Sentences with phrase «lyricists in»

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Among writers, the first Western lyricist, and the greatest in Greek was Sappho.

Wynn Las Vegas is home to Le Rêve — The Dream, the aquatic and aerial theatrical experience named Best Show in Las Vegas for four consecutive years, and Steve Wynn's ShowStoppers, a production with 35 singers and dancers and a full 31 - piece on - stage orchestra composed of quintessential numbers from some of the most celebrated composers and lyricists to ever grace American theater stages.

Wynn Las Vegas is home to Le Rêve — The Dream, the aquatic and aerial theatrical experience named Best Show in Las Vegas for six consecutive years, and Steve Wynn's ShowStoppers, a production with 35 singers and dancers and a full 31 - piece on - stage orchestra composed of quintessential numbers from some of the most celebrated composers and lyricists to ever grace American theater stages.

Wynn Las Vegas is home to Le Rêve — The Dream, the aquatic and aerial theatrical experience named Best Show in Las Vegas for five consecutive years, and Steve Wynn's ShowStoppers, a production with 35 singers and dancers and a full 31 - piece on - stage orchestra composed of quintessential numbers from some of the most celebrated composers and lyricists to ever grace American theater stages.

Because he rarely talks about himself on the air, his listeners probably don't know that he is an inventor (he holds a U.S. patent on a bottle / can opener); an actor (films he or his voice were in: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Paper Lion, Aunt Mary and Tiger Town); and a lyricist (I Don't Know Any Better by B.J. Thomas, for one).

Tony Benn and Manic Street Preachers» bassist and lyricist Nicky Wire discuss the power of pop music, how to remain inspired in a cynical age, Cuba, and the concept of a «just war».

The only Democrat who did not participate was Brooklyn Councilman Stephen Levin, who had stepped out of the room, and who read lyricist James Weldon Johnson's words in their entirety when he returned.

When Robert Hunter (lyricist for many Dead tunes) wrote those lines, it's a safe bet he didn't have the prediction of new protein structures in mind.

I'm known in the underground around the world because I'm a rap lyricist, and producer.

An alumnus of Juilliard and Columbia University, Rodgers came to critical prominence with the many»20s editions of The Garrick Gaieties, in which Rodgers and his lyricist collaborator Lorenz Hart were responsible for such instant hits as «Mountain Greenery» and «I'll Take Manhattan».

... It's no enormous stretch to say that Savage is possibly the finest lyricist working in rock and roll today, and he's certainly one of our most engaging vocalists.

Lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul attend the 42nd annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards at InterContinental Los Angeles Century City on January 14, 2017 in Los Angeles, California.

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Though the film's setting is, in typical Miyazaki fashion, a bit vague, research reveals a semi-autobiographical nature to Totoro, on which Miyazaki served as writer, director, storyboard artist, and lyricist for one of the two songs.

Louder Than a Bomb DVD Review by Kam Williams Rhyme Doc Chronicles Chicago Poetry Slam Does the hip - hop style of rhyming and its down - to - earth subject - matter about life in the «hood deserve the same respect as the classical couplets of Keats and other lofty lyricists whose work benefits from ivory - towered academia's stamp of approval?

He's meeting with composers and lyricists and scouting out a partnership in order to move forward.

James Franco is in talks to direct and star in a film about prolific children's book author, cartoonist, and lyricist Shel Silverstein.

The comic continued appearing in newspapers all over, when in 1977, writer Thomas Meehan (whose few credits came from Anne Bancroft television specials), Bye Bye Birdie composer Charles Strouse, and lyricist Martin Charnin adapted it into a Broadway musical.

Directed by Michael Gracey with a screenplay by Jenny Bicks and Bill Condon, and featuring original songs by Academy Award - winning lyricists of La La Land, Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, The Greatest Showman will be in theaters December 25.

Add in stars like Hugh Jackman, Zac Efron, Zendaya, and Michelle Williams along with the fact that the songs were co-written by La La Land's lyricists, and we're excited for this original musical.

Working with lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, Hurwitz comes up with a truly wondrous tune in «City of Stars,» using it to form a beautifully thematic basis for the surprising amount of underscore here, his excellent, spot - on retro arrangements going from the simplest guitar and piano to swooning, planetarium - elevated orchestral melody.

He talked about the timeless Old Hollywood persona that Gosling and Stone brought to their roles, his creative partnership with composer Justin Hurwitz and Broadway lyricists Benj Pasek & Justin Paul, the brilliant dance sequences choreographed by Mandy Moore, his collaboration with Swedish cinematographer Linus Sandgren who captured an iconic L.A. in a fresh new light, and what it means to pursue your grandest artistic dreams.

Alan Menken mentioned a while back that Howard Ashman, the original lyricist who passed away in 1991, had written lyrics they'd cut because they were «risqué in terms of sensibility.»

Chazelle's collaborators — composer Justin Hurwitz (who's worked with him twice before), lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul, choreographer Mandy Moore, costume designer Mary Zophres, and cinematographer Linus Sandgren — all add their own touches of homage: The show - stopping Busby Berkeley-esque opening number («Another Day of Sun») has drivers dancing in bold primary colored clothing atop their cars on the 105/110 interchange.

Coming up this month are films like «Selma,» the Martin Luther King Jr. biopic; new work from Tim Burton and Nicolas Cage; Reese Witherspoon in her most transformative role to date; a stage - to - screen adaptation of one of the theater's most beloved composers and lyricists; and a contemporary reboot to a musical classic.

That may sound like a thin string upon which to hang a three - hour - plus run time, but Asif fills in and fleshes out the blanks with grand spectacle, from impressive battle scenes to gorgeously mounted production numbers set to composer Naushad and lyricist Shakeel Badayuni's memorable songs.

