Though opera patronage has decreased in the last century in favor of other arts and media ( such as musicals, cinema, radio, television and recordings ), mass media and the advent of recording have supported the popularity of many famous singers including Maria Callas, Enrico Caruso, Kirsten Flagstad, Mario Del Monaco, Risë Stevens, Alfredo Kraus, Franco Corelli, Montserrat Caballé, Joan Sutherland, Birgit Nilsson, Nellie Melba, Rosa Ponselle, Beniamino Gigli, Jussi Björling, Feodor Chaliapin, and " The Three Tenors " ( Luciano Pavarotti, Plácido Domingo, and José Carreras ).

Though Edison's recording technology was better than Berliner's, there were commercial advantages to a disc system since the disc could be easily mass produced by molding and stamping and it required less storage space for a collection of recordings.

Though Wilson was present for the Dutch recordings, he yielded to his bibulous tendencies ( primarily hashish and hard cider ) and rarely participated, confining himself to work on " Funky Pretty " ( a collaboration with Mike Love and the band's manager, Jack Rieley ), a one-line sung intro to Al Jardine's " California Saga: California ", and " Mount Vernon and Fairway ( A Fairy Tale )", a children's narrative suite musically inspired by Randy Newman's Sail Away that was promptly rejected by the band ; eventually, Carl Wilson capitulated and ensured that the suite would be released as a bonus EP with the album.

Though technically the term may be applied to art done using other media or processes and merely scanned in, it is usually reserved for art that has been non-trivially modified by a computing process ( such as a computer program, microcontroller or any electronic system capable of interpreting an input to create an output ); digitized text data and raw audio and video recordings are not usually considered digital art in themselves, but can be part of the larger project of computer art and information art.

Though her powerful voice and disposition are not captured on her recordings ( due to her recording exclusively for Paramount, which was known for worse-than-normal recording techniques and among the industry's poorest shellac quality ), the other characteristics are present, and most evident on her early recordings, Bo-weevil Blues and Moonshine Blues.

Though they would reform periodically, with significant member turnover ( Roppolo and Mares were more or less the two ringleaders and constants of the group ), to make recordings, the group never played all together again.

Though NORK and ODJB were not by any stretch of the imagination the first white jazz bands ( there were many others that played around Chicago and New Orleans ), they were some of the first to make recordings and one of the first white jazz bands that made mixed race recordings ( Jelly Roll Morton was creole ).

Though they are often categorized with Japanese harsh noise acts such as Merzbow and Masonna, The Gerogerigegege has also released albums of more straightforward rock ( Sexual Behaviour in the Human Male ), noise ( 45 RPM Performance ), and ambient music ( None Friendly, Endless Humiliation ), in addition to several seven inch records mixing these styles with found recordings.

Though Theodore discovered scratching, it was Flash who helped push the early concept and showcase it to the public, in his live shows and on recordings.

Though several soundboard recordings of Led Zeppelin concerts were circulated amongst fans after having been stolen from Page's personal archive some time in the 1980s, no soundboards of the 1972 Long Beach or LA Forum shows were taken, meaning the release of How the West Was Won was the first chance fans had of hearing the soundboard versions of these concerts.

Piano: Though not as prominent as the guitar, the piano is another important instrument of bossa nova ; Jobim wrote for the piano and performed on it for most of his own recordings.

Though the group's early recordings under their different monikers were doo-wop oriented, the majority of songs released under the Vandellas ' name produced a rougher, soulful sound with powerful musical backing from The Funk Brothers.

Though there are duplicates of recordings across the labels, they will differ in sound quality due to the different restoration techniques employed by the companies.

Though not as common as it once was, traditional Sevdalinka singers like Kadir Kurtagić, Emina Ahmedhodžić, Hašim Muharemović and Muhamed Mešanović-Hamić are still popular to the extent that their recordings are available.

Though the instrument is now more closely associated with French music, the first recordings of the hurdy gurdy were by Galician Perfecto Feijoo in 1904.

Though only a few selections from the Minneapolis hotel tape were ever officially released, all twenty-six songs have been heavily bootlegged and celebrated by Greil Marcus, a music critic who wrote about the recordings in Rolling Stone Magazine.

Though two of Gary Thomas ’ recordings were highly rated by Down Beat he only had a contract with a small European company and his performance opportunities were virtually limited to Europe.

