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Recent Examples of librettist
In the decades since his solo debut, Holmes has also become a multiple Tony Award-winning librettist and composer, as well as a New York Times bestselling author.
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2025
Advertisement *** Schoenberg’s wife, Gertrud, a librettist, and son Larry established Belmont Music Publishers in 1965.
—Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
The original version of Sunset Blvd., which Webber developed with librettists Don Black and Christopher Hampton in the early 1990s, premiered with director Trevor Nunn on the West End in 1993.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
The letter was to Jennens, the Messiah’s librettist.
—Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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Matt Grobar, Deadline, 5 Feb. 2025
Advertisement *** Schoenberg’s wife, Gertrud, a librettist, and son Larry established Belmont Music Publishers in 1965.
—Stacy Perman, Los Angeles Times, 16 Jan. 2025
The original version of Sunset Blvd., which Webber developed with librettists Don Black and Christopher Hampton in the early 1990s, premiered with director Trevor Nunn on the West End in 1993.
—Jackson McHenry, Vulture, 21 Oct. 2024
The letter was to Jennens, the Messiah’s librettist.
—Jan Swafford, The Atlantic, 29 Oct. 2024
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for librettist
Noun
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Once composers and lyricists Markéta Irglová and Glen Hansard.—
Greg Evans,
Deadline,
2 Apr. 2025
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However, commercial pressures meant lyricists often wrote intros based solely on show titles, leading to more generic hooks, as seen in the show El Kaboos.—
Hala Mustafa,
Billboard,
28 Mar. 2025
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The exhibition features an original soundscape by musical composer Omar Zubair, who Tracy was acquainted with.—
Chadd Scott,
Forbes.com,
5 Apr. 2025
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American composer Philip Glass will be celebrated with a Lifetime Achievement Award at the 25th annual World Soundtrack Awards on Oct. 15 and at a film music concert which will close the Film Fest Gent’s three-day Film Music Days 2025 on Oct. 16 in Ghent, Belgium.—
Paul Grein,
Billboard,
5 Apr. 2025
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Pearl, a poet, writer and environmental justice advocate, will be involved in the Poetic Tuesdays series and help curate interactive writing workshops.—
Shawna Chen,
Axios,
2 Apr. 2025
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The poet and abolitionist John Greenleaf Whittier worked in Lowell himself for a time as editor of the Middlesex Standard and wrote his impressions of the city in his 1845 The Stranger in Lowell.—
The Editors,
JSTOR Daily,
2 Apr. 2025
Noun
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The event was hosted by Christian Siriano and his longtime friend and muse, the model, entrepreneur and advocate, Coco Rocha.—
Lisa Lockwood,
Footwear News,
8 Apr. 2025
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As well as being his lead cheerleader, the author's grandma is also his muse.—
Allison Moses,
USA Today,
7 Apr. 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 16 Apr. 2025.
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