In early 1964, Benny and Christina joined a group with the odd name " Elverkets Spelmanslag " (" The Electricity Board Folk Music Group "), who by no means was a folk music ensemble: the name was a punning reference to their electric instruments.

* Conductor, a person who leads a musical ensemble by way of visible gestures known as conducting

A musical ensemble is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, typically known by a distinct name.

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

The project that was planned by Cosimo I, Grand Duke of Tuscany to arrange that prime works of art in the Medici collections on the piano nobile was effected by Francis I of Tuscany, who commissioned from Buontalenti the famous Tribuna degli Uffizi that united a selection of the outstanding masterpieces in the collection in an ensemble that was a star attraction of the Grand Tour.

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

Down Beat magazine reported, "( Basie ) has managed to assemble an ensemble that can thrill both the listener who remembers 1938 and the youngster who has never before heard a big band like this.

" Patchen made these recordings in collaboration with the musician Allyn Ferguson who composed and arranged jazz accompaniment for each individual poem and also led the jazz ensemble.

Chinese Roulette ( Chinesisches Roulette ) is a gothic thriller with an ensemble cast, the story follows a twelve year old crippled girl who, out of hate for her parents lack of affection, arranges an encounter between them with their respective lovers at the family country estate.

* Billy Mills-wisecracking leader of Billy Mills and the Orchestra, who led the show's ensemble through musical numbers in each episode.

Dogma is a 1999 American adventure fantasy comedy film written and directed by Kevin Smith, who also stars in the film along with an ensemble cast that includes Ben Affleck, Matt Damon, Linda Fiorentino, Alan Rickman, Bud Cort, Salma Hayek, Chris Rock, Jason Lee, George Carlin, Janeane Garofalo, Alanis Morissette, and Jason Mewes.

Drummer Pierre Moerlen, who had been persuaded by Virgin to rejoin Gong as a co-leader with Malherbe ( after his spell with the French contemporary ensemble Les Percussions De Strasbourg ) in 1975, gradually took over the band's leadership ( with the original band dissolving in 1976 ).

However, it won Decca the loyalty of the baritone Roy Henderson, who went on to record for them the first complete Dido and Aeneas of Purcell with Nancy Evans and the Boyd Neel ensemble ( Purcell Club, 14 sides, pre-1936 ); and Henderson's famous pupil Kathleen Ferrier was recorded and issued by Decca through the period of transition from 78 to LP ( 1946 – 1952 ).

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.

Other performers of his works ( often in arrangement for live musicians ) include Thomas Adès, Alarm Will Sound and ensemble Calefax from the Netherlands who also recorded the Studies for player piano, already called ' Best CD of 2009 ' by Dutch newspaper Het Parool.

Since 1987, the band has essentially been a trio of Oakey and long-serving female vocalists Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley ( who joined the ensemble in 1980 ), with various sidemen.

During his engagement with the New York Philharmonic, Hans Lange, the son of the last Master of the Sultan's Music in Istanbul, who was later to become conductor at the Chicago Symphony Orchestra and the legendary founder of the New Mexico Symphony Orchestra as a professional ensemble, was his concert master.

Carnatic music is usually performed by a small ensemble of musicians, who sit on an elevated stage.

The British Hit Singles & Albums noted that it was " formed in 1946 by Sir Thomas Beecham, who wanted a first rate ensemble that would attract the country's top musicians.

Bernice Johnson Reagon ( born October 4, 1942 ) is a singer, composer, scholar, and social activist, who founded the a cappella ensemble Sweet Honey in the Rock in 1973.

The structure of the modern " ensemble " television drama comes from Bochco who many regard as having changed the " language " of television drama.

She initially studied acting under the Meisner technique, an ensemble acting technique first evolved in the 1930s by Sanford Meisner, a New York stage actor / acting coach / director who had been a member of The Group Theater ( 1931 – 1940 ).

Also in 2011, Keaton began production on Justin Zackham's ensemble comedy The Big Wedding, in which she, along with Robert De Niro, will play a long-divorced couple who, for the sake of their adopted son's wedding and his very religious biological mother, pretend they're still married.

In 2006, Perry co-starred in the ensemble drama series Windfall, about a group of friends who win the lottery.

Gerry Lundquist became a member of the St. Louis ska punk ensemble Mu330 in 1996 and Jay Vance formed the robot-themed rock band Captured!

* Kevin Eubanks and the Primetime Band ( The Jay Leno Show same ensemble as above, 2009 )

Mozart, in his Sinfonia Concertante for Violin, Viola and Orchestra in E flat, wrote the viola part in D major and specified that the viola's strings were to be raised in pitch by a semitone: his intention was probably to give the viola a brighter tone so as to avoid it being overpowered by the rest of the ensemble.

