The Rev. Richard Freeman of Texas City officiated and Charles Pabor and Mrs. Marvin Hand presented music.

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.

When Richard Nixon visited China in 1972, this song was played as the welcome music.

He studied organ there from 1885 – 1893 with Eugène Munch, organist of the Protestant Temple, who inspired Schweitzer with his profound enthusiasm for the music of German composer Richard Wagner.

This was intended to be the nec plus ultra of reform opera, a completely new synthesis of poetry and music that was an 18th-century anticipation of the ideals of Richard Wagner.

Bartók's large-scale orchestral works were still in the style of Johannes Brahms and Richard Strauss, but he wrote a number of small piano pieces which showed his growing interest in folk music.

The translation by Richard Crashaw was set to music in a four part glee by Samuel Webbe Jr.

Quixote has served as an important thematic source not only in literature but in much of art and music, inspiring works by Pablo Picasso and Richard Strauss.

The same year, his interest in music was further stimulated when his father brought home a collection of American 45s by artists including Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers, The Platters, Fats Domino, Elvis Presley and Little Richard.

Despite predictions from the music press that the band would fold without Wood, who had been the driving force behind the creation of ELO, Lynne stepped up to lead the band, with Bev Bevan remaining on drums, joined by Gibson, Richard Tandy ( now on the Moog synthesiser ), Mike de Albuquerque on bass and vocals and Mike Edwards and Colin Walker on cellos.

( 1965 ), for which he had written the lyrics to Richard Rodgers's music, Sondheim decided that he would henceforth work only on projects where he could write both the music and lyrics himself.

Born in Munich, the son of Friedrich Richard Hartmann, well known there for his flower paintings, and the youngest of four brothers of whom the elder three also became painters, Hartmann was himself torn, early in his career, between music and the visual arts.

The creative use of music videos within their 1964 debut film A Hard Day's Night, particularly the performance of " Can't Buy Me Love ", led MTV decades later to honor the film's director, Richard Lester, with an award for " basically inventing " the music video.

Illustration inspired by Richard Wagner | Wagner's music drama Das Rheingold

Many other popular rock and roll singers of the time, such as Fats Domino and Little Richard, came out of the black rhythm and blues tradition, making the music attractive to white audiences, and are not usually classed as " rockabilly ".

Richard Hell was an innovator of punk music and fashion.

Filmed on location in the Mexican state of Durango, the film starred James Coburn and Kris Kristofferson in the title roles, with a huge supporting cast including Bob Dylan ( who composed the film's music ), Jason Robards, R. G. Armstrong, Richard Jaeckel, Jack Elam, Chill Wills, Katy Jurado, L. Q. Jones, Slim Pickens and Harry Dean Stanton.

Diaghilev commissioned ballet music from composers such as Nikolai Tcherepnin ( Narcisse et Echo, 1911 ), Claude Debussy ( Jeux, 1913 ), Maurice Ravel ( Daphnis et Chloé, 1912 ), Erik Satie ( Parade, 1917 ), Manuel de Falla ( El Sombrero de Tres Picos, 1917 ), Richard Strauss ( Josephslegende, 1914 ), Sergei Prokofiev ( Ala and Lolly, rejected by Diaghilev and turned into the Scythian Suite ; Chout, 1915 revised 1920 ; Le pas d ' acier, 1926 ; and The Prodigal Son, 1929 ), Ottorino Respighi ( La Boutique fantasque, 1918 ), Francis Poulenc ( Les biches, 1923 ) and others.

In 1965 he wrote the lyrics only for Do I Hear a Waltz ?, with music by Richard Rodgers.

( 1965 ) ( music by Richard Rodgers ; book by Arthur Laurents ; directed by John Dexter )

* Girls of Summer ( 1956 ) ( incidental music by Sondheim ; play by N. Richard Nash )

* Candide – Second Version ( 1974 ) ( new lyrics by Sondheim ; original lyrics by Richard Wilbur ; music by Leonard Bernstein ; book by Hugh Wheeler )

When Diabelli died in 1858, Spina continued to run the firm, and published much music by Johann Strauss II and Josef Strauss.

In a proposal for transforming the journal, Adorno sought to use Anbruch for championing radical modern music against what he called the " stabilized music " of Pfitzner, the later Strauss, as well as the neoclassicism of Stravinsky and Hindemith.

His early works show the influence of Grieg, Wagner, Richard Strauss and fellow student Ralph Vaughan Williams, and later, through Vaughan Williams, the music of Ravel.

This was partly in response to an embargo on contemporary German music that saw very few performances of Richard Strauss and Max Reger throughout the war ( although older generations of German composers remained as popular as ever, culminating in a run of Die Walküre, conducted by Thomas Beecham, in 1918 ).

The work was closely studied by Gustav Mahler and Richard Strauss and served as the foundation for a subsequent textbook by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, who, as a music student, attended the concerts Berlioz conducted in Moscow and Saint Petersburg.

A world capital of music, the city played host to composers such as Brahms, Bruckner, Mahler and Richard Strauss.

During his boyhood Strauss attended orchestra rehearsals of the Munich Court Orchestra, and he also received private instruction in music theory and orchestration from an assistant conductor there.

