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
Recent Examples of Synonyms for librettist
Noun
  • The mark that Jewish composers and lyricists left on Broadway and on the Great American Songbook is indelible, from the Gershwins to Stephen Sondheim to Leonard Bernstein.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2025
  • Classical Field In Classical Categories, composers and lyricists/librettists are now eligible for GRAMMY recognition alongside all other key creative personnel including artists, producers, and engineers on winning albums.
    Jem Aswad, Variety, 12 June 2025
Noun
  • The mark that Jewish composers and lyricists left on Broadway and on the Great American Songbook is indelible, from the Gershwins to Stephen Sondheim to Leonard Bernstein.
    David L. Coddon, San Diego Union-Tribune, 27 June 2025
  • Inspired by the movie work of such composers as Henry Mancini and Johnny Mandel, Schifrin employed his MGM connections and headed to California in 1963.
    Mike Barnes, HollywoodReporter, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • His spouse is perilously close to beginning an affair with the best man at their wedding, now one of his authors, a war poet disillusioned by violence and fanaticism.
    Thomas Mallon, New Yorker, 30 June 2025
  • My heroes weren’t wandering poets enraptured with the sea.
    James Rebanks June 26, Literary Hub, 26 June 2025
Noun
  • In April, Sánchez attended the 2025 Breakthrough Prize in a 1994 John Galliano dress once worn by the Fellini muse.
    Elise Taylor, Vogue, 28 June 2025
  • Much like the trailblazers who came before (think: Grace Jones, Missy Elliott, Lil’ Kim, Donna Summer, etc.), the muses of today use visual language as a tool for self exploration, rebellion, and a way to honor one’s inner chameleon.
    Essence, Essence, 27 June 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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