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4 unusual facts about Cappella


1873 Alpago earthquake

The towns of Rugolo, Cappella and Sarmede reported 16 casualties, but in San Pietro di Feletto, 38 people perished when the old church's roof collapsed while the morning mass in honor of Saint Peter, the city's saint, was being celebrated.

Cappella

"U Got 2 Let the Music" (which sampled Alphaville's "Sounds Like a Melody") was released in October 1993 and climbed to number 2 on the UK Singles Chart, held off from the top spot only by Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)".

Collina d'Oro

The northern part of the municipality is served by Cappella-Agnuzzo station on the Lugano–Ponte Tresa railway.

Scorzè

The municipality of Scorzè contains many hamlets which are: Rio San Martino, Peseggia, Cappella and Gardigiano .


A Red, Red Rose

Four modern choral arrangements include a four-part, a cappella version by David Dickau, an intimate, Irish folk music-influenced setting, also SATB a cappella, by Matthew Brown ("A Red, Red Rose," published by Santa Barbara Music), an accompanied SATB setting by James Mulholland as well as a broader version by American composer René Clausen.

Amalgamates

The Mates became an a cappella household name with their rendition of Michael Jackson's Man in the Mirror, with soloist Amy Birnbaum, on the 1996 release Hat Sale! Get Mama!.

Amici Cantus

In 2001, the choir published the complete male choir repertoire of Nils-Eric Fougstedt and in 2013, the complete a cappella male choir work of Toivo Kuula.

Arnold McCuller

Although he did not appear onscreen in Duets, his vocals were blended with those of actor Andre Braugher to make a composite singing voice for the character "Reggie Kane"; in the film, Reggie Kane sang with the Paul Giamatti on "Try a Little Tenderness" and performed an a cappella version of "Free Bird".

Ars Nova Singers

The ensemble's musical accomplishments include performances of the music of Hildegard of Bingen, concerts of the complete Responsoria by the late-Renaissance composer Carlo Gesualdo, acclaimed performances of the a cappella masterpieces of Rachmaninoff (the Vespers and Liturgy of St. John), and the commissioning and premiering of new works.

Ascanio Mayone

He trained as a pupil of Giovanni de Macque in Naples, and worked at Santissima Annunziata Maggiore there as organist from 1593 and maestro di cappella from 1621; he was also organist at the royal chapel from 1602.

Banana Boat

In the beginning of the year 2009 the group has finalized miniproject entitled A Little A Cappella - Polish-Irish Harmony in partnership with the Irish star of the musical stage, Eleanor McEvoy.

Betfakar Fi Eih

Meen Ghairy Ana (Nos ElKawn) - 3 Coca-Cola Commercials (instrumental version, a cappella version, album version)

Bright Lights Bigger City

The Treblemakers, an all-male a cappella group in the musical comedy Pitch Perfect, sang this song in their finale performance.

Centerville High School Performing Arts Center

Centerville High School also has four choirs, known as Concert Choir, Women's Choir, Symphonic Choir, and Forte (an a cappella group).

Collegiate a cappella

This growth was fueled in part by stylistic changes that had widespread appeal, and in part by the founding in 1990 of the The Contemporary A Cappella Society (CASA) by Deke Sharon and Rex Solomon, which enabled interaction and collaboration of a cappella groups across the United States for the first time.

Da Vinci's Notebook

Richard Hsu was a founding member and Greg "Storm" Dicostanzo a very early member of the a cappella group "The Generics" from the University of Maryland before forming DaVinci's Notebook.

Dhammapada

Ronald Corp, 2010, a cappella choral setting of Francis Booth's translation, released on Stone Records.

Giulio Belli

In 1582 he took a position as maestro di cappella at Imola cathedral.

Giuseppe Valeriano

He began training in his native town under a minor painter named Pompeo Cesura, but by 1560 he was in Rome, and collaborated on the decoration of the Cappella dell'Ascensione in the church of Santo Spirito, Sassia.

Heavy Competition

Andy presents a recording of his a cappella group singing Pachelbel's Canon segueing into the Paul Simon song "You Can Call Me Al".

Ippolito Chamaterò

On January 1, 1562, he became maestro di cappella, music director, of the prestigious Accademia Filarmonica of Verona, succeeding Francesco Portinaro, who had held the post the preceding year.

In 1565 he was in Vicenza; 1566, Treviso; and he held a longer post as maestro di cappella in Udine from 1567 to 1570, and then again from 1574 to 1577, though his whereabouts between 1570 and 1574 are unknown.

Ivan Lukačić

According to the title page and dedication, Giacomo Finetti, at that time maestro di cappella at the church dei Frari in Venice, handed them to the Archbishop of Split.

Janez Krstnik Dolar

Miserere mei Deus: SATB, SATB in concerto, SATB, SATB in cappella, 2 Violini, 2 Viole, 2 Clarini, 2 Cornetti Muti, 3 Tromboni, Violone & Organo.

Jauna muzika

Alongside a cappella works, the choir appears with Lithuanian and foreign chamber and symphony orchestras, including the Jerusalem Symphony Orchestra, Deutsches Symphonie-Orchester Berlin, and others in Germany, Israel, and Russia.

Jhan Gero

Gero was employed at some unknown time as maestro di cappella for Pietro Antonio Sanseverino, the Prince of Bisignano, according to the dedicatory epistle to Gero's 1555 book of motets.

