Certainly not in Orchestra Hall where he has played countless recitals, and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing the Brahms Concerto with his own slashing, demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high, pale, pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music, or forever finds it closed.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

In the early 20th century, the company commissioned a play-on-words song called Under the Anheuser Bush, which was recorded by several early phonograph companies.

He performed his song " Bo Diddley " with Eric Clapton, Robbie Robertson, and longtime bassist and musical director Debby Hastings at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 20th annual induction ceremony and in the UK, Uncut magazine included his 1957 debut album " Bo Diddley " in its listing of the ' 100 Music, Movie & TV Moments That Have Changed The World '.

Contemporaneously with Child came the Reverend Sabine Baring-Gould, and later and more significantly Cecil Sharp who worked in the early 20th century to preserve a great body of English rural traditional song, music and dance, under the aegis of what became and remains the English Folk Dance and Song Society ( EFDSS ).

By the early 20th century, there were various versions of the song in popular use.

Travelling circuses, like Pablo Fanque's, dominated the British provinces, Scotland, and Ireland ( Fanque would enjoy fame again in the 20th century when John Lennon would buy an 1843 poster advertising his circus and adapt the lyrics for The Beatles song, Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite !).

For example, Elvis Costello recorded a version of Ono's song " Walking on Thin Ice ," the B-52's who drew from her early recordings covered " Don't Worry, Kyoko ( Mummy's Only Looking for Her Hand in the Snow )" ( shortening the title to " Don't Worry ") and Sonic Youth included a performance of Ono's early conceptual " Voice Piece for Soprano " in their experimental album SYR4: Goodbye 20th century.

On the Alan Lomax collection Songs of Seduction ( Rounder Select, 2000 ), there's a bawdy Irish folk song called " The Thrashing Machine " sung by tinker Annie O ' Neil, as recorded in the early 20th Century.

( This has often been the case with American popular song and musicals in the 20th century, as with Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's collaboration, although with the later team of Rodgers and Hammerstein the lyrics were generally written first.

The term " lucifer " persisted as slang in the 20th century ( for example in the First World War song Pack Up Your Troubles ) and in the Netherlands and Belgium today matches are still called lucifers.

*" Ain't No Crime "-Positive K ( which uses a sample of the song " Heaven and Hell " by 20th Century Steel Band )

By the early 20th century, many regarded the song unsuitable as a national anthem.

Although the origins of blacking-up for Mummer's Day have no racial connotations – the tradition going back to the days of the Celts – controversially, in the Padstow festival, a song with the words " He's gone where the good niggers go ", was formerly included due to the popularity of minstrel songs during the 20th century.

" Yesterday " was voted the best song of the 20th century in a 1999 BBC Radio 2 poll of music experts and listeners and was also voted the No. 1 Pop song of all time by MTV and Rolling Stone magazine the following year.

The song originates from Northumberland in the early 20th century, but had been revived due to the 1984-5 strike.

These researchers included Robert W. Gordon, founder of the Archive of American Folk Song, and John and Alan Lomax ; Alan Lomax was the most prominent of several folk song collectors who helped to inspire the 20th century roots revival of American folk culture.

" The soprano Isa Kremer was a popular exponent of Yiddish song internationally during the first half of the 20th century ; notably making several recordings with Columbia Records and appearing often at Carnegie Hall and other major venues in the United states from 1922-1950.

In 2010 Billboard named " Afternoon Delight " the 20th sexiest song of all time.

Swedish prog-death metal band Opeth also filmed its 20th anniversary DVD In Live Concert at the Royal Albert Hall, covering two sets: its breakthrough album, Blackwater Park, in its entirety, and a chronologically-arranged set of one song from each of its other eight albums.

The song, " a song about a song about love ", played in an idiosyncratic melody in medium tempo, became an American standard, and is considered one of the most recorded songs of the 20th century, with over 1, 500 total recordings.

Ron Eyerman and Andrew Jamison, in Music and Social Movements: Mobilizing Tradition in the Twentieth Century ( 1998 ), take issue with what they consider Denisoff's reductive approach to the history and function of song ( and particularly traditional song ) in social movements.

The confusion, nonetheless, is so pervasive that, when " Take Me Out to the Ball Game " was selected by the National Endowment for the Arts and the Recording Industry Association of America as one of the 365 top " Songs of the Century ", the song was credited to Billy Murray, implying his recording of it as having received the most votes among songs from the first decade.

( The Diffys, the main characters, are from this era ( 2121 ) before they crash in 2004 ; theme song refers to Phil as a " 22nd Century man ").

The song was listed as the No. 5 song on the RIAA project Songs of the Century.

The song " Bron-Y-Aur Stomp " is named after the 18th Century Welsh cottage Bron-Yr-Aur owned by a friend of his father ; it later inspired the song " Bron-Yr-Aur ".

* American punk rock band Green Day references the title of the film in their song " 21st Century Breakdown ".

" 21st Century ( Digital Boy )", one of the tracks off the album, is generally regarded as the band's most well-known song, and has been played at almost every live show.

In late 1983, Holder joined Lea in record production, producing among other things, Girlschool's cover of the T-Rex song " 20th Century Boy " and the album " Play Dirty " which featured two Slade tracks " Burning in the Heat of Love " and " High and Dry ".

Styx also covered " Not Dead Yet " on their 1990 release Edge of the Century and performed the song in concert for that album's tour.

In 2006 Def Leppard released their album Yeah which contains covers of their favourite bands while growing up, the first song on this album is " 20th Century Boy ".

