During the late 1860s and early 1870s, from within his father's firm in Charing Cross and, by late 1874, from a nearby address in Craig's Court, Carte began to build an operatic, concert and lecture management agency.

He amused the comtesse de Vaux's 200 guests with a parody of Félicien David's currently fashionable Le désert, and in April 1846 gave a concert at which seven operatic items of his own composition were premiered before an audience that included leading music critics.

They have expected vocalists to emit a pure, steady stream of clear sound — irrespective of whether they were singing in church, on the concert platform, or on the operatic stage.

An invitation to conduct a concert and operatic society in Oxted, Surrey entailed a move back to the rural environment that he knew and loved.

He conducted major orchestral and operatic productions in important concert halls such as the Montréal Academy of Music in Montréal and directed at the Grand Opera House in New York.

Patti, however, turned into a conservative singer in the final phase of her operatic and concert career.

In Fall 1888, soprano Emma Juchs hired Herbert to music direct a " concert party " tour of cities and towns in the midwest that had seen little art music, presenting a quartet of singers in varied programs of songs, operatic scenes and arias to new audiences.

The " realistic " approach of Verismo extends to the music: the score of a Verismo opera is for the most part continuous and is not divided into separate " numbers " that can be excised easily and performed in concert excerpts ( as is the case with the operatic genres that preceded Verismo ).

The only time wind bands were used in a concert setting comparable to that of a symphony orchestra was when transcriptions of orchestral or operatic pieces were arranged and performed, as there were comparatively few original concert works for a large wind ensemble.

Weary of opera house politics and convinced that opera was a dying art form, Galli-Curci retired from the operatic stage in January 1930 to concentrate instead on concert performances.

Fittingly, the concert featured operatic greats of the past, present and future.

She enjoyed a highly successful operatic and concert career in Europe and America from the 1890s through to the 1920s, but her final years were marred by poverty and ill-health.

In 1907 Tetrazzini made a sensational debut as Violetta in La traviata at Covent Garden in London, where she was completely unknown, and from that point on she was an international operatic superstar, commanding the highest fees and selling out opera houses and concert halls wherever she performed.

With a membership of around 70 and a repertoire which embraces both secular and sacred music and ranges from folk and traditional songs to choral favourites and operatic works, it is well placed to continue to give pleasure and enjoyment to listeners at home and abroad through concert performances and CDs.

Barbara Hendricks ( born November 20, 1948 ) is an African American operatic soprano and concert singer.

Chaliapin's attachment to Paris did not prevent him from pursuing an international operatic and concert career in England, the United States, and further afield.

Steane (" The Grand Tradition " 1971 ) stresses that, for all his later devotion to the concert platform ( and his Irish identity ), he was ( for albeit a relatively brief period ) in essence an Italian operatic tenor.

Fabiana Bravo ( born in 1969 ), is an acclaimed Argentine operatic soprano, who has achieved international success both through her interpretation of concert literature and in her powerful portrayals of operatic heroines.

This combination of scholarship and artistry contributed to her consistently successful career as one of the most versatile concert and operatic singers of her time.

The concert, featuring Leonard Bernstein, the New York Philharmonic, and a host of operatic stars such as Eileen Farrell and Robert Merrill, was televised live on CBS.

Don Giovanni, with Clara Louise Kellogg as Zerlina and Santley as Leporello, proved to be the final operatic performance of that season: Santley had been due to play Pizarro, when the news came to him, while he was appearing in concert in Brighton, that Her Majesty's Theatre had been burnt to the ground.

His mother claimed to have had an operatic and concert career in Poland ( a fact denied by her son in his biographies ) and encouraged her son to have early voice training: he had a tendency to stutter, which disappeared when singing.

Taking place in Cologne, Germany, on September 23, 2010, the video game music concert Symphonic Legends focused on music from Nintendo and, among others, featured titles such as The Legend of Zelda.

Disney Nighttime featured older feature films ( similar to those seen at the time on American Movie Classics, and eventually Turner Classic Movies, with both Disney and non-Disney titles mixed in ) and the traditional premium channel fare of original concert specials from artists ranging from Rick Springfield to Elton John.

The school's marching and concert band won national recognition in the 1950s and boys basketball and cross country teams won state titles.

Herrmann's radio programs of concert music, which were broadcast under such titles as Invitation to Music and Exploring Music, were planned in an unconventional way and featured rarely-heard music, old and new, which was not heard in public concert halls.

Even English-language dialogue containing these words can appear on Quebec French-language television without bleeping: for example, when, in 2003, punks rioted in Montreal because a concert by the band The Exploited had been cancelled, TV news reporters solemnly read out a few lyrics and song titles from their album Fuck the System.

* Joanie Phoanie: An unabashed Communist radical and agitator, who sang revolutionary songs of class warfare ( with burlesque titles like " Molotov Cocktails for Two ") — while hypocritically traveling via Limousine and charging outrageous concert appearance fees to impoverished orphans.

She appeared at John H. Hammond's " From Spirituals to Swing " concert in 1938, and recorded seven titles during 1938 – 1939.

As part of the GameCity 2010 Festival, the concert featured The Pinewood Singers and soloists performing the theme of ' Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows-Part 1 ', pieces from Command and Conquer: Red Alert 3, Evil Genius and other titles

The Leipzig Trade Fair funded GC in Concert while Böcker himself was responsible for planning the event, inviting composers, obtaining the approval of the individual publishers to play music from their titles and assembling the concert programs.

On 4 August 2009, eight pieces of Symphonic Shades were performed by the Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra at the concert Sinfonia Drammatica in the Stockholm Concert Hall, along with titles of drammatica by Yoko Shimomura.

