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

Julius Comroe wrote: " Between 1901 and 1910, Alexis Carrel, using experimental animals, performed every feat and developed every technique known to vascular surgery today.

Jarry and classmate Henri Morin wrote a play they called Les Polonais and performed it with marionettes in the home of one of their friends.

He also wrote songs, including his Seven Early Songs ( Sieben Frühe Lieder ), three of which were Berg's first publicly performed work in a concert that featured the music of Schoenberg's pupils in Vienna that year.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

He also wrote an orchestral tone poem on A Shropshire Lad ( first performed at Leeds Festival under Arthur Nikisch in 1912 ).

In the Daily Mirror, Victor Lewis-Smith wrote: " Apparently it doesn't matter that this is a first-class soap opera, superbly scripted and flawlessly performed by a seasoned repertory company.

He both performed comic characters ( Flash Bazbo — Space Explorer, Mr. Rogers, music critic Roger de Swans, and sleazy record company rep Ron Fields ) and also wrote, arranged and performed numerous musical parodies ( of Bob Dylan, James Taylor and others ).

As a child, she wrote a play called Toyland in which she performed to a small audience at a dinner party.

" ( Brubeck wrote, and the Quartet performed, the theme song for the Craig Stevens CBS drama series ; the music from the series became material for the " New York " album.

Other composers such as Erwin Schulhoff, Hans Heusser and Albert Savinio all wrote Dada music, while members of Les Six collaborated with members of the Dada movement and had their works performed at Dada gatherings.

Carmine Coppola wrote and edited the musical score, including the title song " Stay Gold ", which was based upon a famous Robert Frost poem and performed for the movie by Stevie Wonder.

Country guitarist Merle Travis wrote and performed the song " Hominy Grits ".

Perhaps the most celebrated composer who wrote for the harpsichord was J. S. Bach ( 1685 – 1750 ), whose solo works ( for instance, the Well-Tempered Clavier and the Goldberg Variations ), continue to be performed very widely, often on the piano.

Marrow and other Crips wrote and performed " Crip Rhymes ", long before the advent of hip hop and recorded rapping.

He wrote both the words and music of his opera Le Devin du Village ( The Village Soothsayer ), which was performed for King Louis XV in 1752.

Carlos Be wrote a play about Orton and Halliwell's last days, Noel Road 25: A Genius Like Us, first performed in 2001.

He wrote and performed " My Love is a Rebel " on the soundtrack of Limbo, starring Barry Bostwick.

Kid Rock performed on VH1 Storytellers on November 27, 2008, giving an insight to how he wrote some of his hit songs.

Reports of clergymen with lax standards who performed weddings — and wrote their suspicions about one member of the wedding party — continued to appear for the next century.

Irmin Schmidt, founder of seminal German ' Krautrock ' group Can wrote an opera called Gormenghast, based on the novels ; it was first performed in Wuppertal, Germany, in November 1998.

With fellow student Robert Hewison he performed and wrote, for the first time, comedy material at a university Christmas party.

When, in 1887, the French and Italian Governments agreed upon moving the mortal remains of Rossini into the Basilica di Santa Croce, in Florence, Alboni, then a sixty-one-year-old lady living in seclusion, wrote to the Italian Foreign Minister, Di Robilant, proposing that the Petite Messe Solennelle, " the last musical composition by Rossini ", be performed in Santa Croce the day of the funeral, and " demanding the honour, as an Italian and a pupil of the immortal Maestro ," of singing it herself in her " dear and beloved homeland ".

Sullivan wrote only one grand opera, Ivanhoe ( following the efforts of a number of young English composers beginning about 1876 ), but he claimed that even his light operas constituted part of a school of " English " opera, intended to supplant the French operettas ( usually performed in bad translations ) that had dominated the London stage from the mid-19th century into the 1870s.

She wrote again and now, abandoning for the moment the theme of love, she asked for help in the matter of her career.

He wrote that the central theme of the topics above is that of topos theory, while the first and last were of the least importance to him.

Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics for the " Night Waltz " theme (" Love Takes Time ") and wrote an entirely new version of " The Glamorous Life ", which has been incorporated into several subsequent productions of the stage musical.

Danny Elfman, who composed the score for Darkman, wrote the " March of the Dead " theme for Army of Darkness.

He also wrote the theme for Roy Andersson's next film, You, the Living, from 2007.

Singer-songwriter Kim Carnes and her husband David Ellingson wrote and produced Kenny Rogers's 1980 album " Gideon ", which was based on the theme of a Texas cowboy.

In 1939, Nagib Mahfuz wrote the novel Khufu's Wisdom, which leans on the stories of Papyrus Westcar ; In 1997, French author Guy Brachet composed the novel series Le roman des pyramides, including five volumes, of which the first two ( Le temple soleil and Rêve de pierre ) are picking out Khufu and his tomb as a theme.

Puccini had been considering an opera on this theme since he saw the play Tosca by Victorien Sardou in 1889, when he wrote to his publisher, Giulio Ricordi, begging him to get Sardou's permission for the work to be made into an opera: " I see in this Tosca the opera I need, with no overblown proportions, no elaborate spectacle, nor will it call for the usual excessive amount of music.

Sheb Wooley, one of the original cast members, wrote the show's theme song.

He later wrote what is probably his best known instrumental work, Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, Figured in Seaven Passionate Pavans, a set of seven pavanes for five viols and lute, each based on the theme derived from the lute song " Flow my tears ".

During the Korean War, Hunter, who worked at the time both as a journalist and as a U. S. intelligence agent, wrote a series of books and articles on the theme of Chinese brainwashing.

He wrote theme music for the show Undeclared on Fox television and for Crime and Punishment in Suburbia.

The Presidents also wrote the theme song for the 1998 TV movie My Date with the President's Daughter.

Presaging a theme he would bring to the fore, using similar language, in his Gettysburg Address in 1863, Lincoln wrote: “ You have kindly adverted to the trial through which this Republic is now passing.

The composer, Koji Kondo, initially planned to use Maurice Ravel's Boléro as the game's title theme, but was forced to change it when he learned, late into the game's development cycle, that the copyright for Boléro hadn't expired yet ; therefore he wrote a new arrangement of the overworld theme within one day.

The band wrote a McSweeney's theme song and forty-four songs for an album that was meant to be listened to with the journal, with each track corresponding to a particular story or piece of artwork.

They also recorded a cover of the Disney song, " There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow " for the movie Meet the Robinsons and wrote and performed the theme song for The Drinky Crow Show.

Though uncredited, Vangelis also wrote the theme music for the 1992 French motion picture, " La Peste " ( The Plague ) from director Luis Puenzo.

Composer Joseph LoDuca wrote the theme music and incidental music, and co-wrote the lyrics for the songs in " The Bitter Suite ".

* They wrote and performed the theme song for the 2005 series " ESPN Bowling Night ".

On 23 July 1851 he wrote down on a loose sheet of paper what was to become the best-known leitmotif in the entire cycle: the theme from the " Ride of the Valkyries " ( Walkürenritt ).

They took a little trip for a little weekend to a little cottage where they wrote a little poem on a little theme.