The system of having two rectors was found to lead to frequent quarrels and the republic thenceforth sent out a single official styled Bailie and Captain, assisted by two councilors, who performed the duties of camerlengo by turns.

Although female roles were performed by castrati in some of the papal states, this was increasingly rare ; by 1680, they had supplanted " normal " male voices in lead roles, and retained their position as primo uomo for about a hundred years ; an Italian opera not featuring at least one renowned castrato in a lead part would be doomed to fail.

In 1983, Skyler Jett, replaced Lionel Richie as the lead singer for The Commodores, and toured the world and performed in over 32 countries in a two year span.

#* performed by Neil Young & Crazy Horse ; previously unreleased ; different lead vocal dub than version on American Stars ' n Bars

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Steve Hogarth, lead singer for Marillion, was also present at the funeral and performed the song " Out of This World " solo.

It is one of only a few songs the group performed where Keith Moon ( a huge surf music fan ) provided the lead vocals.

Although a lead vocalist named O ' Dean was auditioned, Lee had known Vince Neil from their high school days at Charter Oak High School in Covina, California and the two had performed in different bands on the garage band circuit.

Formed at the University of Vermont in 1983 ( with the current line up solidifying in 1985 ), the band's four members — Trey Anastasio ( guitars, lead vocals ), Mike Gordon ( bass, vocals ), Jon Fishman ( drums, percussion, vocals ), and Page McConnell ( keyboards, vocals )— performed together for over 20 years before breaking up in August 2004.

The New Zealand 1905 touring team performed a haka before each match, leading Welsh Rugby Union administrator Tom Williams to suggest that Wales player Teddy Morgan lead the crowd in singing the Welsh National Anthem, Hen Wlad Fy Nhadau, as a response.

Crowe performed lead vocals and guitar for the band, which formed in 1992.

* City & Colour covered the song " Grinnin ' In Your Face " on numerous occasions, where lead singer Dallas Green performed the song a cappella.

During his brief stay in Nagoya Castle in what is today Saga prefecture, on Kyūshū, Hideyoshi memorized the shite ( lead roles ) parts of ten Noh plays, which he then performed, forcing various daimyō to accompany him onstage as the waki ( secondary, accompanying role ).

Although the majority of the band's material was written and performed by Gary Barlow, Williams did perform lead vocals on their first Top Ten hit " Could It Be Magic ", " I Found Heaven ", and " Everything Changes ".

This can lead to some fragmentation but unless many erasures and replacements are performed, the only likely problem is excessive searching, reducing battery life.

Certainly the Japanese navy had performed well, but its opponents had been weak, and it was not invincible ... Tōgō's victory set Japan on a path that would eventually lead her " to the Second World War.

Main stage act Jet performed in front of a large backdrop of a black-and-white Australian flag cut-out of their name, with lead vocalist Nic Cester adding, " I can't tell anyone else what to do but we as a band are very proud to be Australian and we don't want to feel we are not allowed to feel proud ".

She also performed the lead role in an Off-Broadway production called Our Leading Lady written by Charles Busch in which she earned a nomination from the Drama League for her performance.

One of the function he performed was to lead the deduction of colonies ( made up of younger generation folk ) with his flight, which traditionally took place in spring and was performed according to a religious ritual known as ver sacrum.

In this song, the lead vocals were performed by Wayne Coyne with Steven Drozd performing harmony vocals.

In 1980, Ringwald performed as a lead vocalist on two Disney albums.

The show's catchy theme song, " Whatever Happened to You ", was written by Mike Hugg ( of Manfred Mann ) and La Frenais and performed by Hugg's session band, featuring session singer Tony Rivers supplying the lead vocals.

The film's theme song is " In the Sentimental Past " ( 當年情 ), performed by lead Leslie Cheung, composed and arranged by Joseph Koo and written by Wong Jim.

Finn and Hester performed " Not the Girl You Think You Are " with Largest Living Things, before being joined by Seymour for " Sister Madly " and a version of Paul Kelly's " Leaps and Bounds ", which also featured Kelly on vocals.

The vocals are performed individually, and are then layered together to form a virtual choir, although all the voices are Enya herself.

The main emphasis is on the vocals as most compositions are written to be sung, and even when played on instruments, they are meant to be performed in a singing style ( known as gāyaki ).

In October 2009 Lemmy performed vocals and bass on a cover of " Stand by Me " with Dave Lombardo of Slayer on drums and produced by DJ and producer Baron.

