All of this would be wasted, of course, if the performance lacked authority and musical distinction.

One of the finest soft shoe tunes ever invented, `` Once In Love With Amy '' is also, of course, one of the most tantalizingly persistent of light love lyrics to come out of American musical comedy in our era.

Thus began one of the most famous apprenticeships in the musical theatre, as Hammerstein designed a kind of course for Sondheim on the construction of a musical.

The other reviews generally joined in speculation about how the new work would influence the course of musical theatre.

The twelve-tone musical scale, upon which some of the music in the world is based, may have its roots in the sound of the human voice during the course of evolution, according to a study published by the New Scientist.

Although it evolved visually over the course of the show's five seasons, the musical composition remained sequentially the same.

The critic and musician Digby Fairweather sums up Beiderbecke's musical legacy, arguing that " with Louis Armstrong, Bix Beiderbecke was the most striking of jazz's cornet ( and of course, trumpet ) fathers ; a player who first captivated his 1920s generation and after his premature death, founded a dynasty of distinguished followers beginning with Jimmy McPartland and moving on down from there.

The best-known of the classical Czech composer Bedřich Smetana's set of six symphonic poems Má vlast (" My Motherland ") is called Vltava ( or The Moldau ), and is a musical depiction of the river's course through Bohemia.

Under such influences he came more and more to embrace the ideal of artistic realism and all that it entailed, whether this concerned the responsibility to depict life " as it is truly lived "; the preoccupation with the lower strata of society ; or the rejection of repeating, symmetrical musical forms as insufficiently true to the unrepeating, unpredictable course of " real life ".

Balakirev, who had never had any systematic course in harmony and counterpoint and had not even superficially applied himself to them, evidently thought such studies quite unnecessary .... An excellent pianist, a superior sight reader of music, a splendid improvisor, endowed by nature with a sense of correct harmony and part-writing, he possessed a technique partly native and partly acquired through a vast musical erudition, with the help of an extraordinary memory, keen and retentive, which means so much in steering a critical course in musical literature.

However, through the course of their career, their musical approach changed to a more dance and R & B sound which is heard mostly in their final album, Seeing Double.

Over the course of seven and a half years, the band developed their own musical identity apart from the Minutemen while still maintaining the same dynamic synthesis of punk, funk, and free jazz.

Macdonald writes that while these works may seem diffuse by symphonic standards, their literary sources actually define the sequence of events and the course of the musical action.

She then attended the independent The Arts Educational Schools in Chiswick, West London, for a full time three year course in musical theatre.

James's musical style changed during the course of her career.

They went through several musical phases during the course of their recording career, starting out with a purist jazz sound, then becoming practitioners of R & B and funk, progressing to a smooth pop-funk ensemble, and in the post-millennium creating music with a modern, electro-pop sound.

Her musical career rebounded for the third time during the early 1990s with the live album Blazing Away, which featured Faithfull revisiting songs she had performed over the course of her career.

It features local acts that cross the musical spectrum so that there is something for all tastes during the course of the day.

Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings.

The experimental concert ( entitled Infrasonic ) took place in the Purcell Room over the course of two performances, each consisting of four musical pieces.

He is the only batsman to have ever scored a hundred, a double century, a triple century, a quadruple century and a quintuple century in first class games over the course of a senior career.

The Grateful Dead performed " Not Fade Away " 530 times over the course of their career, making it their seventh most-performed song.

" Over the course of Hole's career, the band experimented with several different styles, from punk to noise rock as well as more mellow alternative rock, power pop, and folk techniques.

Although Hole's sound changed over the course of the band's career, the pretty / ugly dynamic has often been noted as a consistent theme in Love's music, most prominently in Hole's first two studio albums.

Cesare's career was founded upon his father's ability to distribute patronage, along with his alliance with France ( reinforced by his marriage with Charlotte d ' Albret, sister of John III of Navarre ), in the course of the Italian Wars.

Considered one of the best NASCAR drivers of all time, Earnhardt won a total of 76 races over the course of his career, including one Daytona 500 victory in 1998.

The typical course load is three classes per term, and students will generally enroll in classes for 12 total terms over the course of their academic career.

Over the course of his career he raised over US $ 5, 000, 000 in support of musicians pension funds.

He also enrolled in an advanced anthropology seminar taught by Franz Boas himself, a course that would completely change the direction of his career.

Aeschylus and Sophocles were innovative, but Euripides had arrived at a position in the " ever-changing genre " where he could move easily between tragic, comic, romantic and political effects, a versatility that appears in individual plays and also over the course of his career.

During his career he wrote poetry, prose, and stage plays ; his last novel was Kenelm Chillingly, which was in course of publication in Blackwood ’ s Magazine at the time of his death in 1873.

Over the course of his career, he demonstrated a higher-than-average fielding percentage and range at first base.

Over the course of her career as a cook, she infected 53 people, three of whom died.

The last campaign of the war ( 1648 ) was uneventful, and shortly after its close he retired to live on the estates which he had bought in the course of his career, and on one of these, Benátky nad Jizerou NE of Prague in Bohemia, a gift from the emperor, he died on September 12, 1652 and was buried in the church of Nativity of the Virgin Mary in Benátky.

Von Trier has had a number of his films featured at the Cannes Film Festival over the course of his career, and each time has insisted on driving from Denmark to France for the festival and back.

Over the course of his career Niven has added to this first law a list of Niven's Laws which he describes as " how the Universe works " as far as he can tell.

His acting career, it seemed, had run its course ending with many TV appearances.

Over the course of his career he evolved the basic design into a weapons family.

Venetian painting, in its separate " school ," pursued a separate course, represented in the long career of Titian.

Seventeen-years-old Miles breaks both legs during a run over an obstacle course, ruining his chances of qualifying for the Barrayaran Service Academy and a military career, the dream of most Barrayaran males.

Over the course of his career Heinlein wrote four somewhat overlapping series.

Over the course of their career, Rush has come to release 24 gold records and 14 platinum records ( 3 of which have gone multiplatinum ), placing them within the top 3 for the most consecutive gold albums by a rock band.

This marks the 13th studio album to appear in the Top 20 and the band's 27th album to appear on the chart regardless of position over the course of their career.

In 1891, after a long spell in foreign waters, he applied for the two-year torpedo training course on, an important career step.