Composers like Jean-Baptise Barrière, Georg Phillipp Telemann and Marin Marais wrote solo-and ensemble pieces for treble or pardessus.

In 1968 Piazzolla wrote and produced an " operita ", María de Buenos Aires, that employed a larger ensemble including flute, percussion, multiple strings and three vocalists, and juxtaposed movements in Piazzolla's own style with several pastiche numbers ranging from waltz and hurdy-gurdy to a piano / narrator bar-room scena straight out of Casablanca.

After making three albums in New York with the second quintet and producer Kip Hanrahan, two of which he described on separate occasions as " the greatest thing I've done ", he disbanded the quintet, formed a sextet with an extra bandoneón, cello, bass, electric guitar, and piano, and wrote music for this ensemble that was even more adventurous harmonically and structurally than any of his previous works ( Preludio y Fuga ; Sex-tet ).

Critic Dennis Schwartz appreciated the acting ensemble in the film and wrote, " The film was too stagebound to be effective cinema, but it scores points in its unsentimental portrait of the loser life of the lonely and desperate merchant seamen.

However, as Cartwright wrote in her autobiography My Life as a 10-Year-Old Boy, " the producers were still putting together this ensemble of and, come Monday, at the recording, she was nowhere to be found and the part was assigned to me.

In later years, he lived year-round in Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts, on Cape Cod, where he wrote and directed numerous evening-length entertainments, often featuring his own papier-mâché puppets, an ensemble known as Le Theatricule Stoique.

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.

Barraqué also wrote ... au dela du hasard ( 1959 ) for three female voices and ensemble, and a concerto for clarinet, vibraphone and ensemble in 1968, which are related to The Death of Virgil, but not actually part of that cycle.

Several of Crumb's works, including the four books of madrigals he wrote in the late 1960s and Ancient Voices of Children, a song cycle of 1970 for two singers and small instrumental ensemble ( which includes a toy piano ), are settings of texts by Federico García Lorca.

In S. W. A. T., for which the actor starred with Samuel L. Jackson in an ensemble cast that also included Michelle Rodriguez, Olivier Martinez and Jeremy Renner, Alan Morrison of Empire wrote, " Farrell can usually be relied upon to bring a spark to the bonfire.

He wrote more ensemble numbers and choruses, and, influenced by French opera composers such as Jean-Philippe Rameau, he introduced ballets into his work.

Anderson ended up designing his own poster, cut together a trailer himself, wrote the liner notes for the soundtrack album, and pushed to avoid hyping Cruise's presence in the film in favor of the ensemble cast.

A typical symphony at this time was written for a pairs of oboes and horns and string instruments, but the Eisenstadt orchestra had recently taken on two new horn players, and Haydn wrote this symphony for an expanded ensemble of one flute, two oboes, four horns, timpani and strings ( violins divided into firsts and seconds ), violas, cellos and double basses ), with bassoon doubling the bass-line.

The same type of chamber music ensemble – two violins, a viola and a cello – for which Mozart and Beethoven wrote can also be used to comment on international politics, interpret avant-garde rock and incorporate music from every corner of the world

Knussen wrote his Songs for Sue, a setting of four poems for soprano and 15-piece ensemble, as a memorial tribute to his late wife, and the music received its world première in Chicago in 2006.

The ensemble raised the standard of new music performance in New York, and championed the music of such composers as Milton Babbitt, Elliott Carter and Stefan Wolpe, who wrote several works for the ensemble.

Other champions of Wuorinen ’ s music include Peter Serkin, for whom Wuorinen composed three concerti including Time Regained ( based on music of Machaut, Matteo da Perugia, Guillaume Dufay, and Orlando Gibbons ) and Flying to Kahani, commissioned by Carnegie Hall ; the solo Scherzo and Adagio ; and the Second Piano Quintet with the Brentano Quartet, another ensemble with which Wuorinen has had a very fruitful relationship and for which he wrote his Fourth String Quartet.

In January 2012, the music collective, New Party Systems, an ensemble containing First, released a song First wrote ( C2011 Silent Graph Music ASCAP ), " We Are " –– an anthem for the 99 %, with a video by director, Toni Comas.

He became an enthusiastic advocate of this style and wrote many works according to its principles, among them Transformation ( 1957, for jazz ensemble ), Concertino ( 1959, for jazz quartet and orchestra ; one of its movements, Progression in Tempo, has sometimes been performed separately ), Abstraction ( 1959, for nine instruments ), the opera The Visitation ( 1966 ), and Variants on a Theme of Thelonious Monk ( 1960, for 13 instruments ), which was recorded by Ornette Coleman, Eric Dolphy, and Bill Evans.

In January 2010 after Haiti had a devastating earthquake, Kirk Franklin got an ensemble of gospel artists together to sing the song he wrote, called " Are You Listening ".

That same year, he wrote his Wind Quintet expressly for this ensemble.