Mr. Bermel said the 25-minute composition, "Seven Hills," was inspired by traditional Bulgarian music.
Paul Rudy's "Degrees of Separation," a 10-minute composition for prerecorded electronic music and an octet of amplified cacti, is to be performed on July 28 at the Aspen Music Festival.
"Cassandra," a 20-minute composition for a large chamber ensemble (or small orchestra) of 19 players, was put over brilliantly by a valiant band of students and faculty members from the University's School of Music under Mr. Gompper's expert baton.
The concert's second half was taken up by the premiere of Mr. Hyman's new work, "The Longest Blues in the World," a 45-minute composition for an 18-piece band.
Jason Freeman's "Locust Tree in Flower," the title taken from a William Carlos Williams poem, is essentially a four-minute "composition," an aural and visual representation of the poem.
In a spin-off from last year's Maestro series, Classic Goldie will see the drum'n'bass producer commissioned to write a seven-minute composition to be performed by the BBC Concert Orchestra at the BBC Proms.
For example, one track on his new album is a twenty-two-minute composition called "SDSS1416+13B (Zercon, A Flagpole Sitter)," which touches on the fates of both a dwarf and an astronomical phenomenon known as a brown dwarf.
This 35-minute composition was premiered at the Electronic Music Plus Festival at Mills College in Oakland, California, on April 3 , 1991 and was aired nationally over the NPR Satellite in January 1992.
The sections of "Infinite Love," a continuous 40-minute composition, tend to start with plucked arpeggios and expand, sometimes taking on a melody, sometimes rippling in ever-wider arcs, sometimes melting into feedback and echo.
