How to Use art song in a Sentence

art song

noun

• Before the opera, the performers will sing a prelude of art songs about nature in five languages.
  — Nancy Shohet West, BostonGlobe.com, 10 Mar. 2018
• DuPont will present a recital of art songs, spirituals and gospels by both female and male black composers on June 26.
  — Elizabeth Nonemaker, baltimoresun.com, 13 June 2019
• The second movement is gentler, with a wistful theme that blends the accents of French art song and Brazilian jazz, and the third proves the liveliest and most harmonically adventurous of the set.
  — Allan Kozinn, WSJ, 27 Feb. 2021
• Company general director David Bennett gave the recitalists free rein to craft the concert programs, and Blythe’s lineup was entirely aria- and art song-free.
  — San Diego Union-Tribune, 25 Oct. 2021
• The addition of tenor Dominic Armstrong (another Curtis alumnus) allowed the program to dip into Bernstein’s vast catalog of art songs, arias and show tunes.
  — Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 12 Mar. 2018
• Opera Philadelphia had already turned its plans for Poulenc’s La voix humaine into a larger project, augmenting the 40-minute work for a single singer with a dramatic prologue that includes French cabaret and art songs.
  — Peter Dobrin, Philly.com, 4 June 2018
• Soprano Mari Hahn is a versatile performer of opera, art song, oratorio, music theater and jazz.
  — Anchorage Daily News, 20 Apr. 2020
• The connoisseurs’ genre of art song singing will never lack a forum in the city’s musical life as long as the Collaborative Arts Institute of Chicago is there to affirm its importance and promote its growth.
  — John Von Rhein, chicagotribune.com, 7 Sep. 2017
• As a lyricist and as a composer, Porter’s voice is that of cosmopolitan sophistication and deeply etched emotion, and of the early mixture of jazz, blues, ragtime, art song and show-tune sensibilities.
  — A.d. Amorosi, Variety, 1 Oct. 2021
• The preliminary screening submissions of an aria, oratorio or art song (or portion) of choice are not to exceed five minutes in length, recorded and submitted online.
  — Courtney McGee, baltimoresun.com, 27 Aug. 2019
• Their high-intensity interpretations sometimes seemed more suited to opera than art song.
  — Rob Hubbard, Twin Cities, 17 July 2019
• Areyzaga brings substantial experience as an orchestral soloist to the March 16 concert, while also known as a talented interpreter of vocal art song and chamber music.
  — Bob Kostanczuk, Post-Tribune, 28 Feb. 2018
• Genres include art song, contemporary choral, gospel, jazz and spirituals.
  — Allana Haynes, Baltimore Sun, 2 Feb. 2023
• Both excelled above all else in their songs, leaving behind a major contribution to the American art song literature that has yet to be fully discovered let alone appreciated.
  — Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 21 Nov. 2022
• Auditions are by appointment only and include a classical or art song vocal solo of your selection, a chromatic vocalise and pitch-matching exercises, some simple sight-singing, and an optional prepared passage from Handel’s Messiah.
  — Elaine Rewolinski, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 28 Mar. 2022

Last Updated: 24 Jul 2024