* August 14-15-America's oldest music organization, the Stoughton Musical Society performs at the World's Columbian Exposition

He caught the attention of John Philip Sousa, who played the tune at the 1893 World Columbian Exposition in Chicago, boosting sheet music sales to in excess of five million copies in the 1890s.

Although the membership roster of the Columbian Institution included many distinguished citizens and several presidents, they were unable to raise money for the greenhouse and lecture hall.

Efforts to do so were unsuccessful, but in 1904 the Association signed an agreement with D. C .- based Columbian University to change its name to George Washington University and build a large memorial hall on the university's campus.

In the north, where dislocations have invaded the field of the horizontal Columbian lavas, as in southeastern Oregon and northeastern California, the blocks are monoclinal in structure as well as in attitude.

Several of the sights on her trip inspired her, and they found their way into her poem, including the World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the " White City " with its promise of the future contained within its alabaster buildings ; the wheat fields of America's heartland Kansas, through which her train was riding on July 16 ; and the majestic view of the Great Plains from high atop Zebulon's Pikes Peak.

His two sons were architects: John Wellborn Root, chief architect of the World Columbian Exposition and Walter Root in Kansas City.

In the booklet for the first volume of Music for a Darkened Theatre, Elfman described the first time he heard his music played by a full orchestra as one of the most thrilling experiences of his life.

His work was a precursor to later artistic movements such as minimalism, repetitive music, and the Theatre of the Absurd.

" Similarly, the Theatre asserted that " the music of Iolanthe is Dr Sullivan's chef d ' oeuvre.

Connick also took his funk music to the People's Republic of China in 1995, playing at the Shanghai Center Theatre.

Many passages for solo harp can be found in 19th century ballet music, particularly in scores for the ballets staged for the Mariinsky Theatre of St. Petersburg, where the harpist Albert Zabel played in the orchestra.

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As the city's name itself is a metonym for the country music industry, many popular tourist sites involve country music, including the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum, Belcourt Theatre, and Ryman Auditorium.

In 1954, Sondheim wrote both music and lyrics for Saturday Night, which was never produced on Broadway and was shelved until a 1997 production at London's Bridewell Theatre.

* By Bernstein ( 1975 )- music and lyrics by Leonard Bernstein, additional lyrics by Betty Comden, Adolph Green, John Latouche, Jerry Leiber, and Stephen Sondheim ; written and conceived by Comden and Green, with Michael Bawtree, Norman L. Berman and the Chelsea Theatre Center.

* King Lear ( 2007 ), incidental music for a Public Theatre production of the Shakespeare tragedy, composed with orchestrator Michael Starobin.

Theatre ( also theater ) – branch of the performing arts concerned with acting out stories in front of an audience using combinations of speech, gesture, mime, puppets, music, dance, sound and spectacle — indeed any one or more elements of the other performing arts.

Additionally, Amos is currently writing the music for Samuel Adamson's musical adaptation of the George MacDonald story The Light Princess for the Royal National Theatre, which was originally expected to debut in spring 2012 but has now been deferred.

* January 15 – The Sleeping Beauty ( ballet ) with music by Tchaikovsky is premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia.

* December 18 – The Nutcracker ballet with music by Tchaikovsky is premiered at the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia.

It was first performed in England on 24 May 1856 in Italian at Her Majesty's Theatre in London, where it was considered morally questionable, and " the heads of the Church did their best to put an injunction upon performance ; the Queen refrained from visiting the theatre during the performances, though the music, words and all, were not unheard at the palace ".

Tharp opened a new show titled The Times They Are a-Changin ', to the music of Bob Dylan in 2005 at The Old Globe Theatre in San Diego.

The Czech Nápravník would spend more than 40 years in the service of Russian music as chief conductor of the Imperial Mariinsky Theatre.

The theatre also has an associate school, known as the La Scala Theatre Academy (), which offers professional training in music, dance, stage craft and stage management.

He provided suites of incidental music for a production of The Merry Wives of Windsor at the Gaiety in 1874 and Henry VIII at the Theatre Royal, Manchester in 1877.

Between 1868 and 1877, Carte wrote and published the music for a number of his own songs and instrumental works, as well as several comic operas: Doctor Ambrosias – His Secret, at St. George's Hall ( 1868 ); Marie, with librettist E. Spencer Mott, at London's Opera Comique in 1871 ; and Happy Hampstead, with librettist Frank Desprez, which debuted on an 1876 provincial tour and then played at the Royalty Theatre in 1877.

Local performance groups include the Off Centre Theatre Company, Monmouth Operatic Society, Monmouth Choral Society, and the Merlin Society, one of the largest music societies in the country.

The Prize, created by the Library of Congress, was awarded to Simon during a Concert Gala featuring his music at the Warner Theatre in Washington, D. C., on the evening of May 23.

