So the plot creaks, the sets are decaying, the costumes are pre-historic, the orchestra was sloppy and not very well connected with what the singers were doing.

Several singers of the aurès mountains were inspired by this style as Youcef Boukhantech.

She chose an a cappella arrangement that was close to Edwin Othello Excell's, accompanied by a chorus of amateur singers who were friends of hers.

The other six of the canonic nine composed verses for public occasions, performed by choruses and professional singers and typically featuring complex metrical arrangements that were never reproduced in other verses.

The soprano and alto parts were interpreted by two famous young singers: Henriette Sontag and Caroline Unger.

From listening to their recordings, one had difficulty determining if the Crickets, the name of Buddy's band, were white or black singers.

In Constantinople around 400 AD the empress Aelia Eudoxia had a eunuch choir-master, Brison, who may have established the use of castrati in Byzantine choirs, though whether Brison himself was a singer, and whether he had colleagues who were eunuch singers, is not certain.

By the 9th century, eunuch singers were well-known ( not least in the choir of Hagia Sophia ), and remained so until the sack of Constantinople by the Western forces of the Fourth Crusade in 1204.

On August 1, 2007 laws were passed banning health care professionals and public figures such as movie stars or pop singers from appearing in advertisements for drugs or nutritional supplements.

While performers and singers garnered the lion's share of public attention, producers working behind the scenes played an equal, if not more important role in disco, since they often wrote the songs and created the innovative sounds and production techniques that were part of the " disco sound.

Other prominent European pop and disco groups were Luv ' from the Netherlands and Boney M, a group of four West Indian singers and dancers masterminded by West German record producer Frank Farian.

Cecil Sharp had an influential idea about the process of folk variation: he felt that the competing variants of a traditional song would undergo a process akin to biological natural selection: only those new variants that were the most appealing to ordinary singers would be picked up by others and transmitted onward in time.

After that, much of Indian Pop music comes from the Indian Film Industry, and until the 1990s, few singers like Usha Uthup, Sharon Prabhakar, and Peenaz Masani outside it were popular.

In 1965 she moved to the United States and, touring constantly, began to be recognized when her original songs (" Urge for Going ," " Chelsea Morning ," " Both Sides, Now ," " The Circle Game ") were covered by notable folk singers, allowing her to sign with Reprise Records and record her own debut album in 1968.

Despite the vast geographical distance and customary spheres separating individual singers, The Kalevala, as well as the folk poetry it is based on were always sung in the same metre.

Early performances of opera were too infrequent for singers to make a living exclusively from the style, but with the birth of commercial opera in the mid-17th century, professional performers began to emerge.

This placed a premium on being able to rewrite music for whichever singers or musicians were best suited for a performance — Handel produced different versions of the Messiah oratorio almost every year.

Towards the end of the decade there were increasing numbers of white, particularly Italian American, singers taking up Doo Wop, creating all-white groups like The Mystics and Dion and the Belmonts and racially integrated groups like The Dell Vikings and The Impalas.

Geddy Lee's high-register vocal style has always been a signature of the band – and sometimes a focal point for criticism, especially during the early years of Rush's career when Lee's vocals were high-pitched, with a strong likeness to other singers like Robert Plant of Led Zeppelin.

Back up singers Carla Day and Melanie Jackson were also added in 1989 to boost the group's vocal sound onstage.

After that, Miles Joseph and the back up singers were dropped in favor of former Ted Nugent guitarist Dave Amato and keyboardist / songwriter / producer Jesse Harms ( Eddie Money, Sammy Hagar ).

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Of greater concern to Donizetti was the singers who were to be engaged.

By the time Donizetti arrived in Venice on 6 January 1836, the score of Belisario was almost finished, and because of delays, he had time to hear several of the proposed singers in a performance of Rossini's L ' assedio di Corinto given on 12 January, the day before rehearsals of Belisario were to begin.

Many of the originally pornographic French ( and Viennese ) operettas were later played in a toned-down, " classical " version, which is how audiences today are mostly presented with the genre — in an opera house with opera singers, rather than in a private theatre with courtesans in the lead roles.

Spring Fest includes cultural competitions in addition to stage shows ( known as Star-nights ) by singers and performers such as K. K., Pritam, Kailash Kher, Shaan, Breathe, Led Zepplica, Parikrama etc.

