"from the album, reaching No. 3 in the UK Singles Chart. U.S. President Bill Clinton invited Jones to perform on New Year's Eve at the 2000 millennium celebrations in Washington D.C. Throughout the year 2000, Jones garnered a number of honours for his work; including a BRIT Award for Best British Male. He was also hired as the new voice of Australia's National Rugby League, singing in an advertisement to market the 2000 season. In 2002, Jones released the album ""Mr. Jones"", which was produced by Haitian-American rapper Wyclef Jean. The album and the first single, ""Tom Jones International"", were"
"extra musicians and the BBC Concert Orchestra. Tom Jones, Elton John, Stevie Wonder and Paul McCartney brought their own bands to the concert. Gary Barlow and Andrew Lloyd Webber wrote a song for the jubilee entitled ""Sing"" which was performed for the first time at the concert by a choir from many Commonwealth countries. The song draws inspiration from the music and people of the Commonwealth. Its creation was the subject of a one-hour BBC documentary broadcast on 3 June 2012 by BBC One. Concert ticket holders were given access to the palace gardens for an afternoon picnic before the"
"from President Barack Obama's 2011 National Medal of Arts commendation on its back cover. In 1994, she published the play ""The Darker Face of the Earth"" (revised stage version 1996), which premiered at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival in Ashland, Oregon in 1996 (first European production: Royal National Theatre, London, 1999). She collaborated with composer John Williams on the song cycle ""Seven for Luck"" (first performance: Boston Symphony, Tanglewood, 1998, conducted by the composer). For ""America's Millennium"", the White House's 1999/2000 New Year's celebration, Ms. Dove contributed — in a live reading at the Lincoln Memorial, accompanied by John Williams' music"
"300 live performances of the song. Williams performed the song for the Brit Awards' opening act in 1999, and as the opening act for the Diamond Jubilee Concert as part of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's Diamond Jubilee celebrations in 2012 in front of an audience of an estimated 500,000. He also performed the song at the Live 8 Concert at Hyde Park in 2005, to high critical acclaim. In a BBC documentary about the event shown that Christmas, Richard Curtis described the performance as ecstatic, comparing Williams to ""a man who hasn't had sex for two years [finally] coming."""
"Henderson arrived in town, looking for singers of traditional songs. Over the next twenty years, the Stewarts of Blair became a folk attraction on both sides of the Atlantic Ocean. In 1976, Stewart and her family were asked by United States President Gerald Ford to sing in the White House for the bicentennial celebrations. On 1 June 1982, she was chosen to represent the travelling people during Pope John Paul II's visit to Scotland. She sang Ewan MacColl's ""Moving On Song"". In addition to writing her mother's biography, ""Queen Amang the Heather – The Life of Belle Stewart"", in 2006,"
"Shonagh Daly Shonagh Daly (born 1980 in Castletroy, Co. Limerick) is an Irish singer and musical performer 'Discovered' by Andrew Lloyd Webber, Shonagh sang at the inaugural gala for George W. Bush on 18 January 2001 which was also attended by Tony Blair She went on to perform at the first Ground Zero memorial concert (at the request of Rudolph Giuliani). Shonagh sang again for various heads of state and other luminaries in November 2003 in London where her audience included the Queen, Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, the Prince of Wales, Laura Bush, Colin Powell and Condoleezza Rice."
"the White House in 2002. Jackson-Miller, who had been suicidal after the failure of a marriage, later said that she wrote the song after discovering what she called the ""life-saving joy of God's peace and unconditional love."" The song is performed worldwide throughout the year, and particularly during the Christmas season, which has led to it being considered a Christmas song. It is included in the hymnals of a variety of Christian denominations, and is used in worship services even by a number of denominations that do not include it in their hymnals. It typically concludes Unity Church services each"
"Christmas at the White House Christmas at the White House: Burl Ives Sings the Favorite Carols and Hymns of America's Presidents is a 1972 album by Burl Ives. It purports to be a collection of twelve presidents' favorite Christmas songs. It has not yet been released on CD. Some of the selections were apparently based on speculation. For example, John Adams may have favored the rendition of ""Joy to the World"" by American composer William Billings because the Adamses attended Billings's church in Boston. Other selections were based on authoritative sources, such as presidential writings and direct communication with presidents'"
"20 years, that song has been the symbol of one of the most tumultuous and controversial periods in Madonna's life. But for five minutes tonight, it was pure, put in service of something bigger than the singer."" The track next appeared on the set list for Madonna's Super Bowl XLVI halftime show in 2012, as the closing song. Joined by a choir and singer Cee Lo Green, the singer wore a black robe and sang the song as the stadium was lit with white light. It was also added to the set list for The MDNA Tour the same year."
