Dorothy Fields, Lyricist, Librettist, #BornOnThisDay in 1905, in Allenhurst, New Jersey
July 15, 2026 at 2:27 PM
Dorothy Fields, Lyricist, Librettist, #BornOnThisDay in 1905, in Allenhurst, New Jersey
The very talented lyricist and librettist Dorothy Fields was born on 15 July 1905.
July 15, 2026 at 11:40 AM
The very talented lyricist and librettist Dorothy Fields was born on 15 July 1905.
I need to introduce myself!
I’m a multi-hyphenate - get bored with stuff and move to new things - geophysics prof, musician, librettist, novelist, yada, yada. Know a bunch of languages. Immigrant parents kid. Polish citizen. American citizen. Very happily married. Very proudly Jewish.
I’m a multi-hyphenate - get bored with stuff and move to new things - geophysics prof, musician, librettist, novelist, yada, yada. Know a bunch of languages. Immigrant parents kid. Polish citizen. American citizen. Very happily married. Very proudly Jewish.
November 12, 2024 at 6:10 PM
I need to introduce myself!
I’m a multi-hyphenate - get bored with stuff and move to new things - geophysics prof, musician, librettist, novelist, yada, yada. Know a bunch of languages. Immigrant parents kid. Polish citizen. American citizen. Very happily married. Very proudly Jewish.
I’m a multi-hyphenate - get bored with stuff and move to new things - geophysics prof, musician, librettist, novelist, yada, yada. Know a bunch of languages. Immigrant parents kid. Polish citizen. American citizen. Very happily married. Very proudly Jewish.
Excuse me, BBC, but you've promoted the librettist to composer.
January 12, 2025 at 5:09 PM
Excuse me, BBC, but you've promoted the librettist to composer.
NAME THE COMPOSER. CREDIT THE LIBRETTIST.
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra is funding the composition of a song about Charity and Sylvia, drawing from their letters. What a delightful story! 🗃️ #lesbianhistory #queerhistory
www.wcax.com/2026/01/23/v...
www.wcax.com/2026/01/23/v...
VSO to turn 19th-century Vermont same-sex love story into song
The Vermont Symphony Orchestra will create an original work about one of the earliest-documented same-sex couples in the United States.
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January 26, 2026 at 3:46 PM
NAME THE COMPOSER. CREDIT THE LIBRETTIST.
September 6, 2026 at 7:24 PM
Ada Palmer may just be the most bewilderingly talented person I know: a genius sf writer, incredible librettist and singer, wildly innovative educator, *and* a leading historian of the Renaissance.
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April 25, 2026 at 11:33 AM
Ada Palmer may just be the most bewilderingly talented person I know: a genius sf writer, incredible librettist and singer, wildly innovative educator, *and* a leading historian of the Renaissance.
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A better Italian; he even died in New York City.
October 13, 2025 at 4:41 PM
A better Italian; he even died in New York City.
Composer, lyricist and librettist Marc Blitzstein was born on 2 March 1905.
March 2, 2026 at 3:26 PM
Composer, lyricist and librettist Marc Blitzstein was born on 2 March 1905.
Librettist of Hip-hop
The Brontë of broken beats,
a scribe of scuffed concrete,
where metre meets the meat.
Back-alley banter Banksy,
His stencil wit stays rank—see,
both sly and splashy.
#poem #hip-hop #rhymes #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #music #musicsky #rap #culture #expression #song
The Brontë of broken beats,
a scribe of scuffed concrete,
where metre meets the meat.
Back-alley banter Banksy,
His stencil wit stays rank—see,
both sly and splashy.
#poem #hip-hop #rhymes #poemoftheday #poetry #poems #music #musicsky #rap #culture #expression #song
July 11, 2025 at 9:35 AM
Hello. Are you a human musician? Are you a composer? Are you in a band? Solo performer for hire? Librettist? Producer? Something else?
If so, then I would really like you to tell me about your music. Please feel free self-promote below. Links and/or descriptions of your work welcome.
If so, then I would really like you to tell me about your music. Please feel free self-promote below. Links and/or descriptions of your work welcome.
June 23, 2026 at 4:53 PM
Hello. Are you a human musician? Are you a composer? Are you in a band? Solo performer for hire? Librettist? Producer? Something else?
If so, then I would really like you to tell me about your music. Please feel free self-promote below. Links and/or descriptions of your work welcome.
If so, then I would really like you to tell me about your music. Please feel free self-promote below. Links and/or descriptions of your work welcome.
today's random theater photo:
producer Ernest H. Martin, producer/director/co-librettist Cy Feuer, and birthday girl choreographer Onna White in a rehearsal publicity shot for Whoop-Up (1958), on well
producer Ernest H. Martin, producer/director/co-librettist Cy Feuer, and birthday girl choreographer Onna White in a rehearsal publicity shot for Whoop-Up (1958), on well
March 24, 2025 at 1:19 PM
today's random theater photo:
producer Ernest H. Martin, producer/director/co-librettist Cy Feuer, and birthday girl choreographer Onna White in a rehearsal publicity shot for Whoop-Up (1958), on well
producer Ernest H. Martin, producer/director/co-librettist Cy Feuer, and birthday girl choreographer Onna White in a rehearsal publicity shot for Whoop-Up (1958), on well
Come find out what kind of song-hungry librettist I am
November 18, 2024 at 10:25 PM
Come find out what kind of song-hungry librettist I am
Guten Morgen.
