We pride ourselves on our aesthetic pluralism, on the peace that reigns after the paper wars of decades past between serialists and symphonists, Romantics and modernists, Minimalists and maximalists, politically engaged composers and detached, ironic observers.
Lucas' genius extended beyond the conception of the story to engaging a composer for the film who could underscore the power of the storytelling and myth-making.
To elaborate, some of the artists engaged by the composer Judd Greenstein, the festival's curator, are fellow composers whose music partakes of sounds and styles derived from Minimalism and popular-music idioms.
After Schnittke died, Irina Schnittke, his widow, engaged the Russian composer Alexander Raskatov to finish the work.
But when he hears a composer engaged with sound, swept up with the actual act of creation, that moves him.
In 1950, Jean Vilar relaunched the Théâtre Nationale Populaire, based at the Palais de Chaillot, and engaged Jarre as composer of incidental music for an immensely influential series of stagings of the classics.
Mr. Lindberg had a strong hand in choosing the young composers engaged for Contact, all American by birth or adaptation.
The composers engaged for the Alice Guy Blaché Film Score Project were given copies of the films and left to choose among them and compose in any style they saw fit.
In the early 1970s Sculthorpe was engaged briefly to the composer Anne Boyd, one of his first students at the University of Sydney, where he lectured from 1963-99, butheyey broke off the engagement: "we felt that two composers in one house was one too many".
At the same time the young composer was engaged to undertake another Milan carnival opera, for the 1772 73 season, at an increased fee.