"White House and have appeared in concert with a host of superstars, including Bob Hope, Kenny Rogers, Wayne Newton, Celine Dion, B.J. Thomas, Roberta Flack, Eartha Kitt, Cathy Rigby, the U.S. Army Band, and the world-renowned Cleveland Orchestra. Their 1973 single, ""Christmas Is Christmas All Over The World"", is one of the songs selected for the classic Yule Log Christmas special originally aired by WPIX-TV in New York. William C. (Bill) Boehm, Founding Director, started the Singing Angels in 1964 to promote the action and joy of singing good music particularly amongst children. He held a master's degree in Dramatic"
"White House for President Bill Clinton and Hillary Clinton. and also sang at Carnegie Hall, the annual Cabaret Conventions at Town Hall and always sang the closing song at John Znidarsic's In Celebration of Life Concert. She also participated in numerous benefits to raise money for causes related to AIDS and human rights, and performed major concerts in her home town of Midland Michigan, and her ""second home town"" San Francisco. In 2008, her posthumously-released album ""Ask Me Again"", featuring songs she recorded between 1988 and 1995, reached #12 on ""Billboard"" magazine's ""Top Jazz Albums"" chart. She sang with a"
"November 2013 as part of the Oxford Street Lights Switch On and on 11 January 2014 for Sporty's Forty at 02 Shepherd's Bush Empire. Olly Alexander of the band Years & Years performed the song with special guest Melanie C at a charity event at London's Union Chapel. In December 2016, Melanie C performed the song with former bandmate Victoria Beckham at the latter's New Year's Eve party concert. She also performed the song on her own for a live session on BBC Radio 2 in January 2017. These are the formats and track listings of major single releases of"
"first President, George Washington. Among the parishioners were more than two dozen religious leaders from a variety of different faiths. Marlana VanHoose, a 20-year-old vocalist who was born with cytomegalovirus, performed at the ceremony, singing ""How Great Thou Art"". Melania Trump was visibly emotional during the performance, and led a standing ovation for her after she finished performing. The service began with call to prayer by the Reverend Rosemarie Duncan, Mikhail Manevich, a Jewish cantor, and Mohamed Magid, a Muslim imam. The clergy spoke of both compassion and diversity. Before the event, federal and local agencies estimated turnout between 700,000"
"award-winning Welsh journalist, newsreader and presenter Huw Edwards in the role. Since its founding, the choir has regularly performed in venues such as the Houses of Parliament, the Foreign Office, the National Liberal Club, St Paul's Cathedral, the Ritz Hotel, the Royal Albert Hall and many of the places of worship in the List of Christopher Wren churches in London. The choir has performed at the Millennium Stadium in Cardiff. The choir has toured widely in Europe, most recently in Lombardy, Italy. Choir members sang as part of the closing ceremony of the 2012 London Olympic Games. The choir appeared"
"North America in 2012. Working with the BBC and Gary Barlow in 2012, James composed and conducted the Diamond Jubilee of Elizabeth II, celebrating the 60-year reign of Her Majesty the Queen alongside Paul McCartney, Annie Lennox and Stevie Wonder. James’ Diamond Jubilee collaboration followed on from the 2002 BBC ‘Party in the Palace’, where he served as Assistant Musical Director as part of the Queen's Golden Jubilee celebrations. Alfie Boe, Annie Lennox, Atomic Kitten, Blue, Brian May, Brian Wilson, Bryan Ferry, Dave Gilmour, Des'ree, Eric Clapton, Hayley Westenra, Joe Cocker, Metallica, Mis-Teeq, Ozzy Osbourne, Sir Paul McCartney, Phil Collins,"
"Performance. Also in 2010, Elton John invited Rumer to be his special guest at his BBC Electric Proms concert. On 9 May 2012, Rumer performed at the White House in a tribute concert honouring the songwriting team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, singing the Bacharach-David song ""A House Is Not a Home"". She also participated in the finale, ""What the World Needs Now Is Love"". The concert, ""Burt Bacharach & Hal David: The Library of Congress Gershwin Prize for Popular Song In Performance at the White House"", was broadcast on PBS on 21 May 2012. In 2010, Rumer began"
"Scherzinger sang this song at the annual Royal Variety Performance in the United Kingdom, which is often attended by Queen Elizabeth II but was attended by her daughter Princess Anne this year. Nicole Scherzinger was accompanied by four male ""Phantoms"" (John Owen-Jones, Ramin Karimloo, Simon Bowman and Earl Carpenter) for the performance, which was performed to make the 25th anniversary of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1986 musical. This is used as Kyla Ross' floor music. She was part of the gold winning gymnastics team at the 2012 Olympics. It is also covered by Vocaloid character Hatsune Miku portraying as Christine. Violinist"
"by the Welsh Men's Choir on the 9 June 1968 telecast of ""The Ed Sullivan Show"". He also covered this song in his 1964 RCA Victor album ""The Exciting Voice of Sergio Franchi."" American singer and songwriter Barbra Streisand sang this song in a surprise appearance at the close of the 2001 Emmy Awards, in honor of the victims of the 11 September 2001 attacks. In 1990 at the concert at Wembley Stadium London, the audience spontaneously broke out into a mass rendition. Mandela turned to Adelaide Tambo who accompanied him onto the stage and asked what the song was."
