a melodist whose music is not likely to be very accessible to the casual listener
Recent Examples on the WebBut the Romanian conductor happens to be music director of the Cabrillo Festival, which was founded by Lou Harrison, California’s great melodist and eclectic. Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 5 Aug. 2022 Where Lang Lang is a melodist, Wang is marvel of rhythm. Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 8 Apr. 2022 Mandel was primarily a melodist and would seek out lyricists for his songs.Washington Post, 30 June 2020 Suddenly the snarky wit was a romantic, the angular composer a melodist. Ben Brantley, New York Times, 12 Mar. 2020 His work of late, and especially here, reveals a melodist at heart. Larry Blumenfeld, WSJ, 5 June 2018 One of classical music’s greatest melodists, his talent for writing small-scale works like songs, dances and marches was evident from his teens. Christian Hertzog, sandiegouniontribune.com, 25 Mar. 2018 Guest conductor Abrams put Bernstein the consummate melodist in the spotlight, capturing his freewheeling style and his delight in borrowing forms and ideas from other idioms, as well as his heart-on-the-sleeve expressiveness. Elaine Schmidt, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 21 Jan. 2018 See More