The Dundonnell project was instigated by the estate's owner, the lyricist, Sir Tim Rice.
Even Koffi Olomide, arguably Congo's most brilliant modern star, a clever lyricist and resonant baritone, is getting lazy.
After an extensive search, they chose a twenty-five-year-old lyricist who had never worked on a Broadway musical before.
He met Maggart years ago, when she and her sister used to attend musical gatherings at lyricist Marshall Barer's house.
This of course makes it easier to discern that Lennon was in fact a master melodist and McCartney a gifted lyricist.
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"I remember reading once (RUSH drummer and lyricist) Neil Peart got voted one of the worst lyricists of all time, " Dunn said.
Despite have left school in the 10th grade, GZA nurtured his affection for science as he developed his skills as a lyricist.
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Farrell, the lyricist, said the song chronicles how the universe was created.
For a lyricist, Ira Gershwin was a pretty darn good historian.
Unlike "Glee, " which uses mostly existing songs, "Smash" showcases new songs by Broadway's "Hairspray" composer-lyricist team, Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman, along with some popular songs.
The two men joined by their mutual friend, the lyricist Amanda Green met for the first time over Mexican food at a Chelsea restaurant.
"The main character is introducing the people in his life in songs that have a presentational feel to them, " the show's composer and co-lyricist, Marc Shaiman, said.
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Sitting backstage at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre, waiting to catch another preview of her 15-song debut as a Broadway lyricist and composer, Lauper is both nervous and humble.
The two men joined by their mutual friend, the lyricist and composer Amanda Green met for the first time over Mexican food at a Chelsea restaurant.
While he was a big-league lyricist, Mr. Burke was strictly an amateur composer it was his longtime collaboration with Jimmy Van Heusen that put him on the map and "Donnybrook!"
Singer and lyricist Silvana Kane knows the Pacific Coast well.
His most recent film score featured in the 2001 war thriller Enigma, while a musical version of Brighton Rock, created with lyricist Don Black, had its London premiere in 2004.
Back in the 1950s, Allison created a style all his own by coupling his talents as a pianist and lyricist and applying them to the elements of jazz and blues.
Nas' 40th birthday in September will put him in the company of elite survivors, though only a few of hip-hop's quadragenarians can legitimately challenge him for title of best lyricist.
This year's fellowship award went to veteran lyricist Don Black, 70, who co-wrote hits including Born Free and Diamonds Are Forever, as well as musicals including Aspects of Love and Bombay Dreams.
The event is called "Poetry Parnassus" -- named after Mount Parnassus, known in Greek mythology as the spiritual home of poetry, the stamping ground of the lyricist Orpheus and the hang-out for the Muses.
Green, the Tony-nominated lyricist and composer, says pop song writers who come to Broadway quickly find it's not the best place to dabble since it takes years for a musical to get up and running.
Iola Brubeck, the pianist's wife of 70 years and lyricist, opened the tribute by acknowledging the hundreds of letters she had received from people throughout the word in the five months since her husband's death.
"I think Putin has shown over the past two years that he is not really bothered by the jokes, " said Alexander Yelin, lyricist of the group Rabfak which has performed at anti-Putin rallies, and writer of the song 'Our madhouse votes for Putin'.
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Lyricist Hal David and composer Burt Bacharach began their collaboration together in 1957 after meeting in New York City's legendary Brill Building the home of dozens of music publishers, as well as songwriters such as Carole King, Neil Sedaka and Paul Simon.
The former cattle rancher, Grateful Dead lyricist and founder of the Electronic Frontier Foundation has been engaged in that battle for 25 years, longer than many of the young Internet users opposing the controversial Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) have been old enough to sit at a keyboard.
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It remained for the 1939 MGM version to add the image of the rainbow to the iconography (courtesy of lyricist Yip Harburg), to make the whole story a Technicolor dream and, most significantly, to saturate the entire narrative in one of the most glorious scores (by Harburg and composer Harold Arlen) of any film or show.
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