Heute vor 126 Jahren ist Bertolt Brecht - Dramatiker, Librettist und Lyriker - geboren. (10.2.1898 - 14.8.1956)
"Wer A sagt, der muss nicht B sagen. Er kann auch erkennen, dass A falsch war."
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt...
Heute vor 126 Jahren ist Bertolt Brecht - Dramatiker, Librettist und Lyriker - geboren. (10.2.1898 - 14.8.1956)
"Wer A sagt, der muss nicht B sagen. Er kann auch erkennen, dass A falsch war."
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt...
Bertolt Brecht – Wikipedia
de.wikipedia.org
February 10, 2024 at 4:07 AM
Guten Morgen.
Heute vor 126 Jahren ist Bertolt Brecht - Dramatiker, Librettist und Lyriker - geboren. (10.2.1898 - 14.8.1956)
"Wer A sagt, der muss nicht B sagen. Er kann auch erkennen, dass A falsch war."
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt...
Heute vor 126 Jahren ist Bertolt Brecht - Dramatiker, Librettist und Lyriker - geboren. (10.2.1898 - 14.8.1956)
"Wer A sagt, der muss nicht B sagen. Er kann auch erkennen, dass A falsch war."
de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bertolt...
ok I had this in mind for awhile now, but-
jayvik musician au (early 1900 maybe?)
jayce is a librettist struggling with a script that won't collaborate, about a beautiful icy princess from a faraway land, who denies herself a spouse and putting her suitors, who wants to wed her, on deadly trials 👇
jayvik musician au (early 1900 maybe?)
jayce is a librettist struggling with a script that won't collaborate, about a beautiful icy princess from a faraway land, who denies herself a spouse and putting her suitors, who wants to wed her, on deadly trials 👇
September 28, 2025 at 1:30 PM
ok I had this in mind for awhile now, but-
jayvik musician au (early 1900 maybe?)
jayce is a librettist struggling with a script that won't collaborate, about a beautiful icy princess from a faraway land, who denies herself a spouse and putting her suitors, who wants to wed her, on deadly trials 👇
jayvik musician au (early 1900 maybe?)
jayce is a librettist struggling with a script that won't collaborate, about a beautiful icy princess from a faraway land, who denies herself a spouse and putting her suitors, who wants to wed her, on deadly trials 👇
Eisner-nom series THE MANY DEATHS OF LAILA STARR will make history with the Minnesota Opera as composer @kamalasankaram.bsky.social and librettist Minita Gandhi take on the operatic adaption of the hit story from writer @therightram.bsky.social and artist Filipe Andrade! boomstud.io/LailaStarrOp...
October 15, 2024 at 10:54 PM
Eisner-nom series THE MANY DEATHS OF LAILA STARR will make history with the Minnesota Opera as composer @kamalasankaram.bsky.social and librettist Minita Gandhi take on the operatic adaption of the hit story from writer @therightram.bsky.social and artist Filipe Andrade! boomstud.io/LailaStarrOp...
Sagittarius: Today you will don a mask and with pen in hand save composers of incomprehensible works across the world as THE LIBRETTIST.
September 29, 2025 at 4:21 PM
Sagittarius: Today you will don a mask and with pen in hand save composers of incomprehensible works across the world as THE LIBRETTIST.
I randomly met the librettist of this on Sunday night in NYC! bsky.app/profile/mari...
I have amazing luck running into interesting people and happened to sit down next to the librettist of this new chamber opera, Ben Kaplan, at a Midtown restaurant on Sunday. It premieres tonight: break legs & Mazel Tov!
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www.nytimes.com/2025/09/17/a...
The Dueling Scholars Who Bickered a Yiddish Dictionary Into Existence
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September 19, 2025 at 4:29 AM
I randomly met the librettist of this on Sunday night in NYC! bsky.app/profile/mari...
Doris Lessing | British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer
Awarded the Nobel Prize in #Literature in 2007. She was the 11th woman & oldest person to win this award, at age 88. She died #OTD in 2013.
theguardian.com/books/2013/n...
Awarded the Nobel Prize in #Literature in 2007. She was the 11th woman & oldest person to win this award, at age 88. She died #OTD in 2013.
theguardian.com/books/2013/n...
November 17, 2025 at 11:07 PM
Doris Lessing | British novelist, poet, playwright, librettist, biographer, and short story writer
Awarded the Nobel Prize in #Literature in 2007. She was the 11th woman & oldest person to win this award, at age 88. She died #OTD in 2013.
theguardian.com/books/2013/n...
Awarded the Nobel Prize in #Literature in 2007. She was the 11th woman & oldest person to win this award, at age 88. She died #OTD in 2013.
theguardian.com/books/2013/n...