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musical and establishment
The musical establishment, and many critics, believed that this should put an end to his career as a composer of comic opera — that a musical knight should not stoop below oratorio or grand opera.
Albinoni seems to have no other connection with that primary musical establishment in Venice, however, and achieved his early fame as an opera composer at many cities in Italy, including Venice, Genoa, Bologna, Mantua, Udine, Piacenza, and Naples.
A well-known instance occurred in 1790, when Prince Anton Esterházy succeeded his father and dismissed almost all of the latter's extensive musical establishment.
During the reign of Alfonso II, Ferrara once again developed an opulent court with an impressive musical establishment, rivaled in Italy only by the adjacent city of Venice, and the traditional musical centers such as Rome, Florence and Milan.
Also unhappy with the conservative musical establishment which was discouraging performance of new music, around this time Ravel, Fauré, and some of his pupils formed the Société musicale indépendante ( SMI ).
A Steinway Society is a local, non-profit society that aims at developing the musical knowledge and talents of disadvantaged youth ; providing an opportunity for young piano students to work towards a higher level ; encouraging performance experience, audition preparation, and scholarship assistance for further study in classical and jazz piano ; and providing talented students with a loaned piano and tuition for piano lessons through the establishment of Steinway Piano Galleries.
In addition to the piano solo repertoire, Clementi wrote a great deal of other music, including several recently pieced together, long worked on but slightly unfinished symphonies that are gradually becoming accepted by the musical establishment as being very fine works.
The composer Debussy later wrote that the musical establishment could not cope with Offenbach's irony, which exposed the " false, overblown quality " of the operas they favoured – " the great art at which one was not allowed to smile ".
In 1743 Leopold Mozart was appointed to a position ( fourth violinist ) in the musical establishment of Count Leopold Anton von Firmian, the ruling Prince-Archbishop of Salzburg.
* Sainte-Chapelle ( choir ), the history of the musical establishment of the same name as the building, until 1803.
The turning point was the big success of the revised version of I promessi sposi in 1872, which brought him a contract with the music publisher G. Ricordi & Co. and the musical establishment at the Conservatory and at La Scala.
Factions within the city's musical establishment considered his identification with the progressive ideas of Franz Liszt and Richard Wagner inimical to the development of a distinctively Czech opera style.
After five years he moved again to Karlsruhe, where he spent the last years of his life at the Royal Konservatorium struggling to raise the modest courtly musical establishment to respectability.
Though he had a few friends among Mexican composers, he was largely ignored by the Mexican musical establishment.
Never feeling the need to belong to the musical establishment, he voiced his growing left-wing ideals that put him in an artistic isolation that lasted for the rest of his life.
His first piano piece, " For a Small White Seashell " (" Για μια Μικρή Λευκή Αχιβάδα "), came out in 1947 and in 1948 he shook the musical establishment by delivering his legendary lecture on rembetika, the urban folk songs that flourished in Greek cities, mainly Piraeus, after the Asia Minor refugee influx in 1922 and until then had heavy underworld and cannabis use connections and were consequently looked down upon.
During a period of twenty years, Pepusch directed the musical establishment at Cannons, a large house northwest of London.
Chase's analysis of a diverse American musical identity has remained the dominant view among the academic establishment.
Chin was a pioneer in the establishment of dub as a standalone musical form.
In 1556 he joined the court of Albrecht V, Duke of Bavaria, who was consciously attempting to create a musical establishment on a par with the major courts in Italy.
However, she and her husband have arranged their wills so as to leave their entire fortune to the establishment of a musical educational trust for children.
Many of German's colleagues in the musical establishment did, however, find his work to be of the highest quality, including Elgar and Sir John Barbirolli.

