Yet it is a seductive piece, one conceived as an attempt to challenge fellow composer Franz Lehár's dominance of the Viennese operetta scene but which quickly outgrew that milieu and gained operatic depth.
Weir wants to challenge her composer colleagues to write "in a simpler mode, without changing their style" to create music that is accessible for the widest range of people to play and enjoy.
Speaking movingly to a capacity crowd, he challenged fellow composers to take themselves seriously, to regard their achievements with pride.
This year, we challenged amateur composers to create new music for The Bee Carol, a poem by Poet Laureate Carol Ann Duffy.
The 2018 competition challenges amateur composers to create a brand new carol for SATB choir (a cappella or with piano accompaniment) set to the words of a poem by Britain's Poet Laureate, Dame Carol Ann Duffy.
Launched on Friday 1 September, the 2017 competition challenges amateur composers to create a brand new carol for SATB choir (a cappella or with piano accompaniment) set to the words of Sir Richard Smerte's Sir Christemas, a text thought to be written in the late 15th century.
In truth, Shapey, was perhaps America's most relentlessly self-challenging composer, his catalogue having roughly 200 pieces for a huge range of ensembles.
Just the opposite: it means supporting and speaking up for her composer colleagues, challenging the function that contemporary music fulfils in society, and embarking on a nationwide exploration of the state of music education in order to create pieces that will be useful for schoolchildren and amateur musicians.
The spectral composers challenged the article of faith that composers should consider as distinct sets of decisions what the notes are and when they are heard.
While the great composers like Bach and Beethoven may still reign supreme in classical music circles, a generation of new young composers are challenging its traditional boundaries.
