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Noun
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Special awards will go to Pico Iyer, Emily Witt and poet Amanda Gorman.—
Lorraine Berry,
Los Angeles Times,
19 Apr. 2025 -
The semi-fictitious play, set during the Harlem Renaissance, sees educator and historian W.E.B. Du Bois play matchmaker for his daughter Yolande and esteemed poet Countee Cullen.—
Raisa Habersham,
Miami Herald,
17 Apr. 2025
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Composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz will host two events at the 2025 ASCAP Foundation Musical Theatre Fest, which is returning for a third year at the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills, Calif., May 5-6.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
17 Apr. 2025
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Academy Award-winning composer and lyricist Stephen Schwartz adapted the musical for the screen.—
Ryan Gajewski,
HollywoodReporter,
2 Apr. 2025
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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
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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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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
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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
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There is another bard, sitting in front of the National Theater.—
Jay Nordlinger,
National Review,
14 Apr. 2025
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The performance combines puppetry, music, projections, and poetry to illuminate the legacy of Ukraine's blind bards.—
Katya Soldak,
Forbes,
11 Mar. 2025
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The Emmy, Grammy and Oscar-winning composer is back on the tally under his own name with the release of the Sinners score.—
Hugh McIntyre,
Forbes.com,
29 Apr. 2025
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Sound & Screen Television, where the spotlight turns onto the composers of TV’s top shows.—
The Deadline Team,
Deadline,
28 Apr. 2025
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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
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The radicalism is that neither composer nor librettist reveals that this actually works.—
Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
12 Mar. 2025
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One giant got distracted by a wandering minstrel One giant overslept and started late Clues: Brumm is not the fastest builder but didn’t oversleep.—
Erik Kain,
Forbes.com,
10 Apr. 2025
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Their audiences rejected elitist cultural norms and watched Shakespeare mixed in with minstrel songs and comedy acts on the same program.—
Joanna Dee Das,
The Conversation,
4 Apr. 2025
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