Still, he did like music making and even sang in the chapel choir of the Woodberry Forest School, near Orange, Virginia, where he sounded fine but did not matriculate too well.

He composed songs and set them to music and sang them in a soft, melodious voice, and when his audience had had enough of music he would discourse on politics or tell stories of his western adventures guaranteed to excite the emotions of men and women alike.

On a thrusting spray thick with thorns and dewdrops and swelling pink buds, like a summer Valentine, a bird balanced and sang, nondescriptly brown and alive with its own music, a little engine of song.

A musical child, he sang in the boys ' choir at the Salzburg Cathedral where he is believed to have taken music lessons with Michael Haydn.

" He was not supposed to perform, but as he listened to the music of local musician Jesse Robinson who sang a song written for this occasion, Robinson sensed that he wanted to perform and handed him a microphone.

Other Chicano / Mexican American singers include Selena, who sang a variety of Mexican, Tejano, and American popular music, but was killed in 1995 at the age of 23 ; Zack de la Rocha, lead vocalist of Rage Against the Machine and social activist ; and Los Lonely Boys, a Texas style country rock band who have not ignored their Mexican American roots in their music.

He took a considerable risk during the mid-1960s, when the Civil Rights Movement sparked violence throughout the South by signing country music's first African-American singer Charley Pride, who sang rawer country than the smoother music Atkins had pioneered.

The people who actually sang these songs and lived in the Appalachian Mountains never used these terms to describe their own music.

This dance music genre, not to be confused with improvised freestyle rapping, was dominated, at the time, by electro funk beats and vaguely Latin melodic and percussion elements, over which Latino vocalists sang melodramatic pop vocals, usually in English.

There she sang, alongside Adelina Patti, the leading soprano of the time, a stanza of Dies irae, " Liber scriptum ", adjusted to the music of the duet " Quis est Homo " from Rossini ’ s own Stabat Mater.

In their wake, pop music filled the radio waves, dominated by teen idol crooners who sang cleansed formulas like those about the twist dance craze and " death discs " like " Teen Angel " and " Endless Sleep ".

Above all, her words are chosen for their sheer melody: the skill with which she placed her vowels and consonants, admired by Dionysius of Halicarnassus, is evidenced by almost any stanza ; the music to which she sang them has gone, but the spoken sounds may still enchant.

In " The Note ", the first episode of Season Three, the bumper music featured a scatting female jazz vocalist who sang a phrase that sounded like " easy to beat.

Twain's mainstream pop acceptance was further helped by her appearance in the 1998 first edition of the VH1 Divas concert where she sang alongside Mariah Carey, Celine Dion, Gloria Estefan and Aretha Franklin, and also by VH1's 1999 heavily aired Behind the Music, which concentrated on the tragic aspects of her early life as well as her physical attractiveness and Nashville's early resistance to her bare-midriff music videos.

Later, country music singer Charley Pride sang the national anthem.

Country music singer Garth Brooks sang the national anthem.

There was friction among band members after music industry media began singling out Hoffs as the lead singer of the group, a result of Columbia Records releasing mostly singles on which Hoffs sang lead vocal.

He was almost expelled for this and until the age of 18 listened to no music, sang no songs, and studied no instruments.

Mozart even wrote scatological music, a series of canons that he sang with his friends.

The first half of their performance consisted of rock standards, and during the second half, Ono took the microphone and along with the band performed an avant garde set, ending with music that consisted mainly of feedback, while Ono screamed and sang.

As a young man Bruckner sang in men's choirs and wrote music for them.

Nursery Rhyme Cards ) is a version of karuta made of famous Japanese nursery rhymes sang to music to help young children learn the Japanese writing system called Hiragana.

He thought that the music was " nicely composed ", but that the sound effects were " all taps and thuds ".

This drama was also well-received, and the Westside Story soundtrack complimented the drama nicely, faring well on the music charts.

Joe Ottoson of Allgame noted that the characters " are all quite vocal ", and the music " sets off the whimsical mood nicely ".

Homer ’ s moment in the sun creates a fun plot and the program nicely lampoons the country music business.