Though both troupes of the New Kingston Trio made a limited number of other recordings and several television appearances, neither generated very much interest from fans or the public at large.

Though he has released recordings since the early 1980s, Wobble has been quite prolific from the mid 1990s to the present.

Though an instrumental, this song makes use of two audio recordings of former staff sergeant and former Marine Jimmy Massey giving an interview about the war.

Though these recordings are countless there are chronological gaps ( 1910-1950 ), complex music and culture changed rapidly, and the various groups are treated unevenly.

Though successful as an orchestra leader, Harris is remembered today for his recordings as a vocalist, his voice work in animation ( probably most famous later in his career for his roles as bears, one being Baloo in Disney's The Jungle Book, and as Little John in Disney's Robin Hood ).

Though the unit was sold as a development machine it could be modified to enable the creation and use of commercial game backups.

Though Bung never sold backup enabled V64s many re-sellers would modify the units themselves.

Though most banks were sold to foreign investors, the largest bank, National Savings Bank ( OTP ), remained Hungarian-owned.

Though this application was hailed upon its release for ease of use, it sold only 10, 000 copies ; not enough to cover the development expenses.

Though the original Lada, and as of the early part of the new millennium, the Samara, have now been withdrawn, the Lada 110 and the Niva are still sold in certain Western European markets, as are the more modern models.

Though it now has an honored place in the history of American English, Webster's first dictionary only sold 2, 500 copies.

Though their middling Australian ratings ensured they ran only a single season both programs were successfully sold internationally.

Though IBM still had rights to HPFS, their agreement with Microsoft to continue licensing the HPFS386 version is contingent upon them paying Microsoft a licensing fee for each copy sold.

Though Miles ' work is closely associated with Blue Note, and has earned iconic status and frequent homage, Miles was only a casual jazz fan, according to Richard Cook ; Blue Note gave him several copies of each of the many dozens of albums he designed, but Miles gave most to friends or sold them to second-hand record shops.

Though a specialty product not intended to sell in large numbers, the SWA was an impressive achievement, and derivatives were sold for decades.

Though it is never explicitly stated as part of the canon, it can be surmised that Wallace sold off the entire flock to " The Farmer " who owns the farm where Shaun and his friends now reside.

Though sales began promisingly, and it contained the hit single " Old Man and Me " ( U. S. No. 13 ), the album sold four million copies in the U. S. Hootie & the Blowfish has since released three more studio albums: Musical Chairs, Hootie & the Blowfish, and Looking for Lucky.

Though short-lived, the Eagle Vision sedan sold in respectable numbers, while the sporty Eagle Talon sold more than 115, 000 units.

Though the building was originally planned as a hotel, after her suicide the building was sold to Pomona College and was adapted into an administrative building.

Though Parliament itself was based on the exclusion of the vast Irish Catholic majority in Ireland, many nationalist historians and writers blamed the absence of Parliament for the increased impoverishment of Dublin, with many of the large mansions in areas like Henrietta Street sold to property developers and landlords who reduced them to tenements.

Though he was awarded Juju Musician of the Year in 1990, Shina's follow-up, Shinamania sold respectively but was panned by critics.

Though he had seen Lucas, Schumacher was not initially sold on casting Haim.

Though Sierra was sold in 1996, Williams ' production credits date to 1999, when she retired from Sierra On-Line.

Though often mistaken for or deceptively sold as elephant ivory, items made from the two-to-three-inch nut have none of the striations common to animal ivory, and sometimes the ivory-like nut flesh has a light yellow cast under a rough coconut-shell-like external covering.

Though often deceptively sold to the modern tourist trade as elephant ivory, items made from ivorine have none of the striations common to animal ivory, though sometimes, the carving is artificially aged to have the yellowed appearance common to true old ivory carvings.

Though the raising and sale of poultry was an interstate industry, the Court found that the " stream of interstate commerce " had stopped in this case — Schechter's slaughterhouses bought chickens almost exclusively from intrastate wholesalers and sold completely exclusively to intrastate buyers.

Though the book sold 10, 000 copies during its first year, Dana did not receive any royalties from sales of this edition of the book.

Though StarHub continues using its i-mode service along with its WAP data plans in Singapore, it no longer sell anymore i-mode exclusive phones and all new phones sold by StarHub supports both i-mode and WAP.