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A musical ensemble, also known as a music group, is a group of people who perform instrumental or vocal music, typically known by a distinct name. In classical music, trios or quartets either blend the sounds of musical instrument families (such as piano, strings, and wind instruments) or group together instruments from the same instrument family, such as string ensembles or wind ensembles. In jazz ensembles, the instruments typically include wind instruments (one or more saxophones, trumpets, etc.), one or two chordal "comping" instruments (electric guitar, piano, or organ), a bass instrument (bass guitar or double bass), and a drummer or percussionist. In rock ensembles, usually called rock bands, there are usually guitars and keyboards (piano, electric piano, Hammond organ, synthesizer, etc.) and a rhythm section made up of a bass guitar and drum kit.
In Western classical music, smaller ensembles are called chamber music ensembles. The terms duet, trio, quartet, quintet, sextet, septet, octet, nonet and dectet describe groups of two up to ten musicians, respectively. A group of eleven musicians, such as found in The Carnival of the Animals, is called either a hendectet or an undectet (see Latin numerical prefixes). A solo is not an ensemble because it only contains one musician.
William Martin "Billy" Joel (born May 9, 1949) is an American pianist, singer-songwriter, and composer. Since releasing his first hit song, "Piano Man", in 1973, Joel has become the sixth-best-selling recording artist and the third-best-selling solo artist in the United States. His compilation album Greatest Hits Vol. 1 & 2 is one of the best-selling albums in the US.
Joel had Top 40 hits in the 1970s, 1980s, and 1990s, achieving 33 Top 40 hits in the US, all of which he wrote himself. He is also a six-time Grammy Award winner who has been nominated for 23 Grammy Awards. He has sold more than 150 million records worldwide, making him one of the best-selling artists of all time.
Joel was inducted into the Songwriters Hall of Fame (1992), the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame (1999), and the Long Island Music Hall of Fame (2006). In 2001, Joel received the Johnny Mercer Award from the Songwriters Hall of Fame. In 2013, Joel received the Kennedy Center Honors, the nation's highest honor for influencing American culture through the arts. With the exception of the 2007 songs "All My Life" and "Christmas in Fallujah", Joel stopped writing and releasing pop/rock material after 1993's River of Dreams. However, he continues to tour, and he plays songs from all eras of his solo career in his concerts.
Actors: Mark Harden (miscellaneous crew), Charlie French (miscellaneous crew), Mark Isham (composer), Jeff Galpin (miscellaneous crew), Bruce Berman (producer), James D. Dever (miscellaneous crew), Denise Di Novi (producer), Zac Efron (actor), Joe Chrest (actor), Blythe Danner (actress), Douglas M. Griffin (actor), Adam LeFevre (actor), Ritchie Montgomery (actor), Jayne-Ann Tenggren (miscellaneous crew), Boone Narr (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Logan is a marine serving in Iraq. While there, he finds a photo of a girl with "keep safe" written on the back. He is admiring it when his unit is attacked. He survives and credits the photo for saving him. He tries to find the owner but can't, assuming he was killed. When he goes back to the States, he finds it difficult to adjust and is still haunted by what happened. Analyzing the photo, he finds in the background a landmark that tells him she is in Louisiana. He then goes there and finds her. He learns her name is Beth. He tries to tell her what happened but can't get the words out. She assumes he's there to apply for the job they advertised looking for someone to help at her family's business, a dog kennel. He says yes but at first she gets an uneasy feeling from him but her grandmother decides to give him a chance. It isn't long that he makes a connection with her son. He then discovers that it was her brother who had the picture only he doesn't remember him. He sees that her brother's death has a profound effect on her. Eventually they get close which makes her grandmother happy but not her ex who is a deputy sheriff who's always threatening to take their son away from her.
