His reasoning, which is inarguable, is that a remarkable number of eloquent, successful composers — an unusually large slice of the compositional power elite, you could say — were born then and came of age during the musical and social ferment of the 1950s and '60s.
Tarik O'Regan ("one of the most original and eloquent of young composers" the Observer says) is composer in residence.
Davis remains the greatest, most searching Berlioz conductor of our time, the most eloquent champion for a composer who is still beyond the pale as far as much of Europe is concerned.
The celebrated film composer waxes eloquent about the BBC's Planet Earth II, joining us on the phone from his studio in LA.
Sir Colin Davis's fondness for Berlioz and Sibelius have made him an especially eloquent advocate for both composers, and he is spending his current visit to the Philharmonic conducting works by both of them.
But where Mr. Schiff showed an extroverted, monumental Schumann, Mr. Padmore and Mr. Bezuidenhout demonstrated that the composer was equally eloquent and often more deeply affecting in more intimate forms.
The eloquent and reservedly revolutionary Polish composer who would have turned 100 next month had a noteworthy relationship with the L.A. Phil.
THE Norwegian pianist Leif Ove Andsnes is an eloquent interpreter of so many composers, from Schubert and Grieg to Nielsen and Britten, that you tend to trust his instincts when he moves in a new direction.
Mr. Lieberson was an eloquent voice in the generation of composers seeking to infuse the thorny rigors of academic music with a more accessible, lyrical sound.
It says a lot for Stephen Hartke's "Night Songs for a Desert Flower" (2009) that when the Brentano String Quartet performed the work alongside quartets by Haydn and Beethoven at Zankel Hall on Wednesday evening, it seemed fully a part of the continuum: a modern extension of the musical language those composers spoke and as eloquent in its way as the music of its celebrated predecessors.
