Aside from Boris himself, one need but examine the secondary roles to place Mussorgsky among the masters of musical portraiture.

If so, it might be worth while to assign a future jazz show to a different department -- one with enough confidence in the musical material to cut down on the number of performers and give them a little room to display their talents.

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.

By and large, Robert McEnroe's adaptation of Maurice Walsh's film, `` The Quiet Man '', provides the entertainment it set out to, and we have a lively musical show if not a superlative one.

The task of taking the raw material of Marcel Pagnol's original trio of French films about people of the waterfront in Marseilles and putting them again on the screen, after their passage through the Broadway musical idiom, was a delicate and perilous one, indeed.

Jimmy Witherspoon, Blues singer ( and a good one ), and the Ike Isaacs Trio, which has done such wonderful work for two afternoons now, helping him with the musical examples.

There are times when one suspects that the songs that are dropped from musical shows before they reach Broadway may really be better than many of those that are left in.

Even as his works dropped from performance, and he wrote no new operas after 1804, he still remained one of the most important and sought after teachers of his generation and his influence was felt in every aspect of Vienna's musical life.

According to one witness, " the public received the musical hero with the utmost respect and sympathy, listened to his wonderful, gigantic creations with the most absorbed attention and broke out in jubilant applause, often during sections, and repeatedly at the end of them.

The Movie has now become the most successful movie musical of all time and has been named the number one box office smash of 2008, and the biggest-selling DVD ever in the UK.

The Varsity Show is an annual musical written by and for students and was established in 1894, making it one of Columbia's oldest traditions.

The lines " Don't let it be forgot, that once there was a spot, for one brief shining moment, that was known as Camelot ," from the musical Camelot, were quoted by his widow Jacqueline as being from his favorite song in the score.

His long-time musical partner, alto saxophonist Paul Desmond, wrote the Dave Brubeck Quartet's best remembered piece, " Take Five ", which is in 5 / 4 time and has endured as a jazz classic on one of the top-selling jazz albums, Time Out.

Here the superscript is one of the two musical isomorphisms, and is the Hodge dual.

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

His lyric skills however are not just confined to individual poems: " A play of Euripides is a musical whole ... one song echoes motifs from the preceding song, while introducing new ones.

" In some sense, Paul would have the teaching and admonishing ministry continue by members of the church in Colossae, one method of members admonishing each other is through the rich hymnody and musical heritage of the Christian church.

" Such definitions depend upon "( cultural ) processes rather than abstract musical types ...", upon " continuity and oral transmission ... seen as characterizing one side of a cultural dichotomy, the other side of which is found not only in the lower layers of feudal, capitalist and some oriental societies but also in ' primitive ' societies and in parts of ' popular cultures '.

In his book " Easy the Hard Way ", Joe Pasternak, head of one of the other musical units within MGM, singled out Kelly for his patience and willingness to spend as much time as necessary to enable the ailing Garland to complete her part.

Only one of these pictures was a musical, Invitation to the Dance, a pet project of Kelly's to bring modern ballet to mainstream film audiences.

The hard rock band KISS was also one of his earliest grade school musical influences and his shows often reflected this.

In 1994 Brooks paid homage to one of his musical influences when he appeared on the hard rock compilation Kiss My Ass: Classic Kiss Regrooved, a collection of Kiss cover songs by popular artists from all genres.

The musical score to Thespis was never published and is now lost, except for one song that was published separately, a chorus that was re-used in The Pirates of Penzance, and the Act II ballet music.

The term " harmonics " originated in physical eigenvalue problems, to mean waves whose frequencies are integer multiples of one another, as are the frequencies of the harmonics on stringed musical instruments, but the term has been generalized beyond its original meaning.

It is one of the oldest musical forms that continue to survive today.

Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

Today, in the era of the integrated musical when an individual song must contribute to the over-all development of the show, it is understandable that a song, no matter how excellent it may be on its own terms, is cut out because it does not perform the function required of it.

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

Two musical arrangers named Dwight Moody and Ira Sankey heralded another religious revival in the cities of the U. S. and Europe, giving the song international exposure.

The musical includes the popular song " Send in the Clowns ".

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.

" And the song " New York, New York " ( by Betty Comden and Adolph Green from the 1940s musical comedy and film, " On the Town ") explains that " The Bronx is up and the Battery's down.

" Another song, " Manhattan " ( by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart for the 1925 musical " Garrick Gaieties "), declares " We'll have Manhattan ,/ The Bronx and Staten / Island too ./ It's lovely going through / the zoo.

The theme from Field of Dreams was played at the last game at Memorial Stadium in 1991, and the song " Magic to Do " from the stage musical Pippin was used that season to commemorate " Orioles Magic " on 33rd Street.

* " Bill " ( Show Boat ), a song in the Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical Show Boat

He performed his song " Bo Diddley " with Eric Clapton, Robbie Robertson, and longtime bassist and musical director Debby Hastings at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 20th annual induction ceremony and in the UK, Uncut magazine included his 1957 debut album " Bo Diddley " in its listing of the ' 100 Music, Movie & TV Moments That Have Changed The World '.

There are musical genres and styles specific to each Celtic country, due in part to the influence of individual song traditions and the characteristics of specific languages:

*" Class ", a song in the Broadway musical, Chicago

Episodes are called " sessions ", each of which follows a different musical theme, and episode titles are borrowed from notable album or song names ( e. g. " Sympathy for the Devil ", " Bohemian Rhapsody ", " Honky Tonk Women ", " My Funny Valentine ") or make use of a genre name (" Mushroom Samba ", " Heavy Metal Queen ").

* Company ( song ), the title song from the Broadway musical, Company

Comparison of musical acoustics | acoustic spectrograms of a song in an uncompressed format and various lossy formats.

In April 1980, the track " Crying ” from the album began picking up airplay on Dutch radio stations and McLean was called to Europe to appear on several important musical variety shows to plug the song and support its release as a single by EMI.

The earliest reported example of this musical form is the song " Kalenda Maya ", supposedly written by the troubadour Raimbaut de Vaqueiras ( 1180-1207 ) to the melody of an estampida played by French jongleurs.