Paul Shaffer acted as Musical Director for the show and various celebrities and political figures including Howard Stern and Rudy Giuliani appeared between the acts.

In 2008, Jones appeared with several other celebrities in Prop 8 – The Musical, an all-star video satirising California's anti-gay marriage initiative, written by Marc Shaiman.

In addition, Jason Alexander, who performed as Pseudolus in one scene in Jerome Robbins ' Broadway, also won a Tony for Best Actor in a Musical.

Styne attended Chicago Musical College, but before then he had already attracted attention of another teenager, Mike Todd, later a successful film producer, who commissioned him to write a song for a musical act that he was creating.

* David Coulter, Multi-Instrumentalist and Producer / Music Supervisor ; ex-member of Test Dept and The Pogues, has played Musical Saw on numerous albums and live with a who's who of Contemporary Popular Music: Damon Albarn, Gorillaz, Tom Waits, Hal Willner, Richard Hawley, Jarvis Cocker, Marianne Faithfull, Tim Robbins, The Tiger Lillies.

* Musical ensemble, a group of two or more musicians who perform instrumental or vocal music

The show's two judges / mentors are the original show's longest-serving Young Talent Team member Tina Arena ( who appeared from 1977 to 1983 – six years 6 Months ), and Filipino-American choreographer Charles Klapow, one of the winners of the Emmy Award for ‘ Outstanding Choreography ’ for High School Musical 2.

* Words and Music: Only four musicals have won the Tony Award for Best Musical when a person had ( co -) written the Book ( non-sung dialogue and storyline ) and the Score ( music and lyrics ): 1958 winner The Music Man ( Meredith Willson – award for Book and Score did not exist that year ), 1986 winner The Mystery of Edwin Drood ( Rupert Holmes – who also won for Book and Score ), 1996 winner Rent ( Jonathan Larson – who also won for Book and Score ), and 2011 winner The Book of Mormon ( Trey Parker, Robert Lopez, and Matt Stone also won for Book and Score ).

* Shared Performances: All three of the young actors who shared the duties of performing the lead character in Billy Elliot the Musical ( 2009 awards ) — David Alvarez, Trent Kowalik and Kiril Kulish — also shared a single nomination, then shared the win, for Best Actor in a Musical.

In The Musical Quarterly, Martial Teneo and Theodore Baker wrote, " Without the example set by Hervé, Offenbach might perhaps never have become the musician who penned Orphée aux Enfers, La belle Hélène, and so many other triumphant works.

In addition to JoAnne Worley, it starred a young Richard H. Blake, who would go on to become a familiar face on Broadway in such shows as The Wedding Singer, Saturday Night Fever, and Legally Blonde: The Musical.

Segovia's first American tour was arranged in 1928 when Fritz Kreisler, the Viennese violinist who privately played the guitar, persuaded F. C. Coppicus from the Metropolitan Musical Bureau to present the guitarist in New York.

2006 saw the debut of the hit original movie High School Musical and the series Hannah Montana, the latter of which launched the career of its star Miley Cyrus ( who appeared alongside her father, popular 1990s country singer Billy Ray Cyrus, in the series ).

Toronto documentary producer Vanessa Dylyn, who was producing a film called The Musical Brain, featuring neuroscientist Daniel Levitin, approached Sting about participating in the film.

In 1943, Rodziński, who had conducted the orchestra's centennial concert at Carnegie Hall in the preceding year, was appointed Musical Director.

He has a daughter, Natalie Lander, who was on MTV's show, Legally Blonde-The Musical: The Search for Elle Woods.

It is also where the remains lie of Herbert Howard Booth, the son of the Salvation Army founder William Booth, who was the founder of the Salvation Army Musical Department.

The album also featured the reggae-flavored UK Top 20 hit " Unconditional Love ", which featured the British group Musical Youth who were riding high from the success of their single " Pass the Dutchie ".

In 1915, The Musical Times published a profile of him by his admirer, the composer Philip Heseltine ( known as " Peter Warlock "), who commented:

" Musical Input " A composer who wishes to gain musicality from their own inspiration, should allow sufficient musical input to enable ' writers path '.

* South Pacific by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein, directed by Trevor Nunn, with Philip Quast who won the 2002 Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Musical ( 2001 )

Since opening in 1882, the college has had a distinguished list of teachers and alumni, including most of the composers who brought about the " English Musical Renaissance " of the 19th and 20th centuries.

* Orient Expressions: Musical group from Turkey who combine traditional Turkish music with elements of electronica.

One of the most important organologists of the 20th century was Curt Sachs, who, as well as writing Real-Lexicon der Musikinstrumente ( 1913 ) and The History of Musical Instruments ( 1942 ), devised with Erich von Hornbostel the Hornbostel-Sachs scheme of instrument classification, published in 1914.

