Search results
Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
The William Tell Overture is the overture to the opera William Tell (original French title Guillaume Tell ), whose music was composed by Gioachino Rossini. William Tell premiered in 1829 and was the last of Rossini's 39 operas, after which he went into semi-retirement (he continued to compose cantatas, sacred music and secular vocal music).
Anita Renfroe is an American comedian from Atlanta, Georgia, the wife of a Baptist pastor and the mother of three children. [1] She is a regular commentator on Good Morning America. [2] She became famous after her comic rendition of everything that a mother would typically say to her children in the course of a day, set to the William Tell ...
William Tell (French: Guillaume Tell; Italian: Guglielmo Tell) is a French-language opera in four acts by Italian composer Gioachino Rossini to a libretto by Victor-Joseph Étienne de Jouy and L. F. Bis, based on Friedrich Schiller 's play Wilhelm Tell, which, in turn, drew on the William Tell legend. The opera was Rossini's last, although he ...
Tellenlied. The Bundeslied ("Song of the Confederacy") or Tellenlied ("Song of Tell") is a patriotic song of the Old Swiss Confederacy . Its original composition dates to the Burgundian Wars period (1470s). The oldest extant manuscript text was written in 1501, the first publication in print dates to 1545. It consists of stanzas of six lines ...
Nicanor Abelardo was born in San Miguel de Mayumo, Bulacan to Valentin Abelardo and Placida Santa Ana, on February 7, 1893 [1] His mother belonged to a family of artists in Guagua, the Henson. He was introduced to music when he was five years old when his father taught him the solfeggio, the bandurria, and the guitar at 6.
Gioachino Rossini used Schiller's play as the basis for his 1829 opera William Tell. The William Tell Overture is one of his best-known and most frequently imitated pieces of music; in the 20th century, the finale of the overture became the theme for the radio, television, and motion picture incarnations of The Lone Ranger, a fictional American ...
Gioachino Rossini's "William Tell Overture" includes a finale that is known as the "March of the Swiss Soldiers" and that starts at the 7:30 mark of this United States Marine Corps Band recording. It is inseparably associated with The Lone Ranger as its theme, making this a highly important sound file for FS.
William Tell Overture (Mike Oldfield instrumental) " William Tell Overture " is a single by musician Mike Oldfield, released in 1977. It is a rendition of the last movement ( Allegro molto) from Gioachino Rossini 's William Tell Overture, played in a deliberately much slower arrangement than Rossini's original piece.