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  Opus Band | Live is Life
Well, in the era of the power ballad and the fluorescent sweat band, Austria was lagging way behind when it came to providing the world with first class cheesemeisters.
Nevertheless, with new bassist Niki Gruber on board Opus were on course for the Austrian charts, with a growing fanbase in tow.
Opus embarked on a whirlwind world tour, and thanks to the wonders of modern technology you can savour their live performance right here - enjoy!
www.vienna-life.com /vienna/opus-live-is-life   (590 words)

  
 Opus 82
Opus 82 is a concert band based in Sandvika outside Oslo, Norway.
Opus 82 has been an elite band in the national championship for the last few years, and in 2005 it held the position of 5th best concert band in Norway.
Opus 82 aims to be an alternative for the more ambitious young amateur musicians.
www.opus82.no /english.shtml   (389 words)

  
 opusest1
Opus Est was formed in the late 70’s with influences from Genesis, YES and ELP.
In 1982, the band won a radio competition with a prize of the use of a mobile studio for a week and this resulted in the limited release of Opus 1 in 1983.
Sadly, the band decided to quit due to lack of success (with proper distribution at the time it may have been a different story).
www.hairlessheartherald.co.uk /opusest1.htm   (387 words)

  
 DPRP - Forgotten Sons: Opus Est
I brought the band in contact with Musea, and in November of 2003, the original LP was remixed by Kent, remastered from the original master tapes, and officially released on CD.
The band were also looking for a keyboard player, which proved to be very difficult, since the songs they were doing were quite tricky.
That's not very surprising, of course, as it was written for the band, but it's nice to see that after a year of no playing and writing rock music at all, the feeling was still there, only in a different form.
www.dprp.net /forgotten/opusest   (2980 words)

  
 CD Baby: OPUS BRIDGE: Reforged
When OPUS BRIDGE emerged into the live scene they took it by storm with their passionate and awe inspiring performances of their music, crowds being unable to take their attention away from the scene and physical representation of music before them.
OPUS BRIDGE is currently signed to American record label, TwinRecords, and are still looking to increase their level of exposure and popularity, in showing the world what they are capable of and proving that they are in fact a group of musicians to take note of and support.
Overall, Opus Bridge manages to combine A Perfect Circle-esque melodies and at the same time, manages to be totally original and passionate, with lyrics that are always thought provoking, and at times, beautifully dark, giving us a glimpse in to a bona-fide tortured soul (let's not compare them to certain bands, eh?).
cdbaby.com /cd/opusbridge   (1761 words)

  
 Opus - Travis - The Invisible Band
The astonishing success of "The Invisible Band" (4 million copies sold so far), however, has come at a price and the pressure for it to do well and match up to the phenomenal success its predecessor has been enormous.
The expectations were tremendous, and had the album been a flop, it could have killed their admirable status and given their career paths a declining turn toward the trash heap of the UK music scene.
Peculiarly, The Invisible Band shares its producer with Radiohead's "Kid A" (as Radiohead fans will know, this was not one of the cheeriest albums of the year).
www.opuszine.com /music/review.html?ID=441   (618 words)

  
 More than 100 attend 19th annual band competition   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Lead singer for Pineapple Truck, Brandon Cummings, junior in pre-pharmacy, sings the last song of the set during the 19th annual OPUS band competition Friday afternoon in the Bosco Plaza.
Costello said she was attending because she wanted to support her favorite band, Kippers Cradle, who she said had a lot of variety in their music that people might not see in other bands.
The bands were recruited by flyers UPC sent out and by a Web search looking for local bands that might be interested in competing.
www.kstatecollegian.com /article.php?a=6967   (589 words)

  
 Restaurant reviews from the moon: Opus - Palace Cross Road, Bangalore
Opus is a Goan restaurant and stage for musical talent right in the heart of Bangalore.
Created by Gina and Carlton Braganza, Opus has the stars as its roof, a bricked and pebbled garden as its floor and white cushions with little stone tables fixed into the ground for visitors to laze around.
Opus is one of the few restaurants that serve pork in proper Goan catholic style.
bluesviews.blogspot.com /2005/04/opus-palace-cross-road-bangalore.html   (492 words)

