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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.
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Helene Fischer (born 5 August 1984) is a Russian born German singer and entertainer. Since her debut in 2005 she has won numerous awards, including eight Echo awards, four "Die Krone der Volksmusik" awards and the Bambi award. According to record certifications she has sold at least 9,115,000 albums. In June 2014, her multi platinum 2013 album "Farbenspiel" became the most legally downloaded album by a German artist of all time.
Helene Fischer was born in the Siberian city of Krasnoyarsk, Russia (then the Soviet Union) as the second child to Peter and Maria Fischer. Her father worked as a physical education teacher and her mother as an engineer at a university. Her paternal grandparents were Volga Germans who had been deported to Siberia in 1941 by Joseph Stalin. In 1988, at the age of four, she emigrated with her parents and her six year older sister to Wöllstein, Rhineland-Palatine, West Germany.
After graduating from school, Helene Fischer attended the Frankfurt Stage & Musical School for three years, where she studied singing and acting. During this time, Helene performed on stage at the Staatstheater Darmstadt, as well as on the stage of the Volkstheater Frankfurt. Since May 2008 she has been dating Florian Silbereisen. In October 2011 Fischer was presented with her own wax figure in the Berlin Madame Tussauds museum.
Actors: Walter Sande (actor), Paul E. Burns (actor), John Ridgely (actor), Mary Gordon (actress), Joe Sawyer (actor), Darrell Calker (composer), Byron Foulger (actor), Sol M. Wurtzel (producer), Harry Lauter (actor), Jimmy Lydon (actor), Marcia Mae Jones (actress), Grandon Rhodes (actor), William F. Claxton (director), Roger McGee (actor), Arnold Belgard (writer),
Plot: Andy Bryant is a University of Arizona student. His grades suffer however because of his preoccupation with an upcoming intercollegiate rodeo. And he is in love with the blond Laurie Sherman. Tod Bryant, Andy's father, is more interested in embarrassing a rival at the rodeo than he is with his son's academic progress. When his lack of focus nearly causes a tragic accident in the university chemistry lab, Andy decides to hunker down and study.
Genres: Western,Actors: Milton Berle (actor), Arthur L. Jarrett (writer), William Edmunds (actor), William Watson (miscellaneous crew), William Watson (writer), Tim Ryan (writer), Marcy Klauber (writer), Al Christie (producer), Bob Hope (actor), Bert Lahr (actor), Robert Shayne (actor), Jack White (miscellaneous crew), Willie Howard (actor), Parke Levy (writer), Henry King (actor),
Plot: A compilation of four short comedies produced in the 1930's by Al Christie for Educational Pictures Inc., and re-edited into feature film format: Going Spanish (1934), Poppin' the Cork (1933), Off the Horses (1937), and Affairs of Pierre (1937).
Genres: Comedy,Actors: Jeffrey Sayre (actor), Frank J. Scannell (actor), Chester Clute (actor), Edgar Dearing (actor), Ralph Sanford (actor), Dick Rush (actor), Dewey Robinson (actor), Kenner G. Kemp (actor), Groucho Marx (actor), Bert Moorhouse (actor), Paul Newlan (actor), William H. O'Brien (actor), Lee Phelps (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Cy Schindell (actor),
Plot: Talent agent Lionel Devereaux sells his girlfriend/client Carmen Novarro to New York City's famous Copacabana nightclub as a Latin-American singer/dancer and, pressed for another act, he sells her again, this time with a blonde wig and Moroccan veil, as a French singer...for the same presentation. The wear and tear on Carmen, changing back-and-forth between numbers, leaves to a heated exchange of words between the performer and her fiancé agent. This leads to the disappearance of Carmen's alter ego, which arouses suspicions by the management...and the police.
Keywords: 1940s, animal-actor, borough-name-in-title, cheap-hotel, cigar-smoking, cigarette-girl, cigarette-smoking, clerk, dancer, dancingActors: Colbert Clark (producer), J. Benton Cheney (writer), Isabel Randolph (actress), Jeff Donnell (actress), Paul Birch (actor), Dick Elliott (actor), Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams (actor), Al Bridge (actor), Mark Roberts (actor), Guy Kibbee (actor), Ken Curtis (actor), Forbes Murray (actor), Vernon Dent (actor), Ray Nazarro (director), Jack Rockwell (actor),
Plot: Believing her father, Dusty Jenkins ('Guy Kibbee' (qv)), to be a rich ranch owner, Susan Nelson ('Jeff Donnell' (qv))), comes to visit him, accompanied by her wealthy fiancée Jerome Winston ('Mark Roberts (I)' (qv)as Robert Scott) and his snooty society mother, Mrs. Winston ('Isabel Randolph' (qv)) billed as her radio character Mrs. Uppington). Dusty, instead of owning the ranch, is actually just one of the hands. The real owner is absent, so foreman Curt Durant ('Ken Curtis (I)' (qv)) and "Big Boy" Stover ('Guinn 'Big Boy' Williams' (qv))) and the other ranch hands ('The Hoosier Hotshots' (qv))) engage in a conspiracy to keep Susan and the Winstons from learning the truth.