T. K. Records produced the R & B group KC and the Sunshine Band along with soul singers Betty Wright, George McCrae and Jimmy " Bo " Horne as well as a number of minor soul and disco hits, many influenced by Caribbean music.

Though not featured on the album, there were also appearances by rapper Richard Lee Sisco and singers Bernard Fowler and Brenda K. Starr, known as the Queen of freestyle who later became a Latin artist.

What captured the Indian listener were the film songs, the golden age of Hindi film music was in the 1950s and 1960s-Radio Ceylon was at the right place at the right time to reach out to the target market of millions of listeners-the station popularised the movie songs, including the talents of playback singers Asha Bhosle, Lata Mangeshkar, K. L.

They eventually sang in 49 of the 50 United States, with acts like Roy Orbison, The Righteous Brothers, Ike and Tina Turner, Dionne Warwick, The Shirelles, The Dick Clark Caravan of Stars, Murray the K ’ s Brooklyn Paramount Theatre review, Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Kingsmen, Patti La Belle, The Crystals, The Drifters, Ben E. King, Jan and Dean, the Miracles, The Dovells, Johnny Tillotson, Jackie Wilson, Sonny and Cher and numerous other singers.

Major playback singers of that time were Kamukara Purushothaman, K. P.

Malayalam film music also received heavy contributions from musicians like Johnson, M. G. Radhakrishnan, Raveendran, S. P. Venkitesh and Ouseppachan, lyricists like Sreekumaran Thampy, Yusuf Ali Kechery, Bichu Tirumala,, Pappanamcode Laxmanan, Bharanikav Sreekumar, Chyrinkil, Tikkurissi Sukumaran Nair and Kaithaprom Damodaran Namboodiri, and singers like M. G. Sreekumar, G. Venugopal, K. S. Chithra and Sujatha Mohan.

The male singers who got national award are K. J. Yesudas ( 1973, 1974, 1988, 1992, 1994 ), P. Jayachandran ( 1986 ) and M. G. Sreekumar ( 1991, 2000 ).

The female singers who have won the award are S. Janaki ( 1981 ) and K. S. Chithra ( 1987, 1989 ).

He next scored the music for the Tamil film Kola Kolaya Mundhirika ( 2009 ) where he had composed a diverse album containing a Punjabi-style Bhangra song sung by his favorite singer Shankar Mahadevan, a south Indian folk song, a hip-hop number, and an exquisite, romantic ballad that brings together legendary singers S. P. Balasubrahmanyam and K. S. Chithra after a very long time.

In the first decade of the 20th century, the Kiev Opera Theatre attracted the most outstanding Ukrainian and Russian singers, including O. Petlyash, P. Tsecevich, K. Voronets, M. Medvedev, K. Brun, O. Mosin and O. Kamionsky and famous opera stars from the West often came on tours.

The show also starred singers K. Michelle and Karlie Redd, rapper Lil Scrappy along with his girlfriend, Erica Dixon, mother Momma Dee, producer / publisher Benzino, and rapper / singer Rasheeda.

It has attracted artists from all over the world and from all walks of life, including Ani Difranco, Utah Phillips, Tuvan Throat singers, Sarah Harmer, Veda Hille, Feist, K ' naan, and Ferron, among many others.

Johnson's favourite male singer was K. J. Yesudas, who has recorded many songs for him, while S. Janaki and K. S. Chithra were his favourite female singers.

Devarajan is remembered by legendary singers in Malayalam like K. J. Yesudas and Jayachandran as their Godfather.

Returning to D. C., Gaye reconnected with Reese Palmer and formed the doo-wop quartet, the Marquees, which included singers James Nolan and Chester Simmons.

He was one of the singers on the " Sesame Street Fever " title track, he sang a song called " Trash " for the character Oscar the Grouch, and spoke with Cookie Monster at the beginning of " C is for Cookie ".

Also in 1994, he established his own record company VC Records, promoting such singers as Lissy Estrella, Francheska, and Lisa M. In the mid-1990s, Vico C was involved in a near-fatal motorcycle accident.

Many famous singers and actors gained their start in black minstrelsy, including W. C. Handy, Ida Cox, Ma Rainey, Bessie Smith, Ethel Waters, and Butterbeans and Susie.

He was also a significant conductor, being one of the first to use a baton and also inventing rehearsal letters, which are placed periodically throughout a piece of sheet music so that a conductor may save time by asking the orchestra or singers to start playing " from letter C ", for example.

