http://www.composingthoughts.net/composingthoughtslive daily 0.75 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1774450420536-X99ZH001F7FRDC66GTEP/laughing.jpg Composing Thoughts Live - Composing Thoughts Live  Jennifer Higdon and John Clare in front of an amusing audience. See them in action here: http://youtu.be/76O9vOVU2Dw https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1774450420536-X99ZH001F7FRDC66GTEP/laughing.jpg Composing Thoughts Live - Composing Thoughts Live  Jennifer Higdon and John Clare in front of an amusing audience. See them in action here: http://youtu.be/76O9vOVU2Dw https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1774450532206-WYPKR8P7D0BJQORPVLBO/johnelinor.jpg Composing Thoughts Live - John and Elinor These two love new music and can talk up a storm! Watch them here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1774450632521-TMF8W5FHNSY4WDH4GJMV/ctfb.jpg Composing Thoughts Live - Composing Thoughts on Facebook Keep up to date with us on facebook! https://www.facebook.com/ComposingThoughts  https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1774450545745-DK5FKRXCY0WB06T7GJ7J/production.jpg Composing Thoughts Live - Composing Thoughts In depth look at creativity and composition - check out an episode in Vienna: https://vimeo.com/5566501 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1774450623733-MLB1GHBIDXZSIMNB07AJ/Helios_Choros.jpg Composing Thoughts Live - Augusta Read Thomas Composition sketch by "ART". See her in an interview with John here. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1774450642756-YGCRO7ESEYYTTSJ19F60/johnphilippehersant.jpg Composing Thoughts Live - Clare & Hersant After the world premiere of his String Quartet No. 3. Earlier in the afternoon they had a great chat about the work, watch it now! http://www.composingthoughts.net/violinscigarsbroadcasting daily 0.75 2015-11-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1372091168514-9NRUGCH8MC8CDH68QWFX/IMG_9157.jpg Violins, Cigars, Broadcasting - He's your Classical Santa! John Clare conducting the San Antonio Symphony. Watch the performance of Sleigh Ride here. Available for your party or performance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1372091168514-9NRUGCH8MC8CDH68QWFX/IMG_9157.jpg Violins, Cigars, Broadcasting - He's your Classical Santa! John Clare conducting the San Antonio Symphony. Watch the performance of Sleigh Ride here. Available for your party or performance. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1372116281549-UPAHTOCC0X6NHVIB2LJN/johnviolinstudio.jpg Violins, Cigars, Broadcasting - Clarely Classical John has played violin over 30 years. Listen to a birthday tribute he composed for Elliott Carter: https://vimeo.com/2506950. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1372091154510-6AP1OX0H8LQJKWN0EA66/johnlaughing.jpg Violins, Cigars, Broadcasting - Laughter is the best medicine Broadcasting with the USAF Band of the West, John laughs with the Gateway Brass. Their visit to TPR: http://www.tpr.org/post/air-force-band-joins-san-antonio-symphony-honor-veterans. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1372091213351-VR9W9IKZJWZQZ6RDCKG9/IMG_1523.JPG Violins, Cigars, Broadcasting - Light up yer smoke Outside Lancaster, PA at an international guitar festival, learn about it here. http://www.composingthoughts.net/media daily 0.75 2013-06-24 http://www.composingthoughts.net/john-nasukaluk-clare daily 0.75 2013-12-31 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1388468814721-EI1GJ2SD9TQNZXZO376P/20130906_164048.jpg Gallery - Life imitating art? Senor Clare in Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1388468814721-EI1GJ2SD9TQNZXZO376P/20130906_164048.jpg Gallery - Life imitating art? Senor Clare in Mexico https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1388468346628-WGT1YT4SUWYZDGHQLSCC/TalkingComposition.JPG Gallery - Interviewing a (Pulitzer Prize/Grammy) winner Talking with Jennifer Higdon in Dallas https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1388468254448-F1M183JXX5MI4MOK66FS/1512479_768224726524825_1268807916_n.jpg Gallery - I do! Officiating a wedding (yes, I am a New Music Minister!) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1388468272317-EGXD4ROHLGMSZ16PNGGC/IMG_2037.jpg Gallery - He believes! I love being Santa for symphony orchestras and especially at their family concerts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1388468329113-L7DRG949H87MORKXME2M/ellenandjohn.jpg Gallery - Are there leaf blowers outside? Even up high, you can hear street noises sometimes during an interview (this one with Ellen Zwilich) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1388468651475-EG0KQH5VLX5I8LBZW5UE/20130708_172749.jpg Gallery - Up high A happy hour enjoyed in the Tetons during the summer festival there https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1388468513896-NCRSN0PQCQZHL23HYT2X/2013-12-21+21.46.20.jpg Gallery - Selfie with Santa? Santa snapped one on stage during the performance with Maestro Akiko Fujimoto https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1388468757521-9MOKH4HJFRE3N27JOOTU/jcjoyce.jpg Gallery - Backstage Two Wichita State Shocker friends catching up in Aspen (after Joyce Didonato's Aspen Music Festival debut in July 2013) http://www.composingthoughts.net/about daily 1.0 2026-03-25 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1372092174748-SQ72LQ1NGQAYM87XZKJT/IMG_1634.JPG About https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1372090543218-YA6H1YKCOTTJ30MLCR11/miltonandjohn.jpg About Milton Babbitt and Clare https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/a63951b2-455a-4f8b-8b9a-764a52be3a7f/JNC.jpg About John Nasukaluk Clare http://www.composingthoughts.net/contact daily 0.75 2017-05-14 http://www.composingthoughts.net/a-tribute daily 0.75 2017-08-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1501679980077-XM0I7XMR30V7DYF25NM2/WSUMass.jpg A tribute - rum bum bum! Wichita State University performance of Bernstein's Mass (March 1973) - The "most ambitious, unusual, and controversial musical theatre works in years" - conducted by Decker. Jay would recall to us that it was the first performance west of the Mississippi River. https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/51c86bf7e4b0fb66348e1bde/1501680178481-IRX8LRVC8HQYH6F1KX4T/Twilight+Pops+Concert.JPG A tribute - rum bum bum! Wichita Symphony Twilight Pops Concert at the Wichita River Festival http://www.composingthoughts.net/welcome daily 0.75 2017-04-03 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5745eb6359827e6ebb73dcdc/1493402875328-BNUBDW0YU8T7FLFUE8TV/Stocksy_txp35169653TeS100_Large_674803_WEBSAFE.jpg Welcome