scooch over , także: scootch over

Deety, before you move aft, show Maureen and Lazarus how we squeeze a passenger into the rear seats; I'll scootch over.

Gershwin and Copland don't need to abdicate just yet, but they would be right to scootch over and make a little room for a composer who draws musical sustenance, as they did, from his own region of their shared homeland.