11.   How many contemporary composers can inspire a reaction like that?

12.   Instructing them or rising above them has not gotten contemporary composers very far.

13.   Levels of meaning seem to hang in the air in a complicit dialogue between the choreography and the music by the contemporary composer John Harbison.

14.   Last April, Thanh said, the conservatory orchestra toured the country, playing works by Brahms, Tchaikovsky, Mendelssohn and two contemporary Vietnamese composers.

15.   Ligeti is one of very few contemporary composers who have been admitted to the Boulez canon without delay.

16.   Ms. Brown, who is known for her slippery movement style, has more typically worked with contemporary composers, such as Robert Ashley and Laurie Anderson.

17.   Of course, the influence of rock, pop and, in earlier decades, jazz, has long been noted in the music of contemporary American composers.

18.   On Saturday he completes three nights conducting the ASO in an all-choral program of the music of Haydn, Rachmaninoff and contemporary composer John Adams.

19.   Other highlights include pieces by Bach, contemporary composer Eric Thiman and a lively Mexican folk song.

20.   Rhythm is the obvious though not the only one, and the particular impact of rock rhythms on contemporary composers has been overstated.