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unusual facts about overture



1925 NFL Championship controversy

When the NFL rejected Pyle's overture, he formed a competing league to showcase the talents of Red Grange and University of Washington All-American George "Wildcat" Wilson.

A Finnish Summer with Turisas

Nummirock 2008: "To Holmgard and Beyond", "One More", "The Dneiper Rapids", "Miklagard Overture", "Battle Metal"

Admiralitätsmusik

Telemann: Hamburger Admiralitätsmusik; Overture in C (Mieke van der Sluis (soprano), Graham Pushee, Rufus Müller (tenor), Klaus Mertens, David Thomas, Michael Schopper (bass); Alsfeld Vocal Ensemble, Bremen Baroque Orchestra; conductor: Wolfgang Helbich).

Arnold Cooke

The harpist Maria Korchinska introduced his Harp Quintet in 1932; Sir Henry Wood conducted his Concert Overture No.1 at the 1934 Promenade Concerts.

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.

Blackburn Cathedral

The organ was opened on 28 February 1828 with a concert which included works by Handel - extracts from his Messiah and Israel in Egypt and his Occasional Overture played by the new orgnaist Joseph John Harris.

Canadian Alliance

Under the leadership of Reform/CA activist Randy Thorsteinson, the new party never sought a formal link with the CA, and if it had done so the overture would likely have been rebuffed since many Albertan CA members continued to support the Alberta Progressive Conservatives.

Charles Camilleri

His works include the now famous Malta Suite, Maltese Dances, A Maltese Overture - Din l-Art Helwa, operas in Maltese, a ballet based on the Knights of Malta and the oratorio Pawlu ta' Malta.

Clay Hine

Clay has arranged music for: Keepsake, PLATINUM, FRED, Four Voices, Riptide, Backbeat, Marquis, Nightlife, BSQ, Max Q, Bank Street, State Line Grocery, Overture, Sound Standard, Svelte Brothers, and many other internationally renowned groups.

Cleveland Orchestra discography

The Cleveland Orchestra's first recording, of Tchaikovsky's 1812 Overture, was made for the Brunswick label with its first music director, Nikolai Sokoloff.

Coalition of Left, of Movements and Ecology

The alliance with the smaller parties was formed again at the end of 2005, when chairman Alekos Alavanos proposed the 30-year-old Alexis Tsipras as candidate mayor of Athens for the Municipal Election of 2006, proclaiming the party's "overture to a younger generation".

Comes A-Long A-Love

Sherman's tune is derived from a violin melody from the final section of the overture to the Gioachino Rossini opera Semiramide.

Cuban Overture

It was renamed Cuban Overture three months later at a benefit concert conducted by Gershwin at the Metropolitan Opera to avoid giving audience the idea that it was simply a novelty item.

Donna Diana

The overture served as the theme for the American radio (1947–1955) series Challenge of the Yukon, which later migrated to the TV series (1955–1958) Sergeant Preston of the Yukon.

Doreen Carwithen

She composed some orchestral music: an overture ODTAA (One Damn Thing After Another) (1945) (after the novel by John Masefield); a Concerto for piano and strings (1948); the overture Bishop Rock (1952) and a Suffolk Suite (1964).

E. Choidog

He is perhaps best known for his overture Friendship composed in 1962 for USSR Radio and TV symphony orchestra, conducted by Yevgeny Akulov, and his The Tale of Lady Choijid or The Choijid Tara, a Mongolian ballet based upon the Buddhist story of the young girl Choijid which is now considered one of the classics and staples of state opera theatre in Mongolia.

Elves' Hill

In the eighth Olsen Gang movie (Olsen-banden ser rødt), the Olsen gang bombs, drills, and hammers its way through the opera house's basement in synchronicity with the music of the Elverhøj Overture.

Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem

During his time at the Moscow Conservatoire, around September 1866 the school's principal, Nikolay Rubinstein commissioned Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky to compose a Festival Overture on the Danish National Anthem to be played for the visit of the Tsarevich (heir to the throne) to Moscow, accompanied by his new Danish bride, Princess Dagmar of Denmark.

Geoffrey Toye

Toye's overture to Ruddigore has been recorded numerous times, conducted by Harry Norris, Isidore Godfrey, and Sir Malcolm Sargent (who each recorded the complete opera) and Sir Charles Mackerras, among others.

Homayoun Khorram

for notable singers including Hossein Ghavami (Fakhteh), Marzieh, Hayedeh, Shajarian and made over a hundreds of instrumental pieces for violin and orchestra, charmezrabs, overtures in collaboration with outstanding contemporary artists including Javad Maroufi, Jalil Shahnaz, and Farhang Sharif.