In 1968 it hosted the first public performance of Andrew Lloyd Webber's Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat in a concert that also included his father ( organist William Lloyd Webber who was Musical Director at Central Hall ) his brother ( cellist Julian Lloyd Webber ) and pianist John Lill.

Beatty showed Lennon a picture of Presley that appeared along with the charts on the New Musical Express, and Lennon later heard " Heartbreak Hotel " on Radio Luxembourg.

He would often duel with Steve Hackett's guitar, as heard on tracks like " The Musical Box ", " The Return of the Giant Hogweed ", or " Supper's Ready ".

Musical styles heard while on tour have also shaped their sound ; Dr Boondigga and the Big BW was influenced by contemporary German, Portuguese, and Bhangra music while touring in the years before its release.

From her five year period as Sailor Moon, she can be heard on the " La Soldier " single ( released prior to the very first musical ), the first five Memorial Album of the Musical releases, as well as three of the eight compilation albums which have been released since Sera Myu's conception.

Classical music can also be heard at one of several smaller venues, including the Yerevan State Musical Conservatory and the Komitas Chamber Music Hall.

He can be heard on recordings with the Chesntut Brass Company on the Sony Classical, Naxos, Newport Classic, Polygram, Albany, Musical Heritage Society and Crystal labels.

The CBC can be heard on the Sony, Newport Classic, Crystal and Musical Heritage / Musicmasters labels.

They recorded this song, which they originally heard as calypso music, in 1964 with the title " Musical Communion ".

He returned to Broadway in 1984 to star in the Pulitzer Prize-winning musical Sunday in the Park with George, which saw him earn another Tony Award nomination for Best Actor ( Musical ).

In 1993, Curry played Alan Swann in the Broadway musical version of My Favourite Year, earning him his second Tony Award nomination for Best Actor in a Musical.

It brought him a third Tony nomination, again for Best Actor in a Musical.

Gelbart's other Broadway credits include the musical City of Angels, which won him the Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Book of a Musical and an Edgar Award.

In Rimsky-Korsakov's memoirs, Chronicle of My Musical Life, the composer praises his keen ear, his ability to detect errors, and his overall technique, but faults him for his rapid tempi, his interpretational inflexibility and insensitivity, and, most of all, for his habit of making sweeping cuts.

This won him another Golden Globe for Best Actor in a Musical / Comedy.

In 1914 he was joint winner of the academy's Charles Rube Prize for ensemble playing, and in 1916 The Musical Times singled him out as " that excellent young ' cello player, Mr Giovanni Barbirolli.

In its early years, Richter was the LSO's most frequently-engaged conductor, with four or five concerts every season ; the orchestra's website and Morrison's 2004 book both count him as the orchestra's first chief conductor, though the 1911 Musical Times article indicates otherwise.

The role brought him international fame, and his performances earned him nominations for a Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor.

His performances earned him a Tony Award nomination for Best Featured Actor in a Musical and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actor in a Supporting Role.

Eddy's records were equally successful in the UK, and in 1960, readers of the UK's New Musical Express voted him World's Number One Musical Personality, ousting Elvis Presley.

The success he had with these syndicated strips convinced him to give up on magazine submissions He began his first strip with a continuing character, Musical Mose, for the Pulitzer papers on 16 February, 1902.

Bolger's Broadway credits included Life Begins at 8: 40, On Your Toes, By Jupiter, All American, and Where's Charley ?, for which he won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical and in which he introduced " Once in Love with Amy ", the song often connected with him.

Following her death in 1969, her estate sold him the rights, leading to the development of Chicago: A Musical Vaudeville with a score by John Kander and Fred Ebb.

The Musical Offering ( German title Musikalisches Opfer or Das Musikalische Opfer ), BWV 1079, is a collection of canons and fugues and other pieces of music by Johann Sebastian Bach, all based on a single musical theme given to him by Frederick the Great ( Frederick II of Prussia ), to whom they are dedicated.

" The reaction, however, was by no means universally negative — the Musical Standard called him " one of the most remarkable composers of the day ... that germ of realism and humanity which is indicative of genius.

Four times ( 1971, 1981, 1983, and 1996 ) the Mexican Union of Teatrical and Musical broadcasters named him the most distinguished artist of the year.

O ' Connor's role as Cosmo the piano player in Singin ' in the Rain earned him a Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Comedy or Musical.

Musical creation for him always proved to be a long, painful struggle.

His orchestral piece Ringed by the Flat Horizon ( written for the Cambridge University Musical Society and premiered in Cambridge under the baton of Mark Elder on 5 March 1980 ) was performed at The Proms that August, while he was still a student, making him the youngest living composer ever to have had music performed at the Proms.

It was number one in the first UK Singles Chart, published by the New Musical Express on November 14, 1952, putting him into the Guinness Book of World Records.