But the composers do share one tendency: they feel free to combine elements that 10 years ago were associated with opposing, nearly adversarial wings of jazz.

A compositional language that many composers can share encourages us to communicate with and learn from one another.

These composers and their fellows share almost nothing in style or background, and they would undoubtedly have quite different views of what constitutes the British tradition, if anything.

Thursday night's composers and performers share an interest in the science of acoustics.

But the two composers do share a similar passion for making grand public statements about life's deepest truths.

The two composers shared a ceremonial audience box.

You see it time and again in the 'Goldberg,' and I find most composers today share that curiosity.

Both composers shared a fascination with unusual sonorities, counterpoint masses, and the outer extremes of pitch space.

Two interesting composers from America's 30-something generation shared a program at the 92d Street Y on Wednesday night.

Moreover, the composers share a preference for empty or open harmonies (primarily octaves) to those more tonally definite.