librettist

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Recent Examples of librettist Conducted by Kamna Gupta, the opera is a collaboration between composer Jonathan Berger, visual artist Enrico Riley and poet/librettist Vievee Francis. Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 18 July 2024 The opera was written by composer Zach Redler and librettist Jerre Dye and conceived in 2015 by Sgt. Pam Kragen, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Apr. 2024 Applicants who were previously selected for the workshop will present and receive feedback on the musical book and songs from their original musical from a panel of composers, producers and librettists. Jazz Tangcay, Variety, 18 Apr. 2024 His wife, the librettist Maria Eotvosne Mezei, announced his death. A.j. Goldmann, New York Times, 28 Mar. 2024 See all Example Sentences for librettist 
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Noun
  • The production also announced the full creative team for the Broadway run, which will feature direction & choreography by Sergio Trujillo, music and lyrics by Joy Huerta and composer/lyricist Benjamin Velez, book by Lisa Loomer with Nell Benjamin, and music supervision by Nadia DiGiallonardo.
    Greg Evans, Deadline, 16 Jan. 2025
  • But the haunting melodies of John's greatest hits from this era, like that ode to Marilyn Monroe — which John and his songwriting partner, lyricist Bernie Taupin, turned into an ode to Princess Diana after her death in 1997 — reflected John's inner turmoil at the time.
    Jeremy Helligar, People.com, 13 Dec. 2024
Noun
  • Gary Barwin is a writer, composer, multimedia artist, and the author of 18 books of poetry and fiction as well as books for kids.
    Hazlitt, Hazlitt, 10 Jan. 2025
  • Obermann’s love of the avant-garde composer dates back to the early ’90s and his first post-college job: an entry-level distribution gig handling jazz and classics at BMG.
    SPIN Staff, SPIN, 9 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Guided by the voice of Pulitzer-winning poet Gwendolyn Brooks, the solo work uses history, memory and poetry.
    Karu F. Daniels, New York Daily News, 16 Jan. 2025
  • Nature Friends Clubhouse Was Known For Its Transcendent Happenings Nature Friends is cherished as a bucolic haven that has transformed lives, according to its diverse membership that includes artists, musicians, poets, writers, sculptors, dancers, healers, families and canyon dwellers.
    R. Daniel Foster, Forbes, 11 Jan. 2025
Noun
  • Well, like clockwork, on January 10, NBC announced that the Club Chalamet muse will be hosting the sketch show on January 25.
    Hershal Pandya, Vulture, 10 Jan. 2025
  • While people in the outside world muse over glasses of wine about whether innies have souls, the innies are fighting for their right to personal agency, to bodily autonomy, to existence.
    Angie Han, The Hollywood Reporter, 7 Jan. 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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