For Mr. Wachner, the development seemed appropriate: a composer himself, he participated in New York City Opera's Vox series of new opera readings last year, both as a conductor and as the composer of an included work, "Evangeline Revisited".
Late style is less appropriate to composers who might have thought they had another 20 years to go when unexpected deaths turned middle periods into late ones.
Their farewell was appropriate for a composer who never courted popularity or convention and in his later years continued to plough a lonely furrow.
One might question whether that is necessarily appropriate or the composer's intention in any given case, but the results are wildly imaginative and rewarding readings that stand out from the slew of perfectly fine but indistinct interpretations.
If naming his Lower East Side-based label after a passage cribbed from Broyard's "Kafka Was the Rage: A Greenwich Village Memoir" isn't sufficient proof that Cruz is well read, he says he was recently inspired by the German-Swiss novelist Hermann Hesse, and calls the music by the composer Richard Strauss "appropriate fall music, and great for whittling to".
The simplicity of FM synthesis allowed composers to appropriate a new technology that would soon change the world: the computer.
It's not his fault that Hollywood film composers appropriated this effect in later decades, turning it into a cliché.
It seemed appropriate that as a fledgling composer he concentrated on songs.
"Daughter" (1999), a life-size Little Red Riding Hood made of paper, cloth, and hair, appears to be metamorphosing into a werewolf; an electronic soundtrack, by the composer Margaret De Wys, contributes appropriate growls and squeaks.
Nyman recently described himself, with commendable candour, as 'a composer known for appropriating and recycling the material of others'.
