* Robert McFerrin ( March 19, 1921 – November 24, 2006 ) opera singer who was the first African American male to sing at the Metropolitan Opera and father of the Grammy Award-winning conductor-vocalist Bobby McFerrin

For example, the concerts often end with McFerrin conducting the orchestra in an a cappella rendition of the " William Tell Overture ," in which the orchestra members sing their musical parts in McFerrin's vocal style instead of playing their parts on their instruments.

Later that year, the two appeared together on a panel at the World Science Festival, where McFerrin demonstrated audience participation with the ubiquitous nature of human understanding of the pentatonic scale by singing and dancing, and having the audience sing while following his movements.

Lawrence Winters and Robert McFerrin were other notable African American opera pioneers to sing with the company during this period.

The rough cut to which McFerrin recorded his vocals had the words " blah blah blah " in place of the end credits ( meant to indicate that he should improvise ).

A sampling of his versatility in addition to numerous recordings of the standard classical repertoire would include his recordings of Baroque pieces using period instruments ; American bluegrass music ; traditional Chinese melodies including the soundtrack to the film Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon ; the tangos of Argentinian composer Ástor Piazzolla ; an eclectic and unusual collaboration with Bobby McFerrin ( where Ma admitted to being terrified of the improvisation McFerrin pushed him toward ); as well as the music of modern minimalist Philip Glass in such works as the 2002 piece Naqoyqatsi.

* Porgy and Bess ( Columbia 1959 ), excerpts from the motion picture soundtrack, featuring the voices of Robert McFerrin and Adele Addison, who dubbed the singing for Sidney Poitier and Dorothy Dandridge as Porgy and Bess in the film.

A cappella music attained renewed prominence from the late 1980s onward, spurred by the success of Top 40 recordings by artists such as The Manhattan Transfer, Bobby McFerrin, Huey Lewis and the News, All-4-One, The Nylons, Backstreet Boys and Boyz II Men.

Vocal artist Bobby McFerrin is famous for his instrumental emulation.

McFerrin and Wills argue the confrontation represented opposing property rights systems.

Singer Bobby McFerrin has recorded a number of albums using only his voice and body, sometimes consisting of a texted melody supported by untexted vocalizations.

Tryon Concert Association claims to have been bringing " world-class artists " to Tryon since the first concert in January 1955 when baritone Robert McFerrin gave a recital.

Soon after the performance McFerrin was the first African-American to join the Metropolitan Opera Company.

( Incidentally, he originated the line “ Don't Worry, Be Happy ” that Bobby McFerrin used as the basis of his hit song.

Anderson has also collaborated with William S. Burroughs, Jean Dupuy, Arto Lindsay, Bill Laswell, Ian Ritchie, Peter Gabriel, Perry Hoberman, David Sylvian, Jean Michel Jarre, Brian Eno, Phillip Glass, Nona Hendryx, Bobby McFerrin, Ryuichi Sakamoto, Dave Stewart, Peter Gordon, Adrian Belew, Hector Zazou, and Lou Reed.

* Strange Angels ( 1989 ) US No. 171, featuring Bobby McFerrin

The same lineup played on 1985's Sportin ' Life album, which included a cover of Marvin Gaye's " What's Going On " and appearances by Bobby McFerrin and Carl Anderson.

Marian Anderson's historic 1955 debut was followed by the introduction of a whole generation of outstanding African-American artists led by Leontyne Price ( who inaugurated the new house in Lincoln Center ), Reri Grist, Grace Bumbry, Shirley Verrett, George Shirley, Robert McFerrin, and others.

After being tied for the worst record in the WNBA in 2001 with a 10-22 record, coach Tom Maher and General Manager Melissa McFerrin both resigned.

John B. McFerrin recalled:

Berry was born in Jackson County, Alabama to Isabella Jane ( née Orr ) and James McFerrin Berry.

Robert " Bobby " McFerrin, Jr. ( born March 11, 1950 ) is a versatile American vocalist and conductor.

Bobby McFerrin was born in Manhattan, New York City, the son of operatic baritone Robert McFerrin and singer Sara Copper.

Bobby McFerrin married Debbie Green in 1975.

McFerrin has also worked in collaboration with instrumental performers, including pianists Chick Corea, Herbie Hancock, and Joe Zawinul, drummer Tony Williams, and cellist Yo-Yo Ma.

As a vocalist, McFerrin often switches rapidly between modal and falsetto registers to create polyphonic effects, performing both the main melody and the accompanying parts of songs.

McFerrin is also capable of multiphonic singing, as observed in his song " Drive " from the 2005 DVD Live in Montreal.

He spent months travelling Western Europe, including extended stays in France and Switzerland, and spontaneously decided to visit Japan.

Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels delivered the speech instead, in which he commented that " the Führer has decided that ... demonstrations should not be prepared or organized by the party, but insofar as they erupt spontaneously, they are not to be hampered.

The routes of some rides are decided spontaneously by whoever is currently at the front of the ride, while others are decided prior to the ride by a popular vote of suggested routes often drawn up on photocopied fliers.

According to Lady Bunny, the event began spontaneously in 1984 after a group of drag queens ( along with Wendy Wild and a couple of Fleshtones ) became inebriated at the nearby Pyramid Club and decided to put on a show in the park.

The band formed in 1995 at UC Berkeley when Chris Wetherell spontaneously decided he wanted to start a band with friend Chris Groves after the two had attended a Primus concert.

According to Nekro, he was planning to do something with Gori when they decided spontaneously to go on a summer tour.

It also forms an important plot element when patrons of Rick's Café Américain, spontaneously led by Czech underground leader Victor Laszlo, sing the actual song to drown out Nazi officers who had started singing " Die Wacht am Rhein ", thus causing Rick's to be shut down.

During the carrying out of his coffin from the church, the crowd spontaneously began to applaud and sing Quebec's unofficial national anthem " Gens du pays ", replacing the first verse with Mon cher René ( My dear René ), as is the custom when this song is adapted to celebrate one person.

In June the Old Town Festival was held in Tallinn, and after the official part of the festival, the participants moved to the Song Festival Grounds and similarly started to sing patriotic songs together spontaneously.

Most of the lyrics of the song were written spontaneously by Plant in 1970 at Headley Grange.

According to his autobiography, the lyrics for " Political World " came to him spontaneously and were easy to write ; though no melody was composed, he came up with 20 verses.

Her first appearance in a written story is in the final pages of There Was An Old Woman ( 1943 ), when a character with whom Ellery has had some flirtatious moments announces spontaneously that she's changing her name to Nikki Porter and going to work as Ellery's secretary.

* According to the final analysis, the word capacity achieved by the children was remarkably good: they spontaneously conversed about various topics, their pronunciation was correct, they occasionally ran into grammatical and lexical errors, but without affecting reciprocal comprehension ;

Upon Chase's character drinking Cola Turka in the second commercial, he spontaneously displays Turkish traits like saying Turkish idioms, singing a Turkish folk song, and in the final part of the second commercial, unexpectedly sporting a mustache.