They performed " Can't Fight This Feeling " and " Roll With the Changes ", which featured members of the Beach Boys, the REO Speedwagon band members ' families, and Paul Shaffer on stage for backing vocals.

She has also performed backing vocals for Tina Turner, Michael Jackson, Don Henley, Belinda Carlisle, and for the Bob Dylan 30th Anniversary celebrating Dylan's thirty years as a recording artist.

They performed " Women in Uniform " with Australian rock icon Jimmy Barnes providing vocals.

MacKenzie wrote the lyrics of the song " The Rhythm Divine " performed by Shirley Bassey on the album One Second, with MacKenzie singing backing vocals.

An interview in 1982 with Backstage music magazine suggests that Vangelis had previously been married to a singer named Vana Verouti, who had performed vocals on some of his records, performing for the first time with him on La Fête sauvage and later on Heaven and Hell.

Linden created the bass on a synthesizer, created drums on a drum machine and helped Billy Gibbons write the lyrics ; Billy performed the guitars and vocals.

Brian May and Roger Taylor performed together at several award ceremonies and charity concerts, sharing vocals with various guest singers.

It is credited to " Ike & Tina Turner ", but it is now well known that Ike Turner was paid $ 20, 000 to stay away from the sessions ; the backing track was in fact performed by the Wrecking Crew, and the backing vocals were provided by a chorus of 21 singers — Ikettes Janice Singleton and Diane Rutherford and most of the female singers on Spector's roster, including Ronnie Spector, Darlene Love and Cher.

These records, written, performed and produced by entertainer David Seville, relied on the simple gimmick of recording an instrumental track, then overdubbing the vocals while the tape ran at half-speed.

" Steve Huey from Allmusic said that the album is " raw as Megadeth gets, and that can be both good and bad -- Megadeth's later precise, complex riffing and composition aren't completely developed, but the music is performed with a great deal of energy, while Mustaine's vocals ( never his strong point ) are amateurish at best.

Nick Harper often performed with this version of Squeeze, providing additional guitar and vocals.

Some of the songs on the album feature vocals performed by Jonne Järvelä of Korpiklaani, another band from Finland.

The valley was only a few hundred yards wide with just about room enough for a properly performed hundred-and-eighty-degree turn.

And she wrote the libretto for an oratorio on the subject of Judas Maccabeus performed at the Hanukkah festival which came in December.

It improves over-all balance and control for the bodybuilder, and helps to make Squats more easily and more correctly performed.

These are beginnings, but correctly learned they prepare for satisfying and exciting stunts that can be performed by a strong, flexible body ( we are not talking of eccentric extremes ).

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In carrying out this program science has undoubtedly performed a very considerable service for which it can claim due credit.

But under the direction of Mira Ziminska-Sygietynska, who with her late husband founded the organization in 1948, it has all been put into theatrical form, treated selectively, choreographed specifically for presentation to spectators, and performed altogether professionally.

A study that asked participants to count each act of kindness they performed for one week significantly enhanced their subjective happiness.

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Typically performed as definitive treatment for appendicitis, although sometimes the appendix is prophylactically removed incidental to another abdominal procedure.

Atë, Greek for ' ruin, folly, delusion ', is the action performed by the hero, usually because of his / her hubris, or great pride, that leads to his / her death or downfall.

Alcaeus was a contemporary and a countryman of Sappho and, since both poets composed for the entertainment of Mytilenean friends, they had many opportunities to associate with each other on a quite regular basis, such as at the Kallisteia, an annual festival celebrating the island's federation under Mytilene, held at the ' Messon ' ( referred to as temenos in fr. s 129 and 130 ), where Sappho performed publicly with female choirs.

* They composed and performed personally for friends and associates on topics of immediate interest to them ;

The other six of the canonic nine composed verses for public occasions, performed by choruses and professional singers and typically featuring complex metrical arrangements that were never reproduced in other verses.

He probably performed his verses at drinking parties for friends and political allies — men for whom loyalty was essential, particularly in such troubled times.

Arguments for Stigand having performed the coronation, however, rely on the fact that no other English source names the ecclesiastic who performed the ceremony ; all Norman sources name Stigand as the presider.

The Laudes Regiae, or song commending a ruler, that was performed at Matilda's coronation may have been composed by Ealdred himself for the occasion.

She was punished by the goddess for not having performed a ritual dance.

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His last opera was a German language singspiel Die Neger, ( The Negroes ), a melodrama set in colonial Virginia with a text by Georg Friedrich Treitschke ( the author of the libretto for Beethoven's Fidelio ) performed in 1804 and was a complete failure.