The opera was the first in which Rossini wrote out the ornaments of the airs instead of leaving them to the fancy of the singers, and also the first in which the recitativo secco was replaced by a recitative accompanied by a string quartet.

Rigolettos musical range includes band-music such as the first scene or the song La donna è mobile, Italian melody such as the famous quartet " Bella figlia dell ' amore ", chamber music such as the duet between Rigoletto and Sparafucile and powerful and concise declamatos often based on key-notes like the C and C # notes in Rigoletto and Monterone's upper register.

Each of the quartet would sing one line of the verse-a different one for each performance, followed by each cast member reciting some humorous reason for his misery in spoken form, then ( in the first several seasons ) the quartet would reprise the chorus and end with all four sobbing in typical overstated manner.

This may have given him the confidence finally to complete a number of works that he had wrestled with over many years, such as the cantata Rinaldo, his first string quartet, third piano quartet, and most notably his first symphony.

While Baum was in South Dakota, he sang in a quartet that included a man who would become one of the first Populist ( People's Party ) Senators in the U. S., James Kyle.

* Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude in b minor from the Well-Tempered Clavier BWV 866, arranged for string quartet with the first six bars augmented with a viola part by Igor Stravinsky, completed by Louis Andriessen ( 2006 )

Wind quartets are scored either the same as a string quartet with the wind instrument replacing the first violin ( i. e. scored for wind, violin, viola and cello ) or are groups of four wind instruments.

Lacy's first visit to Europe came in 1965, with a visit to Copenhagen in the company of Kenny Drew ; he went to Italy and formed a quartet with Italian trumpeter Enrico Rava and the South African musicians Johnny Dyani and Louis Moholo ( their visit to Buenos Aires is documented on The Forest and the Zoo, ESP, 1967 ).

; Night of Hunters tour: Amos's eleventh tour was her first with a string quartet, Apollon Musagète, ( Amos's equipment includes her piano and a Yamaha S90 ES keyboard ) and her first time touring in South Africa.

The young Schnabel once heard Brahms play in a performance of his first piano quartet ; for all the missed notes, said Schnabel, it " was in the true grand manner.

The first successful attempt to circumnavigate the planet Earth by air occurred in 1924, flown by aviators of the U. S. Army Air Service in a quartet of Douglas World Cruiser biplanes.

Since its establishment, the sonata form became the most common form in the first movement of works entitled " sonata ", as well as other long works of classical music, including the symphony, concerto, string quartet, and so on.

The ensembles such as the striking wind quartet at the end of the first act are full of life while the orchestration is the most balanced in all of Nielsen's works.

The first of these, By Footpath and Stile ( 1922 ), is for voice and string quartet, the others, including A Young Man ’ s Exhortation and Earth and Air and Rain, for voice and piano.

The quartet was first performed in January 1941 to an audience of prisoners and prison guards, with the composer playing a poorly maintained upright piano in freezing conditions.

I deliberately exclude Petrosian from the group, since from the very first rounds the latter has made it clear that he is playing for an easier, but also honourable conquest — a place in the interzonal quartet.

Harris had no time for Boulanger's neoclassical, Stravinsky-derived aesthetic, but under her tutelage he began his lifelong study of Renaissance music, and wrote his first significant work: the concerto for piano, clarinet and string quartet.

The same year, the quartet released their first record, " You're the Apple of My Eye ", which appeared on the Billboard Hot 100 singles chart, peaking at # 62.

Originally formed as a gospel quartet, following the death of brother Vernon, the remaining trio launched a career into doo-wop scoring with their first million-selling hit single, " Shout ", in 1959.

The quartet performed live in the United Kingdom in 1997, but for the next several years only the trio of Tork, Dolenz and Jones toured together.

A string quartet is a musical ensemble of four string players – usually two violin players, a violist and a cellist – or a piece written to be performed by such a group.

Austin performed with the Pawnee Four, a barbershop quartet known in central Illinois.

She was a classically trained singer who wrote a book on the kazoo, formed the " quartet " Kazoophony, and performed at Carnegie Hall.

In March, Gorham collapsed and returned home ; eight concerts were performed as a quartet and six others were postponed.

After the live recording in spring 1985, the quartet of Hall, Oates, Ruffin and Kendrick performed in July at the Live Aid concert in Philadelphia, and again at the MTV Video Music Awards in New York later that year, complete with an Apollo Theater-style marquee descending on the stage during their performance.

* 2010 July – Ukrainian guitarist and composer Vitaliy Tkachuk with his quartet performed his own soundtrack for the film at a first Ukrainian silent cinema festival " Mute nights " in Odessa, the city where this movie was made.

Noteworthy rarities include the outtakes " Word of Mouth " and " The Risk " from the Envoy sessions, and " Frozen Notes ( Strings Version )", a melancholy outtake from Excitable Boy performed on acoustic piano with a string quartet.

They performed for the first time together as " Collectif Met ( z )" in November 1996 ( this quartet is the basis of an actual Faust line-up and this concert is part of a 2005 release ).

Cherry became well known in 1958 when he performed and recorded with Ornette Coleman, first in a quintet with pianist Paul Bley and later in what became the predominantly piano-less quartet which recorded for Atlantic Records.

Though they emphasized a standard Classical and Romantic repertory, they also performed works by such 20th-century composers as Béla Bartók and Benjamin Britten who wrote his third quartet expressly for them.

As well as performing a wide range of the classical string quartet repertoire from Haydn and Mozart to Bartók and Benjamin Britten, they performed new works written for them including Alan Rawsthorne's third string quartet written for the 1965 Harlow Music Festival, and Nicholas Maw's first string quartet.

Having studied composition under Aaron Copland, Roger Sessions and Stefan Wolpe, Bernstein also performed as a concert pianist between 1939 and 1950 and wrote numerous classical compositions, including three orchestral suites, two song cycles, various compositions for viola and piano and for solo piano, and a string quartet.

Benny Carter visited Australia in 1960 with his own quartet, performed at the 1968 Newport Jazz Festival with Dizzy Gillespie, and recorded with a Scandinavian band in Switzerland the same year.

The play has also been performed on stage at the Hampstead Theatre, it is the second part of a planned quartet of Somerset plays covering the four seasons the first being the award winning Comfort Me with Apples.

* The Drongos, a quartet of New Zealanders who performed in New York City

Jeffre, a history student at University of Cincinnati, had attended SCPA with Lachey and they had performed together before in various outfits such as a barbershop quartet at the amusement park Kings Island and a cover band.

She performed three tracks solo (" Love Me No More ", " Stay With Me Till Dawn " and " If ( When You Go )") accompanied by a string quartet.

In 1987, Mulligan adapted K-4 Pacific ( from his 1971 Age of Steam big band recording ) for quartet with orchestra and performed it beside Entente with the Israel Philharmonic in Tel Aviv with Zubin Mehta conducting.

In 2002, the quartet performed " Lady Marmalade " again at the 44th Grammy Awards and won a grammy for Best Pop Collaboration with Vocals.

The quartet also performed on the 1998 Dave Matthews Band album Before These Crowded Streets on the tracks Halloween and The Stone.

" Nevertheless they were scheduled to perform as the original quartet on a concert in Antwerp in Cultural Center Luchtbal on June 22, 2008-the bill later changed with the addition of pianist Uri Caine, who performed with them the entire set, except for one song.