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

So last year,students,parents, school officials,stars,politicians, athletes and other people were urged to write thank-you notes for the special teachers in their lives.

VOA: special.2010.04.30

Also in nineteen forty-two, the music director of the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra asked eighteen composers to write music expressing love for America.

VOA: special.2011.08.14

In nineteen forty-two, the conductor Andre Kostelanetz asked Copland to write music about a great American,Abraham Lincoln.

VOA: special.2011.08.14

In nineteen forty-three, a publisher asked him to write a book giving advice to parents.

VOA: special.2009.03.15

In nineteen eighty-five, Michael Jackson helped write the song "We Are the World."

VOA: special.2009.07.05

He asked Ted Nash to write the hour-long composition "Portrait in Seven Shades."

VOA: special.2010.03.24

"Considering the recent Russian attempts to re-write history, for example by suggesting Polish complicity in German aggression, we could expect Russians to publish their own estimates of Soviet war victims shortly,".

VOA: standard.2009.09.01

This brought in their writing skills. After we talk about all of them, we will write the numbers down - now this is three and two more - before we even tell them the plus sign, you know,how to join things together."

VOA: standard.2010.08.10