  
 Mr. Zeller’s OPUS - September 12, 2003
The resulting music from the first-year band members on this Thursday afternoon is more discordant than harmonious, but it only makes his smile grow.
The members of the first-year band are practicing lessons and learning the day’s new note (a D) on their various instruments.
The class has 15 students, and several are playing the clarinet — and fidgeting a bit because their hands are "sweaty and cramped" — while Zeller takes a moment to explain the mysteries of the bounce beat and the silent rest to the percussion section.
www.mailtribune.com /archive/2003/0912/local/stories/01local.htm   (830 words)

  
 New Haven Advocate: Music - Music Notes: Opus & Ace
I've known Opus for something like 17 years, and the relationship has never changed: He hands me a flier and tells me about five things he has in the works—bands, shows, tours, TV appearances.
Kai Blackwood, an Opus bandmate in various projects since the early '90s, is flying back from his new Hollywood haunts (where he's helming a horror flick) to rejoin his drummer buddy in their revered Metallica cover band Alcoholica.
Opus admits to having had a rough time in recent months, from a broken relationship to automotive trouble.
www.newhavenadvocate.com /article.cfm?aid=5321   (699 words)

  
 OPUS ONE BIG BAND ARTIST PROFILE: Live Jazz and Blues band, hire Opus One Big Band from Alive Network UK
Originally started to celebrate the music of the 1940s, Opus One soon carved itself a niche creating unique themed events and it was not long before the band was being specifically requested by corporate giants such as BP and Glaxo for their special events.
Opus One has played at every Jitterbug Ball since the start and was commissioned to perform at the RAF's official 60th Anniversary commemoration of "The Battle of Britain".
Opus One is an ideal band for weddings, corporate and commercial events, providing superb entertainment at any event.
www.alivenetwork.com /bandpage.asp?bandname=Opus+One+Big+Band   (437 words)

  
 Pastepunk.com: We're still here...   (Site not responding. Last check: )
It's not that I'm against bands that use their music as a forum for their own religious beliefs, but rather, that I often, personally, just don't understand what the band's message is through their words.
ZAO's band history is a troubling one, with a nearly endless list of line-up changes, break-ups, reformations, and so forth, and thus such makes release comparisons subject to many wavering factors.
Unfortunately, the band's magic is spread too thin for a large chunk of this disc, and thus, the band often boxes itself into a repetitive chugging pattern that leaves one gazing at their navel from time to time.
www.pastepunk.com /viewcdreview.php?id=1260   (409 words)

  
 Ludwig van Beethoven - Questionz.net , answers to all your questions
Beethoven's greatest works are the 32 piano sonatas, the nine symphonies, the five piano concertos, the violin concerto, the triple concerto and the late string quartets.
The opus numbers of Beethoven's pieces were assigned by his publishers, and follow the order in which his works were published, rather than the order they were written.
Opus 64 (1807) Arrangement of Piano Trio (Opus 3) for Piano and Cello
www.questionz.net /Beethoven.html   (3174 words)

  
 Oval Opus   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Oval Opus has built a kinship over the years that can only be described as a brotherhood.
An oval is an elliptical, never-ending pattern and an opus is a music composer’s masterpiece.
The band shared the stage with artists such as Sister Hazel, O. Guster, and Vertical Horizon, and was the top music act at the 2001 NACA Great Lakes conference, booking over 30 college gigs on-site after their performance.
www.alivearts.com /oval_page.htm   (187 words)

  
 “The Cure” by The Cure (2004, Geffen) // Music Reviews // Opus
And as a result, he (and, by extension, the rest of The Cure) has merely been going through the motions, reenacting the same tired roles, and rewriting the same old songs for the past decade (and perhaps longer, some might argue)… and things just seemed to be going from bad to worse.
In The Cure’s case, Robinson strips the band’s sound to a much more guitar-oriented attack (gone are many of the synth layers that had increasingly become the band’s stock in trade), hearkening back to their early years, while still keeping much of the pop that comprised
While the band’s halcyon days are almost certainly over, it’s nice to hear Smith sound comfortable with his band, his sound, his voice, and his role once more.
opuszine.com /music_reviews/review/the_cure_self_titled   (979 words)

