review<\/a> of a concert of the Orchestra of the League of Composers on nytimes.com, and I was suddenly struck by a pretty silly thought: what if there were a League of Composers who were like the Avengers or the Justice League (Superfriends)? That would be pretty cool. But which composers would be part of such a League? And what would their special powers be? Let your creative juices flow and comment with your ideas for a League of Composers super-hero\u00a0assemblage\u00a0– no more than six, please, it’s not a union, it’s a mighty handful (pardon the pun) of super-hero composer power!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I was reading this review of a concert of the Orchestra of the League of Composers on nytimes.com, and I was suddenly struck by a pretty silly thought: what if there were a League of Composers who were like the Avengers or the Justice League (Superfriends)? That would be pretty cool. 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