The coils of watch balance springs and the grooves of very early gramophone records form Archimedean spirals, making the grooves evenly spaced and maximizing the amount of music that could be fitted onto the record ( although this was later changed to allow better sound quality ).

Alongside traditional disciplinary staples such as English, mathematics, science ( chemistry, physics, and biology ), and social science ( divided evenly between history and geography ), Thornlea also offers courses in the fine arts, music ( vocal, choral, orchestral, wind ensemble and jazz ), drama, and design and technology.

When playing dongo, the upbeat ( the " go ") is not evenly spaced between the downbeats, but is instead played toward the " back of the beat ," a common practice in jazz music.

WROR switched to another Drake-Chenault format, " Solid Gold Rock and Roll ", on November 1, 1970, evenly splitting the oldies and current music ; in early 1973, the station went to a full-time oldies format, eventually parting ways with Drake-Chenault later that year and adopting the name " The Golden Great 98 " ( Drake-Chenault's services were later utilized by WCOP-FM, now sister station WZLX, which competed with WROR in the oldies format from 1973 – 74 ).

That after all his years of effort to become a composer, he should now, now when he was still stoutly replying to the critics of his Discourse on the Arts and Sciences, be so close to a success in music and have to reject it.

All these emotions were screwed up to new heights when, after acceptance and the first rehearsals, there ensued such a buzz of excitement among Parisian music lovers that Duclos had to come running to Rousseau to inform him that the news had reached the superintendent of the King's amusements, and that he was now demanding that the work be offered first at the royal summer palace of Fontainebleau.

Varlaam's music begins to ramble as he feels the effects of the wine, but he pulls himself together when the need arises.

( `` It is always of sorrow to me when I find people who neither know nor understand music '', he declared not long ago in proposing that White House prizes be awarded for music and art.

The Louisiana city is known, of course, for its fine food, good music and its colorful hospitality `` and, when guests arrive at Philmont that night '', says Mrs. Grinsfelder, `` that is exactly what we expect to offer them.

And so today when we examine the structure of our knowledge of the atom and of the universe, we are forced to conclude that the best word to describe our universe is music.

That is, when Mr. Milstein thrust straight to the core of the music, sparks flying, bow shredding, violin singing, glittering and sometimes spitting, Mr. Hendl could go along.

but when the sounds of the two speakers are allowed to mix, there is excellent depth and dimension to the music.

Naturally, Mr. Deller and the other singers in his troupe are most charming and elegant when they are squarely in their tradition and singing music by their countrymen: William Byrd, Thomas Morley and Thomas Tomkins.

The conductor's preoccupation with the business of starting and stopping caused occasional raggedness, as with the first orchestra entrance in the Fourth Piano Concerto, but when he put his deliberations and obsequies aside and let the music move as designed, it did so with plenty of spring.

The biographer Alexander Wheelock Thayer believes that Mozart's rivalry with Salieri could have originated with an incident in 1781 when Mozart applied to be the music teacher of Princess Elisabeth of Württemberg, and Salieri was selected instead because of his reputation as a singing teacher.

* In episode 2, season 4 of " How I Met Your Mother ", entitled " The Best Burger in New York ", Marshall's description of the taste of the best burger uses music that alludes to the 1984 film " Amadeus ", when Antonio Salieri describes the same music ( by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart ) with the same accuracy and passion with which Marshall speaks of the burger.

He was more interested in literature than music as a child and did not begin to compose until he was fifteen, when he started to teach himself music.

This was reinforced when their foremost interpreter and performer, Gervase Elwes ( who had initiated the music festivals at Brigg in Lincolnshire at which Percy Grainger and others had developed their collections of country music ) died in a horrific accident in 1921.

Beethoven had made plans to set this poem to music as far back as 1793, when he was 22 years old.

One source for this was when, as a very young boy, he would hear his father, grandfather, and cowboys give out loud cries when the music moved them.

Why, man, that's the same kind of music we've been playin ' since 1928 !... We didn't call it rock and roll back when we introduced it as our style back in 1928, and we don't call it rock and roll the way we play it now.