Keywords: bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, birthday-party, boat, bomb-explosion, child, child-in-peril, church, dog, grandmother-granddaughter-relationshipActors: Mark Harden (miscellaneous crew), Charlie French (miscellaneous crew), Mark Isham (composer), Jeff Galpin (miscellaneous crew), Bruce Berman (producer), James D. Dever (miscellaneous crew), Denise Di Novi (producer), Zac Efron (actor), Joe Chrest (actor), Blythe Danner (actress), Douglas M. Griffin (actor), Adam LeFevre (actor), Ritchie Montgomery (actor), Jayne-Ann Tenggren (miscellaneous crew), Boone Narr (miscellaneous crew),
Plot: Logan is a marine serving in Iraq. While there, he finds a photo of a girl with "keep safe" written on the back. He is admiring it when his unit is attacked. He survives and credits the photo for saving him. He tries to find the owner but can't, assuming he was killed. When he goes back to the States, he finds it difficult to adjust and is still haunted by what happened. Analyzing the photo, he finds in the background a landmark that tells him she is in Louisiana. He then goes there and finds her. He learns her name is Beth. He tries to tell her what happened but can't get the words out. She assumes he's there to apply for the job they advertised looking for someone to help at her family's business, a dog kennel. He says yes but at first she gets an uneasy feeling from him but her grandmother decides to give him a chance. It isn't long that he makes a connection with her son. He then discovers that it was her brother who had the picture only he doesn't remember him. He sees that her brother's death has a profound effect on her. Eventually they get close which makes her grandmother happy but not her ex who is a deputy sheriff who's always threatening to take their son away from her.
Keywords: bare-chested-male, based-on-novel, birthday-party, boat, bomb-explosion, child, child-in-peril, church, dog, grandmother-granddaughter-relationshipActors: Daniel E. Catullo (director), Daniel E. Catullo (producer), Jack Gulick (producer), Joseph Uliano (producer), Dana Marshall (producer), Neil Maiers (producer), Cody Hanson (actor), Joe Garvey (actor), Austin Winkler (actor), Mike Rodden (actor), Mark Austin King (actor), Hinder (actor),
Genres: Documentary, Music, Short,Actors: Zalman King (writer), Christy Powers (miscellaneous crew), Christy Powers (miscellaneous crew), Allan Graf (actor), Zalman King (producer), Tim Turner (miscellaneous crew), Billy Zane (actor), George S. Clinton (composer), Christine Bonnem (miscellaneous crew), Avram 'Butch' Kaplan (producer), Tricia Ronten (miscellaneous crew), Joan Severance (actress), Rafael Eisenman (director), Whip Hubley (actor), James Gavin Bedford (editor),
Plot: Irene, a thirty-something housewife with a successfull husband and a young son, has her life thrown in a spin when she becomes attracted to Billy, a member of a landscape crew outside her house. When Irene's husband and son leave for a weekend fishing trip, Irene wanting to see Billy, gets locked in the back of his trailer and ends up at remote Lake Consequence with Billy and his girlfriend Grace where they take Irene on a trip into the nearby town to a Chinese New Year Festival, and through a series of adventures they bring out the repressed sexual needs Irene has been holding inside for a long time.
Keywords: erotica, female-frontal-nudity, female-nudity, lesbian, lesbian-sex, lesbianism, male-nudity, ménage-à-trois, sexActors: Mia Farrow (actress), Daniel Stern (actor), J.T. Walsh (actor), Sam Waterston (actor), Max von Sydow (actor), Carrie Fisher (actress), Lloyd Nolan (actor), Tony Roberts (actor), Lewis Black (actor), Richard Jenkins (actor), Woody Allen (actor), John Turturro (actor), Michael Caine (actor), Julie Kavner (actress), Barbara Hershey (actress),
Plot: During a Thanksgiving Day party we make acquaintance with a numerous and problematic family. The leading characters are three sisters: Lee, the woman of Frederick, an old misanthrope painter; Holly, who dreams of becoming a writer, or an actress, or who knows who...; Hannah, famous actress, beautiful, intelligent, good mother, good wife, good sister, in short perfect, the pivot of the family. The balance begins to break up when Hannah's husband, Elliot, falls in love with Lee, who leaves Frederick. Holly goes through a deep crisis and meets Mickey, the former husband of Hannah, a hypochondriac TV producer. The affairs evolve and at the last Thanksgiving ...
