Unconcerned, indifferent, unmotivated, the forest was simply there -- fighting man's depredations with more abundant growth and man's follies with its own musical evening laughter.

Each song or ditty was prefaced by an author's note which indicated the origin and meaning of the song as well as special interest the song had, musical arrangement, and most of the chorus and verses.

With her son evidencing so strong a musical bent his mother could do little else but get him started on the study of music -- though she waited until he was ten -- beginning with the piano and following that with the trumpet.

All musical Paris was there.

So Prokofieff was able to cultivate his musical talents and harvest a rich reward from them.

What Parker and his contemporaries -- Gillespie, Davis, Monk, Roach ( Tristano is an anomaly ), etc. -- did was to absorb the musical ornamentation of the older jazz into the basic structure, of which it then became an integral part, and with which it then developed.

To settle this slight, O'Banion went down to the La Salle Theatre in the Loop, where, he had learned, Dave Miller was attending the opening of a musical comedy.

Enrique Jorda, conductor and musical director of the San Francisco Symphony, will fulfill two more guest conducting engagements in Europe before returning home to open the symphony's Golden Anniversary season, it was announced.

The book is by Jerome Weidman and George Abbott, music by Jerry Bock, lyrics by Sheldon Harnick, choreography by Peter Gennaro, scenery, costumes and lighting by William and Jean Eckart, musical direction by Jack Elliott, and the production was directed by Mr. Abbott.

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.

His singing was strong and musical ; ;

There was, therefore, more musical substance in the concert than might have been the case otherwise.

But, with all due respects and allowances, it must truthfully be said that what they heard was more syrupy than sweet, more mannered than musical.

Chaâbi music is a typically Algerian musical genre that was derived from the Andalusian music during the 1920s.

Andalusian so-called Algerian classical music is a musical style that was reported in Algeria by Andalusian refugees who fled the inquisition of the Christian Kings from the 11th century, it will develop considerably in the cities of the North of the Algeria.

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

Common meter hymns were interchangeable with a variety of tunes ; more than twenty musical settings of " Amazing Grace " circulated with varying popularity until 1835 when William Walker assigned Newton's words to a traditional song named " New Britain ", which was itself an amalgamation of two melodies (" Gallaher " and " St. Mary ") first published in the Columbian Harmony by Charles H. Spilman and Benjamin Shaw ( Cincinnati, 1829 ).

It was recorded with musical accompaniment for the first time in 1930 by Fiddlin ' John Carson, although to another folk hymn named " At the Cross ", not to " New Britain ".

He was responsible for the destruction of the musical clock organ that Elizabeth I of England sent to the court during the reign of his father.

However, this division into two groups is considered by some modern scholars to be too simplistic and often it is practically impossible to know whether a lyric composition was sung or recited, or whether or not it was accompanied by musical instruments and dance.

His father was a cultured man, and his mother was the sister of Raphael Georg Kiesewetter ( 1773 – 1850 ), the musical archaeologist and collector.

Through his work in Vienna, he was given leave of absence for half the year in order to let him travel the world to collect musical information to include in his History of Music book.

Anyone Can Whistle ( 1964 ) was a 9-performance flop, although it introduced Angela Lansbury to musical theatre and has developed a cult following.

A Musical Thriller ( 1979 ), the acclaimed musical adaptation of Bond's play by Stephen Sondheim and Hugh Wheeler starring Len Cariou as Sweeney Todd ( here christened Benjamin Barker ) and Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett.

A musical version, titled Mame, starring Angela Lansbury and Bea Arthur, opened on Broadway in 1966.

* Mame ( 1966 musical play starring Angela Lansbury ) at the Internet Broadway Database

In 1966, Herman's next musical was the smash hit Mame starring Angela Lansbury, which introduced a string of Herman standards, most notably the ballad " If He Walked Into My Life ", the holiday favorite " We Need a Little Christmas ", and the title tune.

In August 2009, it was announced she would return to her musical roots and make her Broadway debut in the revival of A Little Night Music with Angela Lansbury, beginning December 2009.

In 1990, Martin Lee got together with songwriters Paul Curtis and David Kane to compose a musical based on The Butterfly Children books by Angela and Pat Mills.

They also adapted Auntie Mame into the hit musical Mame with composer Jerry Herman, which won a Tony Award for its star, Angela Lansbury.

The musical opened on Broadway in 1966, starring Angela Lansbury and Beatrice Arthur.

In London, the musical opened in the West End at Her Majesty's Theatre in June 1961, with Peter Marshall as Albert, Rivera reprising her role as Rosie, Angela Baddeley as Mae and Marty Wilde as Conrad Birdie.

They also adapted Auntie Mame into the hit musical Mame with composer Jerry Herman, which won a Tony Award for its star, Angela Lansbury.

Director Sean Lynch is a native of Mullingar and joins with Musical Director Angela Lynch and Choreography Siobhan Murphy to bring various musical productions to fruition.

A few years later, when he was invited by Hal Prince to write the score for a film remake starring Angela Lansbury as a fading musical comedienne rather than a silent film star, Sondheim declined, citing his conversation with Wilder.

He also wrote the book and lyrics for the Angela Lansbury vehicle Prettybelle ( 1971 ) and the music and lyrics for the Robert Preston musical The Prince of Grand Street ( 1978 ), both of which closed during their Boston tryouts.

* In 2002, The Witches of Eastwick musical opened in Australia, starring Paul McDermott as Daryl van Horne, Marina Prior as Jane Smart, Pippa Grandison as Sukie Rougemont and Angela Toohey as Alexandra Spofford.

Such large Afros were famously sported by African American entertainers and sociopolitical figures ; political activist Angela Davis, actress Pam Grier, rock musician Jimi Hendrix, and the members of the musical groups The Jackson 5 and The Supremes.

She appeared in the Broadway revival of the Sondheim-Wheeler musical A Little Night Music, from July 2010 to January 2011, succeeding Angela Lansbury in the role of Madame Armfeldt, the wheelchair-bound mother who remembers her life as a courtesan in the song " Liaisons ".

The 1956 Broadway production of Auntie Mame, starring Rosalind Russell, and the highly successful 1958 screen adaptation that followed, inspired Jerry Herman's 1966 musical Mame, with Angela Lansbury in the lead.

Later in 1980 Hearn and the show's original star, Angela Lansbury, headed the show's touring company, then reprised their roles for a Showtime production of the musical, which won him an Emmy Award for his portrayal.

It was revealed that Rene Moore became violent with Winbush, in latter years, which led Winbush to cease her musical journey with Moore because she was no longer interested in being a member of " Rene & Angela ".

A movie musical entitled The Harvey Girls, starring Judy Garland, Cyd Charisse, and Angela Lansbury, and based on a near-pulp novel by Samuel Hopkins Adams was made in 1946.

The lady was also portrayed in a television musical, Mrs. Santa Claus ( 1996 ), played by Angela Lansbury, with songs by Jerry Herman.

* Angela, a 1928 musical starring Jeanette MacDonald, music and lyrics by Alberta Nichols and Mann Holiner