How to Use composer in a Sentence
composer
noun- She prefers Mozart and Beethoven to modern composers.
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Most, but not all, of the composers of this year’s period pieces felt the obligation to reflect time and place.
— Jon Burlingame, Variety, 29 Nov. 2024 -
Meanwhile, Winslet is making inroads on the heart of a Hollywood composer played by Jack Black.
— Aimée Lutkin, ELLE, 30 Nov. 2022 -
The score by the late Icelandic composer Jóhann Jóhannsson rings ears with a nightmarish chill, cutting through the pine trees and echoing beyond the forest.
— Michael Lee Simpson, EW.com, 14 Dec. 2022 -
The composer died Sunday of natural causes at his New Jersey home surrounded by family.
— Dory Jackson, Peoplemag, 13 Dec. 2022 -
Not to mention co-director Shinichiro Watanabe and composer Yoko Kanno.
— Ollie Barder, Forbes, 26 Nov. 2024 -
This is the second year in a row that the award has gone to a German composer.
— Paul Grein, Billboard, 13 Mar. 2023 -
As the sole composer of the soundtrack, Jia-Kai faced a unique challenge.
— Billboard China, Billboard, 21 June 2023 -
But why did the composer have so much lead in his system?
— Sarah Kuta, Smithsonian Magazine, 9 May 2024 -
Sing Zhang and the film’s soundtrack composer, Alex Minyailo, wrote the lyrics.
— Michaela Zee, Variety, 9 Aug. 2024 -
What’s more, the tempo a composer hears in his head tends to be faster than what works in practice.
— Jeffrey Gantz, BostonGlobe.com, 26 Feb. 2023 -
More the attitude of a future composer and DJ than that of a pop star.
— Mathias Döpfner, Rolling Stone, 19 Aug. 2024 -
Here, in the hands of a female composer, the flute unravels male guilt.
— Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 5 Aug. 2024 -
Of these roles, women saw gains as composers on the top 250 films, improving by 6%.
— Brent Lang, Variety, 1 Jan. 2024 -
Like a human composer Shimon has to parse through lots of ideas to choose what’s good from the creations.
— IEEE Spectrum, 15 Feb. 2023 -
The composer calls the score one of the most difficult he’s ever written.
— Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 5 Apr. 2023 -
That’s where composer Cristobal Tapia de Veer comes in.
— Ilana Woldenberg, Rolling Stone, 24 Aug. 2023 -
Rogers led the work with confidence and clarity to match the composer’s.
— Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 6 Nov. 2023 -
Here’s hoping the NSO follows the composer’s lead and more fearlessly plays to its strengths.
— Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 27 Oct. 2023 -
The composers shared an Academy Award and a Grammy Award for their soundtrack score.
— Tim Greiving, Washington Post, 2 Apr. 2023 -
David Holmes, the composer of the show, revealed last year that the Irish singer had given her permission for the song to debut in the TV series.
— Maëlle Beauget-Uhl, Forbes, 29 Feb. 2024 -
He’s already had one of the greatest careers of any film composer.
— Michael Phillips, Chicago Tribune, 3 May 2023 -
Like many composers over the centuries, Machaut did not lack confidence.
— Alex Ross, The New Yorker, 24 June 2024 -
As a composer, branch leaves a legacy of big sounds and bold decisions.
— Chris Richards, Washington Post, 16 Dec. 2022 -
With the new album, Hall has built a universe in miniature, suiting his strengths as a composer.
— Grant Sharples, SPIN, 11 May 2023 -
Friends kept locks of the composer’s hair as keepsakes, and some snipped tokens of remembrance at his deathbed.
— Amy Dockser Marcus, WSJ, 22 Mar. 2023 -
But in Mendelssohn, of all composers, surely even these call for a certain well-behaved reserve.
— Scott Cantrell, Dallas News, 3 May 2023 -
As the lights went down, began a rendition of the show's theme song — with composer Ramin Djawadi in the audience to hear it!
— Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 4 June 2024 -
The venerable jazz sax and flute player and composer has lived here with his wife, Dorothy Darr, for about 25 years.
— Steve Hochman, SPIN, 19 Mar. 2024 -
There's no longer a concert, nor does Sebastian seem to be the king's court composer anymore.
— Brendan Morrow, The Week, 26 May 2023
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