While in Fort Worth, Wills added the " rowdy city blues " of Bessie Smith and Emmett Miller to a repertoire of mainly waltzes and breakdowns he had learned from his father, and patterned his vocal style after that of Miller and other performers such as Al Bernard.

While the angle of the instrument may change as this motion follows the shape of the teeth and placement of the jaw, contrary to what many brass performers and teachers believe, the angle of the instrument does not actually constitute the motion Reinhardt advised as a pivot.

While contemporary folk music is a genre generally distinct from traditional folk music, in English it shares the same name, and it often shares the same performers and venues as traditional folk music.

While the live performers recorded the master phonograph, up to ten tubes led to blank cylinders in other phonographs.

While performers who use concert sound subwoofers for onstage monitoring may like the powerful sub-bass sound that they get onstage, sound engineers may find the use of large subwoofers ( e. g., two 18 " drivers ) for onstage instrument monitoring to be problematic, because it may interfere with the " Front of House " sub-bass sound.

* Performers Playing Opposite Sex: While several performers have won Tonys for roles that have involved cross dressing, only two have won for playing a character of the opposite sex: Mary Martin in the title role of Peter Pan ( 1955 ) and Harvey Fierstein as Edna Turnblad in Hairspray ( 2003 ).

While the flu was spreading among the rest of the performers, Holly's drummer, Carl Bunch, had to be hospitalized in Ironwood, Michigan, due to a severe case of frostbitten feet.

While they were good sports about it, many of the performers despised the musical games.

While QuadraJets have been occasionally derided as being poor performers, with proper understanding and tuning it can compete at most levels with other designs short of the full race inspired set-ups such as the Holley Double-Pumpers, which incorporated accelerator pumps on the primary and secondary carburetor circuits.

While the band was inspirational to some performers in the riot grrrl movement in the Pacific Northwest, Babes in Toyland never associated themselves with the movement.

While the term " drag king " was first cited in print in 1972, there is a longer history of female performers dressing in male attire.

While the Smothers themselves were at the forefront of these efforts, credit also goes to the roster of writers and regular performers they brought to the show, including Steve Martin, Don Novello (" Father Guido Sarducci "), Rob Reiner, Presidential candidate Pat Paulsen, Bob Einstein (" Super Dave Osborne ", " Marty Funkhouser ", and " Officer Judy "), Einstein's brother, Albert ( who works professionally as Albert Brooks ), and resident hippie Leigh French (" Share a Little Tea with Goldie ").

While the audiences in Happenings had been welcomed as the performers, it is only sometimes and often unwittingly that they become an active part in a Performance.

While presenting Aida in Rio de Janeiro, Leopoldo Miguez, the locally hired conductor, reached the summit of a two-month escalating conflict with the performers due to his rather poor command of the work, to the point that the singers went on strike and forced the company's general manager to seek a substitute conductor.

While replete with racist stereotypes, Barnum's shows satirized white racial attitudes, as in a stump speech in which a black phrenologist ( like all minstrel performers, a white man in blackface ) made a dialect speech parodying lectures given at the time to " prove " the superiority of the white race: " You see den, dat clebber man and dam rascal means de same in Dutch, when dey boph white ; but when one white and de udder's black, dat's a grey hoss ob anoder color.

While the Smothers themselves were at the forefront of these efforts, credit also goes to the roster of writers and regular performers they brought to the show, including Jim Stafford ( who served as their head writer and producer ), Steve Martin, Don Novello (" Father Guido Sarducci "), Rob Reiner (" Mike Stivic "), Presidential candidate Pat Paulsen, Bob Einstein (" Super Dave Osborne ", " Marty Funkhouser ", and " Officer Judy "), Einstein's brother, Albert ( who works professionally as Albert Brooks ), and resident hippie Leigh French (" Share a Little Tea with Goldie ").

While Muzak had initially produced tens of thousands of original artist recordings by the top performers of the 1930s and 1940s, their new strategy required a different sound.

While the performers gained more exposure, actors such as Jack Nicholson and Robin Williams turned up to watch.

" While soul jazz was most popular during the mid-to-late 1960s, many soul jazz performers, and elements of the music, remain popular.

While Covent Garden engaged international stars, Sadler's Wells focused on young British and Commonwealth performers.

While the club's management interferes with Sandman's romantic interest in Lila, a singer, its cruel treatment of the performers leads to an intervention by Harlem criminal " Bumpy " Rhodes on their behalf.

