composing

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He’s graduating into multiplexes having spent his adolescence writing, directing, editing, composing and market-testing what people want to watch.

From Los Angeles Times • May 28, 2026

There have been many explanations for his decision to stop composing opera in 1829, when he was only 37 years old.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 15, 2026

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

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