He is commissioning several composers to write new pieces for him.

Each competition year, a major composer is commissioned to composer a piece.

So far, 55 composers have been commissioned, 43 for orchestral works, the rest for chamber pieces.

Guy Livingston, who has commissioned composers of all stripes to write 60-second works for him, is to play a sampling of them tonight.

And he says the orchestra's mission is to continue to pioneer, but "it's not just by commissioning new American composers," he said.

Through the next few months, the set was growing rapidly at Elstree, and a composer and designer had been commissioned to create the title sequence.

In 2010, Cutler was one of twenty composers commissioned to write a piece for the London 2012 Olympics.

Resch has made special arrangements of traditional hymns and commissioned composers to write original works or arrangements for the group.

An accomplished composer, he has been commissioned to compose music to mark the anniversary of the Idiran-Culture War.

Several of the young composers commissioned to write works for this program described their initial encounters with Mr. Reich's music as epiphanies.