Composers take note. Here’s how to get your music played and receive that critical praise you’ve been hungering for:

1. Marry a world-class soloist.
2. Become the music director of a famous orchestra.
3. Write your spouse a concerto.
4. Take your orchestra on the road.

Hey, it worked for Andre Previn, who led his wife Anne-Sophie Mutter in his new violin concerto with the Oslo Philharmonic Orchesta. Even Bernard Holland thinks it’s a good idea: “New music should do anything it can to find an audience, and this way is better than many.” And don’t worry, there’s “no sin in [this] kind of three-way.”