He added that he also stresses the works of these favorite masters on tour, especially Mahler's First and Fourth symphonies, and Das Lied Von der Erde, and Bruckner's Sixth -- which is rarely played -- and Seventh.

During this tour he wrote three new comic operas and he also collaborated with Giacomo Rust on one opera, Il Talismano ( The Talismand ).

On their 1950 tour of New Zealand and Australia they also adopted the nickname British Lions, first used by British and South African journalists on the 1924 South African tour, after the lion emblem on their ties, the emblem on their jerseys having been dropped in favour of the four-quartered badge with the symbols of the four represented unions.

They also were beaten by Fiji on their 1977 tour to New Zealand.

Specialist tour buses are also often owned and operated by safari parks and other theme parks or resorts.

Longer distance tours are also carried out by bus, either on a turn up and go basis or through a tour operator, and usually allow disembarkation from the bus to allow touring of sites of interest on foot.

Tour buses will often carry a tour guide, although the driver or a pre-recorded audio commentary may also perform this function.

* He also scored a century and a double century in the third Test in that same Sri Lanka tour, a feat repeated only five other times in Test cricket history.

" The tour lasted 21 months, and the troupe — which also included Stan Laurel of later Laurel and Hardy fame — returned to England in June 1912.

Charles also hosted the Robot Wars Live UK tour, in 2001, and shows performed at the Wembley Arena.

This jersey was also a basis for the uniforms worn by Wayne Gretzky's team of NHLPA All-Stars, nicknamed the " 99ers ", for their exhibition tour in Europe during the 1994 – 95 NHL lockout ; a picture of Gretzky in this jersey was used for the cover art of a video game bearing his name.

1979 also brought Devo to Japan for the first time, and a live show from this tour was partially recorded.

He also played a role in a tour of Antony and Cleopatra, produced by the actress Katharine Cornell in 1946.

The band also played at the Wembley Arena for eight straight sold-out nights during the tour as well, another record at that time.

* Meteor hydrofoils are operated by a number of tour operators in Croatia, mostly for packaged tours, but there are also some scheduled services to islands in Adriatic.

There is also a guided sightseeing-bus tour through the city.

His tour came 735 years after his ancestor, Edward I of England ( then Prince Edward ), had also been on military duty in the Middle East during the Ninth crusade, and also made Harry the first member of the Royal Family to have served in a war zone since his uncle, Prince Andrew, Duke of York, flew helicopters during the Falklands War.

The tour has also traveled to Australia several times, Aarhus University in Denmark in April 2009, Italy and The Netherlands.

Rammstein also ended several shows of their Mutter tour in 2001 with a cover of " Pet Semetary " in honor of the passing of Joey Ramone.

She was a choreographer for Whitney Houston's world tour from 1988 – 1992, and also appeared as a dancer in Natalie Cole's video for " Pink Cadillac " in 1988.

He also returned to Comerica Park on August 12 and 13. In December he went a 12 city club tour and donated proceeds to various charities in each city to support his single " Care ".

Edward Petherbridge also played Wimsey in the UK production of the Busman's Honeymoon play staged at the Lyric Hammersmith and on tour in 1988, with the role of Harriet being taken by his real-life spouse, Emily Richard.

Bodyline, also known as fast leg theory bowling, was a cricketing tactic devised by the English cricket team for their 1932 – 33 Ashes tour of Australia, specifically to combat the extraordinary batting skill of Australia's Don Bradman.

On their tour that year ( 1882 ) the Australians played just one Test, at The Oval in London.

More recent researchers, in particular Ronald Willis and Joy Munns have studied the tour in detail and concluded that the presentation was made after a private cricket match played over Christmas 1882 when the English team were guests of Sir William Clarke, at his property " Rupertswood ", in Sunbury, Victoria.

Playing across the western U. S., the tour made stops in Hawaii ( although no game was played ), New Zealand, Australia, Ceylon, Egypt, Italy, France, and England.

The 35-match tour of two host nations included no tests, but the side played provincial, city and academic sides, winning 27 matches.

They played one extra match on this tour, making the total of 21 games, including four tests against South Africa, with the British Isles winning three of them.

The Lions, and their predecessor teams, have often played games against other nearby countries on tour.

In his teens, he played drums and sang back-up with a local band called The Teen Tones, which later went on to tour with such acts as Bobby Darin and Gene Vincent.

Devo played their first European tour since 1990 in the summer of 2007, including a performance at Festival Internacional de Benicàssim.

They joined FIFA in 1906 and played their first ever games against countries other than the Home Nations on a tour of Central Europe in 1908.

As part of his tour, he played at the Nobel Peace Prize Concert in Oslo, Norway, with his final concert of that tour in Paris being recorded for a Valentine's Day special on PBS in 1998.

In 1996, after a tour with the Lollapalooza music festival, the band played their final show and then disbanded.

On 14 October 1968, the band announced the new name and played their first show at the University of Surrey ( at its original Battersea Park location, not at Guildford ) on 25 October ; this was followed by a short British tour.

It was during this tour that the first Test Match was played.

Up until the fourth tour in 1877, led by Lillywhite, touring teams had played first-class games against the individual colonial sides, but Lillywhite felt that his side had done well enough against New South Wales to warrant a game against an All Australian team.

Later that year, the Honourable Ivo Bligh led a team of eight amateurs and four professionals to Australia to recover them, with the first two matches of the tour played at the MCG.

Also that year, the band contributed a cover of " I Can't Forget " to the Leonard Cohen tribute album I'm Your Fan, and began an international tour on which they played stadiums in Europe and smaller venues in the United States.

The Pixies played their first reunion concert on April 13, 2004, at The Fine Line Music Cafe in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and a warm-up tour through the U. S. and Canada was followed by an appearance at the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival.

In the autumn of 2011 the " Lost Cities " tour continued the " Doolittle Tour " as they played many venues for the first time.

The album was supported by the band's first tour in six years, including first-ever concerts in Mexico City and Brazil, where they played to some of the largest crowds of their career.

Despite this impairment to his bowling shoulder, his team played with an aggressive strategy leading them to lose only one Test match and no other matches during the tour, honouring his pre-series pledge.