The current " Precentor " ( Head of Music ) is Tim Johnson, and the school boasts eight organs and an entire building for music ( performance spaces include the School Hall, the Farrer Theatre and two halls dedicated to music, the Parry Hall and the Concert Hall ).

The piece in the main lobby of Meany Hall, entitled " Theatre ", was commissioned by the University for the hall in 1985.

Architecturally notable Shriners Temples include the New York City Center, now used as a concert hall, Newark Symphony Hall, The Landmark Theater ( formerly The Mosque ) in Richmond, Virginia, the Tripoli Shrine Temple in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, the Helena Civic Center ( Montana ) ( formerly the Algeria Shrine Temple ), and the Fox Theatre ( Atlanta, Georgia ) which was jointly built between the Atlanta Shriners and William Fox.

* Olympia Theatre ( Dublin ), a concert hall in Dublin, Ireland

Cultural events include concerts given by the Sidcup Symphony Orchestra regularly in the hall of Townley Grammar School for Girls, while the Edward Alderton Theatre produces a number of non-professional productions each year.

Broadway Theatre, Catford, which is a fine art deco building, adjoins the town hall.

It was also, at one time, an important entertainment centre, with four or five cinemas within a radius of a ⅓ of a mile, and the Dalston Theatre, a former hippodrome and music hall that later became the Four Aces blues club and the Labyrinth nightclub.

In 1968 a theatre was built behind the hall, later named the Compass Theatre by the Theatre Director John Sherratt.

After the First World War Streatham developed as a location for entertainment, with Streatham Hill Theatre ( now a bingo hall ), three cinemas, the Locarno ballroom ( latterly Caesar's nightclub, which closed in 2010 ) and Streatham Ice Rink all adding to its reputation as " the West End of South London ".

Despite this economic downturn, Cookstown's Council constructed its modern town hall in 1953 ( now demolished and replaced by the Buranavon Theatre ) and the Daintyfit clothing factory on Burn Road was opened.

Fillmore has a classic " turn of the century " downtown architecture, a one-screen theater ( the Fillmore Towne Theatre ), a historic train depot ( the Fillmore and Western Railway ), a much photographed city hall, and many unique shops and businesses, including a local winery operation.

Also near Louisburg is Middle Creek Theatre, a musical hall of fame recognized by the state of Kansas.

GOP presidential candidate and former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum held a town hall meeting at the Palace Theatre January 30, 2012.

He married Paddy Lennox from the three-sister music hall act the Lennox Theatre, and they had two sons, Peter and Christopher.

Todmorden has the look of a Victorian mill town and has some notable buildings including Dobroyd Castle ( completed in 1869 ), now used as a residential activity centre for schoolchildren ; the Edwardian Hippodrome Theatre ; an imposing Greek Revival town hall ( built 1866 – 1875 ) that dominates the centre of town ; the Grade I listed Todmorden Unitarian Church ( built 1865 – 1869 ); and the 120 ft Stoodley Pike monument ( built 1814 and rebuilt in 1854 ) atop the hill of the same name.

Entered from the Great Lawn and from the Alumni Walk, the Center houses two academic wings for programs in the arts ( 1P ) ( Studio Art, Art History, Dance, Dramatic Arts, Music, Music Technology, and Photography ) as well as superb public spaces: the 440-seat Clara and Arleigh B. Williamson Theatre, the 900-seat Marlene Springer Concert Hall, a recital hall, a lab theater, lecture halls, two art galleries, and a small conference center with a view of the magnificent, although now dormant, volcano which may or may not erupt within the next 50 years.

In 1887 he went into management, opening Terry's Theatre, built on the site of the old Coal Hole Public House and music hall on the Strand.

Matthews ' fame reached its initial height with her lead role in the 1930 stage production of Ever Green, premiered at the Alhambra Theatre Glasgow, a musical by Rodgers and Hart that was partly inspired by the life of music hall star Marie Lloyd, and her daughter's tribute act resurrection of her mother's acclaimed Edwardian stage show as Marie Lloyd Junior.

It was then converted into a grand music hall and renamed the Palace Theatre of Varieties, managed successfully by Charles Morton.

It was then converted by Walter Emden into a grand music hall and renamed the Palace Theatre of Varieties, managed by Charles Morton, known as the ' Father of Music Halls ', who made it into a successful enterprise.

During 1892, the Royal English Opera House, which had been a financial failure in Shaftesbury Avenue, applied for a music hall license and was converted by Walter Emden into a grand music hall and renamed the Palace Theatre of Varieties, managed by Charles Morton.

( 1963 ) by Joan Littlewood's Theatre Workshop, featured the music hall turns and songs that had provided support for the British war effort in World War I.

* The modern Players ' Theatre Club provides a brief impression of contemporary music hall in the film The Fourth Angel, where Jeremy Irons ' character creates an alibi by visiting a show.