John La Bouchardière

He returned to Lincoln Center for Performing Arts, New York in July 2013 to direct a controversial reimagining of Lera Auerbach's a cappella opera The Blind (based on the symbolist play by Maurice Maeterlinck), for which the audience was blindfolded throughout.

LSU School of Music

The LSU A Cappella Choir was the featured university choral group at the finale concert for the ACDA Annual Convention at the Walt Disney Center for the Performing Arts in Los Angeles.

Luiz Heitor Corrêa de Azevedo

The "Archive" goals were to publish scores of Brazilian music, which standed out in its first publishing: Missa dos Defuntos (1809) for 4 voices a cappella and Tantum Ergo by Padre José Maurício Nunes Garcia, Canto Religioso and O Salutaris by Francisco Manuel da Silva, and several opera's passages reduced to piano part from Joanna de Flandres by Carlos Gomes.

María Luisa Piraquive

She remains headquartered in the United States, but is constantly traveling around the world, visiting prayer rooms of the church and conducting Bible Studies, where she tends to sing a cappella Christian music.

Master of Crea

Maestro della Cappella di Santa Margherita a Crea, or more simply Maestro di Crea, is the name given to the anonymous Italian painter who was engaged by Guglielmo VIII Paleologo, Marquis of Montferrat, to decorate the chapel of Santa Margherita in the Santuario della Madonna di Crea near Serralunga di Crea (Province of Alessandria, Piedmont, Italy).

Mosaic Whispers

The group has appeared on several compilation a cappella albums, including an appearance on the 2008 Ben Folds Presents: University A Cappella!.

Nicola Porpora

In a long career, he followed these up by many further operas, supported as maestro di cappella in the households of aristocratic patrons, such as the commander of military forces at Naples, prince Philip of Hesse-Darmstadt, or of the Portuguese ambassador at Rome, for composing operas alone did not yet make a viable career.

Northwest Vocal Project

They perform a wide variety of styles within a cappella music, including traditional barbershop, jazz, Broadway, and light classical.

Ocho Kandelikas

The song has been recorded and performed by the Portland-based lounge orchestra Pink Martini, the multilingual rock group Hip Hop Hoodios, the London-based jazz flamenco group Los Desterrados, the female a cappella ensemble Vocolot, Hazzan Alberto Mizrahi ("the Pavarotti of modern Jewish cantorial music") and Yasmin Levy, an Israeli singer-songwriter of Judaeo-Spanish (Ladino) music.

Orazio Benevoli

Later, he assumed posts as maestro di cappella at Santa Maria in Trastevere (from 1624); then, at Santo Spirito in Sassia (from 1630); and, eventually, at his old church, San Luigi dei Francesi (from 1638).

Pleasures of the Harbor

The song is said to have brought Kennedy's brother Robert to tears when Ochs performed it for him a cappella in early 1968, months before the younger Kennedy's own assassination.

Robin Mallapert

Nothing definite is known about the beginning or end of his life, but he was employed successively by several Roman churches and chapels: the Cappella Liberiana at the Basilica di Santa Maria Maggiore, the San Luigi dei Francesi, the Cappella Giulia (the Julian Chapel) at St Peter's, and Basilica di San Giovanni in Laterano.

Santissima Annunziata, Florence

The Cappella di San Luca, which opens off it, has belonged to the artists confraternity or the Accademia delle Arti del Disegno since 1565.

Scrovegni Chapel

Giuliano Pisani, L’ispirazione filosofico-teologica nella sequenza Vizi-Virtù della Cappella degli Scrovegni, «Bollettino del Museo Civico di Padova», XCIII, 2004, Milano 2005, pp.

SDSU Show

Seven Nation Army by The White Stripes - Also started during the 2011-12 season, The Show started doing an a cappella version of the beat.

Season of Glass

The 1997 Rykodisc reissue added bonus tracks of the single "Walking on Thin Ice" and an a'cappella demo of "I Don't Know Why", recorded the day after Lennon's death.

The Pegs

The Harpur Harpeggios, more commonly referred to as The Pegs, are the only all female a cappella group at Binghamton University in Binghamton, New York.

The Spiritual Harmonizers

In July 2009 The Spiritual Harmonizers impressed the judges of America's Got Talent (season 4) with their a cappella rendition of the Boyz II Men hit "It's So Hard to Say Goodbye to Yesterday".

Tommy Funderburk

The album contains a cappella versions of classic hits from the seventies, for example "Stairway to Heaven", "I Shot the Sheriff", "What's Goin' On", and "Sir Duke".

Tony Backhouse

His current activities include running workshops in a cappella traditions, composing and arranging for vocal ensembles and choirs, and singing with the Heavenly Light Quartet and recording original music with Peter Dasent and Fane Flaws.

Vänner

Riltons Vänner (Rilton's Friends), a Swedish professional a cappella group

Veljo Tormis

In the 1990s, Tormis also began to receive commissions from some of the pre-eminent a cappella groups in the West such as the King's Singers and the Hilliard Ensemble.

Vincenzo Ruffo

In 1572 he became the maestro di cappella at Pistoia, and then Milan again; for his final job he had a similar employment at the cathedral in Sacile, where he died in 1587.


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