sure it could go on for a long period.

Regarding the continuity, our worst enemy was called nostalgia. This is all nice, one might have said, but it is not MSV anymore. Where is that trepidation of checking my post box in search of the latest release of MSV? Where is my paper copy? Why do I have to print it myself? Where is
that closed member group to which I belonged? Why is it now in the open? There is not much we can do about that. But those people must realize that by replacing MSV, we are also saving it.

The drawbacks are, we believe, vastly compensated by the advantages. There are improvements in terms of availability: Maestro is now for free, available to everyone in the world from the first day of its release, accessible anywhere you go, it will never be out of stock, all issues will always
be available at all times; and in terms of presentation: A4 format, with colour pictures, ready-to-use hyperlinks, zoomable for persons having difficulties with small characters, searchable, etc...

Continuity also meant that we should keep at least the user base of MSV. But there appeared to be two major obstacles to this: communication and accessibility.

Our communication plan was rather simple: announce the release of issue #1 in the Ennio Morricone International Forum, and send some e-mails afterwards to people who didn't seem to have reacted. This led to about 35 downloads only, much less than expected. So we decided to broadcast the news to other places visited by Morricone fans, and more generally by film music fans（1）These included Film Score Monthly, Underscores, the “Morricone” Yahoo Group, and the “Euro Film Score Society” Yahoo Group. In parallel, we prepared a mailing to all the members of the www.chimai.com website. Of the 1200 e-mail addresses collected over the past ten years, it appeared that more than a third were invalid. Maybe they had never been valid, since there was no e-mail verification upon registration, or maybe they had become invalid in the meantime. However, there was an excellent response from the e-mails which did reach their recipients. In a few days, the download count went up to 120.

Accessibility appeared to be another issue. We thought it would be easy for existing or new members to upgrade to a Premium account, which was the only condition to gain access the fanzine. But there were many calls for support, and I can't imagine how many didn't even bother calling for help and simply gave up. But we owe you an explanation about why Premium membership was demanded. We could have simply put a link to the pdf file and counted the downloads. But a first problem would have been the impossibility to find out if one same person as downloading multiple times: the only identifiable attribute of a downloader would have been his or her IP address, and we know that IP addresses change. Besides, we would still have lacked a reliable mailing list of people who have downloaded the first issue. The Premium approach brings us identification and e-mail verification.

Secondly, we felt it would have given a “lower” statute to the fanzine, like a vulgar document that would circulate on the internet amongst thousands of other publications. Note that our approach doesn't make it impossible or even complicated to circulate the fanzine freely, but by imposing dentification, we made sure it would circulate inside some sort of community, or just beyond its borders, between people who are interested and who would
read it. Yes, it required some extra effort from each of you, but one has to deserve one's copy of the fanzine, and we were here to help in case of problem. We still are.

All in all, we ended up with a download count of 150 after 2 months, which is about the number of MSV members by the end of its life. Can we hope for much more in the future? It's always the same numbers which come back: there are between 150 and 200 different visitors who visit www.chimai.com every day, the weekly specials are downloaded by between 100 and 150 people every week, there are about 160 registered members in Cali’s forum; the limited editions of Morricone CD's are usually of 300 copies. So we cannot expect thousands of downloads, neither had we to fear for just a dozen of them. We also believe 150 is good enough to continue to convince contributors to write articles. It would probably not have been motivating enough for less than 100.

Regarding quality, we were quite satisfied with the contents of the first issue. We were able to attract the usual suspects of MSV (Laurent and Steven, in addition of course to Patrick and myself), and to have new contributors from Hungary, China and Kazakhstan. Still no Italians though, unfortunately. And no women. The subjects covered were very varied, ranging from album to concert reviews, dossiers, in-depth analyses, about periods from the Sixties to the 2000’s. On the down side, very few of the contributors are native English-speakers, and we are conscious that several of our texts could be improved in terms of grammar or vocabulary. However, we do not want to put the bar too high on this matter, because it would be a too big obstacle to attract new contributors. It keeps an amateurish side to the fanzine, but we don’t believe it is a real problem. At least, there shouldn’t be too many spelling mistakes. A small reminder in this context: you can send us your contributions in any widespread language (French, German, Italian, Dutch), and we’ll do our best to come up with a proper English translation.

A potential advantage which we decided not to take on board was the versioning. Once an issue is published, it is published. There will not be new versions of it with corrections (except maybe in a case of force majeure ), even though it would be technically easy to do. But we would end up
having our readers wondering if they have the right version, or waiting for longer before they download the issue, or print it several times. So we want to make it easy, and corrigenda are always possible in the following issues.

