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Recent Examples of scorersThe Gophers had three different leading scorers in the WBIT, Battle, McKinney and guard Grace Grocholski, the team’s leading scorer after Braun was hurt.—
John Shipley,
Twin Cities,
25 Sep. 2025
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.
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Zac Ntim,
Deadline,
9 Oct. 2026
The remaining 11 were co-writes with some of Nashville’s brightest lyricists.
As orchestras increasingly program film soundtracks and music by contemporary composers, the excerpts used in auditions are changing, too.
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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.