This did not set Gershwin back, as his real intent abroad was to complete a new work based on Paris and perhaps a second rhapsody for piano and orchestra.

His small instrumental output includes two piano concerti, a concerto for organ written in 1773, a concerto for flute, oboe and orchestra ( 1774 ), and a set of twenty-six variations on La follia di Spagna ( 1815 ).

He sang for troops in Birmingham Hospital with John Macchia and hired his childhood friend Marco Rizo to play piano and arrange for the orchestra.

For his 1997 release To See You, Connick recorded original love songs, touring the United States and Europe with a full symphony orchestra backing him and his piano in each city.

* 2 concertos for piano and orchestra: Concerto Fantastico, 1st, 1885 – 1887 ; 2nd concerto ( 1892 ), unfinished.

* Rapsodia española ( Spanish Rhapsody ), for piano and orchestra ( 1887 ).

There is a piano and orchestra version of Rapsodia española by Cristóbal Halffter.

Brahms composed for piano, chamber ensembles, symphony orchestra, and for voice and chorus.

Brahms wrote a number of major works for orchestra, including two serenades, four symphonies, two piano concertos ( No. 1 in D minor ; No. 2 in B-flat major ), a Violin Concerto, a Double Concerto for violin and cello, and two companion orchestral overtures, the Academic Festival Overture and the Tragic Overture.

Brahms's works in variation form include, among others, the Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Handel and the Paganini Variations, both for solo piano, and the Variations on a Theme by Haydn ( now sometimes called the Saint Anthony Variations ) in versions for two pianos and for orchestra.

* Anachronie II ( 1969 ) for oboe, small orchestra ( 4 horns, harp, piano, strings )

* Spektakel ( 1970 ) for improvisational ensemble ( saxophone bass clarinet, viola, bass guitar, electronic organ piano, percussion other instruments ), small orchestra ( 12 winds, 4 horns, 6 percussion )

Music theatre work for soprano, tenor, 2 female speakers, 8 amplified mixed voices, amplified orchestra ( 15 winds, 13 brass, harp, 2 electric guitars, 2 pianos + electric piano, off-stage upright piano, celesta, 2 synthesizers, 6 percussion, minimum 9 strings, bass guitar.

* Dances ( 1991 ) ( text by Joan Grant, choreography by Bianca van Dillen ) For soprano, small orchestra ( amplified harp, amplified piano, percussion, strings ).

* Trilogie van de Laatste Dag ( 1996 – 97 ) ( each of its three sections may be performed separately: ( i ) The Last Day ( texts by Lucebert, folksong A Woman and Her Lass ) for boy soprano, 4 male voices, orchestra ; ( ii ) TAO ( texts by Laozi, Kotaro Takamura ) for 4 female voices, piano voice, koto, small orchestra winds, 2 horns, harp, piano (+ celesta ), 2 percussion, minimum 14 strings ; ( iii ) Dancing on the Bones ( text by the composer ) for children's chorus, orchestra, 1997 )

* Piano concerto, a concerto for solo piano and orchestra

Massive theater organs were designed to fill a gap between a simple piano soloist and a larger orchestra.

In 1915 Mascagni wrote music for Nino Oxilia's movie Rapsodia Satanica ; the custom was for silent films to be accompanied live in a theater by organ, piano, or an orchestra, often using a prepared score ( sometimes with original music ) with cues for the conductor or musician.

In 1962-1963 Appleton was the music teacher at the Verde Valley School in Sedona, Arizona where he conducted the choir and orchestra, taught music theory, history and piano lessons.

The first person to introduce the ragtime influence to gospel accompaniment as well as to play the piano on a gospel recording was Ms. Arizona Dranes.

" Among its characteristics are: the use of repeated, homophonic blocks of sound, which prompted the Dutch critic Elmer Schönberger to call her " the lady with the hammer "; unusual combinations of instruments ( such as eight double basses, piano and percussion in her Composition No. 2 ); considerable use of extreme dynamics ( as in her Piano Sonata No. 6 ); employing groups of instruments in order to introduce tone clusters ; and the use of piano or percussion to beat out regular unchanging rhythms ( all of her acknowledged works use either piano or percussion, many use both ).

He was the first one to introduce long and rapid octave passages in both hands – today so familiar from 19th century piano music-into his piano texture.

This was " Entered according to act of Congress, in the year 1835, by C. Bradlee, in the clerk's office of the District Court of Massachusetts ", according to the Newberry Library, which also says, " The theme is that used by Mozart for his piano variations, Ah, vous dirai-je, maman.

Going further back, an earlier version of the Choral Fantasy theme is found in the song " Gegenliebe " (" Returned Love "), for piano and high voice, which dates from before 1795.