  
 Opus 1 | garage hangover
Opus 1 was a professional group playing at clubs such as the Cinnamon Cinder alongside competing bands The Emperors, The Cindermen, The Pyramids, The Vibrants and The Knights of Day.
The band would go on to be 'our vehicle,' but it seems that it did so with a constantly revolving cast of characters.
The Decker brothers, Brian and Doug, had seen a succession of bands in which even though they were largely responsible for the groups sound and success, but they always ended up being subservient to their front men.
www.garagehangover.com /?q=Opus1   (3226 words)

  
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Four-man US band Opus Akoben is heading the bill at the concert, which begins at 6.30pm, at the Heritage Village, at the Bahrain National Museum.
The band is aiming to cross cultural boundaries and appeal to a wider audience.
The band wants to highlight the positive side of US culture, and is using hip hop as a way of conveying this message.
www.gulf-daily-news.com /1yr_arc_Articles.asp?Article=136100&Sn=BNEW&IssueID=28339&date=2-22-2006   (760 words)

  
 Kent Olofsson, Composer - Rock / Opus Est
Most of the music for Opus Est was composed by Kent Olofsson, with great help from the other members of the band.
OPUS II In 1983 we had the opportunity to record for a week with a mobile recording studio, a session that resulted in the album "Opus 1".
When Musea Records was planning to re-release "Opus 1" on CD I also sent them some other studio recordings we had made and they suggested we should release that too.
www.kentolofsson.com /rockopus.html   (3248 words)

  
 Opus One Music Services Home Page - Big Band Music In The UK
The Millenium Concert with Gary Williams and the Opus One Orchestra - the finest orchestra we have heard since the hey-day of the Ted Heath orchestra was superb....
All the performers were aware that the arrangements, songs and lyrics would be well known to the audience, which made them, as was admitted later, very apprehensive of their reception.
The band, most of whose members have been performing together for several years, some for the duration of the seventeen years that The Opus One Big Band has been in existence, were in great form, soloists from all sections performing to a very high degree.
www.opusonebigband.com /Page6.htm   (967 words)

  
 Brook Street Band: Baroque ensemble
The Brook Street Band is an award winning specialist in eighteenth century repertoire that takes its name from the London street where George Frideric Handel lived and composed for most of his working life.
Unlike the Opus 2 trio sonatas, which were based on the typical Italian four movement da chiesa (church) pattern, the Opus 5 sonatas are rather a series of seven loosely assembled dance suites, very much in the da camera (chamber) mould.
The Opus 1 sonatas were most probably composed in either Rome or Naples, and no doubt heavily influenced by Corelli's violin sonatas.
www.magnatune.com /artists/brook_street   (1339 words)

  
 DecentXposure :: Oval Opus
Oval Opus was born on the campus of Miami University in Oxford, OH in 1997.
In the summer of 2002, the band recorded their third CD "Red Sky Recovery." Tight musicianship from years of live performance combined with confidence and maturity in songwriting made "Red Sky Recovery" the bands' tour de force.
The band continues to tour, sharing the stage with such acts as Sister Hazel, O.A.R., Edwin McCain, Jason Mraz, Maroon 5, Vertical Horizon, Guster, The Calling, The Pat McGee Band, Fastball, and Rusted Root as well as headlining shows to a growing regional fan base.
www.decentx.com /artist.asp?id=3   (455 words)

  
 The Sanford Herald: Serving Sanford, NC   (Site not responding. Last check: )
After evaluating Cottrell as a teacher and reviewing the progress the Northwood band program has made under his leadership, the foundation is presenting him with a $10,000 award.
In the fall, the band had applied for and received a $3,000 percussion instrument grant from the foundation to purchase a marimba.
The Northwood Chargers Band was one of 500 school bands and orchestras nationwide to apply for the instrument grant.
www.sanfordherald.com /articles/2005/02/02/news/news08.prt   (777 words)

