He pointed out to the young musicians that the National Gallery `` is the only museum in the country to have a full-time music director, Richard Bales.

Herr Wangenheim has only recently become the city's music director, and is a young man with a clear flair for the podium.

As the leader of the Muses ( Apollon Musegetes ) and director of their choir, Apollo functioned as the patron god of music and poetry.

The stage musical, with music and lyrics by Gene de Paul and Johnny Mercer, was adapted into a Technicolor motion picture at Paramount in 1959 by producer Norman Panama and director Melvin Frank, with a score by Nelson Riddle.

" It consisted of two segments that parodied A Christmas Carol directed by Tony Kluck and It's a Wonderful Life directed by former DreamWorks Animation director Mike deSeve, as well as Christmas-themed music videos ( taken from the first Christmas special ) and several segments in which Butt-Head answered fan mail dressed as Santa Claus while whipping a reindeer-costumed Beavis.

Haydn, having worked for over a decade as the music director for a prince, had far more resources and scope for composing than most and also the ability to shape the forces that would play his music.

By 1574 there were castrati in the Ducal court chapel at Munich, where the Kapellmeister ( music director ) was the famous Orlando di Lasso.

In 2009, Universal Pictures signed music video and film director Billie Woodruff ( Barbershop, Honey ) to direct the fifth film in the Bring It On series titled Bring It On: Fight to the Finish.

Sholes, A & R director of country music at RCA, tracked Atkins down to Denver.

* Music video director, a film director that specializes in supervising the filming and editing of music videos

Mark has gained considerable success in writing and producing music for television programs ( starting with Pee Wee's Playhouse and perhaps most famously with Rugrats ), video games, cartoons, and movies ( notably working alongside director Wes Anderson ).

Gerald Casale began a career as a director of music videos and commercials.

Coppola's surviving son, Roman, is a filmmaker and music video director whose filmography includes the feature film CQ and music videos for The Strokes, as well as co-writing two Wes Anderson films, The Darjeeling Limited and Moonrise Kingdom.

Sound, music, and ( more recently ) visual effects editors dealt with the practicalities of other aspects of the editing process, usually under the direction of the picture editor and director.

* 1637 – Friedrich Nicolaus Brauns, German composer and music director in Hamburg ( d. 1718 )

This time there was no soundtrack album in spite of the importance of music in the film as the film's writer, director and star Tim Robbins was concerned that the politically right wing content would be taken seriously and used by right wing politicians.

* Cornelius Canis, composer of the Renaissance, music director for the chapel of Charles V in the 1540s – 1550s

Finally, when Telemann got the post of organist and music director at the Neukirche, he only played the organ once, and assigned the organist's duties to his students.

He also studied the works of Johann Kuhnau, Kantor of the Thomaskirche and city director of music in Leipzig ; in his later years, Telemann recounted how much he learned about counterpoint from Kuhnau's work.

Sometime between late December 1711 and early January 1712 he applied for the newly vacant Frankfurt post of city director of music and Kapellmeister at the Barfüsserkirche.

Around 1740 his musical output fell sharply, even though he continued fulfilling his duties as Hamburg music director.

To secure local interest, in 1885, he gave $ 500, 000 to Pittsburgh for a public library, and in 1886, he gave $ 250, 000 to Allegheny City for a music hall and library ; and $ 250, 000 to Edinburgh for a free library.

In 1972, he became a Top 40 music disc jockey on WIXZ, a small AM radio station that reached much of the Pittsburgh area.

Neal then spread the popular music programming to WLS Chicago and KQV Pittsburgh and they attained very large audiences.

Parks originally studied the clarinet, but had moved to the piano before enrolling ( majoring in music ) at the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, where he studied from 1960 to 1963.

These performances feature world music and culture as well as Pittsburgh artists.

* Andre Previn and Mia Farrow, From 1976-1984, Previn was music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

Modern swing dance bands active in the U. S. during the 1990s and 2000s include many contemporary jazz big bands, swing revival bands with a national presence such as Lavay Smith and Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers ( based in San Francisco ), and local / regional jazz bands that specialize in 1930s-1940s swing / Lindy dance music, such as The Swingout Big Band, White Heat Swing Orchestra, and Beantown Swing Orchestra ( Boston ), The Boilermaker Jazz Band ( Pittsburgh ), the Southside Aces ( Minneapolis ), Gordon Webster Septet ( New York ), Jonathan Stout and His Campus Five ( Los Angeles ) and The Jonathan Stout Orchestra featuring Hilary Alexander ( Los Angeles ), The Flat Cats ( Chicago ), The Gina Knight Orchestra ( Chicago and Joliet, IL ), the Solomon Douglas Swingtet and the Tom Cunningham Orchestra ( Washington, D. C .), Sonoran Swing ( Arizona ), and The Bill Elliott Swing Orchestra ( Los Angeles ).

Rusted Root is a band from Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania known for their unique fusion of acoustic, rock, world and other styles of music, with a strong percussion section that draws from African, Latin American, and Native American influences.

Some classical recordings were issued in high fidelity and even stereophonic sound on the Capitol label by William Steinberg and the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, Leopold Stokowski with various orchestras ( including the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra ), and Sir Thomas Beecham and the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, as well as light classical albums by Carmen Dragon and the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra and a series of albums of film music conducted by leading Hollywood composers such as Alfred Newman.

Henry Kleber ( 1816 – 1897 ), one of Stephen ’ s few formal music instructors, was a classically trained musician who emigrated from Darmstadt, Germany, to Pittsburgh and opened a music store.

Seidl brought Herbert, Förster, Bendix, Juchs, Ohe and Lilli Lehmann, together with a large orchestra and 500-voice chorus, to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in May 1889 as part of a big music festival to celebrate the new Exposition Building.

In Pittsburgh, he began his musical career, studying classical music for a time at the Pittsburgh Music Institute, writing a high school musical, forming a musical trio that played daily on a local radio station, and, while still in his teens, composing ( with lyrics ) the songs " Life Is Lonely " ( later renamed " Lush Life "), " My Little Brown Book ", and " Something to Live For ".

Rusted Root, a jam band who has also had a prolific music career with the songs " Send Me on My Way ", " Ecstasy ", " Heaven ", and " Free my soul ", also call Pittsburgh home.

Although his admission to the Pittsburgh music union was initially refused because of his inability to read music, they eventually relented in 1956 and made him an honorary member.

In 1997, Jansons became the music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra.

After leaving Pittsburgh, her music training started at a music school.

Born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Wilson relocated to Los Angeles with her mother and aunt ( Krystal and Penny ) who were themselves interested in pursuing careers in the music industry.

Traditional music, however, which was at the root of these developments, is more often offered by local folk societies, such as Calliope: Pittsburgh Folk Music Society, Athens Folk Music and Dance Society, etc.

The WIIC calls lived on in Pittsburgh, on a low-powered independent station airing music videos ( that station is currently silent ).

The Mellon Jazz Festival is a week-long jazz music festival held in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.