Haydn's princely employer died in 1790, and his successor had no interest in a composer's services.
Flautist Nicole Mitchell, a composer in the 2010-11 program, is now among those mentors.
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"I knew something was wrong, " Mr. Bermel, a composer, conductor and clarinetist, said in an interview.
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Founders fit the definition of a composer: they see something no one else does.
"My character is a musician, a composer and he works as a bartender, " Jordan said.
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If you're a composer there's hardly a way you can make a living out of doing that.
But sometimes they give us an unexpected portrait of a composer in the midst of doubt and uncertainty.
He is a drummer, a composer, and a 2008 recipient of the ASCAP Foundation Young Jazz Composer Award.
In addition to being a drummer, Roach was also a composer, a bandleader, an activist and a teacher.
But my primary aim in my early 20s was to be a composer of TV and Film music.
"Right then, I began to think about how a composer builds hybridity into a piece of music, " he said.
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As a composer Holst is most famous for his orchestral suite The Planets.
Lalo Schifrin is best known as a composer of film and TV scores.
Mr Marshall-Luck said the composition indicated "a composer who was a master craftsman".
Figgis - himself also a composer - says he wanted a "big range of film music" to accompany the postcards.
As a composer, Berkeley has written for the BBC National Orchestra of Wales, the BBC Proms and the Royal Ballet.
The long-standing image of Mahler as a composer of doom has been set aside, in part through Mr Kaplan's advocacy.
In a career spanning more than three decades, Laurie Anderson has established herself as a composer, poet, photographer, filmmaker and touring musician.
To hear and see them perform has always felt to me like taking a private tour through a composer's mind.
Both of his parents were involved in the Chinese opera, his mother as a singer and his father as a composer.
Its leading lights include Sir Michael Tippett, a composer, Yehudi Menuhin, a virtuoso violinist, and Kathleen Raine, a poet and scholar.
Deciphering a composer's intent (or trying to) not only stimulates Mr. Pollini as a performer, but also helps shape his inner life.
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Many regard him as a major poet, but Mr Venables said Gurney thought of himself "as a composer first and poet second".
As a composer, Tower was keenly aware that the piece would be performed by a wide variety of orchestras, varying in quality.
In order to create music on the Oram, a composer painted waveforms directly onto 35mm film strips which were fed into the machine.
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As a composer, Gress is interested in unifying the sound of an album by writing themes that echo or resonate off each other.
Another jazz lady famous for going her own way is Carla Bley, a composer-bandleader who combines a taste for rich sonorities with post-modern whimsy.
Mr. Kahane, a composer with one foot in the world of pop music, says he was struck by the orchestra's exceptional sense of rhythm.
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I'm not doing anything anyone else doesn't do, but I happen to be a composer of music and I'm very dedicated to perfecting that.
Shamma, 47, is a composer, performer, poet and now a teacher.
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