Coming from a jazz background, Daihachi Oguchi speculated why the Taiko drums had never previously been played as an ensemble before.

Since an actual Taiko ensemble had never really performed together and the people he had playing with him were in no way professional musicians, he based the rhythms of their performance on the simplistic arrangement of the shrine music that had been previously played ; which allowed for nearly any person with the interest in Taiko could play along.

Drums are not the only instruments played in the ensemble.

Beginning around 1890, the early New Orleans jazz ensemble ( which played a mixture of marches, ragtime, and Dixieland ) was initially a marching band with a tuba or sousaphone ( or occasionally bass saxophone ) supplying the bass line.

He first recorded with a Midwestern jazz ensemble The Wolverines in 1924, after which he played briefly for the Detroit-based Jean Goldkette Orchestra before joining Frankie " Tram " Trumbauer for an extended gig at the Arcadia Ballroom in St. Louis, Missouri.

In spite of Whiteman's nickname, " The King of Jazz ," his was not a jazz ensemble, but a popular music outfit that played bits of jazz and classical music according to the demands of its record-buying and concert-going audience.

When the cornett did not double voices it either substituted for them or, especially after 1600, played instrumental lines, often together with or in place of the violin or with an ensemble of trombones.

In high school, a teenage Turner joined a huge local rhythm ensemble called The Tophatters, who played dances around Clarksdale, Mississippi.

Kozintzev described his vision of the film as an ensemble piece: with Lear, played by a dynamic Jüri Järvet, as first among equals in a cast of fully developed characters.

When they played together in an ensemble, the parts of some instruments would then have to be transposed to compensate.

Booker's leader date for Candid, Out Front featured Dolphy mainly on alto, though he played bass clarinet and flute on some ensemble passages.

Some instruments fall into more than one category: for example, the cello may be considered either tenor or bass, depending on how its music fits into the ensemble, and the trombone may be alto, tenor, or bass and the French horn, bass, baritone, tenor, or alto, depending on which range it is played.

Weaver wrote, directed and played a small role in SIP ’ s next feature Weather Girl with an ensemble cast that boasted Tricia O ’ Kelley, Mark Harmon, Jon Cryer and Jane Lynch.

The name nocturne was first applied to pieces in the 18th century, when it indicated an ensemble piece in several movements, normally played for an evening party and then laid aside.

Tomlin also played chain-smoking waitress Doreen Piggott in Altman's 1993 ensemble film Short Cuts, and, in two films by director David O. Russell ; she appeared as a peacenik Raku artist in Flirting with Disaster and later, as an existential detective in I ♥ Huckabees.

The kazoo is not often found in European classical music, a rare exception being David Bedford's With 100 Kazoos, a piece which emphasizes the simplicity of the instrument — rather than being played by trained musicians, kazoos are handed out to members of the audience, who accompany a professional instrumental ensemble.

The musical bow is generally played on its own, as a solo instrument, although it is sometimes played, amplified, as part of an ensemble in Appalachian old-time music.

The comparison of the function of banjo rolls with that of bones within an ensemble suggests that stereotypically a subdivided accompaniment pattern is played on the bones.

Cale also played in La Monte Young and Tony Conrad's ensemble the Theater of Eternal Music also known as the Dream Syndicate ( not to be confused with the 1980s band of the same name ).

In many areas the balafon is played alone in a ritual context, in others as part of an ensemble.

The ricercars are more frequently performed on keyboard than the canons, which are often played by an ensemble of chamber musicians, with instrumentation comparable to that of the trio sonata.

" Khaen can be played as a solo instrument ( Dio Khaen ), as part of an ensemble ( Ponglang ), or as an accompaniment to a Lao or Isan Folk Opera Singer mor lam.

At Busoni's insistence, the dances were orchestrated by Arnold Schoenberg and played on June 5, 1903, the ensemble led by Busoni.

The cornet is the leading melodic instrument in this ensemble and trumpets are never used.

He also had a leading role as the head of an eccentric family in the ensemble cast film The Royal Tenenbaums and in yet another Grisham legal drama, Runaway Jury, at long last getting to make a picture with his longtime friend Dustin Hoffman.

The music would then be recorded by the two, along with other musicians – dubbed the Clangers ensemble – in a village hall, where they would often leave the windows open, leading to the sounds of birds outside being heard on some recordings.

