It was the famous quartet of Chinnayya, Ponniah, Sivanandam and Vadivelu of the Tanjore Court during the Marathi King Saraboji ’ s time ( 1798 – 1824 ) which made a rich contribution to music and Bharatanatyam and also completed the process of re-editing the Bharathanatyam programme into its present shape with its various forms like the Alarippu, Jathiswaram, Sabdham, Varnam, Tillana etc.

Petri played in the Dresden Court Orchestra and with his father's string quartet while still a teenager.

They played as a quintet from early 1975 and always as a quartet from mid-1976 ( Bill Hurd ( keyboardist ) became an out-of-staff member ; during his retirement years, he joined Suzi Quatro's band, touring and playing on a number of worldwide hits, which included the Top 20 hit " She's in Love with You " in 1979, before re-joining the Rubettes in 1982.

After the departure of Ore and Dunlop, the remainder of the rhythm section in Monk's quartet during the bulk of his Columbia period was Larry Gales on bass and Ben Riley on drums, both of whom joined in 1964, Along with Rouse, they remained with Monk for over four years, his longest-serving band.

He also studied music with Johann Polischansky during his apprenticeship and eventually managed to secure a place in a local orchestra of Michael Pamer which he eventually left in order to join a popular string quartet known as the Lanner Quartet formed by his would-be rival Joseph Lanner and the Drahanek brothers, Karl and Johann.

Crosby & Nash's album Wind On The Water was the only disc by any member of the quartet to fare well in the marketplace during the period from 1973 to 1976.

* A quartet consisting of the Benevento / Russo Duo, Gordon and Anastasio traded opening and closing spots with Phil Lesh and Friends during their co-headlining summer 2006 tour before touring on their own for a number of shows in July 2006.

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.

McNair was part of a quartet Mingus formed to rehearse with during his stay in Britain.

" The quartet wrote 21 songs during 19 days of rehearsal and began working in the studio in late May 2001.

This final quartet of shows aired in marathon form during the NBC All Night block from 2: 00 to 4: 00 am ( EST ) on the morning of December 26, 2000.

The original bass in the quartet during their championship was Jeff Oxley, who went on to direct the Masters of Harmony chorus from California to their fourth International Championship win in 1999.

Actor Harold Peary played the character during its transition from the parent show into the spin-off and later in a quartet of feature films released at the height of the show's popularity.

However, during his year-long concentration on the genre he wrote three string quartets and a piano quartet in addition to his popular piano quintet.

Los Angeles string quartet The Section recorded the song for Strung Out on OK Computer: The String Quartet Tribute to Radiohead ( 2001 ); half of this quartet went on to form the Section Quartet, who performed " Paranoid Android " and the rest of OK Computer during two concerts in October 2006.

The Guarneri String Quartet has made numerous recordings during its long history, including some of the most important works in the string quartet and chamber music literature.

Mainstream fado performances during the 20th century included only a singer, a Portuguese guitar player and a classical guitar player but more recent settings range from singer and string quartet to full orchestra.

The Four Tunes ( also referred to as The 4 Tunes ) were a leading black pop vocal quartet during the 1950s.

In October 1941, Khokhlov, then 19 years old, was member of an NKVD quartet who were trained to commit a spectacular attack against Nazi officers during their victory celebration in the occupied Moscow.

The core quartet performed the album in its entirety on every date during a March / April 2012 tour of Europe with gig at London ’ s Bordeline ... " Iconic collective Motorpsycho team up with nu-jazz rock masters Elephant9 ".

He also performs " Smells Like Teen Spirit " in a barbershop quartet with Sam the Eagle, Beaker, and Link Hogthrob during the Muppet Telethon, as well as an unwilling ( and captive ) Jack Black.

Janet also specialized in barbershop or counter-harmony, taught her by her Dad ( who performed during the big band era as one of a quartet with his own three brothers ), and the girls idolized Patti Page's multi-track vocal sound, feeling they achieved something close to her smooth blend in their Dot recording of " Stars Fell On Alabama.

Some of the many working jazz groups in Sydney during the seventies were the Jazz Co / op, John Pochee's The Last Straw, The Don Burrows Quartet, the Galapagos Duck, The Judy Bailey Quartet, Kerrie Biddell and Compared to What, the Bob Barnard Jazz Band, Paul Furniss ' Eclipse Alley Five, Col Nolan and the Soul Syndicate, the Peter Boothman / Sid Edwards quartet, Serge Ermoll and Free Kata, and Craig Benjamin's Out To Lunch.

Quartetto Ritmo was a jazz vocal male quartet working in Italy during the 1940s.

