The Black Rider: The Casting of the Magic Bullets is a self-billed " musical fable " in the avant-garde tradition created through the collaboration of theatre director Robert Wilson, musician Tom Waits, and writer William S. Burroughs.

Many musical allusions to the fable are of limited or no relevance.

Bearing in mind George Bernard Shaw's perceptive observations upon Liszt's musical interpretation of the morality of the Don in the Don Giovanni Fantasy, it might be similarly if cautiously suggested that the combination and disposition of the themes in the minuet scene in the present work Fantasy also adumbrate a moral fable: that the flirtatiousness of Cherubino which may seem harmless enough at the beginning could be leading to the unforgivable behaviour of a Don Giovanni, unless good common sense ( See Figaro: " Non più andrai ...") hinders him from doing so.

On the sitcom The Golden Girls, there was a 1991 episode in which the characters perform a short musical based on the fable ( here titled " Henny Panny ") at a school recital.

This was followed in 1998 by Joy Chaitin and Sarah Stevens-Estabrook's equally light-hearted musical version of the fable, " Henny Penny ".

Golan was responsible for the 1980 musical The Apple, an unusual moral fable with a rock-disco soundtrack which appears on a number of lists of all-time-worst movies, but has developed a following as a cult film.

A year later, Holst first heard Schoenberg ’ s Five Pieces for Orchestra, an " ultra-modern " set of five movements employing " extreme chromaticism " ( the consistent use of all 12 musical notes ).

Most characteristic are the productions of Jerzy Grzegorzewski ( Theatre director between 1997 – 2002 ), who, employing complicated stage equipment ( metaphoric scenographic elements such as pantographs, huge musical instruments, or symbolic props ) and creating his own montage of classic texts, testing their value, searching for their relevance to the here and now.

Daldry ’ s production ( with set design by Ian McNeil ) was notable for employing non-naturalistic staging, set design, lighting and musical composition, drawing heavily from Expressionism as well as cinematic styles of film noir and horror films.

This interest in early music would greatly influence his compositional technique in later years by employing palindromic form on both the micro-and macro-scale and the economical use of musical materials.

Shmoos were originally meant to be included in the 1956 Broadway Li ' l Abner musical, employing stage puppetry.

Shmoos were originally meant to be included in the 1956 Broadway Li ' l Abner musical, employing stage puppetry.

is a Japanese singer known for employing a variety of musical styles, most notably rock.

Bands wear the cap badges of employing Corps and Divisions or Regiments of infantry and provide musical support subject to their availability as directed by Commander Regional Forces.

In her orchestral work Miroirs des temps Chin has also used compositional concepts of Medieval composers, such as Machaut and Ciconia, by employing and evolving techniques such as musical palindromes and crab canons.

It was strongly influenced by musical styles outside the standard " rock " genre, employing African-style percussion and Afro-American funk rhythms.

From age 14 on, well-known musical instrument factories such as Bruder, Gavioli, Mortier and DeVreese were employing him in Waldkirch and Paris .< ref >

Harmonically, the piece often borders on tonally ambiguous, with the composer employing musical devices such as chromaticism and, in the third movement, a whole tone scale in order to heighten the feeling of tonal uncertainty.

Some critics loathed the repetitiveness in Merezhkovsky's prose, but no one could dispute the authenticity of his ( in a broad sense ) very musical manner of employing certain ideas almost as symphonic themes, which was new at the time and also much imitation-spawning.

This is of course an opportunity for advertisers to create meaning for their brand by employing musical pieces for their own interest.

Couperin and Rameau gave titles to nearly everything they wrote, not in the later sense of `` program music '' but as a kind of nonmusical reference for the close, clear musical forms filled with keen wit and precise utterance.

The Marx Brothers ' films included a musical number in nearly every film, allowing the Brothers to highlight their musical talents.

In July, the Ramones crossed the Atlantic for two London shows that helped spark the nascent UK punk scene and affected its musical style —" instantly nearly every band speeded up ".

* A two-hour live telethon entitled " America: A Tribute to Heroes ", with musical performances and spoken tributes by top American performers, is simultaneously broadcast on nearly every network.

Singer Darby Crash often arrived onstage nearly incoherent from drugs, singing everywhere but into the microphone and taunting the audience between songs, yet nevertheless, delivering intense theatrical and increasingly musical performances.

Pages from an 1859 libretto for Ernani, with the original Italian lyrics, English translation, and musical notation for one of the arias Libretti have been made available in several formats, some more nearly complete than others.

In much African music, " human voice and instruments assume a kind of musical parity " and are " at times so close in timbre and so inextricably interwoven within the music ’ s fabric as to be nearly indistinguishable ".

To promote the new album, Prince was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live on February 4, 2006, seventeen years after his last SNL appearance on the 15th anniversary special and nearly 25 years since his first appearance on a regular episode in 1981, making Prince the only SNL musical guest to have that long of a gap between appearances.

In the 1930s, the show began hiring professionals and expanded to four hours ; and WSM-AM, broadcasting by then with 50, 000 watts, made the program a Saturday night musical tradition in nearly 30 states.

The Warner Bros. technology, named Vitaphone, was publicly introduced on August 6, 1926, with the premiere of the nearly three-hour-long Don Juan ; the first feature-length movie to employ a synchronized sound system of any type throughout, its soundtrack contained a musical score and sound effects, but no recorded dialogue — in other words, it had been staged and shot as a silent film.

Taylor and the members of Daniel Amos went on to record numerous albums and change musical styles with nearly every one of them, including the four part Alarma!

The collection contains nearly 13, 000 items that include complete rooms, musical instruments, and clocks, as well as furniture.

In 1943, American Decca ushered in the age of the original cast album in the United States, when they released an album set of nearly all the songs from Rodgers and Hammerstein's Oklahoma !, performed by the same cast who appeared in the show on Broadway, and using the show's orchestra, conductor, chorus, and musical and vocal arrangements.

Since the score of a Broadway or film musical is what actually makes the work a musical, it is far more essential to the work than mere incidental music, which nearly always amounts to little more than a background score ; indeed, many plays have no incidental music whatsoever.

His work spans two continents, three languages, and nearly every film genre, including experimental film, documentary, melodrama, musical, erotica, comedy, romance, costume dramas, fantasy, crime film, adventure, and western.

The musical sourcepoint for nearly all power pop is The Beatles.

In the musical number that accompanies Firefly's first day in office, Groucho lets the audience know how things will run, singing lyrics such as " The last man nearly ruined this place, he didn't know what to do with it / If you think this country's bad off now, just wait ' til I get through with it.

In addition to nearly 700 compositions ( kritis ), Tyagaraja composed two musical plays in Telugu, the Prahalada Bhakti Vijayam and the Nauka Charitam.

As a writer and composer, he created 18 comic operas, nearly 100 musical sketches, some 600 songs and piano pieces, three books and both serious and comic pieces for newspapers and magazines.

In his career, Grossmith wrote 18 comic operas, nearly 100 musical sketches, some 600 songs and piano pieces, and three books.

With seating for nearly 400 people, Peel Hall hosts many musical performances and is the main venue for the midday recitals.

The original concept album received critical accolades, with Rolling Stone raving that the " dazzling score covers nearly all the pop bases ", Kurt Ganzl's Blackwell Guide to the Musical Theatre on Record telling readers about the " thrilling exposition of an exciting piece of modern musical theater occurring before the event " and Time declaring that the " rock symphonic synthesis was ripe with sophistication and hummable tunes ".