In an ideal world, composers would be falling over themselves to write tunes for her, but we don't live in that world.
If the opera house could move from promoting English composers to mounting new work by world composers, it would make the final shift from a museum to a centre of living culture.
In other parts of the world, composers were finding different solutions – and we'll look at those in the next instalment.
Back in the real world, composers whose music is at least as interesting than "R ns," if not more so, count themselves fortunate if their works receive a second or third performance.
The debut novels include After Before by Jemma Wayne, who is the daughter of Jeff Wayne, the rock star and War of the Worlds composer.
Mr. Zenon examined his own musical roots, as so many new-world composers have, and found things he could use.
The one who wrote the melody is a world class composer, his name is Henrik Algren, he's a friend of my friend's son.
He may not be in the pages of FACT or RA but Mason Bates is a world famous composer and techno DJ.
Mal Waldron, an American jazz and world music composer who came to fame after performing as Billie Holiday's accompanist until her death, collaborated with the Lafayette Afro Rock Band in 1975, employing them to back him on his unreleased Candy Girl album.
"I am struck by the similar epithets that are hurled at Hillary Clinton to those that Woodhull was branded with," says the opera's world renowned composer and conductor, Victoria Bond.
This is the ordinary world of composers under 50.
