librettist

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Recent Examples of librettist Huang is a playwright and librettist whose work includes Mother of Exiles, The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, and Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying. Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025 Schwartz, together with composers, lyricists and librettists Irene Sankoff & David Hein (Come From Away) and Karey Kirkpatrick (Something Rotten!, Mrs. Doubtfire), will perform and tell stories about songs that had to be sacrificed to better serve the musical. Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Apr. 2025 The Washington Post reported that the Kennedy Center’s social impact team also spearheaded an effort to commission new works by Black composers and librettists. Jessica Gelt, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2025 The radicalism is that neither composer nor librettist reveals that this actually works. Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 12 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for librettist
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Noun
  • Jackson Browne, Seth MacFarlane and Patti Austin are among some of the performers set to perform as part of lyricist Alan Bergman‘s 100th birthday celebration.
    Leia Mendoza, Variety, 10 July 2025
  • Throughout the late ’80s and ’90s, each lyricist carved out a singular legacy, helping to define the very DNA of East Coast hip-hop.
    Preezy Brown, VIBE.com, 3 July 2025
Noun
  • Their lyrics were set to the music of composers including Michel Legrand, Marvin Hamlisch, John Williams and Quincy Jones.
    Patricia Reaney, USA Today, 19 July 2025
  • His final collaboration was with guitarist and composer Pat Metheny, who is set to record an album of nine Bergman/Metheny songs later this year.
    Paul Grein, Billboard, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • And the obscure poets and thinkers went flying back into oblivion.
    Peter Wortsman July 14, Literary Hub, 14 July 2025
  • According to Greek and Roman legend, Lyra is a harp, or Lyre, given by the god Apollo to the famous poet and musician Orpheus.
    Mike Lynch, Twin Cities, 13 July 2025
Noun
  • The entrance hall features a tribute to Sardinian artist Maria Lai, a Marras muse.
    Luisa Zargani, Footwear News, 21 July 2025
  • Some people are starting to call Joaquin your muse.
    Matthew Jacobs, Vulture, 18 July 2025
Noun
  • Heti’s detractors could probably put a bottle in the middle of a table and entertain themselves reading lines out of context in suave, poetaster voices.
    New York Times, New York Times, 7 Feb. 2022
  • But -aster words have never been particularly common, with the exception of poetaster, an inferior poet.
    Melissa Mohr, The Christian Science Monitor, 28 June 2018
Noun
  • Her language thus had its necessary counterpoint: the Bronx’s fullness against her poetry’s economy; the streetcorner’s pizzicato against her versifier’s swing.
    Helen Shaw, Vulture, 25 Mar. 2022
  • Modest Durnov, an artist and versifier, did not leave his mark on the world of art.
    Sarah Vitali, Harper's magazine, 10 May 2019

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