musical and constantly
During the mid-20th century, the musical culture of the Caribbean was constantly influenced by the concurrent changes in American music.
A favorite Mobutu tactic was to play " musical chairs ," rotating members of his government, switching the cabinet roster constantly to ensure that no one would pose a threat to his rule.
Highly musical and unable to sit still, they constantly contorted their bodies wildly while singing.
They wore insect-themed outfits with antennae and wings which allowed them to fly, though, on occasion they were shown flying on surfboards, and were constantly beset by the evil machinations of Benita Bizarre, played by comedienne Martha Raye, who, being untalented and ugly herself, was covetous of the Bugaloos ' musical prowess.
However, his musical career was constantly interrupted by production of one Francis film per year until 1955.
Influenced by a wide range of musical genres including psychedelic rock, electronica, krautrock, dub and industrial, the band's sound is constantly changing, moving between live rock sounds, electronica and minimal techno.
In the musical, one song gives a " recipe " for mahoun, a preparation of cannabis, in which her sultry purring rendition of the refrain " constantly stirring with a long wooden spoon " was distinctive.
Central to the project is Ben Watkins and his collaborations with a constantly changing ensemble of musicians from across the world, including percussionist Mabi Thobejane from South Africa, along with countrymen Amampondo, Eduardo Niebla, Steve Stevens, Greg Ellis, Taz Alexander, Ghetto Priest, Sugizo, Yasmin Levy, Budgie ( drummer ) and recently Hamsika Iyer, and Maggie Hikri, Ben Watkins also collaborated with composer Don Davis for the musical score of the film The Matrix.
Parker has also increasingly become interested in electronics, usually through inviting collaborators such as Phil Wachsmann, Walter Prati, Joel Ryan, Lawrence Casserley or Matthew Wright to electronically process his playing in real time, creating a musical feedback loop or constantly shifting soundscape.
Goehr's interest in the musical past is far from an empty mannerism or a sign of musical conservatism, but rather an earnest, and constantly renewed exploration of his own musical roots.
Each brings a diversity of musical experience to the orchestra, which constantly enriches and nurtures the musical growth of the ensemble.
The band toured constantly and played a wide variety of musical styles, including old schlager hits under the alias Kullervo Kivi & Gehenna.
… A finely tuned and constantly adjusting balance needs to be developed where one can respond in reflex to the changing musical conditions.
Evadne is constantly at loggerheads with Maud, who retorts with observations such as " we can't all be musical ".
He constantly strived for balance between musical ideas and strict technique.
" are constantly shown in order to " turn the lives of annonymous strangers into pop-rock musical exposs based on the contents of these slide collections ".
" It is thus the case that cultural boundaries and limitations within the musical spectrum are constantly shifting and being redefined.

musical and Sullivan
Unlike many shows of the time, Sullivan asked that most musical acts perform their music live, rather than lip-synching to their recordings.
Gilbert and Sullivan introduced innovations in content and form that directly influenced the development of musical theatre through the 20th century.
Sullivan personally oversaw the musical preparation.
Although music has been a part of dramatic presentations since ancient times, modern Western musical theatre emerged during the 19th century, culminating with the works of Gilbert and Sullivan in Britain and those of Harrigan and Hart in America.
The only exceptions were ballad operas, such as John Gay's The Beggar's Opera ( 1728 ), musical burlesques, European operettas, and late Victorian era light operas, notably the Savoy Operas of W. S. Gilbert and Arthur Sullivan, all of which types of musical entertainments frequently spoofed operatic conventions.
Michael Balfe was the most popular British grand opera composer of the period, while the most popular musical theatre was a series of fourteen comic operas by Gilbert and Sullivan, although there was also musical burlesque and the beginning of Edwardian musical comedy in the 1890s.
** The Fantasticks, the world's longest-running musical, opens at New York City's Sullivan Street Playhouse where it will play for 42 years.
" She says that Goro now wants her to agree to marry the wealthy man Yamadori, who then is arriving with his entourage to a musical accompaniment that quotes the same Japanese folk tune that Gilbert and Sullivan set as " Mi-ya sama " in The Mikado.
Despite the boy's obvious musical talent, Thomas Sullivan knew the disappointments and insecurity of a musical career, and discouraged him from pursuing it.
Sullivan credited his Leipzig period with tremendous musical growth.
Nevertheless, his partnership with Gilbert and Sullivan, and his careful management of their operas and relationship, created a series of works whose success was unprecedented in the history of musical theatre.
Because Gilbert and Sullivan shared his vision of increasing the quality and respectability of English musical theatre, and so broadening its audience through the promotion of well-crafted English light operas, Carte gave them wider authority as director and music director than was customary at that time.
The next Gilbert and Sullivan opera, Patience, opened at the Opera Comique in April 1881 and was another big success, usurping Pinafore's position as the longest running piece in the series with the second-longest run in musical theatre history.
" had composed a brilliant new score ( his most subtle yet ) to a scintillating libretto .... Iolanthe is the work in which Sullivan's operetta style takes a definite step forward, and metamorphosis of musical themes is its characteristic new feature .... By recurrence and metamorphosis of themes Sullivan made the score more fluid ...." Much of Sullivan's " fairy " music pays deliberate homage to the incidental music written by Felix Mendelssohn for a production of Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream.
* The Hunchback of Notre Dame ( 1993 ), a dramatic sung-through musical with book and lyrics by Gary Sullivan and music by John Trent Wallace.
The production starred Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet. The trio appeared on The Ed Sullivan Show and sang a few numbers from the musical, along with an appearance by Lerner and Loewe.
The musical style is predominantly music hall, but the show includes a parody of Gilbert and Sullivan, a church choir arrangement with some completely incongruous lyrics ( A Little Bit On The Side ), and some touching ballads.
He considered including variations portraying Arthur Sullivan and Hubert Parry, but was unable to assimilate their musical styles without pastiche, and dropped the idea.
He was invited to appear with his musical quartet on The Ed Sullivan Show along with his World Series opponent ( and guitarist ) Bob Gibson.
His last appearance on Broadway was in the musical Dreamtime, directed by David Niles at the Ed Sullivan Theater at the age of 77.

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