Hugh Farmer

In July, Doddridge, who had been asked to find a minister for the independent congregation at Taunton, applied to Farmer, who declined the overture; he explained that he was not Calvinistic enough for Taunton, the liberal element in the congregation having seceded with Thomas Amory.

I enter a monastery

The overture was recorded by the Royal Stockholm Opera orchestra, conducted by Stig Westerberg in the 1980s.

Jacobo Ficher

Later, he turned to Argentine nationalism, stimulated by gauchesco literature in the overture Don Segundo Sombra (1954) (after the novel by Ricardo Güiraldes), popular urban music in Tangos y milongas for piano (1948–59), rural folk music in Tres danzas populares, and historical themes in the Seventh Symphony, commemorating the Argentine Independence Revolution (Salgado 2001).

Jay Greenberg

He composes primarily on his computer using a music notation program and is mostly known for his work Overture to 9-11 about the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, which was featured on PRI's From the Top.

Jephtas Gelübde

He completed the score in Würzburg in April 1812, writing the overture last of all.

Johann Strauss I

Strauss also adapted various popular melodies of his day into his works so as to ensure a wider audience, as evidenced in the incorporation of the Oberon overture into his early waltz, "Wiener Carneval", Op. 3, and also the French national anthem "La Marseillaise" into his "Paris-Walzer", Op. 101.

Light Cavalry Overture

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London Classical Players

Hector Berlioz: Symphonie fantastique, Overture Les Francs-Juges, Virgin Classics 3632862 (reissue)

Microsoft Live Labs

Live Labs was headed by Dr. Gary William Flake, who prior to joining Microsoft was a principal scientist at Yahoo! Research Lab and former head of research at the Web portal's Overture Services division.

Mozart and Freemasonry

This figure appears in Mozart's opera The Magic Flute in the overture, suggesting the opening of the Masonic initiation.

Oberon Old and New

A staging that parked an aeroplane on the roof of Glasgow's Theatre Royal on the opening night only seemed to sink the already preposterous plot further into the mire, although Burgess was so taken with the music that he went on to arrange the overture to Oberon for guitar quartet.

Overture Respighiana

The overture received its world premiere by the Chamber Orchestra of New York under the composer, on February 13, 2010 at the Church of St. Jean Baptiste in New York.

Rabbit of Seville

The cartoon, in a plotline reminiscent of Stage Door Cartoon, features Bugs Bunny being chased by Elmer Fudd into the stage door of the Hollywood Bowl, whereupon Bugs tricks Elmer into going onstage, and participating in a break-neck operatic production of their chase punctuated with gags and accompanied by musical arrangements by Carl Stalling, focusing on Rossini's overture to The Barber of Seville.

Rosamunde

The Overture was used for a ballet sequence in the 1952 Samuel Goldwyn film Hans Christian Andersen, starring Danny Kaye.

Russell Peck

Conductor, Paul Polivnick recorded Peace Overture with the London Symphony.

Shakuntala

Károly Goldmark, the Hungarian composer (1830–1915) wrote the Sakuntala Overture Op.13 in (1865)

Sound of Sunforest

The track "The Overture to the Sun" was also used by the American neofolk/martial-industrial band Blood Axis for their song "Lord of Ages".

Tam O'Shanter Overture

The Tam o' Shanter Overture, Op. 51 by Malcolm Arnold was completed in March 1955.

The Day Begins

Towards the end of the overture, the latter half of "The Day Begins" is played, making use of its excerpts from "Tuesday Afternoon" and "Nights in White Satin." Recordings of the overture from the orchestra-backed performances can be found on the Moody Blues live albums: A Night at Red Rocks with the Colorado Symphony Orchestra and Hall of Fame.

The Original Soundtrack

Its melody can also be heard in the overture to Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical The Phantom of the Opera.

Thomas Erskine, 6th Earl of Kellie

James Boswell borrowed five guineas from Erskine on 20 October 1762, and on 26 May 1763 took him on a visit to Lord Eglinton's in London, where the overture the Earl composed for the popular pastiche The Maid of the Mill (at Covent Garden in 1765) became exceptionally popular.

Vehmic court

The Freischoeffen also provided the subject for Berlioz's unfinished opera Les francs-juges, the overture to which provided the signature tune for 'Face to Face', the well-known early series of British television interviews, conducted by the Rt Hon John Freeman MBE.

Viktor Petrenko

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Zaide

 318, which was composed around the same time as Zaide and later used as an overture to Francesco Bianchi's La villanella rapita (1784), is often given as an overture to Zaide.

Zur Namensfeier

Zur Namensfeier (French: Jour de fête, English: Feastday or Name day), op. 115, is a symphonic overture in C major by Ludwig van Beethoven completed in 1815, and first performed on Christmas Day 1815.


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