) She has since turned to Bellini, whose opera `` Beatrice Di Tenda '' in a concert version with the American Opera Society introduced her to New York last season.

Mischa Elman shared last night's Lewisohn Stadium concert with three American composers.

* 1928 – Camilla Wicks, American concert violinist

* 1976 – Dave Ockun, American concert producer

They released a concert DVD in 2004 on Hydra Records, played the Viper Room in West Hollywood in 2005, and performed at Dick Clark's American Bandstand Theater in Branson, Missouri in 2006-07.

The cornet also features in the British-style concert band, unlike the American concert band or wind band, where it is replaced by the trumpet.

He is of English ( maternal ), Swiss and possibly Native American Modoc Tribe multi-ethnic ( paternal ) ancestry His father, Howard " Pete " Brubeck, was a cattle rancher, and his mother, Elizabeth ( née Ivey ), who had studied piano in England under Myra Hess and intended to become a concert pianist, taught piano for extra money.

A new album, Addicted to Black, was released in May 2009 and is available for purchase at his North American concert performances and is available on his website.

McLean ’ s subsequent albums did not match the commercial success of American Pie but he became a major concert attraction in the US and overseas.

In 1997, McLean performed " American Pie " with Garth Brooks at Brooks ' free concert in Central Park in New York City.

* 1961 – Cosmo Wilson, American concert lighting designer

She was the honoree at the Rock Hall's American Music Master concert and lecture series for 2009.

Joel Marangella is an American oboist who has performed in concert with many of the world's leading orchestras.

* 1953 – David Gest, American concert promoter and media personality

A small orchestra with fifteen to thirty members ( violins, violas, cellos, double basses, and several woodwind or brass instruments ) is called a chamber orchestra In the American education system, sitting groups are known as wind ensembles or concert bands ( to differentiate from marching bands ).

* 2009 – Joseph Bloch, American concert pianist ( b. 1917 )

* 2005 – Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist ( b. 1921 )

In 1770, he joined the Middle Temple and studied law for three years, which would eventually lead him to his life-work in India ; after a spell as a circuit judge in Wales, and a fruitless attempt to resolve the issues of the American Revolution in concert with Benjamin Franklin in Paris, he was appointed puisne judge to the Supreme Court of Bengal on 4 March 1783, and on 20 March he was knighted.

The entire concert tour featured 93 concerts, and 27 full-length concerts of the North American tour were released as official bootlegs in the Legs and Boots series.

* April 30 – Led Zeppelin sets a new world record attendance for an indoor attraction at the Pontiac Silverdome when 76, 229 persons attend a concert here on the group's 1977 North American Tour.

* July 24 – Led Zeppelin presents its last American concert in Oakland, California, at the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum.

* July 30 – Grant Johannesen, American concert pianist ( died 2005 )

Celebration hosts many events every year, including community-wide yard sales, an art show, an exotic car festival, an annual Radio Disney Holiday concert, an Oktoberfest Celebration, the " Great American Pie Festival " ( televised on The Food Network ), a " Posh Pooch " festival, and downtown events for the Fall and Christmas seasons when autumn leaves and " snow " ( small-scale soap flakes ) are released into the Town Center.

The CTCA program of activities was profuse: William Farnum and Mary Pickford on the screen, Elsie Janis and Harry Lauder on the stage, books provided by the American Library Association, full equipment for games and sports -- except that no `` bones '' were furnished for the all-time favorite pastime played on any floor and known as `` African golf ''.

So far this season, Broadway's premieres have included twice as many adaptations and imports as original American stage plays.

Most of them had seen Our American Cousin before, and unless Miss Keene was on stage, there was not much to it.

Thus, although the agenda of external assistance in the economic sphere are cumulative, and many of the policies suggested for nations in the earlier stages remain relevant, the basic purpose of American economic policy during the later stages of development should be to assure that movement into a stage of self-sustaining growth is not prevented by lack of foreign exchange.

Commenting on the earlier stage, the Notre Dame Chapter of the American Association of University Professors ( in a recent report on the question of faculty participation in administrative decision-making ) noted that the term `` teacher-employee '' ( as opposed to, e.g., `` maintenance employee '' ) was a not inapt description.

American stage and screen actress Helen Hayes portrayed Miss Marple in two American made-for-TV movies, both for CBS: A Caribbean Mystery ( 1983 ) and Murder with Mirrors ( 1984 ).

Shaping Edwin ’ s ambitious journey in the world of the theater is his love of three women: the beautiful, strong-minded Julia Scarlet, whom he first meets in Ann Arbor ; the emotionally fragile and haunting Jessamy Lee, and the very private and mysterious leading lady Adelina Kane, idol of the American stage.

In the company of Edwin and his loves are a dramatic array of thinly veiled representations of theatrical personages of the time, amongst them Daniel Mendoza, an exacting and powerful impresario, who controls the lives of his leading ladies ; the goatish, démodé manager, Matthew Lewis, who promotes Julia Scarlet as “ the American Sarah Bernhardt ”; the worldly-wise veteran of the stage, Ottilie Potter, who has gotten where she is because, “ Men had what I wanted, and I had what they wanted ”; and the huge, manlike Helen Sampson, chief among theatrical agents.

* Alexandra Lee ( stage name Alexandra Starlight ), American singer and songwriter

" It ends in death, and sets the stage for an album populated by rogues, con men, outcasts, gamblers, gunfighters and desperados, many of them with nothing to lose, some of them out of their minds, all of them quintessentially American.

Bill Macy ( born Wolf Mavin Garber, May 18, 1922 ) is an American television and stage actor.

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Ellas Otha Bates ( December 30, 1928 – June 2, 2008 ), known by his stage name Bo Diddley, was an American rhythm and blues vocalist, guitarist, songwriter ( usually as Ellas McDaniel ), and rock and roll pioneer.

Carlton Douglas Ridenhour ( born August 1, 1960 ), better known by his stage name, Chuck D, is an American rapper, author, and producer.

Lincoln was nominated in Chicago for the nation's presidency at the 1860 Republican National Convention and went on to defeat Douglas in the general election, setting the stage for the American Civil War.

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William Dwight Schultz ( born November 24, 1947 ) is an American stage, television, film actor, and voice artist.

Dirk Benedict ( born March 1, 1945 ) is an American movie, television and stage actor, perhaps best known for playing the characters Lieutenant Templeton " Faceman " Peck in The A-Team television series and Lieutenant Starbuck in the original Battlestar Galactica film and television series.

* 1924 – Frank Corsaro, American stage director

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Dissatisfied with his stage name as Davy ( and Davie ) Jones, which in the mid-1960s invited confusion with Davy Jones of The Monkees, Bowie renamed himself after the 19th century American frontiersman Jim Bowie and the knife he had popularised.

Category: American stage actors

CNN reported that " Brooks was joined on stage by two surprise guest stars, Billy Joel and Don McLean, who brought down the house with an acoustic rendition of ' American Pie '.

Greg Broussard ( born August 31, 1963 in Los Angeles, California ), better known by his stage name Egyptian Lover, is an American musician, vocalist, producer and DJ, and was an important part of the L. A. dance music and rap scene in the early 1980s.