In 2000, Naoki Urasawa created a Japanese manga entitled 20th Century Boys that was inspired by Marc Bolan's song, " 20th Century Boy ".

" This album also included " Turn of the Century ," a song about the creation of Nunavut.

Famous match races include the 1851 match at York between the Epsom Derby winners The Flying Dutchman and Voltigeur ; the 1878 four mile long race in Louisville between the Eastern U. S. colt Ten Broeck and California filly Mollie McCarty that inspired the song Molly and Tenbrooks, the Canadian contest between Man o ' War and Sir Barton in 1920, won by Man O ' War ; Seabiscuit's victory over War Admiral in the 1938 Pimlico Special ; the 1955 race between Nashua and Swaps, the 1966 Pace of the Century between standardbred champs Bret Hanover and Cardigan Bay, and 1975's tragedy-marred contest between colt Foolish Pleasure and filly Ruffian at Belmont Park.

In many ways, the ' High Council ' constitutes a bit of comic relief, especially from the expansionist military adviser, who will insist on more troops even when the player has 60 battleships, or during the Medieval Period will sing the last refrain from the 18th Century English traditional song " Down Among the Dead Men ", punctuated with a hearty " No complaints, sire !".

* " Asylum ", a song by Supertramp from Crime of the Century

" Paper Lanterns " was a popular Green Day song and a live staple for many years and was brought back for the 2010 leg of the 21st Century Breakdown World Tour.

She made her debut with MGM in Panama Hattie ( 1942 ) and performed the title song of Stormy Weather based loosely on the life of Adelaide Hall, ( 1943 ), which she made at 20th Century Fox, on loan from MGM.

" Yakety Yak " became a # 1 single on July 21, 1958 and is the only novelty song (# 346 ) of the Songs of the Century.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

BAO recently achieved a new record in Sweden on the Svensktoppen chart by staying there for 243 weeks with the song Du är min man (" You Are My Man "), sung by Helen Sjöholm.

During the Labor Day weekend in 1952, The Saddlemen were renamed Bill Haley with Haley's Comets ( inspired by a popular mispronunciation of Halley's Comet ), and in 1953, Haley's recording of " Crazy Man, Crazy " ( co-written by Haley and his bass player, Marshall Lytle although Lytle would not receive credit until 2001 ) became the first rock and roll song to hit the American charts, peaking at no. 15 on Billboard and no. 11 on Cash Box.

While Mellow Man Ace was the first mainstream rapper to use Spanglish, Frost's song " La Raza " paved the way for its use in American hip hop.

Chet's song Jam Man is currently used in commercials for Esurance.

No one claimed him, so a carnival took his body, mummified it, and toured all over the South with him, calling him the “ The Famous Mummy Man .” McLean ’ s song inspired radio station WGN in Chicago to tell the story and give the song airplay in order to raise money for a headstone for Anderson McCrew ’ s grave.

" In a recent interview, Mothersbaugh revealed a song title from the in-progress album: " Don't Shoot, I'm a Man ".

The song " My Man ", written by Bernie Leadon and performed by the Eagles on their album On the Border, is a tribute to Gram Parsons.

Billy Joel famously plays the harmonica, in addition to his piano, on his signature song, " Piano Man ".

By the release of 1979's The Original Disco Man, Brown wasn't providing much production or writing, leading most of it to producer Brad Shapiro, resulting in the song " It's Too Funky in Here " becoming Brown's most successful single in this period.

Whale used a similar technique during the Ol ' Man River sequence in Show Boat, in which the camera tracked around Paul Robeson as he sang the song.

* The R. A. the Rugged Man song " L. I.

* M is for Man, Music, Mozart ( 1991 ) ( texts by the composer, Jeroen van der Linden, Peter Greenaway ) for female jazz voice, flute (+ piccolo ), soprano saxophone, alto saxophone, tenor saxophone, horn, 3 trumpets, 2 trombones, bass trombone, double bass, piano ( TV score ; may be performed as a concert work with one additional song )

*" Marijuana ", a 2010 song by recording artist Kid Cudi off his second album, Man on the Moon II: The Legend of Mr. Rager

The song " The Drowning Man ", by British band The Cure, is inspired by events in Gormenghast, and the song " Lady Fuchsia " by another British band, Strawbs, is also based on events in the novels.

This idea of the infinite, of the unreal, of the innocence dying ..." — Robert Smith 2003 ( about the Peake character that inspired the early Cure song The Drowning Man in 1980 )

* In the second verse of the hit song " Rocket Man " ( 1972 ), Elton John sings " Mars ain't the kind of place to raise your kids / In fact it's cold as hell / And there's no one there to raise them / If you did ".

Although four songs were released as singles to promote the album ( lead single " Everything I Need ", " Man With Two Hearts ", " Maria ", and " Hard Luck Story "), only the first song charted in the US, and that only at No. 47.

* " Mad ", a song by Magnetic Man from the album Magnetic Man

Some well-known songs are " Ol ' Man River ", " Can't Help Lovin ' That Man " and " Make Believe " from Show Boat ; " Indian Love Call " from Rose-Marie ; " People Will Say We're in Love " and " Oklahoma " ( which has been the official state song of Oklahoma since 1953 ) from Oklahoma!

Dylan's song " Subterranean Homesick Blues " ( 1965 ), which may have taken its title from a Kerouac novel, included the line, " Johnny's in the basement, mixing up the medicine ", and his " Mr. Tambourine Man " ( 1965 ) requested " Take me on a trip upon your magic swirling ship ".