Contrary to popular belief, teenagers John Lennon and Paul McCartney did not attend a Holly concert, although they watched his television appearance on Sunday Night at the London Palladium ; Tony Bramwell, a school friend of McCartney and George Harrison, did.

Brooks has enjoyed one of the most successful careers in popular music history, breaking records for both sales and concert attendance throughout the 1990s.

The concert harp is large and technically modern, designed for classical music and played solo, as part of chamber ensembles, and in symphony orchestras as well as in popular commercial music.

The influential critic Greg Sandow has argued in detail that orchestras must revise their approach to music, performance, the concert experience, marketing, public relations, community involvement, and presentation to bring them in line with the expectations of 21st century audiences immersed in popular culture.

New York Times writer Peter Watrous declared in a concert review: " He has perfected an odd vision of popular music, one in which eccentricity and imagination beat back all the pressures toward conformity ".

Theremins are also used in concert music ( especially avant-garde and 20th-and 21st-century new music ) and in popular music genres such as rock.

Bill Clinton framed the narrative against Dole early, painting him as a mere clone of unpopular House Speaker Newt Gingrich, warning America that Bob Dole would work in concert with the Republican Congress to slash popular social programs, like Medicare and Social Security, dubbed by Clinton as " Dole-Gingrich ".

However, viols fell out of use as concert halls grew larger and the louder and more penetrating tone of the violin family became more popular.

" The band remained a popular concert attraction and toured in support of Degüello.

Subsequently, it became a popular concert work and when the two men met again in 1925, Ravel refused to shake Diaghilev's hand.

His character in postmodern popular culture — in poetry, fiction, the visual arts, as well as works for the stage, screen, and concert hall — is that of the sad clown, pining for love of Columbine, who usually breaks his heart and leaves him for Harlequin.

In addition to the Symphonie fantastique, some other orchestral works of Berlioz currently in the standard orchestral repertoire include his " légende dramatique " La damnation de Faust and " symphonie dramatique " Roméo et Juliette ( both large-scale works for mixed voices and orchestra ), and his concertante symphony ( for viola and orchestra ) Harold en Italie, several concert overtures also remain enduringly popular, such as Le Corsaire and Le Carnaval romain.

On May 17, 2007, a concert in Zagreb by Thompson, a popular Croatian singer, was attended by 60, 000 people, many of them wearing Ustaše uniforms.

* WILD – Walk In, Lay Down, the semesterly concert in the Quad which brings in popular acts such as R. E. M., Guster, Lil ' Jon, Ben Folds, Busta Rhymes, Live, The Black Eyed Peas, Passion Pit, and K ' naan.

The popular open-air St. Petersburg concert venue Jannus Landing memorializes the flight.

Hindemith's most popular work, both on record and in the concert hall, is probably the Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber, written in 1943.

Sting has also cooperated with Greek popular singer George Dalaras, giving a common concert in Athens.

A major change in popular culture came in 1983 when singer Linda Ronstadt, then considered one of the leading female vocalists of the rock era The gamble paid off, as all three albums became hits, the international concert tours were a success and Riddle picked up a few more Grammys in the process.

The concert was held at East Pyongyang Grand Theatre, with a program including the national anthems of both North Korea ( Aegukka ) and the United States ( The Star-Spangled Banner ), the Prelude to Act III of Lohengrin by Richard Wagner, Antonín Dvořák's Symphony No. 9 " From the New World ", George Gershwin's An American in Paris, Georges Bizet's Farandole, Leonard Bernstein's Overture to Candide, and the popular Korean folk song Arirang.

He was so popular that he was invited to headline the end-of-year concert at the renowned Bobino Cabaret in Paris.

This popular concert piece was never recorded in the studio.

The Cathedral Choir serve as a highlight each year, being a very popular concert, as well as the Festival Chorus and Orchestra who perform a major work on the final night of the Festival.

However, once Springsteen achieved popularity with Born to Run, several selections from this album became popular FM radio airplay and concert favorites.

A concert suite drawn from the film has remained popular ; as of 2003, there are about half-a-dozen recordings of it in print.

He became known as a concert singer and a writer of vocal songs, of which his The Garden of Sleep ( 1877 ) and After Silent Years ( 1887 ) were particularly popular.

About that same time John Crosby's TV series on the popular arts proved again that giving jazz ample breathing space is one of the most sensible things a producer can do.

The popular AFI 100 Years … series, which ran from 1998 to 2008, and created jury-selected lists of America ’ s best movies in categories including Musicals, Laughs and Thrills, drove new generations to experience classic American films.

In the 1990s, given Australia's long dominance of the Ashes and the popular acceptance of the Darnley urn as ‘ The Ashes ’, the idea was mooted that the victorious team should be awarded the urn as a trophy and allowed to retain it until the next series.

The Asterix series is one of the most popular Franco-Belgian comics in the world, with the series being translated into over 100 languages, and it is popular in most European countries.

* Alexandra Mack, aka Alex Mack, main character in the popular American Television series The Secret World of Alex Mack

* Alexandra Dunphy, aka Alex Dunphy, character in popular American Television series " Modern Family "

As a result of its free availability, knowledge of BASIC became relatively widespread ( for a computer language ) and BASIC was implemented by a number of manufacturers, becoming fairly popular on newer minicomputers like the DEC PDP series and the Data General Nova.

In 1893 the same printer brought several more drawings for Weatherly ’ s Our Dear Relations, another book of rhymes, and the following year Potter successfully sold a series of frog illustrations and verses for Changing Pictures, a popular annual offered by the art publisher Ernest Nister.

The fantasy game supplement Thieves World, based on the popular series of books by Robert Lynn Asprin, used both the system for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons as well as the RuneQuest variation of the BRP for character statistics, representing the two most popular game systems of the time.

In addition to his novels, Campbell also wrote a column for X Ray Magazine in 2001, an issue of the popular comic series The Hire, comic book adaptations of his Man With The Screaming Brain and most recently he wrote the introduction to Josh Becker's The Complete Guide To Low Budget Feature Film Making.

Their first step into the design world was a series of advertisements featuring work from currently popular designers.

The game became very popular and led to a long series of sequels and spin-offs.

He was posthumously awarded a Doctor of Fine Arts degree by the University of Florida for his influence on American popular music and in its " People in America " radio series about influential people in American history, the Voice of America radio service paid tribute to him, describing how " his influence was so widespread that it is hard to imagine what rock and roll would have sounded like without him.

The series of fighting games are among the most popular in their genre, and have sold over 30 million units.

In England in the late 1940s, Ealing Studios achieved popular success as well as critical acclaim with a series of films known collectively as the " Ealing comedies ", from 1947 to 1957.

Spoofs remained popular as well, especially with the Scary Movie series and Not Another Teen Movie series.

* The popular TV series Stargate SG-1 introduces ' Replicators ' as some of the deadliest enemies of life.

* In a 1994 episode of the popular animated television series Beavis and Butt-head, the two eponymous characters, after watching a milk ad on television, set out to tip over a cow, only to result in Beavis being crushed when the cow falls on him.

Sagan is known for his popular science books and for the award-winning 1980 television series Cosmos: A Personal Voyage, which he narrated and co-wrote.

Comic storylines had been popular in the series in the 1960s but had become sparse during the early 1970s.