Bronfman performed the Brahm's Second Piano Concerto with the Houston Symphony Orchestra March 12 – 15, 2009, under the baton of Maestro Hans Graf, resident Music Director.

John Brahm's The Locket ( 1946 ) featured Mitchum as bitter ex-husband to Laraine Day's femme fatale, while Raoul Walsh's Pursued ( 1947 ) combined western and noir styles, with Mitchum's character attempting to recall his past and find those responsible for killing his family.

Her most famous novel, The Lodger ( 1913 ), based on the Jack the Ripper murders of 1888, has been adapted for the screen five different times ; the first movie version was Alfred Hitchcock's silent film The Lodger: A Story of the London Fog ( 1927 ), followed by Maurice Elvey's in 1932, John Brahm's in 1944, Man in the Attic in 1953, and David Ondaatje's in 2009.

The Pipers ' most popular tune of the time — a lush setting of Brahm's Lullaby arranged by member Bill Tost -- became its standard closing number for many years.

The ordination ceremony took place at Ajahn Brahm's Bodhinyana Monastery at Serpentine ( near Perth, WA ), Australia.

Piano sonatas are usually written in three or four movements, although some piano sonatas have been written with a single movement ( Scarlatti, Scriabin ), two movements ( Beethoven, Haydn ), five ( Brahms ' Third Piano Sonata ) or even more movements.

Broadly speaking, the Sonata has four movements although there is no gap between them.

In 1944, he was also commissioned by Yehudi Menuhin to write a Sonata for Solo Violin.

The 4th movement of the Concord Sonata for piano ( with a part for flute, Thoreau's instrument ) is a character picture and he also set Thoreau's words.

* In the MMORPG Star Sonata, tractor beams can be used to push and pull enemy ships, collect debris from space, and are also a valid form of transportation.

Mozart also occasionally wrote such expositions: for instance in the Piano Sonata K. 570 or the String Quintet K. 593.

Poet Percy Dovetonsils can also be found playing Beethoven's Moonlight Sonata on a disappearing piano and as a " Master Detective " on the " Private Eye-Private Eye " presentation of the US Steel Hour on CBS March 8, 1961.

The pianist José Iturbi played the piano music, and also orchestrated part of the B minor Sonata for the scene when Chopin and George Sand arrive in Mallorca.

In the final version we are presented instead with, as Michael Robinson describes it in The Long Sonata of the Dead: A Study of Samuel Beckett, “ the three corners of love ’ s eternal triangle ( the emphasis here is on the eternal ) … They have no names, simply the designations M, W1 and W2 which aim at anonymity but also stand for all men and women who have, like them, been caught up in a three-part love affair ,”

Britten was also renowned as a piano accompanist and together they recorded, among other works, Schubert's Sonata for Arpeggione and Piano in A minor D. 821.

( See also Sonata for a discussion about sonatas da camera and da chiesa.

The " thema regium " appears as the theme for the first and last movements of the 7th Sonata in D Minor by Friedrich Wilhelm Rust, written in about 1788, and also as the theme for elaborate variations by Giovanni Paisiello in his " Les Adieux de la Grande Duchesse ds Russies ," written in about 1784, upon his departure from the court of Catherine the Great.

" Evidence of that is the fact that, even at the height of his ultra-modernist notoriety, he also wrote several lyrical, tonal works, such as the First Sonata for Cello and Piano: " was written in less than a week under a compulsion that was not to be resisted ", Ornstein later said.

Moreover, the main theme also quotes the opening motif of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 26 " Les Adieux ", Op.

This slow, extremely sad theme can also be heard in his Cello Concerto No. 1, Symphony No. 10, Violin Concerto No. 1, Symphony No. 15, and Piano Sonata No. 2.

It was during the autumn of 1930 in Paris that Bowles began work on his own first musical composition, the " Sonata for Oboe and Clarinet ", which he finished the following year and which premiered in New York at the Aeolian Hall on Wigmore St, 16 December 1931, the whole concert ( which also included work by Copland and Virgil Thomson ) was " panned " by New York critics.

The Largo from the Violin Sonata in G, BWV 1019, has also been used.

* The fourth movement of Schubert's Symphony No. 3 is also a tarantella, but following the Sonata form.

Robert Schumann also practiced Hummel ( especially the Sonata in F-sharp minor, Op.

In 1993-94 he played his first complete Beethoven Piano Sonata cycles in Berlin and Munich and later also in New York, Milan, Paris, London and Vienna.

He also prepared a number of Bach transcriptions, including the Siciliano from the Flute Sonata in E major, that have been recorded by Kempff and others.

It's also the hometown of the power metal band Sonata Arctica.

The fourth book ends with the Gigue from partita in Bb by Bach, the fifth book ends with the famous Für Elise by van Beethoven, the sixth book ends with the Sonata in C major k. 545 by Mozart, and the seventh book ends with the Piano Sonata No. 11 in A major by Mozart, this book also includes The Harmonious Blacksmith by Handel.

His brother Otto ( 1842-1913 ) was also a pianist, organist and composer ; he prepared the Sonata on the 94th Psalm for its first publication in August 1871.

It was in this environment that Reubke composed his two major works, the Piano Sonata in B-flat minor, which he composed from December 1856 to March 1857, and the Sonata on the 94th Psalm in C minor, for organ, which he finished a month later ; he also considered writing an opera.

In 1967 he founded the Music Theatre Ensemble, and in 1971 he completed a three-part cycle for music theatre — Tryptich — made up of three works: Naboth's Vineyard ( 1968 ) and Shadowplay ( 1970 ) were both explicitly written for Music Theatre Ensemble while the later Sonata about Jerusalem ( 1971 ) was commissioned by Testimonium, Jerusalem and performed by the Israel Chamber Orchestra and Gary Bertini.