More recently it has produced some significant performers including guitarist Ken Nicol and mother and daughter singer songwriters Chris and Kellie While.

While the field of Noh performance is extremely codified, and regulated by the iemoto system, with an emphasis on tradition rather than innovation, some performers do compose new plays or revive historical ones that are not a part of the standard repertoire.

While in school, he worked at the Follies, a cinema showing " nudies " ( brief, plotless films featuring naked performers ), and observed that each night the theater was filled with " horn dick daddies " ( masturbators ) who arrived simply for the onscreen nudity.

While it ’ s true that the top television and film actors have become movie and television stars, musicians and pop singers that become pop stars, or athletes that become sports stars often become celebrities, the other professionals that play a more peripheral role in the entertainment sphere, such as television, music, and film directors and producers, screenwriters, playwrights, and animators are less likely to attain celebrity status ( albeit there are some exceptions, such as directors Steven Spielberg, Quentin Tarantino and animator Seth MacFarlane ).

While in Memphis, Hurt recalled seeing " many, many blues singers ... Lonnie Johnson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Bessie Smith, and lots, lots more.

While singers are emotionally engaged with the lyrics, often intensely so, they remain cool, relaxed, and in control.

While Antigone has never been very popular, it has set new standards for the orchestra, the singers and the committed listener.

While there, he noted the difficulty that singers had in remembering Gregorian chants.

While still a high school student, Norman formed a group called The Back Country Seven, which included his sister, Nancy Jo ; Mark A. Ebner, and high school friend, Gene Mason, who was later to be ( alongside Norman ) one of the lead singers of People !.

While the two lead singers promoted the tour and publicly claimed mutual respect, rumors of bitter acrimony and mutual loathing between the two singers swirled.

While some bands use backup singers who only sing when they are onstage, it is common for backup singers in popular music to have other roles.

While he was always at the forefront of the Soul movement, paving the way for a slew of singers who followed in his large wake, he never had that one timeless hit like so many others of the time that would forever endear him to our memories.

While singers, producers, and musicians have come and gone, Gaudio and Valli remain the group's constant ( with each owning fifty percent of the act and its assets, including virtually all of its recording catalog ).

While Ashford, whose full name now is Rosalind Ashford Holmes, and Beard, whose full name now is Annette Beard-Helton, continue to perform with other singers.

While this urban folk revival flourished in many cities across the U. S .— particularly Chicago, Los Angeles, and Denver — New York City, with its burgeoning Greenwich Village coffeehouse scene and population of topical folk singers, was widely regarded as the centre of the movement.

While he was still a pupil at the Great Barr School, Winwood was a part of the Birmingham rhythm and blues scene, playing the Hammond B-3 organ and guitar, backing blues singers such as Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, T-Bone Walker, Howlin ' Wolf, B.

While still at the conservatory, Vadiz was a finalist at the Metropolitan Opera House Eastern Region Auditions, and did concerts with the Puerto Rico Symphony Orchestra with bass Justino Diaz, and renowned singers Ruth Fernandez, Chucho Avellanet and Nydia Caro.

While many singers appear as guests with the company, others, such as Renée Fleming and Plácido Domingo, have long maintained a close association with the Met, appearing many times each season.

While many outstanding singers debuted at the Met under Bing's guiding hand, music critics complained of a lack of great conducting during his regime, even though such eminent conductors as Fritz Stiedry, Dimitri Mitropoulos, Erich Leinsdorf, Fritz Reiner, and Karl Böhm appeared frequently in the 1950s and ' 60s.

While commonly lumped together with Delta Blues singers, McDowell actually may be considered the first of the bluesmen from the ' North Mississippi ' region-parallel to, but somewhat east of the Delta region-to achieve widespread recognition for his work.

While it is mostly used by females, such as Mariah Carey and Minnie Riperton, there are a few male singers who use it.

While there is some modern repertoire written for countertenors ( sometimes written specifically for certain singers, like Britten's Death in Venice, which has a part that was written specifically for James Bowman, at present there only a small number of modern pieces written specifically for the sopranist vocal type.

While he was almost as successful in Puerto Rico singing pop tunes with his sister as he was in other countries, Tony Croatto was very much impressed by Puerto Rican jibaro singers, who could improvise décimas on the spot, something that reminded him of the payadores of Uruguay and Argentina he used to listen to when he was growing up.

While males have a sweeter voice, females tend to be more prolific singers.