When patched together, these phrases combined to create musical pieces which could be performed by human players.

When Kelly returned to Hollywood in 1953, the film musical was already beginning to feel the pressures from television, and MGM cut the budget for his next picture Brigadoon ( 1954 ), with Cyd Charisse, forcing the film to be made on studio backlots instead of on location in Scotland.

When in 1958 he directed Rodgers and Hammerstein's musical play Flower Drum Song.

When a particularly large musical event " takes over " an entire village, spontaneous sessions may erupt on the street corners.

" When the Gershwins teamed up to write songs for Lady, Be Good, the American musical found its native idiom ".

When published in the June 1950 issue of Astounding Science Fiction, cover artist Miller contributed one of the more striking Astounding covers of the 1950s, blending an emotional musical performance with cyber technology.

When, in 1887, the French and Italian Governments agreed upon moving the mortal remains of Rossini into the Basilica di Santa Croce, in Florence, Alboni, then a sixty-one-year-old lady living in seclusion, wrote to the Italian Foreign Minister, Di Robilant, proposing that the Petite Messe Solennelle, " the last musical composition by Rossini ", be performed in Santa Croce the day of the funeral, and " demanding the honour, as an Italian and a pupil of the immortal Maestro ," of singing it herself in her " dear and beloved homeland ".

Hawkins's act was popular in and around Toronto and he had an effective way of eliminating his musical competition: When a promising band appeared, Hawkins would often hire their best musicians for his own group ; Robertson, Danko, and Manuel came under Hawkins ' tutelage this way.

When the popular musical The Threepenny Opera was filmed by director Georg Pabst, he filmed the first version with a French-speaking cast ( 1930 ), then a second version with a German-speaking cast ( 1931 ).

When the producer of The Painted Veil replaced Gardner with Eleanor Parker and asked Laurents to revise his script with her in mind, he backed out of the film, freeing him to devote all his time to the stage musical.

When composer Jerome Kern proposed turning the very serious Show Boat into a musical, Ferber was shocked, thinking it would be transformed into a typical light entertainment of the 1920s.

When Emir Osman I was appointed commander of the Turkish army on the Byzantine border in the late 13th century, he was symbolically installed via a handover of musical instruments by the Seldjuk sultan.

When she was only fifteen, Akiko moved to Tokyo on her own and entered into Aoyama Gakuin High School where she pursued her musical career.

When Ravel became unable to compose, and could not write down the musical ideas he heard in his mind, Pabst hired Jacques Ibert.

When he was just out of college Rodgers worked as musical director for Lew Fields.

After producing a film adaption of his 1968 novel Only When I Larf, Deighton and photographer Brian Duffy bought the film rights to Joan Littlewood and Theatre Workshop's stage musical Oh, What a Lovely War!

When Linnell was a child, Walt Kelly's Songs of the Pogo album made a strong impression on his musical sensibilities.

When the tour got to New York City, she stayed, getting radio singing jobs and then her Broadway theater debut in a musical called Top Speed, which opened on Christmas Day, 1929.

Strong box office performances were recorded in 2009-10 by Bruce Beresford's Mao's Last Dancer ; the Aboriginal musical Bran Nue Dae the dramatization of John Marsden's novel Tomorrow, When the War Began ; and the crime drama Animal Kingdom which featured major Australian screen stars Ben Mendelsohn, Joel Edgerton, Guy Pearce and Jackie Weaver.

When the movie's star, Al Jolson, sings, however, the film shifts to sound recorded on the set, including both his musical performances and two scenes with ad-libbed speech — one of Jolson's character, Jakie Rabinowitz ( Jack Robin ), addressing a cabaret audience ; the other an exchange between him and his mother.

When designating instruments, " alto " likewise can refer either to the corresponding vocal range ( alto flute & alto trombone, respectively the lowest and highest common instruments of their families ) or to musical role ( treble or alto recorder and alto clarinet, with ranges of F4-F6 and G2-B ♭ 5 ).

When he was five years old, Constantijn and his brother received their first musical education.

" When The Clock On The Wall Strikes 10 ", the first musical number in the film, is part of the same scene as " Just Wait ' Til I Get Through With It ", Groucho's song about the laws of his administration.

Brian Wilson's father told of Brian's unusual musical abilities prior to his first birthday, observing that the baby could repeat the melody from " When the Caissons Go Rolling Along " after only a few verses had been sung by the father.

When Bill and Gloria Gaither created their 1973 musical Alleluia!

When we opened the door again for business and switched on the lights she said:

When the stock exchange opened this morning, many dealers were quick to purchase shares in Douglas, Lockheed and United Aircraft and prices rose substantially.

When he opened the door, there stood Eugene, on his way out of the apartment.

When the Yalta Conference opened, the American policy of postponing all discussion of Russia's western boundaries until the peace conference had broken down.

When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

When a PAP connection was opened, each end sent the other an ATP request which basically meant " send me more data ".

When closed the altarpiece displayed the four panels of the legend of St. Sebastian ’ s Martyrdom, while the opened wings displayed the Stations of the Cross.

When the crowd — eventually reinforced by mutinous gardes françaises — proved a fair match for the fort's defenders, Governor de Launay, the commander of the Bastille, capitulated and opened the gates to avoid a mutual massacre.

When U-41 surfaced near Baralong, the latter opened fire while continuing to fly the American flag, and sank the U-boat.

When Spain opened the Cuban trade ports, it quickly became a popular place.

When the partial pressure of is reduced, for example when a can of soda is opened, the equilibrium for each of the forms of carbonate ( carbonate, bicarbonate, carbon dioxide, and carbonic acid ) shifts until the concentration of in the solution is equal to the solubility of CO < sub > 2 </ sub > at that temperature and pressure.

When they opened the bag to show the guards, it appeared no longer to hold her head but to be full of rose petals.

When Griffith was 14, his mother abandoned the farm and moved the family to Louisville, where she opened a boarding house.

When the database was first opened, the program was handed back a link to the first record in the database, which also contained pointers to other pieces of data.

When Seamus Heaney gave an Oxford lecture on the poet he opened by addressing the assembly, " Dylan Thomas is now as much a case history as a chapter in the history of poetry ", querying how ' Thomas the Poet ' is one of his forgotten attributes.

When Munch died, his remaining works were bequeathed to the city of Oslo, which built the Munch Museum at Tøyen ( it opened in 1963 ).

When it opened on December 17, 1900, officials estimated 5, 000 immigrants per day would be processed.

When the Revolution opened, some women struck forcefully, using the volatile political climate to assert their active natures.

When a new junior high school was opened in 1986, the Fairmount High School building was closed for good.

When the railway opened to Fort William on 7 August 1894, the station was given prime position at the south end of the town.

When the Great Depression hit in the 1930s there were no easily available jobs in the US and Canada and emigration fell to less than 50, 000 a year, bringing to an end the period of mass migrations that had opened in the mid-18th century.

When The Second City opened its doors on December 16, 1959, directed by Paul Sill, his mother Viola Spolin began training new improvisers through a series of classes and exercises which became the cornerstone of modern improv training.

When the building opened, popular opinion was enthusiastic.

When family friend John T. Ford opened 1, 500-seat Ford's Theatre on November 9 in Washington, D. C., Booth was one of the first leading men to appear there, playing in Charles Selby's The Marble Heart.

When the sons of Israel opened their sacks, they saw their money that they used to pay for the grain.