* Viva Bertaga ( 1990 )-LP live du concert d ' adieu 16 titles

Three Concert Études ( Trois études de concert ), S. 144, are a set of three piano études by Franz Liszt, composed between 1845 – 49 and published in Paris as Trois caprices poétiques with its three individual titles as they are known today.

The electric part of this concert first surfaced in late 1970 or early 1971 on bootleg LPs with various titles.

He sometimes gives his concert pieces strange and even iconoclastic titles such as Eating Living Monkeys ( 1985 ) and Bonehead ( 1990 ).

The word concert ( o ), except for its spelling, is the only consistent part of the various titles of the Concerto pathétique.

The German word Concert ( modern spelling Konzert ) could mean both concert and concerto, but the titles Grosses Concert-Solo or Grand solo de concert seem just to denote a large-scale concert piece ( as opposed to a short salon piece for example ), whereas Concerto pathétique calls to mind a concerto.

At 4 p.m. the President left the White House to welcome the young musicians, students from the ages of 12 to 18 who spend six weeks at the Brevard Music Center summer camp, and to greet the 325 crippled, cardiac and blind children from the District area who were special guests at the concert.

Only two fragments of the overall plan were ever realized: the Finlandia Hall concert hall ( 1976 ) fronting Töölö Bay, and an office building in the Kamppi district for the Helsinki Electricity Company ( 1975 ).

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.

Gone are the days when the Hoffman House flourished on Madison Square, with its famous nudes by Bouguereau ; when barrooms were palaces, on nearly every corner throughout the city ; when Steve Brodie, jumping from Brooklyn Bridge, splashed the entire country with publicity ; when Bowery concert halls dispensed schooners of beer for a nickel, with a stage show thrown in ; when Theis's Music Hall still resounded on 14th Street with its great mechanical organ, the wonder of its day, a place of beauty, with fine paintings and free company and the frankest of female life.

In the intervening years, the social world of music had seen dramatic changes: international publication and touring had grown explosively, concert societies were beginning to be formed, notation had been made more specific, more descriptive, and schematics for works had been simplified ( yet became more varied in their exact working out ).

Although there are conflicting dates as to when they met ( some sources state that they met in January 1989 at the Satyricon nightclub ), Love stated that the two first encountered one another in January 1988 at a Dharma Bums show where she was doing a spoken word performance, and Erlandson stated that both he and Love were formally introduced to Cobain in a parking lot after a Butthole Surfers concert at the Hollywood Paladium in 1991.

From the early 1990s through 2001, her concert appearances were primarily limited to one weekend a year at Dollywood to benefit her Dollywood Foundation.

This however was not the case since many of the key members of the black metal scene were present at the show, including Mayhem's guitar player, who was not only at the concert but also working as a DJ.

They were joined at the concert by fellow Akron-area musicians The Black Keys and Chrissie Hynde.

" The 1940 celebrations also included a concert at the Tokyo Kabukiza for which new works were commissioned from composers in France, Hungary, England ( Benjamin Britten, Sinfonia da Requiem, ultimately rejected ), and Germany ( Richard Strauss, Japanische Festmusik ).

These contrasting traditions may be vestiges of historical performance settings: large concert halls in which violins were played required more instruments, before electronic amplification, than did more intimate dance halls and houses fiddles were played in.

After a juxtaposition of Isaac's concert dates, on his alleged adventure, and his father's travel itinerary it is apparent that they were traveling together.

His last shows were greeted with positive reviews, and one of his final concert appearances at the Irish Oxegen festival in Punchestown in 2006 was performed for a record crowd of 80, 000 people.

One of Friedman's most infamous concerts was a 1973 performance in Buffalo, New York ; upon performing " Get Your Biscuits in the Oven and Your Buns in the Bed " ( a song that lampoons feminism ), a group of what Friedman described as " cranked-up lesbians " entered into a fight with the band and forced the concert to end early while Friedman and the band were escorted off stage.

For ten years the concerts were organized by Mrs. Theresa Cornelys, a retired Venetian opera singer who owned a concert hall at Carlisle House in Soho Square, then the height of fashionable events.

Some of the funds were raised in a London concert called " Music for Montserrat " ( September 15, 1997 ).

If MNT were realized, some resources would remain limited, because unique physical objects are limited ( a plot of land in the real Jerusalem, mining rights to the larger near-earth asteroids ) or because they depend on the goodwill of a particular person ( the love of a famous person, a live audience in a musical concert ).

In 1948 Schaeffer formally initiated “ research in to noises ” at the Club d ' Essai ( Palombini 1993, 14 ) and on the 5th October 1948 the results of his initial experimentation were premiered at a concert given in Paris ( Chion 1983 ).

Many of his variations ( and he has become the de facto master of this musical genre ), including Le Streghe, The Carnival of Venice, and Nel cor più non mi sento, were composed, or at least first performed, before his European concert tour.

Their minimalist album sleeves and " non-image " ( the band rarely gave interviews and were known for performing short concert sets with no encores ) reflected the label's aesthetic of doing whatever the relevant parties wanted to do, including an aversion to including singles as album tracks.

While the Pixies were playing a concert with Throwing Muses, they were noticed by producer Gary Smith, manager of Fort Apache Studios.

In addition to Pixies and LoudQUIETloud, four other Pixies ' DVDs were released between 2004 and 2006, all featuring concert performances: Live at the Town and Country Club 1988, The Pixies — Sell Out, The Pixies Acoustic: Live in Newport, and The Pixies Club Date: Live at the Paradise in Boston.

It also contained a summer garden, winter garden and roof garden, an enormous restaurant and several smaller eating areas, its own laundry, a theatre and concert booking office, its own bank, whose strongrooms were underground at the eastern end of the building ( and generated their own history decades later ), and a large fleet of private delivery vehicles.