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The Music Man is a musical with book, music, and lyrics by Meredith Willson, based on a story by Willson and Franklin Lacey.The plot concerns con man Harold Hill, who poses as a boys' band organizer and leader and sells band instruments and uniforms to naïve Midwestern townsfolk, promising to train the members of the new band.
The Music Man is a 1962 American musical film directed and produced by Morton DaCosta, based on Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway musical of the same name, which DaCosta also directed. Robert Preston reprises the title role from the stage version, starring alongside Shirley Jones , Buddy Hackett , Hermione Gingold , Ronny Howard , and Paul Ford .
The Broadway cast recording of the 1957 musical The Music Man was released as an album by Capitol Records. The original release formats included LP, 4×EP, and reel-to-reel tape. [2] The album spent several weeks at number one on Billboard's Best Selling LPs chart. [5]
Hugh Jackman dazzles as Professor Harold Hill, the charismatic con man who fires up an entire Midwestern town, in this abso-tootin’-lutely smashing revival of Meredith Willson’s adorably corny ...
Although the first movement is mostly in the conventional sonata form, Mendelssohn has the first theme played by the solo violin and then by the orchestra. Classical concertos typically opened with an orchestral introduction followed by a version of essentially the same material that incorporates the soloist.
Mendelssohn: Violin Concerto in E minor / Bruch: Violin Concerto No.1 / Schubert: Rondo in A (EMI) 1988 28 — — 75 — English Chamber Orchestra, Jeffrey Tate: Sibelius: Violin Concerto (EMI) — — — — — City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, Sir Simon Rattle: Vivaldi: The Four Seasons (EMI) 1989 3: 12: 35: 15: 3 English Chamber ...
The Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35 was the only concerto for violin composed by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky. Composed in 1878 , it is one of the best-known violin concertos . The concerto was composed in Clarens , Switzerland, where Tchaikovsky was recovering from the fallout of his ill-fated marriage.
The first movement is characterized by a series of light, pulsing chords that reappear periodically throughout the movement, with slight variations with each recurrence. The solo violin enters early in the movement playing fairly rapid arpeggios that gradually extend to encompass the full range of the instrument.