During the last half decade two composers—Jonathan Lloyd and Jacob Druckman—were commissioned by major ensembles to write concertos for viola and orchestra. Each composer has interpreted the concerto form in his own way, but both have departed somewhat from the traditional concept of the concerto. (According to the Harvard Dictionary definition, the solo part of a concerto is written in a ‘highly virtuosic style’. Grove's Dictionary adds: ‘the name concerto [is] generally given to an instrumental composition designed to show the skill of an executant’.)