Steinberg obviously has concluded that it is the lyric element which must dominate in this score, and he manages at times to create the effect of the whole orchestra bursting into song.

There is a quick change from the plaintive song to a conversational tone.

A crowd of 1,400 is expected for the ceremonies, which will be followed by the show in which the writers will lampoon baseball personalities in skit, dance and song.

What a discussion can ensue when the title of this type of song is in question.

If your favorite song is not here it must be an unfamiliar one.

Today, in the era of the integrated musical when an individual song must contribute to the over-all development of the show, it is understandable that a song, no matter how excellent it may be on its own terms, is cut out because it does not perform the function required of it.

Among the particular gems in this collection is the impudent opening song of `` The Garrick Gaieties '', an impressive forecast of the wit and melody that were to come from Rodgers and Hart in the years that followed ; ;

He shares with Mr. Morse a parody of the college anthems he once sang while his second song is whisked away from him by Virginia Martin, a girl with a remarkably expressive yip in her voice.

" America the Beautiful " is an American patriotic song.

The song is one of the most beloved and popular of the many American patriotic songs.

The song is often included in songbooks in a wide variety of religious congregations in the United States.

Charles ' recording is very commonly played at major sporting and entertainment events, such as the Super Bowl, and WrestleMania 2 ; Charles gave a live performance of the song prior to Super Bowl XXXV, the last Super Bowl played before the September 11 terrorist attacks, as well as during Game 2 of the 2001 World Series after the attacks.

This song is also used in Ellen Raskin's The westing game.

The full version of the song from Melbourne Punch, the fourth verse of which is pasted onto the urn

* Atomic Dog, a song that is popular world wide ; written and performed by Our Father Who Art of Funk ; " George Clinton " from Parliament and the Funkadelics

Cash often included the song when he toured prisons, saying " For the three minutes that song is going on, everybody is free.

Bruce Hindmarsh suggests that the secular popularity of " Amazing Grace " is due to the absence of any mention of God in the lyrics until the fourth verse ( by Excell's version, the fourth verse begins " When we've been there ten thousand years "), and that the song represents the ability of humanity to transform itself instead of a transformation taking place at the hands of God.

This verse is also featured in William Billing's popular Sacred Harp song " David's Lamentation ", first published in 1778.

Also, " Absalom, Absalom Would I die for you my son, I would have it all undone, The way it all came down " is found on the 1998 album Largo in the song " Gimme A Stone ".

Among other composers who set Housman songs were John Ireland ( song cycle, Land of Lost Content ), Michael Head ( e. g. ' Ludlow Fair '), Graham Peel ( a famous version of ' In Summertime on Bredon '), Ian Venables ( Songs of Eternity and Sorrow ), and the American Samuel Barber ( e. g. ' With rue my heart is laden ').

Catullus ' love poem " Vivamus mea Lesbia atque amemus " in the translation by Ben Jonson was set to music ( lute accompanied song ) by Alfonso Ferrabosco the younger.

" Babylon " was performed in the Mad Men episode of the same name Babylon_ ( Mad_Men )# ep6 despite the fact that the song would not be released until 10 years after the time in which the episode is set.

In 1963, Bob Dylan was set to appear on the show, but network censors rejected the song he wanted to perform, " Talkin ' John Birch Paranoid Blues ", as potentially libelous to the John Birch Society.

Refusing to perform a different song, Dylan walked off the set at dress rehearsal.

In 2007, the video for the Napalm Death song " You Suffer " set a new " Shortest Music Video " record: 1. 3 seconds.

He later wrote what is probably his best known instrumental work, Lachrimae, or Seaven Teares, Figured in Seaven Passionate Pavans, a set of seven pavanes for five viols and lute, each based on the theme derived from the lute song " Flow my tears ".

* " Orion ", a song by Dead Can Dance on the box set Dead Can Dance ( 1981-1998 )

( Rock in Peace )", a song by AC / DC that originally appeared on the Australian version of Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, but was released internationally in the 2009 box set Backtracks

During filming, Lynch asked for the song to be played repeatedly to give the set a surreal atmosphere.

His compositional efforts have included a number of film scores, notably a set of songs written for Warren Beatty's 1990 film version of Dick Tracy ; one song, " Sooner or Later ( I Always Get My Man )" ( as performed by Madonna ), won Sondheim an Academy Award.

* Van Morrison frequently performed the song in his live set.

Ultimately the controversy was such that John Denver cancelled a concert shortly thereafter, but when Denver returned for a 1980 concert, he set a one-show attendance record at the venue, Centennial Hall, and sang the song as well to the approval of the crowd.

The poem was set to the tune of a popular British song written by John Stafford Smith for the Anacreontic Society, a men's social club in London.

Much of the idea of the poem, including the flag imagery and some of the wording, is derived from an earlier song by Key, also set to the tune of The Anacreontic Song.

* Rock band Toto's 1979 single release " 99 " is a song whose content is inspired by THX-1138s society, where people are given numbers instead of names, as well as having a music video featuring the band in an all-white room dressed in white, a set piece designed around the film.

The story of Virginia's inquiry and the The Suns response was adapted in 1932 into an NBC produced cantata ( the only known editorial set to classical music ) and an Emmy Award-winning animated television special in 1974, animated by Bill Meléndez ( best known for his work on the various Peanuts specials ) and featuring the voices of Jim Backus, Susan Silo and Courtney Lemmon, with theme song performed by Jimmy Osmond.

In 1583 De Monte sent Byrd his setting of verses 1 – 4 of Psalm 136 ( Super flumina Babylonis ), including the pointed question ’ How shall we sing the Lord's song in a strange land ?’ Byrd replied the following year with a setting of the defiant continuation, set, like de Monte's piece, in eight parts and incorporating a three-part canon by inversion.

The five-part section includes vocal part-songs which show the influence of the ‘ adapted consort song ’ style of the 1588 set but which seem to have been conceived as all-vocal part-songs.

The first set consists of the entire Blackwater Park album, while the second set contains one song from every album excluding Blackwater Park, in chronological order representing the twenty years of " evolution " in their music.

In Hollywood, Jones met Elvis Presley for the first time who he recalls singing his song as he walked towards him on set.

And Ray Stevens's song by the name was included in a box set in 2006.

) In the realm of song, Claude Debussy set both Verlaine's " Pantomime " and Banville's " Pierrot " ( 1842 ) to music in 1881 ( not published until 1926 )— the only precedents among works by major composers being the " Pierrot " section of Telemann's Burlesque Overture ( 1717 – 22 ), Mozart's 1783 " Masquerade " ( in which Mozart himself took the role of Harlequin and his brother-in-law, Joseph Lange, that of Pierrot ), and the " Pierrot " section of Robert Schumann's Carnival ( 1835 ).