She says this is a special time to be a composer.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

His dreams of becoming a composer began when he was young.

VOA: special.2009.06.21

He attended college classes to learn to become a composer.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

He was a composer,conductor, pianist and teacher.

VOA: special.2009.08.02

So says Frank Oteri,himself a composer.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

In addition to touring and recording with his quartet, he's worked as a composer or arranger on the Clint Eastwood films "Mystic River."

VOA: standard.2010.04.16

In nineteen forty-two, orchestra conductor Andre Kostelanitz asked composer Aaron Copland to write a piece of music about Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2011.02.07

His idea for the original drawing came from a piece of music by the English composer Ralph Vaughn-Williams.

VOA: special.2009.09.02

It was very popular. The composer earned a good living from the sales of the sheet music.

VOA: special.2010.01.24

Years later, he admitted that he had no idea that George Gershwin was such a successful composer.

VOA: special.2010.03.07

We're playing John Williams, who is a famous composer who did 'Indiana Jones' and 'Star Wars' and 'Superman,' in addition to the classical music."

VOA: special.2010.06.21

Cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinist Itzhak Perlman, pianist Gabriela Montero and clarinetist Anthony McGill will play a work written by composer John Williams for the event.

VOA: special.2009.01.16

Vijay Iyer is a jazz pianist, composer,producer and bandleader who has received much critical praise.

VOA: special.2010.10.01

"Something happened post-World War Two where a divide occurred between the audience and the composer.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

The book is based on a children's opera by the Jewish Czech composer Hans Krasa.

VOA: special.2009.10.05

In nineteen eighty-three she became the first female composer to win a Pulitzer Prize.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

For a classically trained composer, Jennifer Higdon's musical influences might surprise you.

VOA: special.2010.07.12

Adam Schoenberg is a young composer adding to this rich variety.

VOA: special.2010.07.19

Shel Silverstein did. He was a poet,writer,artist, musician and composer.

VOA: special.2010.06.04