Johann Peter Schickele ( born July 17, 1935 ) is an American composer, musical educator, and parodist, best known for comedy albums featuring music written by Schickele, but which he presents as being composed by the fictional P. D. Q. Bach.

* Maciej Fortuna, Polish trumpet player, composer and musical educator

Born in New York City, René McLean, multi-reed instrumentalist ( alto, tenor, soprano saxophones, flutes, ney, shakuhachi ), composer, band leader, educator and producer, began his musical training at the age of 9 under the tutelage and guidance of his father, alto saxophonist and educator Jackie McLean.

However, as music educator Stewart Macpherson stated, there is a preference at all levels of musical organization for groupings of two, four, eight over other divisions, so that even a ternary form is often extended by repetition of the first subject into a " fourfold " structure.

An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia.

As an educator, Smith combined a harsh discipline with a narrow musical curriculum.

His dual musical legacy includes more than 30 albums, as well as nearly 40 years as a groundbreaking educator at Boston ’ s New England Conservatory.

Mason & Hamlin was founded in Boston, Massachusetts in 1854 by Henry Mason, son of Lowell Mason, the American hymn composer and musical educator, and Emmons Hamlin, a mechanic and inventor who had worked for melodeon makers Prince & Co. in Buffalo, New York.

Julius Eichberg ( 13 June 1824 – 18 January 1893 ) was a German-born composer, musical director and educator who worked mostly in Boston, Massachusetts, in the United States.

* Daniel Hensel ( b. 1978 ), German musical composer and educator

One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented, `` Once In Love With Amy '' is also, of course, one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come out of American musical comedy in our era.

Schweitzer rapidly gained prominence as a musical scholar and organist, dedicated also to the rescue, restoration and study of historic pipe organs.

In Shaker society, a spiritual " gift " could also be a musical revelation, and they considered it important to record musical inspirations as they occurred.

They became prized for their distinctive sound, however, and found life with several musical styles ( most notably bluegrass and also blues ) well after electric amplification solved the issue of inadequate guitar sound levels.

While Salieri followed the precepts set forth by Gluck and his librettist Ranieri de ' Calzabigi in the preface to Alceste ; Salieri also drew on some musical ideas from the more traditional opera-seria and even opera buffa, creating a new synthesis in the process.

He also continued to help administer several charities and organize their musical events.

It can also be used to estimate the pitch of a musical tone.

Finn Coren also created a different musical setting for the poem on his album The Blake Project: Spring.

The musical has also become part of the repertoire of a few opera companies.

The piece has also become a popular choice for amateur musical theatre and light opera companies.

He also had been working with Gerard Kenny and Kristi Kane ( libretto ) in London on a musical version of the classic film My Man Godfrey.

The musical was also revived with great success in 1996, starring Nathan Lane as Pseudolus ( replaced later in the run by Whoopi Goldberg and also by David Alan Grier ), Mark Linn-Baker as Hysterium, Ernie Sabella as Lycus, Jim Stanek as Hero, Lewis J. Stadlen as Senex, and Cris Groenendaal as Miles Gloriosus.

* The musical was also referenced in an episode of Glee.

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

He is also notable for his musical career, as a solo artist and as half of the duo Barnes & Barnes.

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 ".

Alongside acting, directing, writing, producing, and editing, Chaplin also composed the musical scores for his films.

Chaplin has also been the subject of a musical, Limelight – The Story of Charlie Chaplin by Christopher Curtis and Thomas Meehan, which was performed at the La Jolla Playhouse in 2010.

Modern music may also be termed " Celtic " because it is written and recorded in a Celtic language, regardless of musical style.

In conjunction with the extremes between beauty and ugliness, Love's musical style has also been remarked for its layering of harsh and abrasive riffs which often bury more sophisticated musical arrangements.

The term Chicano is also used to describe the literary, artistic, and musical movements that emerged with the Chicano Movement.

DeMille also appeared as himself in Paramount's 1947 all-star musical comedy Variety Girl and he narrated many of his later films, as well as appearing on screen in the introduction to The Ten Commandments.

Delphi was set apart from the other games sites because it hosted the mousikos agon, musical competitions.