Indeed, in the Strauss household, the music of Richard Wagner was viewed with deep suspicion, and it was not until the age of 16 that Strauss was able to obtain a score of Tristan und Isolde.

" In order to gain Goebbels ' cooperation, however, in extending the German music copyright laws from 30 years to 50 years, in 1933 Strauss dedicated an orchestral song, Das Bächlein (" The Little Brook ") to him.

During his lifetime Strauss was considered the greatest composer of the first half of the 20th century, and his music had a profound influence on the development of 20th-century music.

Strauss, as conductor, made a large number of recordings, both of his own music as well as music by German and Austrian composers.

In 1944, Strauss celebrated his 80th birthday and conducted the Vienna Philharmonic in recordings of his own major orchestral works, as well as his seldom-heard Schlagobers (" Whipped Cream ") ballet music.

Strauss also made live-recording player piano music rolls for the Hupfeld system, all of which survive today.

Richard Strauss was the composer of the music on the first CD to be commercially released: Deutsche Grammophon's 1983 release of their 1980 recording of Herbert von Karajan conducting the Alpine Symphony.

In music, the German composer Richard Strauss composed a one-act opera about the legend based on accounts by both Ovid and Euripides.

The libretto drew on the legend of Myrrha while the music was inspired by Claude Debussy's Pelléas et Mélisande ( 1902 ) as well as Richard Strauss ' Elektra ( 1909 ).

During its preparation he became a friend of Cosima Wagner ( then in Strasbourg ), with whom he had many theological and musical conversations, exploring his view of Bach's descriptive music, and playing the major Chorale Preludes for her at the Temple Neuf.

Frank Gaebelein observes that " Greek mercenaries and slaves served in the Babylonian and Assyrian periods, some of whom were undoubtedly versed in Greek music and musical instruments.

The first, most important and successful was The Beggar's Opera of 1728, with a libretto by John Gay and music arranged by John Christopher Pepusch, both of whom probably influenced by Parisian vaudeville and the burlesques and musical plays of Thomas D ' Urfey ( 1653 – 1723 ), a number of whose collected ballads they used in their work.

" " In France ", continued the count, " you can try to please the public, but here in Italy it is the actors and actresses whom you must consult, as well as the composer of the music and the stage decorators.

While he gained international renown for leading a Latin music band, the Desi Arnaz Orchestra, he is best known for his role as Ricky Ricardo on the American TV series I Love Lucy, starring with Lucille Ball, to whom he was married at the time.

Playford was not the author or choreographer of these dances ; he was a music publisher, for whom dance manuals were a profitable sideline.

While Brooks's musical style placed him squarely within the boundaries of country music, he was strongly influenced by the 1970s singer-songwriter movement, especially the works of James Taylor ( whom he idolized and named his first child after ) and Dan Fogelberg.

During his time at Leipzig, he was continually influenced by the music of Handel, whom he met earlier, in 1701.

He began his music career in 1982 as Kid Frost as a tribute to his rival Ice-T, whom he often battled in the music industry.

But she drifted back to songwriting and occasional recording sessions for the fledgling Capitol Records in 1947, for whom she produced a long string of hits, many of them with lyrics and music by Lee and Barbour, including " I Don't Know Enough About You " and " It's a Good Day " ( 1948 ).

Much like music, chess would remain a passion, and he became acquainted with world chess champions José Raúl Capablanca, whom he beat in a simultaneous exhibition match in 1914, and Mikhail Botvinnik.

They roam to the music of pipes ( auloi ), cymbals, castanets, and bagpipes, and they love to dance with the nymphs ( with whom they are obsessed, and whom they often pursue ), and have a special form of dance called sikinnis.

In California, Adorno made the acquaintance of Charlie Chaplin and became friends with Fritz Lang and Hanns Eisler, with whom he completed a study of film music in 1944.

The film has grown greatly in esteem since its release, largely due to its cast ( several of whom would go on to become superstars over the decade following its release ) and its music score.

Arguably, the wanderer, a recurring theme in Finnish folklore dating back to pre-Christian oral tradition ( as with Lemminkäinen in the Kalevala ), translated quite easily to the music of Huhta, Salomaa, and Kylander ; each of whom have songs about the trials and tribulations of the hobo.

The pitch ranges of two of the original singers for whom Mozart tailored his music have posed challenges for many singers who have since recreated their roles.

He has also written music for school bands, as well as a number of folk musicians, most notably Joan Baez ( for whom he also orchestrated and arranged three albums during the mid-1960s, Noël, Joan, and Baptism ).

Scribes, many of whom had no formal musical training, used a form of music notation called the letteral system.

Others taken into her confidence at this time included her husband's brother, the comte d ' Artois ; their youngest sister, Madame Élisabeth ; her sister-in-law, the comtesse de Provence ; and Christoph Willibald Gluck, her former music teacher, whom she took under her patronage upon his arrival in France.

The musician Donald Fagen has described Simon's childhood as that of " a certain kind of New York Jew, almost a stereotype, really, to whom music and baseball are very important.

More specifically, some in Britain — especially supporters of the punk movement — regarded Genesis in particular, but also the genre more generally, as overtly middle class ( paying particular attention to Gabriel, Banks and Rutherford's private education ), and claimed that rock music was being taken away from the working class, whom they regarded as its core audience.