Examples of song cycle in a Sentence
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What was the cost to the patient when photographs were taken, poetry written, song cycles composed, magazine essays published?
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Seyward Darby, Longreads, 13 Mar. 2024
Mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack and pianist Keun-A Lee will give the world premiere of a new song cycle by Rene Orth as well as pieces by Rossini, Ginastera, Piazzola, Pauline Viardot and Carlos Guastavino (April 18).
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
Composer Alice Parker, who created arrangements of traditional hymns, as well as operas, oratorios and song cycles — one inspired by the sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. — is dead at 98.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
Kaufmann and pianist Helmut Deutsch perform Schubert’s song cycle Schwanengesang, along with other Schubert lieder, in a fully staged and lit one-tenor show directed by Claus Guth.
Park Avenue Armory, September 22–28.
—Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
The new album’s title character, who first appeared on West Texas as a mysterious runaway, is now the focus of an elaborate song cycle that also stands as the band’s most beautifully orchestrated record to date.
—Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2023
Eerily enough, Byrne debuted an early version of the prescient project as far back as 2006; that song cycle morphed into a 2010 concept album and an off-Broadway production in 2013 before finding its way to New York City’s Broadway Theatre this fall.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2023
Thile sings much of the time, but this is hardly a formal song cycle either.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
Years of development, including a full production at the Public, in 2013, have forged the song cycle into a chronological sequence, with each number contextualized through video montages, by Peter Nigrini.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 July 2023
Seyward Darby, Longreads, 13 Mar. 2024
Mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack and pianist Keun-A Lee will give the world premiere of a new song cycle by Rene Orth as well as pieces by Rossini, Ginastera, Piazzola, Pauline Viardot and Carlos Guastavino (April 18).
—Michael Andor Brodeur, Washington Post, 15 Feb. 2024
Composer Alice Parker, who created arrangements of traditional hymns, as well as operas, oratorios and song cycles — one inspired by the sermons of Martin Luther King Jr. — is dead at 98.
—Carolina A. Miranda, Los Angeles Times, 13 Jan. 2024
Kaufmann and pianist Helmut Deutsch perform Schubert’s song cycle Schwanengesang, along with other Schubert lieder, in a fully staged and lit one-tenor show directed by Claus Guth.
Park Avenue Armory, September 22–28.
—Vulture, 25 Aug. 2023
The new album’s title character, who first appeared on West Texas as a mysterious runaway, is now the focus of an elaborate song cycle that also stands as the band’s most beautifully orchestrated record to date.
—Sam Sodomsky, Pitchfork, 30 Oct. 2023
Eerily enough, Byrne debuted an early version of the prescient project as far back as 2006; that song cycle morphed into a 2010 concept album and an off-Broadway production in 2013 before finding its way to New York City’s Broadway Theatre this fall.
—Joe Lynch, Billboard, 5 Oct. 2023
Thile sings much of the time, but this is hardly a formal song cycle either.
—Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 24 Aug. 2023
Years of development, including a full production at the Public, in 2013, have forged the song cycle into a chronological sequence, with each number contextualized through video montages, by Peter Nigrini.
—Helen Shaw, The New Yorker, 21 July 2023
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“Song cycle.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/song%20cycle. Accessed 26 Apr. 2024.
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