The composer, in other words, seems to know which differences of rhythm, phrase and color are irreconcilable.

Both composers seem to summon and direct all music's possibilities into the single moment.

This is one skirmish the present composer seems to lose.

Few composers seemed to question whether chords built by other means were possible.

Indeed, the composer never seems to turn his face to us at all.

The contemporary composer can seem to be a marginal figure, an artist without portfolio.

"My favorite composer seems to be the one whose musical world I've been immersed in most deeply at any given time."

Bernstein the composer seems relaxed here, with nothing to prove.

The composer does not seem to have wanted to be obscure.

The world can be orderly, both composers seemed to say, and at the same time irregular.