Keywords: acting-audition, actress, adultery, alcoholics-anonymous, architect, artificial-insemination, artist, atheism, audition, bad-dateActors: Robert Iscove (miscellaneous crew), Alice Cooper (actor), Howard Kaylan (miscellaneous crew), Shep Gordon (producer), Jon 'Bowzer' Bauman (actor), Mark Volman (miscellaneous crew), Jocko Marcellino (actor), Fee Waybill (actor), Prairie Prince (actor), Sha-Na-Na (actor), Michael Cotten (actor), Vince Welnick (actor), Frederick 'Dennis' Greene (actor), The Tubes (actor), Donald 'Donny' York (actor),
Plot: A TV concert special showcasing performances by Alice Cooper and support acts Sha Na Na, The Tubes and Nazareth. Filmed June 19, 1977 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, CA, this special was broadcast in September 1977 on US television.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, cult-music-bandActors: Robert Iscove (miscellaneous crew), Alice Cooper (actor), Howard Kaylan (miscellaneous crew), Shep Gordon (producer), Jon 'Bowzer' Bauman (actor), Mark Volman (miscellaneous crew), Jocko Marcellino (actor), Fee Waybill (actor), Prairie Prince (actor), Sha-Na-Na (actor), Michael Cotten (actor), Vince Welnick (actor), Frederick 'Dennis' Greene (actor), The Tubes (actor), Donald 'Donny' York (actor),
Plot: A TV concert special showcasing performances by Alice Cooper and support acts Sha Na Na, The Tubes and Nazareth. Filmed June 19, 1977 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, CA, this special was broadcast in September 1977 on US television.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, cult-music-bandActors: Robert Iscove (miscellaneous crew), Alice Cooper (actor), Howard Kaylan (miscellaneous crew), Shep Gordon (producer), Jon 'Bowzer' Bauman (actor), Mark Volman (miscellaneous crew), Jocko Marcellino (actor), Fee Waybill (actor), Prairie Prince (actor), Sha-Na-Na (actor), Michael Cotten (actor), Vince Welnick (actor), Frederick 'Dennis' Greene (actor), The Tubes (actor), Donald 'Donny' York (actor),
Plot: A TV concert special showcasing performances by Alice Cooper and support acts Sha Na Na, The Tubes and Nazareth. Filmed June 19, 1977 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, CA, this special was broadcast in September 1977 on US television.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, cult-music-bandActors: Robert Iscove (miscellaneous crew), Alice Cooper (actor), Howard Kaylan (miscellaneous crew), Shep Gordon (producer), Jon 'Bowzer' Bauman (actor), Mark Volman (miscellaneous crew), Jocko Marcellino (actor), Fee Waybill (actor), Prairie Prince (actor), Sha-Na-Na (actor), Michael Cotten (actor), Vince Welnick (actor), Frederick 'Dennis' Greene (actor), The Tubes (actor), Donald 'Donny' York (actor),
Plot: A TV concert special showcasing performances by Alice Cooper and support acts Sha Na Na, The Tubes and Nazareth. Filmed June 19, 1977 at Anaheim Stadium, Anaheim, CA, this special was broadcast in September 1977 on US television.
Keywords: character-name-in-title, cult-music-bandActors: Johnny Legend (actor), Johnny Legend (writer), Lynn Harris (actress), Jane Tsentas (actress), Barbara Mills (actress), Terri Johnson (actress), Linda York (actress), Luanne Roberts (actress), Alex Elliot (actor), Beverly Walker (actress), Al Ward (actor), Richard Greer (editor), Mack Bing (editor), Mack Bing (director), Hal Hidey (actor),
Genres: Drama, Romance,There is a time, caught in a moment;
When all is right, and we all know it,
And in this place, there is a reason...
To watch the faces smiling under the sun.
So set 'em up, set 'em up, for the Rock Band,
Set 'em up, set 'em up, 'till they're falling down.
So set 'em up, set 'em up, for the Rock Band,
'till they're falling down.
There is a road that is worth traveling,
There is a heart that is worth loving,
This is the time to be spending...
On a world we should be mending now.
So set 'em up, set 'em up, for the Rock Band,
Set 'em up, set 'em up, 'till they're falling down.
So set 'em up, set 'em up, for the Rock Band,
'till they're falling down.