Brooks also subsequently appeared as Gaines in a television mockumentary for the VH1 series Behind the Music and as the musical guest on an episode of Saturday Night Live which he hosted as himself.

Spacey hosted Saturday Night Live twice: first in 1997 with musical guest Beck and special guests Michael Palin and John Cleese from Monty Python's Flying Circus ; and again in the last episode of season 31 with musical guest Nelly Furtado.

* Extensive visual, textual and musical studies of American May Day customs since the first Maypole Revels were held at the Ma-Re Mount or Merrymount plantation on Massachusetts Bay in May 1627, hosted by Englishman Thomas Morton ; and, last year the state of Massachusetts ' Governor Deval Patrick proclaimed May 1 as Thomas Morton Day.

On 10 December 2011, Robyn was featured as the musical guest on the episode of Saturday Night Live hosted by Katy Perry, where she performed Call Your Girlfriend and Dancing On My Own.

For over 20 years, the festival has hosted musical acts, local artisans, and Italian cooking competitions.

The venue is a member of the Society of London Theatre, and has hosted many dance, musical and dramatic productions, as well as serving as the base for many of LSE ' public lectures and discussions.

The park also hosted many musical activities and local business family day entertainment in the shaded outdoor stage area.

The Pavilion is a one-of-a-kind state-of-the-art performing arts facility that has already hosted several well-known musical artists and more slated to perform in the near future.

St. Leonard also has a volunteer fire department which has hosted numerous high profile musical acts, including Lynyrd Skynyrd, Alan Jackson, and Hootie and the Blowfish at an outdoor pavilion adjacent to the fire department.

Paul had hosted a fifteen-minute radio program, The Les Paul Show, on NBC radio in 1950, featuring his trio ( himself, Ford and rhythm player Eddie Stapleton ) and his electronics, recorded from their home and with gentle humor between Paul and Ford bridging musical selections, some of which had already been successful on records, some of which anticipated the couple's recordings, and many of which presented re-interpretations of such jazz and pop selections as " In the Mood ", " Little Rock Getaway ", " Brazil " and " Tiger Rag ".

The Chateau Club on Wall Street hosted some musical greats in the early seventies.

Grimley's fellow cartoon characters included Grimley's landlord Leo Freebus ( voiced by Jonathan Winters ), Leo's wife Deidre ( Andrea Martin ), his ditzy, amateur actress neighbor Ms. Malone ( voiced by Catherine O ' Hara ; a female character by the name of Ms. Malone did appear on an SNL version of an Ed Grimley sketch on the season ten episode hosted by Alex Karras, but Ms. Malone was played by that episode's musical guest Tina Turner ), and her little brother, Wendell.

Through the end of 1991 and early 1992, Suede received a number of favourable mentions in the music press, garnering them slots at shows hosted by NME and attended by significant musical figures such as former Smiths singer Morrissey.

In the mid-1980s the Dominion hosted the musical Time, and the interior was extensively reconstructed to accommodate the shows effects.

* The city of Southampton hosted a modern musical version called The Southampton Passion on Good Friday, April 22, 2011.

In the 1980s, Ely hosted the musical game show Face the Music.

Ad for the NBC-TV special that sparked controversy even before it airedClark's recording successes led to frequent appearances on American variety programmes hosted by Ed Sullivan and Dean Martin, guest shots on Hullabaloo, Shindig !, The Kraft Music Hall and The Hollywood Palace, and inclusion in musical specials such as The Best on Record and Rodgers and Hart Today.

Totally Minnie is a 1988 musical television special on NBC hosted by Suzanne Somers and starring Minnie Mouse.

In June 2009, she hosted a musical TV show that revolved around Belgian-Italian singer Lara Fabian.

Sporting groups, political groups, churches and schools were often established in these hotels ; however, they also hosted plays, musical soirees and readings, until theatres were built.

He also hosted Saturday Night Live in 1978 ( musical guest: Devo ) and appeared twice on SNL's rival show, MADtv.

There were a number of mostly informal musical societies in Maryland by the end of the 19th century, including the famous Saturday Night Club of H. L. Mencken and the influential Florestan Club, which hosted such musicians as Mischa Elman, Leopold Stokowski and Walter Damrosch.