The second movement, a scherzo and trio, is also in D minor, with the introduction bearing a passing resemblance to the opening theme of the first movement, a pattern also found in the Hammerklavier piano sonata, written a few years earlier.

Only a few compositions that Satie took seriously remain from this period: Jack in the Box, music to a pantomime by Jules Depaquit ( called a "" by Satie ),, a short comic opera on a serious theme, text by Lord Cheminot, The Dreamy Fish, piano music to accompany a lost tale by Lord Cheminot, and a few others that were mostly incomplete, hardly any of them staged, and none of them published at the time.

The Terminators theme is played over the opening credits and is played in various points in the film in sped up versions: a slowed down version when Reese dies, and a piano version during the love scene.

Others include Frédéric Chopin's Variations on " Là ci darem la mano " from Don Giovanni ( 1827 ); Max Reger's Variations and Fugue on a Theme by Mozart ( 1914 ), based on the variation theme in the piano sonata K. 331 ; Fernando Sor's Introduction and Variations on a Theme by Mozart ( 1821 ); and Mikhail Glinka's Variations on a Theme from Mozart's Opera Die Zauberflöte in E ♭ major ( 1822 ).

Moscheles, in his diary, says that on that occasion Clementi improvised at the piano on a theme by George Frideric Handel.

The most famous of the Workshop's creations using ' radiophonic ' techniques include the Doctor Who theme music, which Delia Derbyshire created using a plucked string, 12 oscillators and a lot of tape manipulation ; and the sound of the TARDIS ( the Doctor's time machine ) materialising and dematerialising, which was created by Brian Hodgson running his keys along the rusty bass strings of a broken piano, with the recording slowed down to make an even lower sound.

His theme — emphasizing coloristic instruments such as the harp, piano, celesta, and other keyboards, as well as percussion — suggests the childlike nature of E. T.

The movie's piano theme has been used extensively in commercials, but an official release of the film's soundtrack has not yet occurred.

A piano riff then introduces a jazzy, trumpet-heavy instrumental theme tune (" Home to My Emily ," composed by series co-creator Lorenzo Music with his wife Henrietta ), as numerous brief shots document Bob's journey home from work, ending with a shot of Emily greeting Bob at their apartment.

Each theme appears both in orchestrated form and as a piano solo.

Novelty piano can be heard at rehearsal 9 with the revelation of the Train theme.

He was most amiable at the rehearsal .... To this day I can recall how Rubinstein sat down at the piano, his leonine head thrown back slightly, and began the five opening measures of the principal theme ....

Composed of a piano, timpani percussion, and brass, the theme builds until interrupted by the action theme as Data opens fire.

73, for piano and orchestra ( 1824 ; also a version for piano and string quartet ), which were based on a theme by Beethoven's teacher Joseph Haydn.

The DOREMI set includes two string quartets, two fugatos for string quintet, a Piano Trio, a Piano Quartet, a Serenade Concertante, two Overtures, an Offertorium, five Lieder, and etude for piano and Variations Brilliantes on a theme of Bellini for Piano 6 hands.

Ironically, Herrmann had composed some jazz for the " picnic " scene in Citizen Kane and he later used some jazz elements ( much in the vein of Maurice Ravel's two piano concertos ) for The Wrong Man when he scored the nightclub scenes showing Henry Fonda as a double bass player in a jazz band, and for Taxi Drivers saxophone-driven theme which recalls Charlie Parker's rendition of " Laura.

Awarding the soundtrack CD release a rating of four stars out of five, Bruce Eder of the Allmusic website describes the collection of theme and incidental music as " a strange mix of otherworldly ' music of the spheres ', late-50s / early-60s ' space-age pop ', ' British Invasion ' beat, Scottish folk-inspired tunes, kids-style ' Mickey Mouse ' scoring, marital music, light jazz, and light classical ", and singles out both " Cocktail Music ", from " Model Spy ", and the piano track, performed by Gray, from " The Inquisition ", for particular praise.

The title track " Falling into You " and " River Deep, Mountain High " ( a Tina Turner cover ) made prominent use of percussion instruments ; " It's All Coming Back to Me Now " ( a remake of Jim Steinman's song ) and a remake of Eric Carmen's " All by Myself " kept their soft-rock atmosphere, but were combined with the classical sound of the piano ; and the number-one single " Because You Loved Me ", which was written by Diane Warren, was a ballad that served as the theme to the 1996 film Up Close & Personal.

A new arrangement of the theme, featuring trumpets, bass guitar, electric guitar, conga drums, and cabasa, was used from 1976, and was succeeded in 1983 by an arrangement for piano.

Paganini's theme is stated on strings with the piano picking out salient notes, after the first variation.

The piano next gravely intones the Dies Irae, the " day of wrath " plainchant from the medieval Mass of the Dead, while the orchestra accompanies with a slower version of the opening motif of the Paganini theme.