The musical style of the show's score was primarily Doo-Wop as the plot revolved around Doo-Wop group singers of the 1960s.

Set primarily in the New York City subway system its score features an eclectic mix of musical genres ( including jazz, hip hop, Latin, rock, and country ).

The score for A Little Night Music has elements not often found in musical theater, presenting challenges for performers, with complex meters, pitch changes, polyphony, and high notes for both males and females.

In 1973, Lerner coaxed Fritz Loewe out of retirement to augment the Gigi score for a musical stage adaptation.

The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with a score by Nelson Riddle.

Andersson / Ulvaeus also won a Touring Broadway Award for the musical " Mamma Mia " ( best score ).

Haley continued to score hits throughout the 1950s such as " See You Later, Alligator " and he starred in the first rock and roll musical movies Rock Around the Clock and Don't Knock the Rock, both in 1956.

One advantage Chaplin found in sound technology was the ability to record a musical score for the film ; he also took the opportunity to mock the talkies, opening City Lights with a squeaky, unintelligible speech that " burlesqued the metallic tones of early talky voices ".

According to film historian Jeffrey Vance, " although he relied upon associates to arrange varied and complex instrumentation, the musical imperative is his, and not a note in a Chaplin musical score was placed there without his assent.

The lines " Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot ," from the musical Camelot, were quoted by his widow Jacqueline as being from his favorite song in the score.

Hopkins later directed a film version of the stage play, to which he also wrote the musical score.

Often dialogue was changed, and the show became less " Serious " in tone compared to the Japanese version, instead featuring more jokes and added dialogue, along with a completely different musical score ( usually orchestral music ) and completely different sound effects, due to licensing issues.

Carmine Coppola wrote and edited the musical score, including the title song " Stay Gold ", which was based upon a famous Robert Frost poem and performed for the movie by Stevie Wonder.

: The Composer is responsible for writing the musical score for a film.

The musical score to Thespis was never published and is now lost, except for one song that was published separately, a chorus that was re-used in The Pirates of Penzance, and the Act II ballet music.

A new musical score for the film was composed in 2010 by Michael Penny.

The film did have a musical score and synchronized sound effects, but no dialogue.

Connick wrote the score for Susan Stroman's Broadway musical Thou Shalt Not, based on Émile Zola's novel Thérèse Raquin, in 2000 ; it premiered in 2001.

Robert Capa did camerawork, Sidney Lumet worked on the film as a reader, Hanns Eisler wrote the musical score, and Fredric March provided the narration.

He collaborated on the score for the 1955 musical film My Sister Eileen with Leo Robin.

In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan ( additional music ), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Sugar ( with a story based on the movie Some Like It Hot, but all new music ), and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby !.

Imitation often involves the copying of an observed behaviour of another individual, but memes may transmit from one individual to another through a copy recorded in an inanimate source, such as a book or a musical score.

The score for King Kong ( 1933 ) made Steiner's reputation ; it was one of the first American films to have an extensive musical score ( it was re-used in a number of RKO films, including Back to Bataan.

Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

In the calm which follows the reading of a poem, for example, is the effect produced by the enforced quiet, by the musical quality of words and rhythm, by the sentiments or sense of the poem, by the associations with earlier readings, if it is familiar, by the boost to the self-esteem for the semi-literate, by the diversion of attention, by the sense of security in a legitimized withdrawal, by a kind license for some variety of fantasy life regarded as forbidden, or by half-conscious ideas about the magical power of words??

Although Patchen has given previous evidence of an interest in jazz, the musical group that he works with, the Chamber Jazz Sextet, is often ignored by jazz critics.

A low-power, `` carrier-current '' broadcasting station, KARL, heard only in the campus dormitories, is owned and operated by the students to provide an outlet for student dramatic, musical, literary, technical, and other talents, and to furnish information, music, and entertainment for campus listeners.

Returning once again to the Schnabel reissue, I am beguiled anew by the magnificence of this pianist's musical penetration.

Giving most of his musical continuity to the orchestra, he lets the speech fall into place as if by coincidence, but controlling the pace and emphasis of the words.

These are then mixed by their sound engineers with the active co-operation of the musical staff and combined into the final two channels which are impressed on the record.

