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2 unusual facts about Allegro


Keyboard glockenspiel

It was first used by Handel in the oratorio Saul (1739), and later in the 1739 revivals of his Il Trionfo del Tempo and Acis and Galatea, and the next year in L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato.

L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato

In 1988, Mark Morris choreographed a dance performance to accompany the music and poetry.


Benjamin Godard

The most recent recordings of music by Godard are the Piano Concerto No. 1, Introduction & Allegro and Symphonie Orientale performed by Victor Sangiorgio (piano) with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra conducted by Martin Yates on Dutton Epoch CDLX 7274, released in 2011 and Piano Concerto No.2, Persian Fantasy, (again with Victor Sangiorgio and Martin Yates) Suites from Jocelyn and Overture Les Guelfes on Dutton Epoch, released in 2012.

Concept musical

There are three major contenders for the title of first concept (even though the term "concept musical" hadn't been coined when any of them played): Lady in the Dark (1941) by Kurt Weill, Ira Gershwin, and Moss Hart; Allegro (1947) by Rodgers and Hammerstein; and Love Life (1948) by Weill and Alan Jay Lerner.

Francesco Antonio Urio

George Frideric Handel reused Urio's work, including parts of the Te Deum, in works such as Israel in Egypt, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, and the Dettingen Te Deum.

Front-engine, front-wheel-drive layout

Issigonis's Mini of 1959 and related cars such as the Maxi, Austin 1100/1300 and Allegro had the four cylinder inline water cooled engine transversely mounted.

Healers of the Dead Sea

Allegro aimed to increase public interest in the discovery by letting them imagine their way around the various features, showing it's orientation towards Jerusalem where the expected river of life-giving waters were assumed to have come from in some prophesied time in the future.

Hélène Fleury-Roy

She sent compositions to the Journal Musical Santa Cecilia Reims Composition Competition, and won in 1899 with Symphony Allegro for organ.

Helmut Lachenmann

Two chamber music concerts with Salome Kammer and members of the ensemble musikFabrik showed among others temA for flute, mezzosoprano and piano, his string trio and Allegro sostenuto for clarinet, violoncello and piano.

Jack Tar Hotels

Allegro also acquired management contracts for two resorts in Guanacaste Province, Costa Rica, and a marketing and franchise agreement for a St. Kitts resort.

Jennens

Charles Jennens (1700 – 20 November 1773) was an English landowner and patron of the arts, who assembled the text for five of Handel's oratorios: Saul, Israel in Egypt, L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, Messiah, and Belshazzar.

Luis Antonio Rivera

He also hosts a daily program of Puerto Rican music classics at Allegro WIPR-FM.

Pittsburgh Youth Ballet

The company was honored to receive the licenses and permission from the George Balanchine Trust to perform Serenade, Who Cares?, Tarantella, Dance of the Hours, Concerto Barocco, Allegro Brillante, and Valse Fantasie.

Sacconi Quartet

They also returned to the Wigmore Hall to perform Elgar’s Introduction and Allegro with the Southbank Sinfonia, a performance repeated at the Queen Elizabeth Hall and Canterbury Cathedral with Vladimir Ashkenazy.

Software Publishing Corporation

Earlier that year, Allegro had purchased Serif Inc, which produced publishing and graphics software for the SOHO market, including PagePlus Home/Office 95, PagePlus 3.0 and DrawPlus 2.0, as well as a variety of clipart and font collections.

Teacher and the Rockbots

Their music CDs and songs are distributed by Allegro Music Group, Scholastic Corporation, Discovery Communications, CD Baby, Amazon.com and iTunes.

Viatcheslav Nazarov

In 1995, Nazarov and the new Allegro participated in the JVC jazz festival in Avery Fisher Hall in New York.


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