31 No. 1 sonata also has a second group in the mediant ), this was the first major work in which Beethoven had chosen to modulate elsewhere than the customary fifth up for the second group, an idea to which he would return later ( in the Hammerklavier Sonata, for example ).

This was done to free up production capacity at the Alabama plant for the new Sonata and new Elantra.

The first fruits of this were his cantatas Le visage nuptial and Le soleil des eaux for female voices and orchestra, both composed in the late 1940s and revised several times since, as well as the Second Piano Sonata of 1948, a well-received 32-minute work that Boulez composed at the age of 23.

Schnabel himself mentioned that he had played the Liszt Sonata in B minor " very often ", as well as the Liszt E-flat Piano Concerto.

These pieces include: early compositions for piano solo in a conservative harmonic style, many of which are lost ; a string quartet ( opus 2 ); a cello sonata ; a piano quartet ; Violin Sonata in E flat ( 1888 ); as well as a handful of late pieces.

After the war, in 1946, she returned to her home in France, where she composed orchestral and chamber music, plus numerous other works including the ballets Paris-Magie ( with Lise Delarme ) and Parisiana ( for the Royal Ballet of Copenhaugen ), the operas Il était un petit navire ( with Henri Jeanson ), Dolores, La petite sirène ( with Philip Soupault, based on Hans Christian Andersen's story " The Little Mermaid ") and Le maître ( to a libretto by Ionesco ), the musical comedy Parfums, the Concerto des vaines paroles, for baritone voice, piano and orchestra, the Concerto for Soprano and Orchestra, the Concertino for Flute, Piano and Orchestra, the Second Piano Concerto, the Concerto for Two Guitars and Orchestra, her Second Sonata for Violin and Piano, the Sonata for Harp, as well as an impressive number of film and television scores.

He is known for composing the Tales Series, Dark Souls, Eternal Sonata, Star Ocean, Valkyrie Profile, Golden Sun, and the Baten Kaitos games, as well as numerous Mario Sports games.

* October 6 – October 7 – The Donaueschinger Musiktage features the world premieres of Ernst Krenek's Double Concerto for viola, piano, and small orchestra, Rolf Liebermann's Piano Sonata, Pierre Boulez's Polyphonie X for 18 solo instruments, Hermann Reutter's Der himmlische Vagant, lyrische Portrait des F. Villon von Klabund for alto and baritone voices and instrumental ensemble, and Marcel Mihalovici's Étude en deux parties for piano and ensemble, as well as German first performances of works by Messiaen, Guido Turchi, Harsányi, Jelinek, and Honegger, and a performance of Henze's Third Symphony.

On it, she plays a number of pieces written specially for the toy piano as well as arrangements of other pieces, including Ludwig van Beethoven's " Moonlight Sonata " and The Beatles ' " Eleanor Rigby ".

It has been speculated that Bartók's previous work, the String Quartet No. 6 ( 1939 ), could well have been his last were it not for this commission, which sparked a small number of other compositions, including his Sonata for Solo Violin and Piano Concerto No. 3.

Its influence can be found at the beginning of the 4th movement of Mozart's Symphony No. 40 as well as the very start of Beethoven's Piano Sonata No. 1 in F minor, Op.

Around the time that Reynolds graduated from high school in 1952, he performed a solo recital in Detroit that consisted of the Johannes Brahms Sonata in F Minor, some Intermezzi, the sixth Franz Liszt Rhapsody, as well as works by Claude Debussy, and Chopin.

Kurt Schwitters ' Ursonate ( 1922 – 32, " Primal Sonata ") is a particularly well known early example:

In the beginning of 2000, Sonata Arctica was chosen to support the well known power metal band Stratovarius throughout their European tour.

However both films performed well at the Japanese box office where she had achieved popularity as a result of the success of Winter Sonata.

There is some repetition of themes in this set as well — the piece which precedes the Sonata, " Canzona Matinata ", contains a theme which recurs in the Sonata, and according to Medtner's wishes both pieces are to be played attacca — without pause.

Frankel's most famous pieces include a cycle of five string quartets and eight symphonies as well as a number of concertos for violin and viola ; his single best-known piece is probably the First Sonata for Solo Violin, which, like his concertos, resulted from a long association with Max Rostal.

The Kreutzer Sonata has been adapted for film well over a dozen times.

The Kingdom was the last of several works with Welsh setting, that include a section of Don Quixote Drowned ( 1953 ), The Welsh Sonata ( 1954 ), and Another World ( 1972 ), as well as Grey Children ( 1937 ), a non-fiction work on unemployment in South Wales.

The tune was used frequently by the composer Charles Ives, featuring notably in his Second Symphony and A Symphony: New England Holidays as well as in his Piano Sonata No. 2.

He recorded the Bach Sonata in C major for solo violin and the Third and Fourth sonatas for solo violin by Eugène Ysaÿe, as well as other virtuoso pieces, including an album with the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra.

The response from media and fans enabled the band to tour with Sonata Arctica in France, as well as to perform in the Sweden Rock Festival in 2003.

In 1998, Brava started recording her first classical album with John Lenehan at Abbey Road Studios in London, and the Linda Brava album was released worldwide in 1999, the tracklisting including Edvard Grieg's Violin Sonata No. 3 in C minor as well as lyrical violin miniatures by Edward Elgar, Gabriel Fauré, Jean Sibelius, Johann Sebastian Bach-Charles Gounod, Jules Massenet, Niccolò Paganini and Fritz Kreisler.