Top 25 Ways You Know You are a Contemporary Composer Formidable Composer  Eric Whitacre 1. You try to tell the time signature of your blinker as you drive 2. You wonder if Mozart would have Tweeted 3. You ruin movies by complaining about how John Williams steals from Wagner and  Stravinsky 4. Your significant other has been relegated to long diatribes about the merits of  classical music  over pop music 5. Said significant other has also been dragged to numerous classical music concerts, including at least one that involved a laptop or singing robot 6. You can’t resist saying “I’ll be Bach” when you leave the party 7. You have an appreciation for Schoenberg and Cage that your music ed friends do not understand 8. You ever conducted the radio with a pencil in your car, while driving and drinking a cup of coffee 9. Your children grow up listening to Mozart…AND Stravinsky, Shostakovich, and Mendelssohn 10. You are used to the semi-surprised look of sh...