While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.

A further blow to his career was landed when the spoken drama and musical Singspiel were placed on an equal footing.

Like Cole Porter at Yale and Richard Rodgers at Columbia, his career in musical theater began with his collegiate contributions, in Lerner's case to the annual Harvard Hasty Pudding musicals.

During her career in show business, Bardot starred in 47 films, performed in numerous musical shows, and recorded 80 songs.

The launch of Bobby Vee's successful musical career resulted from Holly's death, when he was selected to replace Holly on the tour that continued after the plane crash.

He is also notable for his musical career, as a solo artist and as half of the duo Barnes & Barnes.

Bo Diddley spent many years in New Mexico, living in Los Lunas, New Mexico from 1971 to 1978 while continuing his musical career.

Persons who had a notable career in France returned to Corsica to write in Corsican, such as the musical producers, Dumenicu Togniotti, director of the Teatru Paisanu, which produced polyphonic musicals, 1973 – 1982, followed in 1980 by Michel Raffaelli's Teatru di a Testa Mora, and Saveriu Valentini's Teatru Cupabbia in 1984.

Erik Satie also dabbled with Dadaist ideas during his career, although he is primarily associated with musical Impressionism.

After the disappointment of a dramatic film career, Day returned to her musical / comedic roots in 1957's The Pajama Game with John Raitt.

" The relatively short-lived Ziggy persona proved merely one facet of a career marked by continual reinvention, musical innovation and striking visual presentation.

In the new environment, his cocaine use increased ; so too did his interest in pursuits outside his musical career.

She began her musical career in 1980, when she briefly joined her family band Clannad before leaving to perform solo.

Initially he trained for a career in music and became so proficient on the tuba that he won a musical scholarship to the New York Military Academy.

Beginning his musical career in the swing era with Harry James and Tommy Dorsey, Sinatra became an unprecedentedly successful solo artist from the early to mid-1940s, after being signed to Columbia Records in 1943.

Despite the fact that Parsons only contributed two new songs to the album (" In My Hour of Darkness ", " Return of the Grievous Angel "), Parsons was highly enthused with his new sound and seemed to have finally adopted a serious, diligent mindset to his musical career, eschewing most drugs and alcohol during the sessions.

The musical establishment, and many critics, believed that this should put an end to his career as a composer of comic opera — that a musical knight should not stoop below oratorio or grand opera.

In a career that spanned six decades, Brown profoundly influenced the development of many different musical genres.

Julian Lennon has had an inconsistent career as a musical artist.

After finishing high school, he decided to pursue a scholarly career rather than a musical one.

Beyond The Sea was a lifelong dream project for Spacey, who took on co-writing, directing, co-producing and starring duties in the biography / musical about Darin's life, career, and relationship with actress Sandra Dee.

After a while, Prokofiev's mother felt that the isolation in Sontsovka was restricting his further musical development, yet his parents hesitated over starting their son on a musical career at such an early age.

In the course of his musical career, he made over 200 radio and television appearances, and released several recordings, as well as having his songs recorded by others.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

Connick's musical talents soon came to the fore when he started learning the keyboards at age three, playing publicly at age five, and recording with a local jazz band at ten.

Changes in Brown's style that started with " Cold Sweat " also established the musical foundation for Brown's later hits, such as " I Got the Feelin '" ( 1968 ) and " Mother Popcorn " ( 1969 ).

The Spanish musical started to expand and grow.

In addition to the numerous fans who have started or joined punk bands, audience members also become important participants via the scene's many amateur periodicals — in England, according to Laing, punk " was the first musical genre to spawn fanzines in any significant numbers ".

In 1978 after leaving his namesake firm, Moog started making electronic musical instruments again with a new company, Big Briar.

Nonetheless, equipped with the necessary theoretical tools, Prokofiev started experimenting with dissonant harmonies and unusual time signatures in a series of short piano pieces which he called " ditties " ( after the so-called " song form " – more accurately ternary form – they were based on ), laying the basis for his own musical style.

This was also the time when every other hero or villain in Spaghetti Westerns started carrying a musical watch, after its ingenious use in For a Few Dollars More.

Sousa started his music education by playing the violin as a pupil of John Esputa and George Felix Benkert ( born 1831 ) for harmony and musical composition at the age of six.

Carte started his career in his father's music publishing and musical instrument manufacturing business.

This resulted in the format being taken more seriously for musical use, and started the era of high fidelity cassettes and players.

Crothers started his musical career as a 15-year-old drummer in a speakeasy band in his home town of Terre Haute.

* The popular big band leader Glenn Miller lived in North Platte during his childhood and started his musical career there when his father bought him a mandolin.

Byrne started his musical career in a high school duo named Bizadi with Mark Kehoe.

He started work on a semi-autobiographical Broadway musical called His Own Dark City, which reflected the emotional displacement he felt at the time.

Among the first music videos were clips produced by ex-Monkee Michael Nesmith who started making short musical films for Saturday Night Live.

An important part of Rich Mullins ' musical talents in Richmond, Indiana was being the piano player, songwriter and vocalist for the New Creations Choir which was started by Tim and Bonnie Cummings in the early 1970s.

After fulfilling his contractual obligations, and two more years of musical censorship and unreleased albums with WORD, in 1980 Norman and his father, who had just retired from teaching after a heart attack, started Phydeaux Records ( as in ' Fido ').

All three boys started their musical careers as pianists.

Some of the earliest successes came from folk clubs, where performers such as Billy Connolly, Mike Harding and Jasper Carrott started as relatively straight musical acts whose between-song banter developed into complete comedy routines.

It was around 2000 when Samoth and Trym started to gravitate more towards death metal, while Ihsahn directed his musical exploration towards the more artistic and progressive side of extreme metal, as shown by his side project, Peccatum.

He also started publishing musical reviews in Les arts phoniques.

Grappelli started his musical career busking on the streets of Paris and Montmartre with a violin.

But it was in 1985 that he became an international superstar, when his song " Amante bandido " rose to the top of the charts all over Latin America and in Spain, while he started to decline in Italy ( where he had a parallel career, singing in both Italian and English-he would go back to the top there in 1994, by winning Festivalbar ( the second musical event after the Sanremo Music Festival ) for the third time ).

Almost from its beginning in November 1922 the BBC had started broadcasting from its " 2LO " transmitter with its own musical ensembles.