Regarding sustainability, the good news is that the time required to manage this new version of the fanzine is compatible with our schedule. The announced rhythm of publications (3 to 4 per year) seems realistic. And our motivation is increasing every day. Of course, there are threats to
the sustainability. The fanzine basically depends on 2 people, which is not a lot. But Martin was alone and he held it at arms length for 30 years. With this vigour for the both of us, we should aim at a few decades too. We believe that there will always be interesting subjects to discuss, even after no new music will be produced anymore by our Maestro. Album issues will not decrease, neither should the revival of Morricone’s music in new contexts. But this of course doesn’t depend on us.

进入21世纪，随着许多莫里康内大师配乐电影的流入和民间交流的增多，在中国大陆的莫里康内爱好者人群逐步增加。虽然莫里康内爱好者网站是一个沟通和交流的平台，但它已不能满足爱好者更多的需要。建立一个爱好者自己的组织已逐渐成为人们的共识和必然趋势。

机会终于来了。经过笔者和编辑团队的重要成员苏毅先生的多次讨论，以及和更多朋友交换意见，2009年5月24日，在莫里康内北京音乐会举行的第二天，“莫里康内爱好者联谊会”成立会议在北京召开。来自全国各地的18名代表出席了这次会议。大家一致同意建立“莫里康内爱好者联谊会”（简称“莫迷网联”）。会议推选苏毅为会长，陈京炜为秘书长，并邀请韩文光先生（笔者）出任名誉会长，杨大林先生和杨冬女士出任总顾问，赵寻先生出任名誉理事。并确认了21位理事成员，如下表所示：

Since the beginning of the 21st century, with the introduction of many movies composed by Ennio Morricone and civil exchanges in mainland China, the Morricone fans crowd is increasing. Although the Ennio Morricone Fans website is a communication and exchange platform, it has not been able to satisfy more needs of enthusiasts. The establishment of a fan's own organization has gradually become the consensus and the inevitable trend of the fans.

This opportunity finally arrived. After the author and important member of editor team Mr. Yi Su discussed, and further exchanged views with more friends, in May 24, 2009, the second day of Morricone Beijing concert, the establishing conference of "Ennio Morricone Fans Association" was
held in Beijing. 18 representatives from all over the country attended the conference, agreed to establish the "Ennio Morricone Fans Association" (Abbreviated as "MorriUnion"), and to select Mr. Yi Su as the association president, and Ms.Jingwei Chen as secretary general. Mr. Wenguang Han
(the author) was invited to hold the post of the honorary president, Mr Dalin Yang and Ms. Dong Yang as the general adviser, Mr. Xun Zhao as the honorary member of the council. And confirmed the list of the 21 members of the council, which is as follows:

The development of network technology brings a lot of convenience to the people, but it cannot substitute for the paper books completely. Therefore for a long time, the author has been thinking of editing a paper book with complete information and selected contents for the fans, especially for the
Chinese fans. In celebration of the 10th anniversary of the "Morricone Fans" website and 3rd anniversary of the "MorriUnion", the book was finally published on June 15,2012 in Nanjing China, Its name is "Ennio Morricone Fans Handbook". The key points and feature of this book are:

(1). First and second chapters are a synthesized introduction to Ennio Morricone and his works: detailed chronology of these works, coming from his official website, as well as the imdb.com and chimai.com website, which have sometimes a different content. We made a contrast and research of
three directories difference and raised questions. We think that first need to solve the confusion in his work chronology. At present, there is a big gap between Morricone official website data and many other well-known sites such as IMDB, CHIMAI, SOUNDTRACK. As for the civil forum arguments
is often seen, some arguments may have existed for decades. It not only brings many contradictions, for the dissemination and research of Morricone works is also very unfavorable. Ennio Morricone is Italy's National Treasure, has been 85 years old this year. As his fans, we call on that, First his
official website has the responsibility to take the initiative to listen to opinions from all sides, to clarify a variety of different points of view, complete with an authoritative chronology directory. We also hope that the Italian government departments concerned about this issue and take the necessary
measures.

(4) Chapter 5 recorded from all over the world and China fans' activity: includes 4 important articles from the webmasters of famous websites about Morricone in Belgium, Austria, Russia, Japan. It also includes the articles from the president, members of concil of "MorriUnion", webmaster, edited team, volunteers etc. Recorded China fans activities-Their website, their organization, their passion and participation for the two times Ennio Morricone China concert….., The massive writing and pictures forever carve this history. It will become an important part of Ennio Morricone fans archival record in the world.