In the late 1930s Stalin embarked upon the Great Purge, a series of campaigns of political repression and persecution in the Soviet Union orchestrated against members of the Communist Party, the peasantry, and other unaffiliated persons.

However, it can also be orchestrated by the wrestler himself, as was the case with David Sammartino ( son of the legendary champion Bruno Sammartino ) in the late 1980s when he purposely lost in a squash match to jobber Ron Shaw as a protest against his treatment as a competitor by Vince McMahon, the chairman of the World Wrestling Federation.

Lowell contends that two of the publication's articles, one entitled Norman Lowell organises BBQ, and another entitled Lowell ’ s neo-Nazis hit out at press after arson attack, as well as an editorial entitled Get the bastards now, before it is too late, constitute a " coordinated, strategic, and orchestrated " effort to undermine his public reputation.

However, British composer and arranger Gordon Jacob orchestrated this along with other late works of Liszt for the Sadler Welles ballet Apparitions, a project conceived by composer Constant Lambert.

The noise is specific cover for an illicit and complex bank heist orchestrated by the main character as a means of stealing a revered, ancient Chinese statuette and clearing his and his late brother's debt with a local Chinese crime lord.

* February 24: The opposition party Bharatiya Janata Party ( BJP ) claims that this late release of information was orchestrated by the Congress government to avoid embarrassment to Sonia Gandhi during the ongoing state elections in Punjab and Uttaranchal.

Due to his lack of expertise in orchestration, the American composer George Gershwin had his Rhapsody in Blue orchestrated and arranged by Ferde Grofé.

The often-repeated account that Glazunov reconstructed and orchestrated the overture from memory after hearing the composer play it at the piano is true only in part.

The ' Siegfried ' leitmotif from Act III of Wagner's opera, the third of his ' Ring ' cycle ; the theme is broader and more richly orchestrated than its earlier appearances ( see above ), suggesting the emergence of Siegfried's heroic character Richard Wagner is the earliest composer most specifically associated with the concept of leitmotif.

On September 27, 2008, Anastasio and Orchestra Nashville premiered a new work titled Time Turns Elastic, an original long-form piece that was orchestrated by composer and arranger Don Hart, and featured Anastasio on lead guitar and vocals.

Marie-Joseph Canteloube de Malaret () ( 21 October 18794 November 1957 ) was a French composer, musicologist, and author best known for his collections of orchestrated folksongs from the Auvergne region.

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In 1984 he sang in the world premiere of Act I of Sergei Rachmaninoff's opera Monna Vanna, which had been left in piano score by the composer and orchestrated by Igor Buketoff.

The day after the concert, Damrosch contacted Gershwin to commission from him a full-scale piano concerto for the New York Symphony Orchestra, closer in form to a classical concerto and orchestrated by the composer.

Shostakovich's interest in Jewish subjects dates from 1943, when he orchestrated the opera Rothschild's Violin by Jewish composer Venyamin Fleishman.

It was composed, orchestrated and conducted by American composer born in Czechoslovakia, Elia Cmiral, who later composed the scores for Ronin and Stigmata.

Music for the long-running series was composed and orchestrated by Canadian composer and producer Bobby Hales and later by Vancouver-based composer, Claire Lawrence.

This album was orchestrated by the movie composer John Williams.

When he died, Marching Song had been completed in short score ; it was orchestrated by Buxton Orr, a composer who had studied with Frankel and whose advocacy has been at least partly responsible for the revival of interest in his works.

As a composer and performer, Bonfá was at heart an exponent of the bold, lyrical, lushly orchestrated, and emotionally charged samba-canção style that predated the arrival of João Gilberto's more refined and subdued bossa nova style.

As a composer, Prasanna also scored the 2009 Oscar-winning documentary Smile Pinki, as well as several scores for feature films and contemporary dance theater, and he orchestrated A. R.

Synchromism is based on the idea that color and sound are similar phenomena, and that the colors in a painting can be orchestrated in the same harmonious way that a composer arranges notes in a symphony.

Dr. Galloway is also a composer of classical music ( since 1956, mainly piano pieces, then synthesizer and orchestrated pieces ), whose latest orchestral pieces, The Night Before Christmas, and Mexican Colors have been performed by the Regina Symphony Orchestra 1998-2005 and 2008.