"aired in May 2005.) White Houses (Vanessa Carlton song) ""White Houses"" is a song written by American singer Vanessa Carlton and Stephan Jenkins (lead singer of Third Eye Blind), and recorded for Vanessa Carlton's second album ""Harmonium"" (2004). Produced by Jenkins, it was released as the album's first single in 2004. ""White Houses"" is structured around a 4/4 time signature which ""Blender"" magazine has described as ""bright"" and ""un-girly"", and is backed by an orchestral arrangement that ""PopMatters"" magazine said ""would make Jim Steinman blush"". Carlton said of the song: ""It's about jealousy, it's about losing your virginity, it's about"
"the ceremony. At the gala they performed ""Shining Star"" and ""That's the Way of the World"" together. Earth, Wind & Fire were the specially invited music guests at the June 20, 2000 White House state dinner hosted by President Bill Clinton on the South Lawn of the White House, in honor of His Majesty Mohammed VI, King of Morocco, and Her Royal Highness Princess Lalla Meryem. So impressed was the king by the band's performance that he made a personal request for EWF to perform in Morocco for his 37th birthday celebration on August 21, 2000. EWF went on to"
"again at the 2017 Brit Awards on February 22, alongside two giant puppet skeletons. Writing for ""The Hollywood Reporter"", Meena Jang observed that viewers believed the skeletons resembled Donald Trump and Theresa May, and called the performance ""politically charged"". Adam Boult of ""The Daily Telegraph"" also suspected the skeletons resembled Trump and May, though wrote that ""The point of the stage dressing might not have been entirely clear – and Perry refrained from saying anything overtly political"". Perry and Marley also sang it at the 2017 iHeartRadio Music Awards on March 5, where children surrounded her during the performance and"
"VI and Queen Elizabeth of England in June 1939 at the invitation of President and Mrs. Roosevelt at a White House concert of American music arranged by Charles Seeger and Adrian Dornbush (of the WPA) for the benefit of the first visit by a reigning British monarch and his consort on American soil. Among the other (racially integrated) performers were American concert artists Marian Anderson, Lawrence Tibbett, and Kate Smith, singing classical and light popular music; and folk performers Lily May Ledford and the Coon Creek Girls; Josh White; the Golden Gate Quartet; Sam Queen and the Soco Gap Square"
"Smith. On 29 September 2009, the choir celebrated their 25th Anniversary at the Hotel Vancouver in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, where the choir held their first performance 25 years before. Special guests at the event included Bob Geldof who used to live in Vancouver where he used to work for the ""Georgia Straight"", Paul Rodgers and Michael McDonald. Also in 2009, the choir performed for Her Majesty, Queen Elizabeth II and Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni at Commonwealth Day in London, England. Alicia Keys sang with the choir at Black Ball Gala. The choir sang for US Global Leadership Coalition honoring"
"Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, DC. Jennifer Hudson serenaded the Obamas as they danced to Al Green's ""Let's Stay Together"" during both the Commander-in-Chief's Ball and the Inaugural Ball. Other performers who were scheduled to perform at the inaugural balls included Alicia Keys, Black Violin, Brad Paisley, Far East Movement, Fun, members of the ""Glee"" cast, John Legend, Maná, Smokey Robinson, Soundgarden, and Stevie Wonder. On January 22, a private staff-only inaugural ball was held for White House aides and administration staff, Obama for America campaign staff, and the Inaugural Committee staff, was held at the Walter E."
