11.   Fred Hersch improvises with the clarity of a classical composer.

12.   Goldenthal, who spends most of his time writing modern concert music, compares Hollywood to the well-meaning if musically ignorant royalty who used to support classical composers.

13.   He became entranced by modern classical composers like Elliott Carter, and his work grew spacious, almost pointillistic.

14.   He is a self-educated classical composer and one of the greatest melodists America has ever produced.

15.   Is it all Beethoven and Mozart and the other two classical composers I know?

16.   It was during his ASU tenure that Ung won the prestigious Grawemeyer Award, the largest cash prize available to Classical composers.

17.   Mauceri said Tchaikovsky has proved to be the most popular classical composer with Bowl audiences.

18.   McCartney would probably be the first to admit that as a classical composer he is a dilettante, although he prefers the term primitive.

19.   Ms. Santana also commissioned the well-known Spanish classical composer Juan Campos to create the score and perform it with his group, Canadu.

20.   New classical composers aspire to music that is built to last.