The whistle register is the highest phonational register, that in most singers begins above the soprano " high C " ( C6 or 1, 046. 5 Hz ) and usually extends to about two Ds above ( D7 or 2349. 3 Hz ).

For example, some opera singers can sing up to the " high " F above " high " C without entering into the whistle register.

* Mormon Choir of Washington, D. C .-80 singers and musicians selected by audition from about 50 congregations in the Maryland and Virginia regions of The Church of LDS

The Nordic Choir has also appeared throughout the United States, performing in well-known concert halls as Lincoln Center in New York and the Kennedy Center in Washington, D. C. Additionally, Luther College has the largest collegiate choral program in the United States with almost 600 student singers.

Thapa and music scored by Jaidev, a veteran music maestro, it had Lata Mangeshkar, Asha Bhosle, Usha Mangeshkar and Manna Dey, all of whom were established Indian singers, doing the playback singing with Prem Dhoj Pradhan, C. P.

Male vocalists pitch their tonic note ( Sa ), often to about C ♯; female singers usually a fifth higher, though the tonic may be any note, as there is no absolute pitch in the Indian classical music systems.

Regular singers of the period included Manuel Garcia and his daughter Maria Malibran, Clorinda Corradi, Giuditta Pasta, Isabella Colbran, Giovanni Battista Rubini, Domenico Donzelli and the two great French rivals Adolphe Nourrit and Gilbert Duprez — the inventor of the C from the chest.

Since 1958, in addition to Di Sarli on the piano, the orchestra included the violinists Roberto Guisado, Elvino Vardaro, A. Rouco, Szymsia Bajour, Carlos Arnaiz, Juan Schiaffino, C. González and A. Rossi ; the bandoneón players F. Verdi, José Libertella, Julián Plaza, A. Marcucci y D. Sánchez ; A. Sciarretta on bass and the singers Horacio Casares and Jorge Durán.

In one madrigal ( O voi che sospirate a miglior note ) he modulated completely around the circle of fifths within a single phrase, using enharmonic spellings within single chords ( for instance, simultaneous C sharp and D flat ), impossible to sing without either pitch drift or tempering intervals such that singers would approximate a sort of circulating temperament.

Six singers amplified by six microphones tune to a low B < sub > 1 </ sub > drone, inaudible to the audience, and expand upwards through overtone singing, with that low B's harmonics 2, 3, 4, 5, 7, and 9 ( B < sub > 2 </ sub >, F < sub > 2 </ sub >, B < sub > 3 </ sub >, D < sub > 3 </ sub >, A ↓< sub > 3 </ sub >, and C < sub > 4 </ sub >) becoming in turn fundamentals for overtone singing.

Due to a rise in demand from these labels, many singers and musicians such as C + C Music Factory, David Morales, Björk, Marilyn Manson, and Madonna were known to frequent his Sunday morning events.

The Temptations eventually became the most successful act in black music over the course of its nearly five-decade existence, over which time notable singers such as David Ruffin, Dennis Edwards, former Distant Richard Street, Damon Harris, Ron Tyson, Ali-Ollie Woodson, Theo Peoples, Ray Davis and G. C.

Contemporary covers of " C ' est ma chanson " include those by Lucky Blondo and Mireille Mathieu while " Cara Felicità " was recorded by fifteen Italian singers in 1967.

Their teacher, Martha Louise Morrow Foxx, helped organize the blind singers at the behest of the school founder Laurence C. Jones.

A memorable video directed by Duncan Gibbins was made at Pikes Hotel in Ibiza, with scenes of George and Andrew on the beach, making eyes at bikini-clad girls played by their backing singers Dee C. Lee and Shirlie Holliman.

This Latin description about the octoechos used by Greek singers ( psaltes ) is very precise, when it says that each kyrios and plagios pair used the same octave, divided into a fifth ( pentachord ) and a fourth ( tetrachord ): D — a — d in protos, E — b — e in devteros, F — c — f in tritos, and C — G — c in tetartos.

In 1976, she was appointed by President Gerald Ford to the National Council of the Arts in Washington, D. C. She founded the Martina Arroyo Foundation, which is dedicated to the development of emerging young opera singers by immersing them in complete role preparation courses.

Thornton, a promising jazz vocalist in the late 50s and early 60s, had fallen on hard times, while the latter two were ambitious singers and songwriters who'd had material recorded in the C & W and R & B markets.