In this one - hour, nine - minute, two - second show, we hear from Fricke, Ebsen, composers / lyricists Marc Shaiman and Stephen Schwartz, author's great - great - grandson Robert A. Baum, film critic Michael Sragow, film historians Leonard Maltin and Sam Wasson, filmmakers William Friedkin and Rob Marshall, Bert Lahr's son John, actors Ruth Duccini and Margaret Pelligrini, author William Wellman, Jr., costume designer Ruth Myers, makeup artist Charles H. Schram, cinematographer Peter Deming, visual effects supervisor Craig Barron, sound designer Ben Burtt,

It's fascinating to note that Connor, while a pretty talented lyricist and singer, doesn't really seem to be in love with the music except as a means to an end... a way to get the girl.

Aside from some clever 2D black - and - white sequences meant to show what goes on in Sherlock's head, the overall un-inventive animation doesn't help to pique interest or make this seem anything more original than an excuse to fill the soundtrack with a few Elton John classics, as well as a couple of new tunes written by the musical superstar and his longtime lyricist Bernie Taupin.

Instead, I got lost in La La Land all over again — its wistful ballad City of Stars and its tub - thumping opener Another Day of Sun and its heady, brassy, ear - wormy wall of sound created by Chazelle, composer Justin Hurwitz, and lyricists Benj Pasek and Justin Paul.

Zoe Lister - Jones is the film's writer, director, producer, lyricist, and star in the story of an estranged married couple who begin to reconnect by turning their arguments into rock songs.

What I like about lyricists who are truly skilled is that they must write with clarity, brevity, and enable listeners to «fill the gaps» in emotion, atmosphere and ideas, much like the art of writing short stories, and the more recent popular flash fiction (not to mention nano fiction).

Over in Japan, Gen Hoshino is a well - known singer, songwriter, lyricist, actor, and voice actor.

Winifred Phillips will be participating as a speaker in a Society of Composers and Lyricists event on Wednesday, May 14th 2014.

Recognizing the crucial stage that drawings represent in an artist's creative process, they saw parallels to Hal David's own inventive process as a lyricist.

In lieu of an essay, Trow contributed song lyrics without the song; he had always modelled himself, to a certain extent, on the lyricist Moss Hart.

André Vida is a composer, lyricist and saxophonist based in Berlin.

His other credits include Just Cause (Sean Connery, Laurence Fishburne) for Warner Brothers in 1995; The Mambo Kings (Antonio Banderas) for Warner Brothers in 1992, for which he received an Academy Award nomination as lyricist for «Best Song»; The Good Mother (Diane Keaton, Liam Neeson) for Touchstone in 1988; as well as Gorillas in the Mist (Sigourney Weaver) for Warner Brothers / Universal Pictures; and Legal Eagles (Robert Redford, Debra Winger) for Universal Pictures in 1986.

All Rock n Roll is Homosexual: An evening hosted by Alexis Petridis with Jon Savage and Nicky Wire Wednesday 29 February 2012, 7:30 pm Purcell Room, Queen Elizabeth Hall Ticket price: # 8 Music journalist Alexis Petridis hosts an evening exploring the extensive and sometimes unexpected influence of gay culture in rock and roll and pop music, with pop music writer and cultural historian Jon Savage and Manic Street Preachers lyricist and bassist Nicky Wire.

From Berlin to Broadway is the Kurt Weill - inspired title of an installation of 43 early - twentieth - century German and Austrian works on paper that the Morgan Library & Museum received in 2005 as a bequest from Broadway lyricist Fred Ebb (1928 — 2004).

Lead singer and lyricist Jocie Adams, keyboardist Zach Tenorio - Miller, and drummer Ray Belli form the core of Arc Iris, all virtuosic musicians in their own right.

But unlike the unabashedly anti-fracking «Gasland,» decried as propaganda by the drilling industry, «My Water's on Fire» seeks balance, said David Holmes, 27, a graduate student in journalism at N.Y.U. and the track's main lyricist, composer and bassist.

Its purpose is to put forward your understanding of what a lyricist meant by making stuff up that has no meaning in the real world beyond what the simple English words mean.

To be clear: barring other contractual arrangements (for example, members of an orchestra are usually employees of the orchestra and copyright material they create belongs to their employer), the composer has copyright in the music, the lyricist has copyright in the lyrics and the performer (s)(musicians, conductor, sound technicians etc.) have copyright in the performance.

In an alternate universe, the soundtrack to Disney's blockbuster movie The Lion King is sung by the Swedish band ABBA — but in our universe, where some members of ABBA had other engagements, Elton John was enlisted for the task and, together with lyricist Tim Rice, created original songs like «Circle of Life» and «Can You Feel The Love Tonight»In an alternate universe, the soundtrack to Disney's blockbuster movie The Lion King is sung by the Swedish band ABBA — but in our universe, where some members of ABBA had other engagements, Elton John was enlisted for the task and, together with lyricist Tim Rice, created original songs like «Circle of Life» and «Can You Feel The Love Tonight»in our universe, where some members of ABBA had other engagements, Elton John was enlisted for the task and, together with lyricist Tim Rice, created original songs like «Circle of Life» and «Can You Feel The Love Tonight».

• «El Nino» Album by The Moosehead Band - Bakersfield, CA, Song Entitled «Ghost in My Guitar», Co-written with Kenny Walters, 2005 • «On the Road» song entitled «Morning» Anthology, Pub, 1999, The Association of Songwriters and Lyricists Los Angeles, CA • «Got Bass?»