Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

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.

All musical Paris was there.

So Prokofieff was able to cultivate his musical talents and harvest a rich reward from them.

What Parker and his contemporaries -- Gillespie, Davis, Monk, Roach ( Tristano is an anomaly ), etc. -- did was to absorb the musical ornamentation of the older jazz into the basic structure, of which it then became an integral part, and with which it then developed.

To settle this slight, O'Banion went down to the La Salle Theatre in the Loop, where, he had learned, Dave Miller was attending the opening of a musical comedy.

Enrique Jorda, conductor and musical director of the San Francisco Symphony, will fulfill two more guest conducting engagements in Europe before returning home to open the symphony's Golden Anniversary season, it was announced.

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.

The task of taking the raw material of Marcel Pagnol's original trio of French films about people of the waterfront in Marseilles and putting them again on the screen, after their passage through the Broadway musical idiom, was a delicate and perilous one, indeed.

His singing was strong and musical ; ;

There was, therefore, more musical substance in the concert than might have been the case otherwise.

But, with all due respects and allowances, it must truthfully be said that what they heard was more syrupy than sweet, more mannered than musical.

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.

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin ' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named " At the Cross ", not to " New Britain ".

He was responsible for the destruction of the musical clock organ that Elizabeth I of England sent to the court during the reign of his father.

However, this division into two groups is considered by some modern scholars to be too simplistic and often it is practically impossible to know whether a lyric composition was sung or recited, or whether or not it was accompanied by musical instruments and dance.

His father was a cultured man, and his mother was the sister of Raphael Georg Kiesewetter ( 1773 – 1850 ), the musical archaeologist and collector.

Through his work in Vienna, he was given leave of absence for half the year in order to let him travel the world to collect musical information to include in his History of Music book.

The musical was also revived with great success in 1996, starring Nathan Lane as Pseudolus ( replaced later in the run by Whoopi Goldberg and also by David Alan Grier ), Mark Linn-Baker as Hysterium, Ernie Sabella as Lycus, Jim Stanek as Hero, Lewis J. Stadlen as Senex, and Cris Groenendaal as Miles Gloriosus.

Although dozens of Kern's musicals and musical films were hits, only Show Boat is now regularly revived.

In 1927, Kern and Hammerstein had their biggest hit, Show Boat, which is often revived and is still considered one of the masterpieces of the American musical theatre.

In the 1980s, the Carnival of Venice was revived and the city has become a major centre of international conferences and festivals, such as the prestigious Venice Biennale and the Venice Film Festival, which attract visitors from all over the world for their theatrical, cultural, cinematic, artistic, and musical productions

In the same year, Mendes ( then a theater director ) revived the musical Cabaret in New York with fellow director Rob Marshall.

In 1980, it was turned into a successful Broadway musical, which was revived in 2001 in a theatre that was itself on 42nd Street.

The musical was revived in the West End at the Victoria Palace Theatre, opening on October 25, 1988, and closing August 5, 1989, starring Robert Meadmore ( Tommy ), Jacinta Mulcahy, and Lesley Mackie.

The musical has also been revived in London, running for a season in 1991 at London's Old Vic and most recently in London's Royal Festival Hall in the Southbank Centre in 2007.

The musical was revived in 2006 by the Barrington Stage Company, and starred Debby Boone

The original production ran for 2, 844 performances, the longest running musical for its time, and was later revived three times.

Later his career revived again culminating in the hit Broadway musical, Eubie !.

) The opera was completed in nine months and was initially met with success, but Wolf's musical setting could not compensate for the weakness of the text, and it was doomed to failure ; it has not yet been successfully revived.

Cameron Mackintosh, who owned half the rights to Oliver !, revived the musical at the London Palladium in 1994 in a version rewritten by Lionel Bart.

BMG also revived the " RCA Victor " label for musical genres outside of country, pop and rock music.

Clark revived her film career in the late 1960s, starring in two big musical films.

The musical Chicago ( 1975 ) after an excellent initial run of 936 performances was revived on Broadway in 1996 to become an even greater hit.

Under the restored Stuart monarchy the court became once again a centre of musical patronage, but royal interest in music tended to be less significant as the seventeenth century progressed, to be revived again under the House of Hanover.

After the Cultural Revolution, musical institutions were reinstated and musical composition and performance revived.

The song featured in the 1934 musical movie Evergreen, sung by Jessie Matthews, and was also revived after World War II.

This production was telecast in an abbreviated ninety-minute version by NBC on March 19, 1967 and is the only musical revived at Lincoln Center during the 1960s to be telecast.

Farmers ' musical bands have also been revived.

In the late 19th century, the musical element was revived, and the modern Company promotes all aspects of the art and science of music.

Since its 1934 debut at the Neil Simon Theatre ( at the time known as the Alvin ) on Broadway, the musical has been revived several times in the United States and Britain and has been filmed twice.