Keywords: 1940s, actor-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actor-shares-first-name-with-character, actor-shares-last-name-with-character, actress-shares-first-and-last-name-with-character, actress-shares-first-name-with-character, actress-shares-last-name-with-character, b-movie, b-western, broken-engagementActors: Al Christie (producer), William Edmunds (actor), William Watson (writer), Arthur L. Jarrett (writer), Bob Hope (actor), Al Christie (director), Leah Ray (actress), Jules Epailly (actor), Robert M. Savini (miscellaneous crew), Vicki Cummings (actress), Frances Halliday (actress), Godoy's Argentine Band (actor),
Plot: Bob, his girlfriend and her mother are driving through South America. Bob wants to get married at the next town, Los Poach-os Egg-os, where they are currently holding a festival called Dontdoit Day. The road to wedded bliss for Bob and his girl hits a slight bump as his girl catches the eye of a dashing gaucho, and the Mayor, who is the only official in town who can perform the wedding, refuses to do so on Dontdoit Day. In addition, Bob has been the bane of the Mayor's existence since arriving in town, in part since Bob has also cast his eyes on a pretty señorita, who happens to be courted by the Mayor.
Genres: Comedy, Short,Actors: Tex Driscoll (actor), Douglass Dumbrille (actor), Morris Ankrum (actor), Curley Dresden (actor), Wade Boteler (actor), Bud Abbott (actor), Hank Bell (actor), Iron Eyes Cody (actor), Brooks Benedict (actor), Harry Cording (actor), Lou Costello (actor), Maurice Costello (actor), Johnny Mack Brown (actor), Boyd Davis (actor), Eddie Dunn (actor),
Plot: Two peanut vendors at a rodeo show get in trouble with their boss and hide out on a railroad train heading west. They get jobs as cowboys on a dude ranch, despite the fact that neither of them knows anything about cowboys, horses, or anything else.
Keywords: abbott-and-costello, arizona, bus, car-through-wall, chase, cowboy, cowboy-boots, cowboy-hat, cowboy-shirt, dream-sequenceActors: Lew Davis (actor), Billy Curtis (actor), Stanley Andrews (actor), Harry Davenport (actor), Edmund Cobb (actor), Gary Cooper (actor), Irving Bacon (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Walter Brennan (actor), Edward Arnold (actor), Glen Cavender (actor), Benny Bartlett (actor), Jack Cheatham (actor), Frank Austin (actor), Vernon Dent (actor),
Plot: As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed "John Doe," who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate "Doe." Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it's worth, until the made-up "John Doe" philosophy starts a whole political movement. At last everyone, even Ann, takes her creation seriously...but publisher D.B. Norton has a secret plan.
Keywords: american-politics, baseball, character-name-in-title, christmas, club, convention, diner, father-figure, hoax, hoboActors: Al Christie (producer), William Edmunds (actor), Arthur L. Jarrett (writer), Bob Hope (actor), E.W. Hammons (miscellaneous crew), Al Christie (director), William Watson (writer), Jack H. Skirball (miscellaneous crew), Leah Ray (actress), Jules Epailly (actor), Vicki Cummings (actress), Godoy's Argentine Band (actor), Frances Halliday (actress),
Plot: Bob, his fiancée and prospective mother-in-law pass through Los Pochos Eggos, South America during a festival when you can get out of any trouble by singing. But both Bob and the girl find new flames, a problem they may not be able to sing out of.
Keywords: car-accident, film-debut, small-town, song, this-means-warActors: Roy D'Arcy (actor), Don 'Red' Barry (actor), Gino Corrado (actor), Sidney Bracey (actor), Fred Astaire (actor), Sam Appel (actor), Ray Cooke (actor), Luis Alberni (actor), Harry Bowen (actor), Maurice Black (actor), Eric Blore (actor), Eddie Boland (actor), Eddie Borden (actor), Reginald Barlow (actor), Joe Dominguez (actor),
Plot: Aviator and band leader Roger Bond is forever getting his group fired for flirting with the lady guests. When he falls for Brazilian beauty Belinha de Rezende it appears to be for real, even though she is already engaged. His Yankee Clippers band is hired to open the new Hotel Atlântico in Rio and Roger offers to fly Belinha part way home. After a mechanical breakdown and forced landing, Roger is confident and makes his move, but Belinha plays hard to get. She can't seem to decide between Roger and her fiance Júlio. When performing the airborne production number to mark the Hotel's opening, Júlio gets some intriguing ideas...
Keywords: airplane, american-in-brazil, astaire-and-rogers, aviation, based-on-play, brazil, dance, dancer, dancing, flying-boatActors: Fred Warren (actor), Kent Taylor (actor), George Raft (actor), Eugene Pallette (actor), Sam Coslow (actor), Maurice Black (actor), James Bradbury Jr. (actor), Paul Fix (actor), William Collier Jr. (actor), William Halligan (actor), Walter Hiers (actor), Al Hill (actor), DeWitt Jennings (actor), Jack Oakie (actor), Claire Dodd (actress),
Genres: Drama,