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arranger

noun

Definition of arranger

as in orchestrator

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as in organizer

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Recent Examples of arranger Along with the demos, a list of credits for the demo must be included (composer, lyricist, arranger, guide, and source if sampling was used). — Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026 Musical pioneer Brian Wilson, the performer/producer/arranger/songwriter regarded as the chief architect of the Beach Boys’ trailblazing sound, died last year. — Daily News, 4 July 2026 In the audience for the documentary premiere was Van Dyke Parks, the acclaimed songwriter and arranger who produced an early album by Arlo Guthrie, Woody’s son. — Steve Appleford, Rolling Stone, 4 July 2026 The winner of 28 Grammys, Jones was a music producer, band leader, composer, arranger, television producer, music executive, conductor, trumpet player, civil rights activist, philanthropist and all-around brilliant person. — Hadley Hall Meares, Vanity Fair, 3 July 2026 Mary Mitchell-Campbell, who received the Tonys’ Isabelle Stevenson Award for philanthropic or advocacy work, is a respected musical arranger and music director. — Christopher Arnott, Hartford Courant, 8 June 2026 At times during his bombastic, table-shaking, enigmatic career, the singer, arranger, musician, and producer came off as a restless indie artist masquerading as a multiplatinum megastar. — Keith Murphy, VIBE.com, 7 June 2026 While the sets, lighting, costume changes and visual effects are stunners, the music by composer and arranger Imogen Heap is shockingly generic, like the copyright-free soundtrack of a YouTube ad, blandly calibrated and recalling nothing of John Williams’ iconic themes for the films. — John Wenzel, Denver Post, 4 June 2026 Thompson speaks to his experience not only as a drummer, but also as a producer, arranger, and DJ, demonstrating an extraordinarily wide perspective on the business. — Juliet Izon, The Atlantic, 4 June 2026

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Noun

Harold Wheeler, the veteran orchestrator on Broadway and longtime musical director for ABC’s Dancing With the Stars, has died.

— Etan Vlessing, HollywoodReporter, 25 June 2026
Harold Wheeler, a prolific and Tony-winning Broadway orchestrator, composer and conductor who for 17 seasons served as musical director for ABC’s Dancing with the Stars, died following a lengthy illness Wednesday, June 24, at his home in Los Angeles.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 25 June 2026

Definition of orchestrator

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Philip Frasica, a policy organizer at Renew Missouri, urged the legislature to take separate approaches to zoning for BESS sites and data centers.

— Ilana Arougheti July 7, Kansas City Star, 7 July 2026
Paola Mendoza, an organizer for No ICE in the Cup, an advocacy group that campaigned against the presence of immigration agents at the event, had worried that the World Cup would be marred by fear and violence.

— Albert Samaha, New Yorker, 6 July 2026

Definition of organizer

Noun

Marina Mabrey, the league’s fourth-leading scorer who scored a record 53 points earlier this season, shot 2 of 9, scoring just 11 points against Kaila Charles and the Valkyries’ defense.

— Michael Nowels, Mercury News, 9 July 2026
Verbeek still hasn’t signed 41-goal scorer Cutter Gauthier, a restricted free agent who is not eligible to receive an offer sheet.

— Greg Beacham, Los Angeles Times, 9 July 2026

Definition of scorer

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The Belgian designer, who has previously been at the creative helm of Rochas, Nina Ricci, and Theory, presented a co-ed ready-to-wear collection.

— Laure Guilbault, Vogue, 6 July 2026
The first wind phone was created in 2010 by Japanese garden designer Itaru Sasaki after the loss of his cousin to cancer and then later was dedicated to lives lost in the 2011 tsunami.

— Staff Photographer, Los Angeles Times, 6 July 2026

Definition of designer

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Along with the demos, a list of credits for the demo must be included (composer, lyricist, arranger, guide, and source if sampling was used).

— Laura Sirikul, Forbes.com, 8 July 2026
Reid recorded more than 20 songs written by the show’s composer Daniel Hart, many of which lyrically relitigated the tricky emotional labor and fatigue of having to exist through centuries.

— CT Jones, Rolling Stone, 7 July 2026

Definition of composer

Noun

Certified financial planner Louis Barajas, a CNBC Financial Advisor Council member, and his mother Sarah Barajas.

— Sharon Epperson, CNBC, 3 July 2026
The couple were also linked to wedding planner Mark Seed, who previously orchestrated the 2023 wedding of Jack Antonoff and Margaret Qualley and the 2019 wedding of Jennifer Lawrence and Cooke Maroney.

— Karen Garcia, Los Angeles Times, 3 July 2026

Definition of planner

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In 1984, Baker married Emmy Award-winning lyricist and singer-songwriter Dory Previn, and the two eventually left Los Angeles to settle into an old farmhouse in Southfield, Massachusetts, the Berkshires.

— Greg Evans, Deadline, 4 July 2026
Ashman, the show’s lyricist, had died in 1991, so Tim Rice was brought in to work with Menken.

— Tribune News Service, San Diego Union-Tribune, 3 July 2026

Definition of lyricist

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The film is set in a declining industrial city in Northeast China and traces a young man’s search for his father, a small-time schemer who chased quick riches during the freewheeling capitalist surge of the late 1990s and early 2000s in Southern China.

— Marcus Lim, Variety, 18 June 2026
Readers may learn about the Florida aquifer, cowhunters, deadhead logging, old-school conservationists such as Marjory Stoneman Douglas and even Charles Ponzi, the famed schemer.

— Dewayne Bevil, The Orlando Sentinel, 29 Apr. 2026

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