* Concerto Palatino, a leading ensemble centered on the cornetto and trombone and directed by Bruce Dickey and Charles Toet.

He was teamed with both Kerr and previous leading lady Jean Simmons as well as Cary Grant for the extremely offbeat Stanley Donen ensemble comedy The Grass Is Greener the same year.

The troupe has become a leading area attraction drawing its ensemble from a 50-mile radius.

Although Glock restored the orchestra's reputation as Britain's leading modern music ensemble, the balance of programming affected the players ' capacity in the mainstream repertoire.

Lassus leading a chamber ensemble, painted by Hans Mielich

Burstyn's performance in the acclaimed 1971 ensemble drama The Last Picture Show brought her first Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination, after which she moved from supporting to leading film and stage roles.

It is at this point in the show that the steady stream of supporting characters, written into the series to complement the leading ensemble, gained in importance.

Legris eliminated Harangozós's policy of presenting nothing but traditional story ballets with guest artists in the leading roles, and is concentrating on establishing a strong in-house ensemble and has restored evenings of mixed bill programs, featuring works of George Balanchine, Jerome Robbins, Jiří Kylián, William Forsythe, and many contemporary choreographers, as well as a reduced schedule of the classic story ballets.

Nelson wrapped up the 1990s with another urban gangster thriller, Light It Up ( film ) ( 1999 ), which featured an ensemble cast including R & B singer / actor Usher Raymond ( in his first leading role ), Rosario Dawson, Forest Whitaker, and Vanessa L. Williams ; he also played Alan Freed in the latter's life story, Mr. Rock ' N ' Roll: The Alan Freed Story ( 1999 ) opposite Mädchen Amick and Paula Abdul.

Named the " world's leading brass ensemble " by The Washington Post, they perform a wide variety of musical styles, including baroque, classical, renaissance, medieval, jazz and pop.

For his work, Pande was awarded the 2012 Michael and Kate Bárány Award for Young Investigators for " developing field-defining and field-changing computational methods to produce leading theoretical models for protein and RNA folding " as well as the 2006 Irving Sigal Young Investigator Award for his simulation results which " have stimulated a re-examination of the meaning of both ensemble and single-molecule measurements, making Dr. Pande ’ s efforts pioneering contributions to simulation methodology.

The Kamkars ( Baradaran-e Kamkar ) from the city of Sanandaj is a leading ensemble in Kurdish music today.

In the words of the RCP's Constitution, this involves the party hypothetically leading " whole ensemble of revolutionary preparations ", with party's press and the spreading of Avakian's theory.

The influence of Haydn's chamber writing suggested similar possibilities for winds, and advancements in the building of these instruments in that period made them more useful in small ensemble settings, leading composers to attempt smaller combinations.

Though the form fell out of favor in the latter half of the 19th century, there has been renewed interest in the form by leading composers in the 20th century, and today the wind quintet is a standard chamber ensemble, valued for its versatility and variety of tone color.

This is common in ensemble casts where often the leading villain remains behind the scenes.

Notable leading roles include Lt. Brann in the two-character-thriller Two Small Bodies, fisherman Stuart Kane in the Robert Altman film Short Cuts ( for which the whole ensemble won a Golden Globe ) ( both 1993 ), a dangerous criminal in the comedy Naked Gun 33⅓: The Final Insult ( 1994 ), the sailor in the French-avant-garde-drama The Blue Villa ( 1995 ), plus his reprised role in Tremors II: Aftershocks and the Special Agent in Chain Reaction ( both 1996 ).

The New York Philharmonic chose to program portions of the opera in 1942 with conductor Fritz Busch leading the ensemble.

Lucha Reyes and the ensemble Los Morochucos placed black performers among the leading interpreters of the vals criollo and marinera genres.

It aims to do this by running hundreds of thousands of different models ( a large climate ensemble ) using the donated idle time of ordinary personal computers, thereby leading to a better understanding of how models are affected by small changes in the many parameters known to influence the global climate.

In 1947 he was hired as music director of the Utah Symphony, and over the next 30 years raised the ensemble to international prominence, leading the symphony in live radio broadcasts and releasing more than 100 commercial recordings.