  
 Opus Dei - NEWS - Kitchen Queen rocks Shellbourne
Band members Johanna (Jo) Clemons, Bobby Swartz, Jane Clemons and Brian Hulse offered to perform for free and donate all proceeds to a fund set up to help people from countries experiencing financial difficulties to travel to Rome.
When Bishop Javier Echevarría, the Prelate of Opus Dei, asked the Prelature's faithful to remember those who were less fortunate in their fundraising efforts, Jo — the band's lead vocalist — decided to get her band involved.
The band members, who range from high school sophomores to seniors, spread the word to all of their friends and family.
www.opusdei.org /art.php?w=37&p=4244   (489 words)

  
 breakmyface.com ~ Opus
Next to nothing is known about Opus other than at least one member later played with Smog Marines and The Leaving Trains.
Kevin claimed responsibility for the name Opus, a name he immediately regretted suggesting and a name immediately embraced by everyone else in those heady high school days.
When asked for an explanation of the Opus 45's virtual non-existence, Kevin pointed to AJ's house as the vinyl's final resting place thanks to a ruthless Russian clean-up / moving crew that cleared the house out when A.J. and friends were eventually given the boot.
www.breakmyface.com /bands/opus.html   (831 words)

  
 The Great Swing Band Arrangers
Much of the music we recall from the Big Band era, is remembered not because of the melody of the music, or the interest of the Lyric, but rather for the beauty of the Arrangments used by the Big Bands.
Not all of the "dance" and "society" bands of this era played Jazz, but it has been argued that those band's arrangers may have taken on the role of the Jazz musicians, by creating a form of improvisation, even if the performers were reading the charts.
He was able to occasionally play in a band at just age 6, and spent a good deal of his childhood studying every instrument in the band as well as harmony, theory, composition.
www.nfo.net /usa/arranger.html   (11498 words)

  
 SoundClick artist: Oval Opus - Oval Opus is an upcoming band from Cincinnati OH with enough energy to light up all of ...
Oval Opus is featured on the WOXY-FM’s 97xposure compilation album which was created from the area’s 20 best bands out of 208 that were vying for a spot on the disc.
The band also had the opportunity to perform with Guster during their 2000 winter tour and Sister Hazel during their spring tour.
Oval Opus is currently in the studio recording their second album, which is due for release this fall and promises to outdo the standard that was set with the first album.
www.soundclick.com /bands/default.cfm?bandID=3099   (635 words)

  
 American Popular Music Groups Enjoy Tours to Middle East, Africa - US Department of State
Ezra Greer, bassist for Opus Akoben Hip-Hop Ensemble, said he and his three fellow musicians were greeted by excited audiences and eager musicians at each stop on their tour through Bahrain, Jordan, the Palestinian Territories, Israel, Saudi Arabia and Egypt.
One of the two Opus Akoben lyricists, Terrence "Sub-Z" Nicholson, said the high point of the tour for him came during the visit to the Palestinian Territories.
Opus Akoben Hip-Hop Ensemble and Jazz Sabrosón Latin Quartet are two of eight American musical groups that the U.S. State Department sent on overseas tours in the past year as part of a program called “The Rhythm Road: American Music Abroad.” The eight groups visited more than 30 countries.
usinfo.state.gov /scv/Archive/2006/Apr/14-466033.html   (970 words)

  
 Tricks History 1980
Rick was talked into seeing the Opus band by our light man, Steve Raab.
Bill gradually is falling away and isn't able to make it to band rehearsals in Hopkins very often.
It was in that band that I Steve got the chance to sing lead for the first time on songs like It's Only Love- ZZ Top and also Shadow Play, a Rory Gallagher song with a 15 minute drum solo in also."
homepage.mac.com /rdoogie/TricksBand/history1980.html   (585 words)

  
 MySpace.com - Opus Nocturne - Monterrey, Nuevo León - Black Metal - www.myspace.com/opusnocturnemty
Gigs were performed by Lord Mictain Death, Nybaldak, Blackcount and Impaler only, this because Essial left the country due to personal issues, but looking forward to re-join the band in the future.
In the time that the band has been alive, it has been performing in diferent places of the north of Mexico, and it has shared stage with bands national such as Saman, Moon ligthing hell, Azgeroth, Black Vomit, Eternal Darkness, Aghro Maynins,Sargatanas, Rapture Messiah, Hiborym, Allaxul, and Magan among others.
In the middle of 2007, Lord Mictain Death and Impaler leave the band due to the decision coming from the rest of the band, of conforming a line up that could be more solid and with no limitations, this with the purpose of performing something more extreme and true musically talking.
www.myspace.com /opusnocturnemty   (763 words)

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