John Clare's Composing Thoughts LIVE

A talk with Xi Wang about composition and creativity, featuring a new work for SOLI Chamber Ensemble .

I can't give the knee-jerk response most people have to this sort of thing, which is "it made me redouble my efforts to improve the...

9/11 was an important landmark in my life, and a date that had already changed it before. I moved to NYC in 2000 during a time of personal c...

It's the darkest period of time in American contemporary history that I have experienced. I have composed several works in the following...

I was numb when the Twin Towers fell on September 11, 2001. I felt powerless and deeply shaken. In the days that followed, our Mayor implore...

My first thoughts of 9/11 are the literal cliche of "OMG, what's that on TV.. is it a movie?" On 9/11/01, I was visiting my f...

My strongest feeling in the wake of 9/11 was numbness. The immediacy and impact of what happened were so powerful that I found myself exhaus...

I was shocked as we all were about 9/11. My wife is from Manhattan, and my mother-in-law still lived there, so the impact was very personal....

How has 9-11 affected me? I still clearly remember that morning in eighth grade in science class, hearing something terrible had happened, ...

For some years I believed the event hadn’t touched me much individually – although I continued to resonate with the deep wound to the nation...

I still lived in Australia on 9/11. It was about 11PM, and I was at a party with some college friends in Sydney, drinking and having a good ...

I first arrived at US on Aug. 11 2001. 9/11 happened exactly one month after I arrived at this country. I was in Kansas City Missouri at tha...