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Recent Examples of threnodyHis diary shrank to a litany of suffering and a threnody for what might have been.—Sara Wheeler, WSJ, 25 Oct. 2018 Most critics acknowledged the score’s beautiful moments, especially Cleopatra’s death scene, in which the character’s plaintive lyrical lines are capped by a chilling choral threnody.—Anthony Tommasini, New York Times, 22 Dec. 2017 Threnody in X (FTF), Soda Pop (FTF), Corn Hives (FTF), Facts (FTF),—Sophie Brown, WIRED, 9 Aug. 2011
There’s nothing shiny and new to get excited about and so the apathy and dirge hasn’t been replaced.
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George Caulkin,
New York Times,
13 Aug. 2025
Wylde seemed right at home recreating the droning opening dirge as the band slowed down into a stellar stoney groove throughout a standout moment Saturday night.
Like many of the 27 tracks on her Grammy-winning album of the year, her Cowboy Carter and Rodeo Chitlin’ Circuit Tour is a requiem to Black artists who have helped shape country music and a reclamation of Americana for those who have been shut out.
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Megan Thomas,
CNN Money,
27 June 2025
More than a century later, jazz pianist and composer Bobby West gives her what she was denied: a requiem.
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