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Also, cannon shots are heard at the end of Rush's "Overture". [50] "The Disappearance of Mr Davenheim" (Episode 5, Series 2, of the British drama series, Agatha Christie's Poirot (1990)), the title character plays a record of the 1812 Overture so that the cannon fire will mask the sound of him breaking into his own safe. [51]
Ronald Alfred Goodwin (17 February 1925 – 8 January 2003) was an English composer and conductor known for his film music. [1] He scored over 70 films in a career lasting over fifty years. His most famous works included Where Eagles Dare , Battle of Britain , 633 Squadron , Margaret Rutherford's Miss Marple films , and Frenzy .
Fire lances continued to be used as anti-personnel weapons into the Ming dynasty, and were even attached to battle carts on one situation in 1163. Song commander Wei Sheng constructed several hundred of these carts known as "at-your-desire-war-carts" (如意戰車), which contained fire lances protruding from protective covering on the sides.
Holst was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the elder of the two children of Adolph von Holst, a professional musician, and his wife, Clara Cox, née Lediard. She was of mostly British descent, [n 1] daughter of a respected Cirencester solicitor; [2] the Holst side of the family was of mixed Swedish, Latvian and German ancestry, with at least one professional musician in each of the ...
Offenbach by Nadar. Jacques Offenbach (/ ˈ ɒ f ən b ɑː x /; [n 1] 20 June 1819 – 5 October 1880) was a German-born French composer, cellist and impresario.He is remembered for his nearly 100 operettas of the 1850s to the 1870s, and his uncompleted opera The Tales of Hoffmann.
Stravinsky composed canons, including a Canon on a Russian Popular Tune and the Double Canon. Conlon Nancarrow composed a number of canons for player piano. (See Mensuration and tempo canons below.) Anton Webern employed canonic textures in his work; his Op. 16 work is a collection of five canons for soprano, clarinet, and bass clarinet.
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North was nominated for fifteen Academy Awards throughout his career, one for Best Original Song, the rest in the Best Original Score category, making him the most-nominated composer to have never won. He was however awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 1986; he was the first composer to receive it. Nominated - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)