John Salvador, a farmer from Palm Desert, Calif., was sitting up front and could see through the door as the trio entered the cockpit.

The task of taking the raw material of Marcel Pagnol's original trio of French films about people of the waterfront in Marseilles and putting them again on the screen, after their passage through the Broadway musical idiom, was a delicate and perilous one, indeed.

In those days I was just getting into contrapuntal and choral writing ... and I wanted to develop my technique by writing a trio.

This 3rd piano trio was later reworked by Beethoven into the C minor string quintet, Op.

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

For example the President for the second half of 2007, Portugal, was the second in a trio of states alongside Germany and Slovenia with whom Portugal had been co-operating.

He worked with an octet ( the recording bears his name only because Brubeck was the best-known member at the time ), and a trio including Cal Tjader and Ron Crotty.

The trio was often joined by Paul Desmond on the bandstand, at Desmond's prodding.

In 1949, Jack Sheedy, the owner of a San Francisco – based record label called Coronet, was talked into making the first recording of Brubeck's octet and later his trio.

" I Pity the Fool " was no more successful than " Liza Jane ", and Bowie soon moved on again to join the Lower Third, a blues trio strongly influenced by The Who.

When his Decca co-workers The Andrews Sisters began their engagement at the London Palladium directly on the heels of Kaye's incredibly successful 1948 appearance there, the trio was so well received that David Lewin of the Daily Express declared, " The audience gave The Andrews Sisters the Danny Kaye roar!

On the surface, an inventor named Goro Ibuki, his nephew Rokuro and their friend Hiroshi Jinkawa are off on an outing near a lake when Seatopia makes itself known to the Earth by drying up the lake the trio was relaxing nearby and using it as a base of operation ( unknown to our heroes.

The first of these, It's Always Fair Weather ( 1956 ) co-directed with Donen, was a musical satire on television and advertising, and includes his famous roller skate dance routine to " I Like Myself ", and a dance trio with Michael Kidd and Dan Dailey which allowed Kelly to experiment with the widescreen possibilities of Cinemascope.

A modest success, it was followed by Kelly's last musical film for MGM, Les Girls ( 1957 ), in which he partnered a trio of leading ladies, Mitzi Gaynor, Kay Kendall and Taina Elg.

When elements of the army leadership tried to assassinate Hitler in the July 20 plot shortly thereafter, it was this trio that rallied the resistance to the plotters.

The most important jazz guitar soloists of this period included the Manouche virtuoso Django Reinhardt, Oscar Moore who was featured with Nat “ King ” Cole ’ s trio, and Charlie Christian of Benny Goodman's band and sextet, who was a major influence despite his early death at 25.

When he returned to Munich, following Eisner's assassination by an anti-semitic nationalist, Count Arco-Valley, he informed Gasparri-using Schioppa's eye-witness testimony of the chaotic scene at the former royal palace as the trio of Max Levien, Eugen Levine, and Towia Axelrod sought power: " the scene was indescribable the confusion totally chaotic in the midst of all this, a gang of young women, of dubious appearance, Jews like the rest of them hanging around the boss of this female rabble was Levien's mistress, a young Russian woman, a Jew and a divorcée and it was to her that the nunciature was obliged to pay homage in order to proceed Levien is a young man, also Russian and a Jew.

Their touring career at the time seemed over, and it was uncertain whether the trio would ever record again.

The trio, along with Leroy Jones formed a defensive frontline that was locally nicknamed The Bruise Brothers, coined from a popular act at the time, The Blues Brothers.

While Miami's main offensive attack was passing, they still had a trio of great running backs: Tony Nathan, Woody Bennett, and Joe Carter.

The second movement, a scherzo and trio, is also in D minor, with the introduction bearing a passing resemblance to the opening theme of the first movement, a pattern also found in the Hammerklavier piano sonata, written a few years earlier.

Among Adelard of Bath's original works is a trio of dialogues, written to mimic the Platonic style, or correspondences with his nephew.

Brown is mentioned in the 2004 song " Again and Again ," which was written by Bruce McDaniel and recorded by the rock trio Nine Men's Morris.

The first of this final trio, The Kiss, written when Smetana was receiving painful medical treatment is described by Newmarch as a work of serene beauty, in which tears and smiles alternate throughout the score.

A string trio is a group of three string instruments or a piece written for such a group.

Wilhelm Killmayer has written a trio ( 1975 ) for the similar combination of two violins and cello and Stefan Hakenberg scored the third movement of The Displacement Map ( 2002 ), entitled " Monochrome ", for this combination.

Many of Motown's best-known songs, including all the early hits for The Supremes, were written by the songwriting trio of Holland – Dozier – Holland ( Lamont Dozier and brothers Brian and Eddie Holland ).

The trio very briefly reunited in 1988 at George Martin's Air Studios in London to record a single, " Woman ," though no one was particularly happy with the results since the song was written by someone outside of the band ( Paul Vincent Gunia ) for the German TV series Tatort.

A piano trio is a group of piano and two other instruments, usually a violin and a cello, or a piece of music written for such a group.

Apart from the trio sonata, which is written for flute, violin and basso continuo, the pieces have few indications of which instruments are meant to play them, although there is now significant support for the idea that they are for solo keyboard, like most of Bach's other published works.

A trio sonata is written for two solo melodic instruments and basso continuo, making three parts in all, hence the name trio sonata.

These three concertos were written for the members of a renowned Soviet piano trio that performed together from 1941 until 1963: David Oistrakh, violin ; Sviatoslav Knushevitsky, cello ; Lev Oborin, piano.

Like most minuets, this one is written in ternary form, with a contrasting trio section containing prized solos for horns and clarinet.

First violin sonata, second violin sonata, Der Rose Pilgerfahrt, several oratorios, two concert overtures, third piano trio, also written ( third violin sonata dates from 1853 )

In 2003, indie rock trio Mambo Sons released the Stegner-influenced song " Little Live Thing / Cross to Safety " written by Scott Lawson and Tom Guerra, which resulted in an invitation for Lawson to serve as Artist-in-Residency for March 2009.

He also composed trio sonatas and a sinfonia in A. Tartini's music is problematic to scholars and editors because Tartini never dated his manuscripts, and he also revised works that had been published or even finished years before, making it difficult to determine when a work was written, when it was revised and what the extent of those revisions were.

These chamber pieces are typically named after the ensemble for which they are written: for example, string quartet, piano trio, wind quintet.

One of Lloyd's songs from Good in the Face of a Stranger, " Slow Train " made it onto the soundtrack, along with songs written by the Pigram Brothers, but the majority of the soundtrack was written as a collaboration between the trio.

Many other sets of lyrics, patriotic and otherwise, have been written for the last strain ( trio / grandioso ).

They together created Uniform Choice and as a power trio started playing a number of songs already written by Bates.

: You ask why I have never written a trio.

I have already written the start of a trio.