" After a string quartet ," Martin explains, " I do not think there is a satisfactory sound for strings until one has at least three players on each line ... as a rule two stringed instruments together create a slight " beat " which does not give a smooth sound.

The quartet includes strong female characters of Indonesian and Chinese ethnicity, and address the discriminations and indignities of living under colonial rule, the struggle for personal and national political independence.

Sasha gave the quartet a piece of advice, " Whenever you play string trios and piano quartets, make it a rule that the second violin plays it and not the first .... If you play only second violin, you get stale for other things ".

Belew remained in the slimmed down quartet version of King Crimson ( minus Bruford and Levin ) which played and recorded between 2000 and 2004, releasing The ConstruKction of Light and The Power to Believe ( in additional to several live albums and EPs ).

With Phil Gould and Boon Gould established ( respectively ) as the most accomplished drummer and guitarist in the quartet, King opted to learn bass guitar instead.

* Terry King – cello, tenor saxophone, string quartet

In 1973 another transcript was made, for small orchestra, of a single movement originally written for string quartet, under the title King Richard II.

Based in Denver, Colorado, the quartet is made up of Nick Urata, who sings and plays theremin, guitar, bouzouki, piano, and trumpet ; Tom Hagerman, who plays violin, accordion, and piano ; Jeanie Schroder, who sings and plays sousaphone, double bass, and flute ; and Shawn King, who plays percussion and trumpet.

The piece is Movement II ( Poco adagio ) of Opus 76 No. 3, a string quartet often called the " Emperor " or " Kaiser " quartet.

He wrote eight piano concertos, ten piano sonatas ( of which four are without opus numbers, and one is still unpublished ), eight piano trios, a piano quartet, a piano quintet, a wind octet, a cello sonata, two piano septets, a mandolin concerto, a mandolin sonata, a Trumpet Concerto in E major written for the Keyed trumpet ( usually heard in the more convenient E-flat major ), a " Grand Bassoon Concerto " in F, a quartet for clarinet, violin, viola, and cello, four hand piano music, 22 operas and Singspiels, masses, and much more, including a variation on a theme supplied by Anton Diabelli for Part II of Vaterländischer Künstlerverein.

Sullivan used chromatic and scalar passages and key modulations throughout the score, and commenters have called the Act II quartet " The World Is But a Broken Toy " one of Sullivan's " most beautiful, plaintive melodies.

His works include solo performance pieces such as Endangered Species, TransDadaExpress, and Shofar ; radio works such as Crystal Psalms, Un Altro Ferragosto, I Dreamt John Cage Yodeling at the Zurich Hauptbahnhof, and Living Room Music ; large scale musical choreographic works such as Oh Brass on the Grass Alas, for 300 amateur brass-band musicians, and the Maritime Rites series of performances on and near water ; sound installation works such as Magic Carpet, Floor Plan, The Twentieth Century, and Gardening with John ; chamber music such as For Cornelius for piano, the trio Schtyx, the string quartet VSTO, the saxophone quartet Electric Rags II, the percussion quartet THEME PARK, a series of works for chorus SATB, and the work for chamber orchestra and video Circus Maximus ; and many collaborative dance and theater works.

Though Parker's central focus is free improvisation, he has also occasionally appeared in more conventional jazz contexts, such as Charlie Watts's big band and Kenny Wheeler's ensembles, and participated in Gavin Bryars's recording After the Requiem, performing the composition " Alaric I or II " as part of a saxophone quartet.

The first quartet of episodes ended with numerous questions unanswered, and in 1997, the cast reassembled to produce another group of four episodes, Riget II ( The Kingdom II ).

The work is scored for an expanded string orchestra divided into three parts: orchestra I, a full-sized string orchestra ; orchestra II, a single desk from each section ( ideally placed apart from Orchestra I ); and a string quartet.

Vaughan Williams makes this configuration resemble an organ in sound, with the quartet representing the swell division, orchestra II the choir division, and orchestra I the great division.

Albino joined the United States Army during World War II, where he formed a quartet and was allowed to sing for his fellow soldiers.

Also in 2008, four-time Grammy award winning R & B / Soul quartet Boyz II Men performed in front of a capacity crowd singing songs such as the classic " End of the Road " to the adoring crowd.

The quartet of Geraint, Graham, Dafydd and Gwyndaf recorded two albums, Ar Log II and Ar Log III.

Wihan had himself studied at Prague, and was cellist of the chamber quartet of Ludwig II in Munich, becoming Professor at Prague in 1888.

Before joining the quartet he played in various venues including the Navy Band (**) during World War II and later with the NBC Radio Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Arturo Toscanini.