We should take our cue from the composer.
There are, most usefully, opportunities to hear second performances, with commentary from the composer.
At one point, Mr. White received a phone call from the composer.
The invitation, from the composer Julian Anderson, gave me a framework: to turn all three into one opera.
As Fay readily admits, many of the anecdotes and opinions have been corroborated by other sources; Volkov may have heard some from the composer, others from his friends.
In 1999, Kurt Masur, then the Philharmonic's music director, commissioned a work for two violas and orchestra from the composer Sofia Gubaidulina.
The new work is from the composer Mark-Anthony Turnage and the writer Richard Thomas, a creator of "Jerry Springer: The Opera".
The company commissioned the opera "Madame White Snake" from the composer Zhou Long, who was given the 2011 Pulitzer Prize in music for the work.
The performance, at 8 p.m., is sponsored by operamission, a group whose objective is to bring the music "from the composer to the audience".
The show features music from the composer Frank Wildhorn, who has struggled with a string of flops, including two short-lived 2011 productions, "Bonnie & Clyde" and "Wonderland".
The Other Minds Festival emerged from the composer Charles Amirkhanian's experience producing a similar event in Telluride, Colo., from 1988 to 1991.
