Bill Davis quartet of Hillsboro was second and baton twirler Sue Ann Nuttall of Reedville third.

Butterworth's death on the Somme in 1916 was considered a great loss to English music ; Ivor Gurney, another most important setter of Housman ( Ludlow and Teme, a work for voice and string quartet, and a song-cycle on Housman works, both of which won the Carnegie Award ) experienced emotional breakdowns which were popularly ( but wrongly ) believed to have originated from shell-shock.

135 quartet was premiered by the Schuppanzigh Quartet in March 1828.

The String Quartet No. 5 was composed in 1934, and the sixth and last string quartet in 1939.

Importance was given to instrumental music — the main kinds were sonata, trio, string quartet, symphony, concerto, serenade and divertimento.

The final studio album for Columbia by the Desmond / Wright / Morello quartet was Anything Goes ( 1966 ) featuring Cole Porter songs.

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.

Ray Burdette sang bass after the death of Kenny Price, but the quartet was not featured as often then.

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.

His perseverance in the face of some astronomical scores by the fearsome quartet of Mohammed Azharuddin, Sachin Tendulkar, Navjot Sidhu and Vinod Kambli was in sharp contrast to the submission with which his team-mates played the series.

After convincing Brubeck to hire him following his stint with Jack Fina, the two had a contract drafted ( of which Brubeck was the sole signatory ); the language forbade Brubeck from ever firing him, ensured Brubeck's status as group leader, and gave Desmond twenty percent of all profits generated from the quartet.

Much of the success of the classic Brubeck quartet was due to the juxtaposition of his airy style over Brubeck's sometimes relatively heavy, polytonal piano work.

When he arrived in England, however, he saw the amount of advertising devoted to the quartet and realized he was no longer the main draw.

; 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.

Mozart was a versatile composer, and wrote in every major genre, including symphony, opera, the solo concerto, chamber music including string quartet and string quintet, and the piano sonata.

The quartet wrote talk show host Jon Stewart a letter telling him that " Kevin Bacon was the center of the entertainment universe " and explaining the game.

Since Beyond the Fringe was not owned by the BBC, however, the quartet enjoyed relative carte blanche.

Mill's view was widely criticized, because it makes statements like " 2 + 2 = 4 " come out as uncertain, contingent truths, which we can only learn by observing instances of two pairs coming together and forming a quartet.

Produced by Felix Pappalardi ( who later co-founded the Cream-influenced quartet Mountain ) and engineer Tom Dowd, it was recorded at Atlantic Studios in New York.

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.

During 1985, Apu was a member of the barbershop quartet The Be Sharps along with Homer Simpson, Barney Gumble, and Seymour Skinner.

In 1985, Wiggum was involved in the barbershop quartet called the Be Sharps.

Aside from early works such as a movement from a piano quartet composed when he was a student in Vienna, Mahler's works are designed for large orchestral forces, symphonic choruses and operatic soloists.

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.

" 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.

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.

Classically, a rock band takes the form of a quartet whose members cover one or more roles, including vocalist, lead guitarist, rhythm guitarist, bass guitarist, drummer and occasionally that of keyboard player or other instrumentalist.

In typical 18th-to 21st-century oratorios and masses, chorus or choir is usually understood to imply more than one singer per part, in contrast to the quartet of soloists also featured in these works.

The string quartet is one of the most prominent chamber ensembles in classical music, with most major composers, from the late 18th century onwards, writing string quartets.

For most of the show's run, there would be one vocal number by The King's Men ( a vocal quartet: Ken Darby, Rad Robinson, Jon Dodson, and Bud Linn ), and an instrumental by The Billy Mills Orchestra.

Claudius's poem Death and the Maiden was used by composer Franz Schubert in 1817 for one of his most celebrated songs, which in turn became the basis for the 1824 string quartet of the same name.

The vocal group The Mills Brothers originally started in vaudeville as a kazoo quartet, playing four-part harmony on kazoo with one brother accompanying them on guitar.

Works from this period include a piano fantasy based on themes from Glinka's opera A Life for the Tsar, an attempt at a string quartet, three songs which would eventually be published in 1908 and the opening movement ( the only one completed ) of his First Piano Concerto.

Shortly thereafter, he completed the terse, witty one-movement Italian Serenade for string quartet which is regarded as one of the finest examples of his mature instrumental compositional style.

Each of the current members of the quartet has released at least one solo album.

When the television version launched on June 8, 1948, Texaco also made sure its employees were featured prominently throughout the hour, usually appearing as smiling " guardian angels " performing good deeds of one or another kind, and a quartet of Texaco singers opened each week's show with the following theme song:

He was an innovator in the big band idiom, using unusual instrumentation ; " Interlude in B-flat ", where he was backed with only a rhythm section and a string quartet, was one of the earliest examples of what would be later dubbed third stream.

Haydn would later use a similar double canon with the lower strings trailing the upper strings by one measure in the famous " Witches Minuet " of his D minor quartet from Op.

The Knack was an American New Wave rock quartet based in Los Angeles that rose to fame with their first single, " My Sharona ", an international number one hit in 1979.

McGinley and Faison were joined by " a quartet of newbies ( most of them playing students )" as full-time regulars, while one of the freshmen " will be fairly famous ".

She is also the only female to reach UK Official Singles Chart at number one as a part of quartet, quintet, duo and solo.

28, one Sonata for Two Violins, eight Poèmes for various instruments ( one or two violins, violin and cello, string quartet ) and orchestra ( Poème élégiaque, Poème de l ' Extase, Chant d ' hiver, Poème nocturne, among others ), pieces for string orchestra without basses ( including Poème de l ' Exil ), two string trios, a quintet, and an opera, Peter the Miner, written near the end of his life in the Walloon dialect.

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.