'' With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, directed by Christopher Hewett, choreography by Peter Conlow, musical direction by Samuel Matlowsky.

The book is by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction by Jack Elliott, and the production was directed by Mr. Abbott.

The music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, has molded his group into a prominent musical organization, which is his life.

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

Marvin was originally cast as Pike Bishop ( later played by William Holden ) in The Wild Bunch ( 1969 ), but fell out with director Sam Peckinpah and pulled out in order to star in the Western musical Paint Your Wagon ( 1969 ), in which he was top-billed over a singing Clint Eastwood.

William Davenant produced The Tempest in the same year, which was the first musical adaption of a Shakespeare play ( composed by Locke and Johnson ).

This situation continued throughout the 18th and 19th centuries, including in the work of Michael William Balfe, and the operas of the great Italian composers, as well as those of Mozart, Beethoven and Meyerbeer, continued to dominate the musical stage in England.

Sondheim worked with William Goldman on Singing Out Loud, a movie musical, in 1992.

They advanced drastically in musical and lyrical sophistication: by the end they were quoting American writer William S. Burroughs (" A Different Kind of Tension "), declaiming their catechism in the anthem " I Believe ", and tuning in to a fantasy radio station on which their songs could be heard (" Radio Nine ").

The musical brings overnight fame to bass-baritone William Warfield ( who sings Ol ' Man River in the film ).

These shows normally consists of three to five musical pieces accompanied by formations rooted in origin from " Patterns in Motion ", a book penned by one-time Michigan State University Spartan Marching Band assistant band director William C. " Bill " Moffit, who would later become bandmaster of Purdue University All-American Marching Band and University of Houston Spirit of Houston.

* The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is a one-act musical by William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin.

* Pygmalion ; or, The Statue Fair, an 1867 musical burlesque by William Brough

* Our Town ( 1940 film ), adaptation starring Martha Scott as Emily and William Holden as George Gibbs, with a musical score by Aaron Copland.

The Human Comedy was also adapted into a 1984 Broadway musical by Galt MacDermot, composer of the musical Hair, and William Dumaresq.

* In 1992 The AIDS Quilt Songbook, a collection of new musical works about the devastation of AIDS compiled by Lyric baritone William Parker who solicited them from composers with whom he had previously worked.

* William Oliver Swofford ( 1945 – 2000 ), pop singer in the 1960s and 70s ( under the name Oliver ), known for his hits Good Morning Starshine ( featured in the Broadway musical Hair ) and Jean, the theme song of the Oscar-winning film The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie.

Anthony Ward repeated his acclaimed scenic and costume designs while William David Brohn joined the team as orchestrator, revising some of the musical arrangements.

1895 ), in which the prominent ethnologist is seen performing an incantation in a Zuñi pueblo ; Professor Henry A. Rowland ( 1897 ), a brilliant scientist whose study of spectroscopy revolutionized his field ; Antiquated Music ( 1900 ), in which Mrs. William D. Frishmuth is shown seated amidst her collection of musical instruments ; and The Concert Singer ( 1890 – 92 ), for which Eakins asked Weda Cook to sing " O rest in the Lord ", so that he could study the muscles of her throat and mouth.

Escanaba is home to the William Bonifas Fine Arts Center, The Waterfront Art Festival, The Escanaba City Band, The Players de Noc, The Bay de Noc Choral Society and many smaller arts organizations, art galleries and musical performing groups.

The hit musical comedy television series Glee is set in the fictional William McKinley High School ( WMHS ) in Lima, Ohio.

In 1978, Anderson performed at The Nova Convention, a major conference involving many counter-culture figures and rising avant-garde musical stars, including William S. Burroughs, Philip Glass, Frank Zappa, Timothy Leary, Malcolm Goldstein, John Cage, and Allen Ginsberg.

Achozen is the musical alliance between Shavo, Wu-Tang Clan founder The RZA, Kinetic-9 ( aka: Beretta 9 from Killarmy ), and up-and-comer, the Reverend William Burke from Chicago.

He wrote the musical Cafe Puccini at the age of 45, which opened at the Wyndham's Theatre in 1986 with musical director William Blezard.