That's silly of course: single, theme-free programs of mixed composers are the daily bread of all musicians, and they were once the norm for the Emerson too.
"Maybe they will hear a work by a contemporary composer, mixed in, they would never have listened to otherwise," he said.
In a mixed program, a composer's style must quickly declare itself, both on its own terms and in relation to the styles of the other composers on the bill.
We need the new and the familiar mixed with new composers and lyricists".
But the careering of miscellaneous events and the lack of care were as disappointing here as in the mixed quartet by this composer that was included in a related and generally regrettable chamber concert at the Japan Society on Wednesday.
Series composer Mark Snow mixed in "clarinet, violin, and cello solos" to the episode's score.
In interviews over the years, Professor Logan made clear that for him and his colleagues, the rubric "black composer" was a decidedly mixed blessing.
The problem is that a composer discovered in a mixed program may not turn up again for months or even years.
February 17 2012 Rihm, a deservedly prominent German composer, has for decades mixed — with a scientist's discretion and a lover's embrace — the two major musical trends of his complex heritage, Romanticism and modernism.
Accordingly, the trio mixed spirituals with art songs by composers like Robert Owens, George Rochberg and Lee Hoiby, grouped by themes of struggle, resolution and, naturally, jubilation.
Many composers of the period mixed tonal and atonal elements: Ernst Toch's Eleventh Quartet, which the Flux Quartet valiantly essayed one afternoon at Bard, is a typical, if overstrenuous, example of the trend.
