Featured Composers

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  Elena Kats-Chernin

  "[She] appears to achieve the impossible, straddling the two seemingly irreconcilable camps of intellectualism and accessibility." Sydney Morning Herald

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  David T. Little

  "...perhaps the most prominent member of a group of young composers who are reviving the unabashedly political music-theatre tradition of Marc Blitzstein." The New Yorker

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  Harrison Birtwistle

  "A great original ... one of the most gifted composers of his generation." The Times

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  Paquito D'Rivera

  "He has become the consummate multinational ambassador, creating and promoting a cross-culture of music that moves effortlessly among jazz, Latin, and classical." National Endowment for the Arts

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  Carlisle Floyd

  "With a commitment that rivals Smetana's in Bohemia or Britten's in Britain, [Floyd] has striven to create a national repertory..." The New Yorker

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  Richard Strauss

  "From first to last he put his trust in tonality, melody, dramatic instinct, and a vein of fantasy which belongs to all the greatest story-tellers." Michael Kennedy