Certainly not in Orchestra Hall where he has played countless recitals, and where Thursday night he celebrated his 20th season with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, playing the Brahms Concerto with his own slashing, demon-ridden cadenza melting into the high, pale, pure and lovely song with which a violinist unlocks the heart of the music, or forever finds it closed.

On a thrusting spray thick with thorns and dewdrops and swelling pink buds, like a summer Valentine, a bird balanced and sang, nondescriptly brown and alive with its own music, a little engine of song.

Animals sacred to Apollo included wolves, dolphins, roe deer, swans, cicadas ( symbolizing music and song ), hawks, ravens, crows, snakes ( referencing Apollo's function as the god of prophecy ), mice and griffins, mythical eagle – lion hybrids of Eastern origin.

Ward died in 1903, not knowing the national stature his music would attain, as the music was only first applied to the song in 1904.

When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972, this song was played as the welcome music.

The 1982 science fiction film Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan used " Amazing Grace " amid a context of Christian symbolism, to memorialize the death of Mr. Spock but more practically, because the song has become " instantly recognizable to many in the audience as music that sounds appropriate for a funeral " according to a Star Trek scholar.

Collins, Cash, and Norman were unable to discern if the power of the song came from the music or the lyrics.

Like much of his mature work, it employs an idiosyncratic adaptation of Schoenberg's twelve-tone technique that enables the composer to produce passages openly evoking tonality, including quotations from historical tonal music, such as a Bach chorale and a Carinthian folk song.

Brandy uses her voice for background music in this song, showing her capabilities of using her voice as an instrument.

The song is not actually performed a cappella, but rather, explains that before her son was born, her life was without music.

The term anthem means either a specific form of Anglican church music ( in music theory and religious contexts ), or more generally, a song ( or composition ) of celebration, usually acting as a symbol for a distinct group of people, as in the term " national anthem " or " sports anthem ".

The song was first copyrighted in 1835 by the Boston-based music publisher Charles Bradlee, and given the title " The A. B. C., a German air with variations for the flute with an easy accompaniment for the piano forte ".

The elegant, harmonically-advanced music in this musical pays indirect homage to the compositions of Maurice Ravel, especially his Valses nobles et sentimentales ( whose opening chord is " borrowed " for the opening chord of the song " Liaisons "); part of this effect stems from the style of orchestration that Jonathan Tunick used.

Then he writes the music to the title and the general feeling of the song is established.

Housman's poetry influenced British music in a way comparable to that of Walt Whitman in the music of Delius, Vaughan Williams and others: Housman's works provided song texts, Whitman's the texts for larger choral works.

The series generally featured no country music beyond the bluegrass banjo theme song, although country star Roy Clark and the team of Flatt and Scruggs occasionally played on the program.

Benny Andersson has written music to several films for screen and television ; the first attempt in the early 1970s for the obscure Swedish movie The Seduction Of Inga: the film flopped, but the ' Björn & Benny ' single " She's My Kind Of Girl " surprised the composers by being released in Japan and becoming a Top 10 hit ( the song renamed in Japan as " The Little Girl Of The Cold Wind ").

In 1984, he directed the music video of Bruce Springsteen's song " Dancing In The Dark ".

He retained elements of the original, but threw some country music aspects in to the song ( specifically, Western Swing ) and cleaned up the lyrics.

For the late 19th century the music publishing industry found a market for what are often termed sentimental ballads, and these are the origin of the modern use of the term ballad to mean a slow love song.

As new genres of music, such as ragtime, blues and jazz, began to emerge in the early 20th century the popularity of the genre faded, but the association with sentimentality led to the term ballad being used for a slow love song from the 1950s onwards.

The most common use of the term ballad in modern pop music is for an emotional love song.

Jazz na Kresach is a very popular annual music festival.

Irish language enthusiast who had founded the Conradh na Gaeilge, known in English as the Gaelic League, a cultural organisation promoting the preservation of the Irish language, music, dancing and traditions.

Colbert Mukwevho has been involved with Venda music for over 20 years, starting with 80s hits like Kha tambe na thanga dzawe ," " i do nera rothe " and " saga-saga.

People from the Congo have no term for their own music per se, although they have used muziki na biso ( our music ) until the late 1970s and now the most common name is " ndule " which simply means music in the lingala dialect.

He is best known by his hit " Čamac na Tisi " ( sung by Lola Novaković and popular in revolutionary Hungary ) and his music for the film Ljubav i moda (" Devojko mala " and " Pod sjajem zvezda ", performed by Vokalni kvartet Predraga Ivanovića ).

* O. Zin ' kevïch: Dinamika obnovleniya: ukrainskaya simfoniya na sovremennoy ėtapye v svete dialektiki traditsii i novatorstva ( 1970 – 1980-kh godov ) dynamics of revival: Ukrainian contemporary symphonic music as part of the dialectics of tradition and innovation, in the period 1970 – 80 ( Kiev, 1986 )

* Ceol na Fidhle ( Traditional music )

* 1360: Gilla na Naem Ó Conmaigh, music ollamh of Thomond ... died.

Several popular folk music festivals exist, including: Folk fest Valandovo in Valandovo, Serenada na Širok sokak in Bitola, Cvetnici in Skopje, Ohridski trubaduri – Ohrid Fest in Ohrid and others.

The New Wave music scene featured artists such as the ska group Cilindar, Usta na usta and Tokmu taka.

The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland ( Scottish Gaelic: Conservatoire Rìoghail na h-Alba ; formerly Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama ) is a conservatoire of music, drama, and dance in the centre of Glasgow, Scotland.

Kinvara is home every year to two festivals, (" the cuckoo festival ") an Irish music festival at the start of May and the Cruinniú na mBád (" gathering of the boats ") in mid August.

Axé Bahia is a six-member eurodance / axé music group from Brazil, who achieved fame in South America with their single " Beijo na Boca ", particularly the Spanish-language version, " Beso en la Boca ".

In the late nineties Yoba Valombola blended existing Oshiwambo music widely popularised by folk guitarist Kwela, Kangwe Keenyala, Boetie Simon, Lexington and Meme Nanghili na Shima.

Another important festival is the Folixa na Primavera in April, which includes dance and music performances from the nine Celtic nations, food, drink and especially cider, ( sidra ).

Five of his poems have been put to music by Colm Ó Snodaigh from the music group Kíla: Faoiseamh a Gheobhadsa, Maith Dhom, Bua na Mara, Dínit an Bhróin and Bí i do Chrann.

" Kad ja pođoh na Benbašu ", is a great example of traditional Bosnian music, and is one of the city's unofficial anthems.

" In 1996 Kate Bush recorded the Peadar Ó Doirnín lyric " Mná na hÉireann ," set to music by Sean Ó Riada and Ceoltóirí Chualann, for the compilation album " Common Ground.

Since then the group has branched out to do other work, including introductory music for the Irish television channel Teilifís na Gaeilge, running their Pawnshop label, Oisin Lunny's soundtrack work, and recording under the name Minatone on Howie B's Pussyfoot label.

Lili ' uokalani indeed wrote the lyrics and arranged the music but in fact she appropriated the tune from a Croatian folk song called " Sidi Mara na kamen studencu ".

Tir na n ' Og, formed in 2000, performed a combination of Irish and Serbian folk music with punk rock, and their debut album Tir na n ' Og was released in 2006.