The music director of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, William Steinberg, has molded his group into a prominent musical organization, which is his life.

Although Patchen has given previous evidence of an interest in jazz, the musical group that he works with, the Chamber Jazz Sextet, is often ignored by jazz critics.

Like the recent Scheherazade from London ( High Fidelity, Sept. 1961 ), it is successful because emphasis has been placed on good musical and engineering practices rather than on creating sensational effects.

each musical setting has an individual touch.

Rangoni's first entrance is a musical shock, a sudden open fifth in a key totally unrelated to what has preceded it.

Berman, whose fame has rested in recent years on his skills as a night club monologist, proved himself very much at home in musical comedy.

It has all been done in superb style, and the result is a show which deserves the support of every person hereabouts who enjoys good musical theater.

Jimmy Witherspoon, Blues singer ( and a good one ), and the Ike Isaacs Trio, which has done such wonderful work for two afternoons now, helping him with the musical examples.

Turning to the current musical season on Broadway, the most widely acclaimed of the new arrivals, How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying, has been transferred to an original cast album ( R. C. A. Victor LOC 1066 ; ;

Mr. Herman has managed to mix musical ideas drawn from Israel and the standard American ballad style in a manner that stresses the basic tunefulness of both idioms.

Angst in serious musical composition has been a reflection of the times.

The highly iridescent inner nacre layer of the shell of abalone has traditionally been used as a decorative item, in jewelry, buttons, and as inlay in furniture and in musical instruments such as guitars, etc.

The world of Arab music has long been dominated by Cairo, a cultural center, though musical innovation and regional styles abound from Morocco to Saudi Arabia.

Aberdour has a very popular yearly festival, which runs from late July to early August and features musical events, shows, sporting events and children's events.

Since its original 1973 Broadway production, the musical has enjoyed professional productions in the West End, by opera companies, in a 2009 Broadway revival, and elsewhere, and it is a popular choice for regional groups.

The musical has also become part of the repertoire of a few opera companies.

The piece has also become a popular choice for amateur musical theatre and light opera companies.

Stephen Sondheim wrote lyrics for the " Night Waltz " theme (" Love Takes Time ") and wrote an entirely new version of " The Glamorous Life ", which has been incorporated into several subsequent productions of the stage musical.

The score for A Little Night Music has elements not often found in musical theater, presenting challenges for performers, with complex meters, pitch changes, polyphony, and high notes for both males and females.

Mr. Sondheim has written several pleasing songs but not enough of them to give the musical wings.

A Funny Thing has enjoyed several Broadway and West End revivals and was made into a successful film starring the original lead of the musical, Zero Mostel.

Another draft of the opening number, " Invocation and Instructions to the Audience ," has been used in subsequent revues of Sondheim songs and was sung by Nathan Lane in the musical The Frogs.

Shannon Beiste claims she has musical experience and states that she played " The Forum " in a production.

Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

The Movie has now become the most successful movie musical of all time and has been named the number one box office smash of 2008, and the biggest-selling DVD ever in the UK.

`` Both children are musical and my wife is a music lover of unfailing instinct and judgement ''.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

A low-power, `` carrier-current '' broadcasting station, KARL, heard only in the campus dormitories, is owned and operated by the students to provide an outlet for student dramatic, musical, literary, technical, and other talents, and to furnish information, music, and entertainment for campus listeners.

It is this sort of experience that makes the concept of high fidelity of real musical significance for the home music listener.

I took a deep breath and an even deeper swallow of my drink, and said, `` I admit that going back to Ralph Waldo Emerson for humor is like going to a modern musical comedy for music and comedy ''.

Furthermore, there were solid musical virtues in the interpretation of the music.

'' With music and lyrics by Frank Loesser, directed by Christopher Hewett, choreography by Peter Conlow, musical direction by Samuel Matlowsky.

The book is by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction by Jack Elliott, and the production was directed by Mr. Abbott.

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.

Instead of her old confidence in the simplest, purest, most moving musical expression, Miss Schwarzkopf is letting herself be tempted by the classic sin of artistic pride -- that subtle vanity that sometimes misleads a great artist into thinking that he or she can somehow better the music by bringing to it something extra, some personal dramatic touch imposed from the outside.

Chaâbi music is a typically Algerian musical genre that was derived from the Andalusian music during the 1920s.

Andalusian so-called Algerian classical music is a musical style that was reported in Algeria by Andalusian refugees who fled the inquisition of the Christian Kings from the 11th century, it will develop considerably in the cities of the North of the Algeria.

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.

While Parsons pursued his own solo career and took many members of the Project on the road for the first time in a successful worldwide tour, Woolfson went on to produce musical plays influenced by the Project's music.

Moody's preaching and Sankey's musical gifts were significant ; their arrangements were the forerunners of gospel music, and churches all over the U. S. were eager to acquire them.

" Amazing Grace " is emblematic of several kinds of folk music styles, often used as the standard example to illustrate such musical techniques as lining out and call and response, that have been practiced in both black and white folk music.

The revival brought forward musical styles that had, in earlier times, contributed to the development of country & western, jazz, and rock and roll music.

The African musical focus on rhythmic singing and dancing was brought to the New World, where it became part of a distinct folk culture that helped Africans " retain continuity with their past through music ".

Shanty repertoire borrowed from the contemporary popular music enjoyed by sailors, including minstrel music, popular marches, and land-based folk songs, which were adapted to suit musical forms matching the various labor tasks required to operate a sailing ship.

In that year he became Kappellmeister of the Imperial Chapel upon the death of Giuseppe Bonno ; as Kappellmeister he conducted the music and musical school connected with the chapel until shortly before his death, being official retired from the post in 1824.