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  Encyclopedia: The Opera Band
The band features two tenors, two soprano singers and a bass-baritone singer.
The album mixes opera classics such as "Nessun Dorma" with pop standards such as "Unchained Melody" and "Requiem For A Soldier" from the Band of Brothers soundtrack.
It was released on January 13, 2004 and has reached number 74 in the Billboard 200 album charts in 2004 and reached the top 50 of the ARIA Australian album charts.
www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/The-Opera-Band   (307 words)

  
 Estradasphere: Press   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
This is a band that treks across vast musical landscapes with a colorful entourage as mixed up and mad as the musical minstrels who lead them.
Wandering in and out of the room is their "inspiration for life" and housemate Mono Man--a superhero you don't want to kiss (on stage he wears a cape and a big M on his chest).
The second Bohemian to join the band (after the guy in the gorilla suit), the middle-aged Enyart met the band while driving his nephew and Murray to Los Angeles during UCSC's winter break.
www.estradasphere.com /press/metro.html   (1501 words)

  
 Beijing Opera
Among the hundreds of forms of opera throughout China, Beijing Opera exerts the greatest influence, and is therefore regarded as a national art form.
The Beijing opera band mainly consists of orchestra band and percussion band.
For the opera connoisseur it is the execution of these movements that mark the distinction of greatness for the actor.
www.einaudi.cornell.edu /curriculum/monkey/opera/index.asp?grade=3   (1396 words)

  
 Beijing Opera (Peking Opera)
Full of Chinese cultural elements, the opera presents to the audience an encyclopedia of Chinese culture as well as unfolding stories, beautiful paintings, exquisite costumes, graceful gestures and acrobatic fighting.
It is said that Beijing Opera gradually came into being after 1790 when the famous four Anhui opera troupes came to Beijing.
The band had to play loudly and the performers had to develop a piercing style of singing, in order to be heard over the crowds.
www.china-travel-tour-guide.com /about-china/beijing-opera.shtml   (704 words)

  
 New Gibraltar Encyclopedia of Progressive Rock BI-BY
This band was a dead ringer for King Crimson in the Red period, they had every aspect of Crimson down cold, in fact on the first album you'd swear you're listening to Fripp and company until the guy starts singing in Japanese.
However, a disagreement among the band caused Blake to be abandoned in a hotel by the rest of the band while on the Levitation tour, and Blake was once again on his own.
The band is quoted as describing their music as "chamber music for rock instrumentation." This description is aptly applied to Henry Cow and Univers Zero, and Blast are indeed comparable on different levels to these two bands.
www.gepr.net /bi.html   (14929 words)

  
 Classical [Arts: Music: Styles]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
Cecilia Bartoli ~ Opera Proibita (Handel · Scarlatti · Caldara) / Les Musiciens du Louvre · Minkowski
Cecilia Bartoli's new CD features a collection of music that could not be heard in her native Rome at the start of the 18th century due to Papal censorship.
Theaters, the Church felt, were places of evil and corruption and operas led people to immorality.
www.worldsearch.com /marketplace/arts/music/styles/classical/historica...   (940 words)

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