The cathedral is additionally a major center for concert musical performances in New York.

University music departments may sponsor bands ranging from marching bands that are an important part of collegiate sporting events, prominently featuring fight songs, to barbershop groups, glee clubs, jazz ensembles and symphonies, and may additionally sponsor musical outreach programs, such as by bringing foreign performers to the area for concerts.

Kyme additionally found that the students taught with shape notes were also far more likely to pursue musical activities later on in their education.

Rore carefully brought out the varying moods of the texts he set, developing musical devices for this purpose ; additionally he often ignored the structure of the line, line division, and rhyme, deeming it unnecessary that the musical and poetic lines correspond.

Alternatively or additionally they might have a " Cultural Evening " of assorted musical performances, sketches, dances and dramatic extracts, staged in the Silk Hall or one of the theatres.

The unit provided musical support to ceremonies around the nation's capital and, during World War II, was additionally tasked with presidential support duties.

He additionally appeared on The Mick Ronson Memorial Concert ( Citadel Records-recorded at the Hammersmith Apollo in 1994 ), Albert Hammond's 2006 release Revolution Of The Heart ( Sharpville was Hammond's guitarist and musical director ) and Leo Sayer's Voice In My Head ( 2005 ).

A Christmas pageant features the same biblical quote spoken by Linus in that special ; additionally, the music featured in the pageant is very similar to the Peanuts special's musical score by Vince Guaraldi, and the South Park kids go outside to catch falling snowflake on their tongues in the same way as in the special.

Their musical style is primarily classified as breakbeat, although it additionally encompasses other influences.

Although it borrows some ingredients from a form of Black American musical resistance hip hop, its style still remains unique to the Brazil ( specifically in Rio and São Paulo ).

The last verse of the song borrows the musical arrangement of the theme song for The Godfather movies.

The agitated and unstable development borrows motives from both themes changing keys very often and giving the melody to different instruments while a new musical idea is slowly formed.

The song heavily borrows the musical arrangement from John Barry's " You Only Live Twice ", the title track for the James Bond film of the same name, reported to be one of Williams ' favourite Bond films.

Hypnoskull is the name of Belgian musical group whose style borrows elements of noise, industrial music, jungle, breakbeat, lo-fi, and techno.

* In the second season of the AMC Series Mad Men, which takes place in 1962, several characters refer to the musical.

* Many of the characters and musical themes of Bubble Bobble were used by Taito in a tile-matching video game Puzzle Bobble ( a. k. a. Bust-a-Move ) and its sequels.

He both performed comic characters ( Flash Bazbo — Space Explorer, Mr. Rogers, music critic Roger de Swans, and sleazy record company rep Ron Fields ) and also wrote, arranged and performed numerous musical parodies ( of Bob Dylan, James Taylor and others ).

During the break, Trudeau helped create a Broadway musical of the strip, showing the graduation of the main characters.

The musical film is a film genre in which songs sung by the characters are interwoven into the narrative, sometimes accompanied by dancing.

After this, thousands of Vitaphone shorts ( 1926 – 30 ) were made, many featuring bands, vocalists and dancers, in which a musical soundtrack played while the actors portrayed their characters just as they did in silent films: without dialogue.

He greatly increased the role and power of the orchestra, creating scores with a complex web of leitmotivs, recurring themes often associated with the characters and concepts of the drama ; and he was prepared to violate accepted musical conventions, such as tonality, in his quest for greater expressivity.

The main characters of the play tend not to be involved in the musical scenes, which means that Purcell was rarely able to develop his characters through song.

It furthered the revolution begun by Show Boat, by thoroughly integrating all the aspects of musical theatre, with the songs and dances arising out of and further developing the plot and characters.

Some of the marooned characters are ordinary students, while others arrive as a musical choir under an established leader.

Everyday objects such as abaci, benches, fans, ink brushes, smoking pipes, sewing needles, or various musical instruments, are also used by characters as weapons as well.

Laurents stated, " The musical theatre and cultural conventions of 1957 made it next to impossible for the characters to have authenticity.

Puccini used Wagnerian leitmotifs ( short musical statements ) to identify characters, objects and ideas.

The characters in a musical may be more complex than those in an operetta, given the generally larger amount of dialogue.

For example, the characters in Lerner and Loewe's musical My Fair Lady, which is based on George Bernard Shaw's 1914 play Pygmalion, are essentially unchanged from those in Shaw's stage work, because the musical version is quite faithful to the original ( except for the changed ending, which is pessimistic in the play ), even to the point of retaining most of Shaw's dialogue.

As well as the poems in this volume, the musical introduces several additional characters from Eliot's unpublished drafts — most notably Grizabella.

Some of the recurring characters, who became known as the Addams Family, became the basis for two live-action television series, two animated TV series, three motion pictures and a Broadway musical.

They almost always feature musical numbers by all the main characters ( Wonka, Charlie, Grandpa Joe, Violet, etc .).

