composing

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Even during the war, he continued composing music.

From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026

Walden so enjoys composing music that in 2022 he founded Pacific Jazz Orchestra, an iteration of the big band he first assembled decades ago.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 13, 2026

In a rare interview with a Hungarian weekly in 2017, Kurtag confided that composing can sometimes be "painful".

From Barron's • Feb. 18, 2026

Asked by CBS Sunday Morning’s John Blackstone in 2022 whether composing was still daunting at his age, Mr. Weir shrugged: “The blank page is the greatest challenge life has to offer.”

From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 11, 2026

There was Pickett, writing too, sitting on a camp stool as if composing a poem.

From "The Killer Angels: The Classic Novel of the Civil War" by Michael Shaara