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Recent Examples of librettist
Huang is a playwright and librettist whose work includes Mother of Exiles, The Paper Dreams of Harry Chin, and Transmissions in Advance of the Second Great Dying.
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Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
Schwartz, together with composers, lyricists and librettists Irene Sankoff & David Hein (Come From Away) and Karey Kirkpatrick (Something Rotten!, Mrs. Doubtfire), will perform and tell stories about songs that had to be sacrificed to better serve the musical.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Apr. 2025
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
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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Greg Evans, Deadline, 23 Apr. 2025
Schwartz, together with composers, lyricists and librettists Irene Sankoff & David Hein (Come From Away) and Karey Kirkpatrick (Something Rotten!, Mrs. Doubtfire), will perform and tell stories about songs that had to be sacrificed to better serve the musical.
—Paul Grein, Billboard, 17 Apr. 2025
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
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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Recent Examples of Synonyms for librettist
Noun
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Jackson Browne, Seth MacFarlane and Patti Austin are among some of the performers set to perform as part of lyricist Alan Bergman‘s 100th birthday celebration.—
Leia Mendoza,
Variety,
10 July 2025
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Throughout the late ’80s and ’90s, each lyricist carved out a singular legacy, helping to define the very DNA of East Coast hip-hop.—
Preezy Brown,
VIBE.com,
3 July 2025
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For Good will also feature two new songs for Glinda and Elphaba, with Grande and Erivo both working alongside the musical’s original composer Stephen Schwartz.—
Emily Zemler,
Rolling Stone,
10 July 2025
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Founded in 1977 by French composer Jacques Loussier, Miraval Studios famously welcomed such recording artists as Pink Floyd, The Cure, Sade, Sting and Elton John before going silent in the early 2000s.—
Miles Socha,
Footwear News,
9 July 2025
Noun
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And the obscure poets and thinkers went flying back into oblivion.—
Peter Wortsman
July 14,
Literary Hub,
14 July 2025
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According to Greek and Roman legend, Lyra is a harp, or Lyre, given by the god Apollo to the famous poet and musician Orpheus.—
Mike Lynch,
Twin Cities,
13 July 2025
Noun
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Moral menaces and moral muses Some leaders act as moral menaces, which law professor James Q.—
Valerie L. Myers,
The Conversation,
3 July 2025
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Anna Wintour becomes musical muse for Jay-Z, Nicki Minaj, more Wintour's fashion empire has served as lyrical fodder for some of the biggest names in music.—
Edward Segarra,
USA Today,
27 June 2025
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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
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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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“Librettist.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/librettist. Accessed 19 Jul. 2025.
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