Related characters, the sharp sign in musical notation:

The musical differed from the book in that the characters included cats with many different coat colors, rather than just bicolor cats, but it retains the repeated assertion that " Jellicle cats are black and white.

Howerd had recently played the similar role of the slave Pseudolus in the original London stage run of the musical, and there were parallels between some other characters.

Other movies influenced by or making use of Uncle Tom's Cabin include Dimples ( a 1936 Shirley Temple film ), Uncle Tom's Uncle, ( a 1926 Our Gang episode ), its 1932 remake Spanky, the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical The King and I ( in which a ballet called " Small House of Uncle Thomas " is performed in traditional Siamese style ), and Gangs of New York ( in which Leonardo DiCaprio and Daniel Day-Lewis's characters attend an imagined wartime adaptation of Uncle Tom's Cabin ).

Inspired by the farces of the ancient Roman playwright Plautus ( 251 – 183 BC ), specifically Pseudolus, Miles Gloriosus and Mostellaria, the musical tells the bawdy story of a slave named Pseudolus and his attempts to win his freedom by helping his young master woo the girl next door.

" Commonly, concept albums incorporate preconceived musical or lyrical ideas with all songs contributing to a single overall theme or unified story.

* A Broadway musical version of the story, Destry Rides Again, opened in New York at the Imperial Theater on April 23, 1959, and played 472 performances.

Despite struggling through the task of plotting a story, his cadenced dialogue and cryptic narrations were musical, evoking the dark alleys and tough thugs, rich women and powerful men about whom he wrote.

The story concerns a reunion in a crumbling Broadway theatre, scheduled for demolition, of the past performers of the " Weismann's Follies ," a musical revue ( based on the Ziegfeld Follies ), that played in that theatre between the World Wars.

This gumption in musical experimentation was the essence of Puccini's style, as evidenced in his diverse settings and use of the motif to express ideas beyond those in the story and text.

Similarly to its precursor in the visual arts, musical impressionism focuses on a suggestion and an atmosphere rather than on a strong emotion or the depiction of a story as in program music.

In 1947, Styne wrote his first score for a Broadway musical, High Button Shoes with Cahn, and over the next several decades wrote the scores for many Broadway shows, most notably Gentlemen Prefer Blondes, Peter Pan ( additional music ), Bells Are Ringing, Gypsy, Do Re Mi, Funny Girl, Sugar ( with a story based on the movie Some Like It Hot, but all new music ), and the Tony-winning Hallelujah, Baby !.

The beginnings of the Spanish musical were focused on romantic Spanish archetypes: Andalusian villages and landscapes, gypsys, " bandoleros ", and copla and other popular folk songs included in story development.

Hammerstein was probably the best " book writer " in Broadway history – he made the story, not the songs or the stars, central to the musical and brought musical theater to full maturity as an art form.

Blue, commissioned by the New York State Council on the Arts ( NYSCA ), recorded a musical expression of Northup's story on an album entitled Follow the North Star.

* Based on an existing novel or short story not previously dramatized ( which became his unfinished Mary Poppins entitled Bad Tuesday, not connected to the musical film and stage play scored by the Sherman Brothers );

Paul Schmidt adapted the text from the works of Lewis Carroll ( Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass, in particular ), with songs by Waits and Kathleen Brennan presented as intersections with the text rather than as expansions of the story, as would be the case in conventional musical theater.

Additionally, Amos is currently writing the music for Samuel Adamson's musical adaptation of the George MacDonald story The Light Princess for the Royal National Theatre, which was originally expected to debut in spring 2012 but has now been deferred.

In 1996, the story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted into a holiday musical " Yes, Virginia, There is a Santa Claus " by David Kirchenbaum ( music and lyrics ) and Myles McDonnel ( book ).

The rock musical Fire Angel was based on the story of the play, with the scene changed to the Little Italy district of New York.

The opera, written in the genre of opéra comique with musical numbers separated by dialogue, tells the story of the downfall of Don José, a naive soldier who is seduced by the wiles of the fiery gypsy Carmen.

Die Meistersinger is, like Orfeo, Capriccio, and Wagner's own earlier Tannhäuser, a musical composition in which the composition of music is a pivotal part of the story.

Her story of the doomed trumpet player Rick Martin was inspired, she wrote, by " the music, but not the life " of Beiderbecke, but the image of Martin quickly became the image of Beiderbecke: His story is about " the gap between the man's musical ability and his ability to fit it to his own life.

One episode of the first season of Mission Impossible 1966 named " OLD MAN OUT " ( parts 1 and 2 ) makes use of a calliope as a musical instrument and also as a timing cue to the development of the story.

The story of a girl being groomed to be a courtesan by her grandmother made Freed doubt making it as a straight drama would be acceptable to the American censors, so they " cleaned it up " and turned it into a musical.

A musical drama written in 1989, Grannia, story and lyrics by Thomas A.