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Recent Examples of madrigal
This is a lovely fundraiser to assist in the preservation of the cemetery, and the day is filled with master gardeners offering advice, madrigals singing, an archaeology talk, refreshments, kids’ activities and lots of lovely spring plants for sale.
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Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025
The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St.
Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.
—Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
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
To order, call 561-297-2337 or go to FAUF.FAU.edu/madrigal.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2019
Two concerts in the Seaport district follow: Italian madrigals by the Franco-Flemish composer Cipriano de Rore (a recording of which has just been released) next Friday, and a 15th-century program next Saturday.
—BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
Her two Rossi madrigals on texts by Giovanni Guarini were strong, heartfelt and rapturous in expression.
—Alan Artner, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
Features madrigals from Books V, VI, VII and VIII, and concertato works from Selva Morale e Spirituale.
—Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 2 Apr. 2018
Janet Kusterer, Baltimore Sun, 25 Mar. 2025
The service and concert will take place at 7 p.m. Wednesday, March 5, at the church, 815 S. Washington St.
Castle Singers are vocalists who perform a variety of chamber repertoire, varying from Renaissance madrigals and motets to contemporary pop and vocal jazz.
—Aurora Beacon-News, Chicago Tribune, 4 Mar. 2025
At best, Gidden’s singing and arrangement of a Monteverdi madrigal achieve remarkable eloquence.
—Los Angeles Times, 21 Sep. 2021
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
To order, call 561-297-2337 or go to FAUF.FAU.edu/madrigal.
—Rod Stafford Hagwood, sun-sentinel.com, 4 Dec. 2019
Two concerts in the Seaport district follow: Italian madrigals by the Franco-Flemish composer Cipriano de Rore (a recording of which has just been released) next Friday, and a 15th-century program next Saturday.
—BostonGlobe.com, 25 Oct. 2019
Her two Rossi madrigals on texts by Giovanni Guarini were strong, heartfelt and rapturous in expression.
—Alan Artner, chicagotribune.com, 9 Apr. 2018
Features madrigals from Books V, VI, VII and VIII, and concertato works from Selva Morale e Spirituale.
—Rasputin Todd, Cincinnati.com, 2 Apr. 2018
Recent Examples of Synonyms for madrigal
Noun
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The funeral of Pope Francis began with a short musical chant and psalm spoken in Latin after an open Book of the Gospels had been placed on top of Pope Francis’ closed coffin carried by pallbearers from inside St. Peter’s and placed on a red carpet on the edge of the church steps.—
Nick Vivarelli,
Variety,
26 Apr. 2025
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The faithful will recite several religious verses, including psalm 22, ‘The Lord is my Shepherd,’ during the service.—
Caitlin Danaher,
CNN Money,
23 Apr. 2025
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The Eater line is a partnership between Heritage and the food site that launched last year, but six new pieces were added this year, including a mini sauté pan ($120) and a roomy six-quart rondeau pan ($180) that’s perfect for searing, pan roasting, and simmering.—
BYChris Morris,
Fortune,
27 Nov. 2024
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The set includes a saucepan, saucier, frying pan, and 5.2-quart rondeau.—
Molly Allen,
Southern Living,
12 Aug. 2024
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The title is borrowed from Elizabeth Alexander’s fourth collection persona poems, historical narratives, jazz riffs, sonnets, elegies, and a sequence of ars poetica which examines the Black experience through the lens of the slave rebellion on the Amistad and nineteenth-century American art.—
Natasha Gural,
Forbes.com,
4 Apr. 2025
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Eephus is an elegy, but with just the barest hint of sentimentality—a shrugging send-off that simultaneously cares deeply about America’s pastime.—
David Sims,
The Atlantic,
14 Mar. 2025
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But in those years, Shakespeare would produce a bounty of plays, sonnets and poems that have been studied, modernized, adapted, saturized and lionized for decades.—
Phaedra Trethan,
USA Today,
24 Apr. 2025
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Read: Let our critic guide you through the power and paradox of an old-school sonnet.—
Natasha Frost,
New York Times,
24 Feb. 2025
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His teacher quickly got her students analyzing the poems of William Blake.—
Steven Walker,
The Orlando Sentinel,
19 Apr. 2025
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Just before his death, McVeigh handed a copy of the poem by William Ernest Henley to the prison warden.—
Lissete Lanuza Sáenz,
StyleCaster,
18 Apr. 2025
Noun
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Throughout, Snook hams for laughs, turning Wilde’s witticisms and epigrams into slapstick.—
Christian Lewis,
Variety,
28 Mar. 2025
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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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Tour the historic penthouse that is an ode to Old Hollywood glamour.—
Lisa Boone,
Los Angeles Times,
22 Apr. 2025
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All of the 470 guestrooms and suites have been redesigned and are an ode to the spirit of Madrid.—
Angelina Villa-Clarke,
Forbes.com,
19 Apr. 2025
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His voice is the ghost in the machine, a strangely humane presence amid all the urban-industrial pastoral.—
Rob Sheffield,
Rolling Stone,
25 Apr. 2025
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This is rock and roll as pastoral.—
Mitch Therieau,
The New Yorker,
27 Dec. 2024
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“Madrigal.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/madrigal. Accessed 3 May. 2025.
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