When he was sixteen, he urged his parents to let him study composing with Rubin Goldmark.

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Jennifer Higdon says she is always thinking about her audience when she is composing.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Then,he began experimenting with what is called a twelve-tone system of composing.

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But he was in poor health. Still,he kept composing, directing and speaking.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

Copland stopped composing at the end of the nineteen sixties.

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Soon,she became interested in composing.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

"The combination of the sweep and scope of Melville's language, the beauty of the story, the depth of the characters all pushed me into a whole new realm of composing and thinking of what music is onstage."

VOA: special.2010.06.11

After his death, the baton passed to John Williams, best known for composing Academy-Award winning movie scores.

VOA: standard.2010.07.28

Torrey says it was no small feat composing shots of the ruins without any tourists in the frame, but even more difficult was chasing the ever-changing angles of natural light.

VOA: standard.2009.12.15