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Recent Examples of pastorale
Including 55 serious operas, 6 cantatas, 53 comic operas, 17 operettas, 6 sing-spiele, 4 ballets, 4 vaudevilles, 2 oratorios, one each of fares, pastorales, masques, ballads and buffas.
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William Robin, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
William Robin, New York Times, 1 Sep. 2017
Recent Examples of Synonyms for pastorale
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Science emerges as a version of the pastoral, with the physicist as swain.Adam Gopnik, The New Yorker, 28 Oct. 2024
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For those who make the trek, the week will be filled with events ranging from the pastoral to the glamourous to the overtly highbrow.Daniel Cassady, ARTnews.com, 25 July 2024
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At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
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After this is a setting of a Whitman poem for chorus a cappella in the style of a sixteenth-century madrigal, followed by a section in which a line from Dante’s Inferno is sung by a vocal trio in the style of a medieval motet.Walter Simmons, Harper's Magazine, 25 May 2021
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Working with longtime collaborators John Collins and Nicolas Bragg, the funk-rock elegies and New Romantic jaunts turn brittle and deliberate.Pitchfork, Pitchfork, 1 Oct. 2024
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And then on March 29, Swift published an elegy for Partridge.Jesse David Fox, Vulture, 1 Apr. 2024
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Then, one day, a dark cloud appeared, as if summoned by a witch jealous of their domestic idyll.Jennifer Wilson, The New Yorker, 4 Nov. 2024
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Iconic visitors who helped to establish the glamorous allure of this little hilltop idyll include Greta Garbo, Orson Wells and Marlene Dietrich.Alexandra Zagalsky, theweek, 1 Nov. 2024
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And a poetry unit for fifth graders would include psalms from the Old Testament taught alongside poems from Robert Frost and William Carlos Williams.Amanda Musa, CNN, 22 Nov. 2024
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Mourners sang psalms as the space filled — not near the plot where Goldberg-Polin would be buried, as initially planned, but in the main parking lot to accommodate the crowds.Philissa Cramer, Sun Sentinel, 5 Sep. 2024
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The book, per its publisher, is an ode to the special bond between grandparents and grandchildren.Carly Tagen-Dye, People.com, 21 Nov. 2024
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In his new book of poems, Quesada seamlessly blends intimate confessions with odes to surreal paintings.James Factora, Them, 1 Nov. 2024
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On his plane plastered with Trumpian epigrams, Vance makes the case for Trump’s second-term vision of enhanced executive power.Eric Cortellessa, TIME, 26 Sep. 2024
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No one could tell the clock by him; no one could quote an epigram of his; no one could ever remember his being a friend of their daddy—or even their granddaddy.E. L. Doctorow, The New Yorker, 1 July 2024
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The title that Moss has chosen for her memoir riffs on a poem that May Swenson published in 1978.Katy Waldman, The New Yorker, 21 Nov. 2024
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That last work is a room-size installation that lists the names of 262 deceased men and women next to a neon sign that reads a dream, invoking a poem by Langston Hughes.Andy Battaglia, ARTnews.com, 20 Nov. 2024
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“Pastorale.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/pastorale. Accessed 3 Dec. 2024.
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