Even odder is that many of the composers did not necessarily feel compelled to explore nationalist themes.
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Mark Swed,
Los Angeles Times,
2 July 2026
Twentieth-century composers like Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein shaped this art form, built on the comic opera and vaudeville, into something special.
Neruda, also a diplomat and politician, is considered one of the most important Latin American poets of the 20th century, having won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1971.
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USA Today,
USA Today,
29 June 2026
These were translations of 19th-century poems by international poets from the 1940s.
The distinction is further underscored by the involvement of The Roots, whose co-founder and lead MC, Black Thought, is widely regarded as one of hip-hop's greatest lyricists.
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Ime Ekpo,
Forbes.com,
14 June 2026
The film features original songs and score by composers/lyricists Sharon Kenny and Kirsten Guenther, who are also collaborating on an upcoming stage musical produced by Seth MacFarlane’s Fuzzy Door/The Carlson Company.
For Lestat, embracing the loneliness has an immediate reaction on the muses lurking in the crowds at his show.
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Hunter Ingram,
Variety,
22 June 2026
After Daft Punk’s rise from underground dance music heroes to chart-topping pop insurgents, Bangalter followed different muses in different directions.
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