For Emmy-nominated film composer Richard Blackford he orchestrated twelve filmscores: Rosamunde Pilcher dramas for ZDF Germany.

The original piano version was written in 1895 and orchestrated by the composer in 1929.

Gershwin and DeSylva wrote the work in five days and five nights, and soon after completion it was orchestrated by Will Vodery, a very talented but relatively unknown African-American composer who had befriended Gershwin.

Having exhausted the standard voice / guitar folksong format by 1967, Baez collaborated with composer Peter Schickele ( with whom she'd worked on the 1966 Christmas album, Noël ), on an album of orchestrated covers of mostly then-current pop and rock and roll songs.

In 1929 Ammanullah Khan left Kabul due to a local uprising orchestrated by Habibullah Kalakani and Ammanullah's brother, Nader Khan, took control over the nation.

The concerts featured regular interruptions orchestrated by Tricky, where he brought his youngest brother, Marlon Thaws to rap on stage alongside other local rappers as well as encouraging the audience to come up on stage.

His brother, who went on to become the sole ruler of Catalonia, was credited by popular opinion of having orchestrated this murder.

* Colin Mochrie appeared in one episode as Alan Roy's mentally hadicapped brother who, as part of an elaborate tax dodge orchestrated by Alan, was revealed to be the true CEO.

Agrarian reform met with the second officially orchestrated clandestine CIA-instigated coup d ' etat chartered as Operation PBFORTUNE and Operation PBSUCCESS, championed by US Secretary of State John Foster Dulles, whose brother Allen, the Director of Central Intelligence, was a primary stakeholder in the United Fruit Company, which owned significant portions of the rural land subject to agrarian reforms.

In December 1983, his younger brother, sitar player Ravi Shankar organized a four-day festival, Uday-Ustav Festival in New Delhi, marking the 60th anniversary his professional debut in 1923, highlighted by performances by his disciples, films, an exhibition and orchestral music composed and orchestrated by Ravi Shankar himself.

The DWM was orchestrated by Isidor Loewe ( 1848 – 1910 ), as his brother Ludwig had died in 1886.

Upon the resurrection of her elder brother, Joseph and Rose begin fraternizing, unaware that Bombshell's betrayal was orchestrated by Deathstroke, and that their teammates have been subdued by his associates.

These idents consisted of different background colours corresponding to the time of day behind a translucent CBC gem logo, accompanied by different arrangements of the CBC ’ s new, orchestrated five-note jingle.

Throughout mid-to-late 1967, Wilson concurrently oversaw the production of such heavily orchestrated songs as " Can't Wait Too Long " and " Time to Get Alone " ( the latter originally intended for Redwood, the band who would become Three Dog Night ), alongside the albums Smiley Smile ( composed mainly of reconstituted SMiLE material recorded in minimalist arrangements by the core Beach Boys ) and the R & B-inflected Wild Honey, both of which performed only modestly on the charts.

The first two albums, Glory Boys ( December 1979 ) and Behind Closed Doors ( September 1980 ), with its more complex orchestrated arrangements, proved successful and in its first year Secret Affair regularly appeared on the BBC Television show Top Of The Pops and was a cover star of many UK music magazines, including New Musical Express, Sounds and Smash Hits.

Their MySpace page first described the project as " a lushly orchestrated mix of eclectic songwriting that is sure to conjure up memories of 1997's When the Red King Comes " and stressed its " more mature approach to arrangements, lyrics, and instrumentation.

Accompaniment usually featured highly orchestrated arrangements, with horns and strings, by such notable arrangers as Johnny Pate ( who largely worked with horns ) and Riley Hampton ( who specialized in strings ).

All of these were orchestrated in a series of ominous, dissonant arrangements and nightmarish marches.

The musical arrangements were orchestrated by David Robbins.

Film producers began incorporating fully orchestrated four-part harmonies and sophisticated musical arrangements into their motion pictures.

As Crewe preferred elaborate, often overly orchestrated musical arrangements and Oliver preferred a simpler folk sound, these " creative differences " led them to part ways in 1971.

May 2004 saw the release of Light Is Calling ( Nonesuch ), an album of tracks created with producers R. Luke DuBois and Damian le Gassick, and scored for a small ensemble of musicians ( most notably Todd Reynolds on violin ) with complex electronic arrangements orchestrated by DuBois and le Gassick.