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librettists

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plural of librettist

as in composers

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As orchestras increasingly program film soundtracks and music by contemporary composers, the excerpts used in auditions are changing, too.

— Jeremy Reynolds Ross Mantle, New York Times, 28 Oct. 2026
Blues and ragtime supplied a largely Black musical language that helped American composers break free of European operetta, even as jazz performers then gave them a life beyond the theatre.

— Adam Gopnik, New Yorker, 26 Oct. 2026

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Fashionable gatherings were peppered with the prose of neoclassical writers and Romantic poets.

— Literary Hub, Literary Hub, 26 Oct. 2026
Alex’s friends were poets—Frank O’Hara, John Ashbery, James Schuyler, and the poet-dance critic Edwin Denby, who introduced Alex to choreographer Paul Taylor.

— Dodie Kazanjian, Vogue, 19 Oct. 2026

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After more than four decades of supporting Stateside composers and lyricists working across visual media, the Society of Composers & Lyricists has opened its first permanent international chapter in London.

— Zac Ntim, Deadline, 9 Oct. 2026
The remaining 11 were co-writes with some of Nashville’s brightest lyricists.

— Josh Crutchmer, Rolling Stone, 23 July 2026

Definition of lyricists

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And Crow—who proudly posted a video last year of her Tesla taken away on a flatbed after selling it to protest Elon Musk and DOGE—has added to her songwriting muses as time goes on.

— Selena Fragassi, SPIN, 9 Oct. 2026
But Tip Toe is a drama for an age in which Leo at one point muses that queerphobia can no longer be chalked up to a lack of visibility.

— Angie Han, HollywoodReporter, 2 Oct. 2026

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