"She replied, ""A football song"". Renée Fleming sang the song at the Concert for America, which marked the first anniversary of 9/11 (11/9), and for the Inauguration of Barack Obama on January 20, 2009. In 2010, this was sung during the festivities of the Last Night of the Proms, with the choir at the Royal Albert Hall joined by crowds of the public from Hillsborough Castle, Northern Ireland; Caird Hall, Dundee; Hyde Park, London; Salford, Greater Manchester; and Wales, to mark the fiftieth anniversary of the death of Oscar Hammerstein II. In the second season of American Horror Story, this"
"live scene for a BBC live radio Christmas concert ""Christmas at the Movies"" with Lord Attenborough and Alan Bennett. This sudden return led to her working with Gabrielle Yared on the movie soundtrack of ""City of Angels,"" and again with George Fenton for the ""Mandela Benefit Concert"" at the Royal Albert Hall followed the next year with her and Gabrielle Yared both debuting at The Proms. Emmanuelle also worked in 1999 with Mike Oldfield on his Millennium album ""The Millennium Bell"", performing with him in Berlin for Germany’s Millennium celebrations. While concentrating on movie soundtracks over the next six years,"
"White Houses (Vanessa Carlton song) ""White Houses"" is a song written by American singer Vanessa Carlton and Stephan Jenkins (lead singer of Third Eye Blind), and recorded for Vanessa Carlton's second album ""Harmonium"" (2004). Produced by Jenkins, it was released as the album's first single in 2004. ""White Houses"" is structured around a 4/4 time signature which ""Blender"" magazine has described as ""bright"" and ""un-girly"", and is backed by an orchestral arrangement that ""PopMatters"" magazine said ""would make Jim Steinman blush"". Carlton said of the song: ""It's about jealousy, it's about losing your virginity, it's about living on your own."
"song entered ""Billboard"" Comedy Digital Tracks chart at #2 and the ""Billboard"" Holiday Digital Songs chart at #19. That same month, the song rose to #1 on the Comedy Digital Tracks chart. As a result of the video, The Maccabeats received major media coverage and requests for bookings nationwide. In January 2011 they performed at the Knesset. On May 17, 2011, they were invited to sing at the White House's Jewish American Heritage Month gala. President Barack Obama commended ""their outstanding performance"", in which they performed a barbershop quartet. The Maccabeats returned to the White House on December 9, 2015"
"and Tony Bennett were among some of the musicians in attendance. Said Jones, ""I've never seen so many great performers come together with so much love and selflessness."" The celebration included a performance of ""We Are the World"", which involved Clinton, his daughter Chelsea, and his wife Hillary singing the song along with USA for Africa's Kenny Rogers, Diana Ross and Michael Jackson. ""The New York Times"" Edward Rothstein commented on the event, stating, ""The most enduring image may be of Mr. Clinton singing along in 'We Are the World', the first President to aspire, however futilely, to hipness."" As"
"over $1.26 million (equivalent to $ in ). Canadian Billionaire Jim Pattison subsequently purchased the dress on November 17, 2016, at a Los Angeles auction for $4.8 million. Madonna made a famous parody of the song on ""Saturday Night Live"" during the 1990s, singing ""Happy Inauguration, Mr. President"" (season 18, episode 11), singing to President Bill Clinton (played by Phil Hartman), who had recently been elected, his wife Hillary Clinton (played by Jan Hooks), and their daughter Chelsea Clinton (performed by Julia Sweeney). In the 1992 film ""Wayne's World"", Mike Myers imitates the song as his character, Wayne, while Wayne's"
"of the performances in Sydney was included as a bonus track on Madonna's fifth live album, ""Rebel Heart Tour"". Madonna next performed the song during an impromptu concert at Washington Square Park in November 2016, as part of Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign. On May 7, 2018, she appeared at the Met Gala and performed the song on the Metropolitan Museum of Art's grand staircase. Dressed in a cloak, she was surrounded by background singers standing as monks and church bells tolling. One of the first cover versions of the song was an acoustic version done by folk singer-songwriter John Wesley"
"The event also included the largest invitation-only private concert, featuring eight international headlining artists. The event included both a dinner and a concert, and about 350 people accepted invitations to both. The singers during the concert included Michael Bolton, Cher, Toni Braxton, Patti Labelle, Sugar Ray, and Diana Ross. Celebrities in attendance included John Travolta, Brad Pitt, Jennifer Aniston, Jason Alexander, and Muhammad Ali and his wife Lonnie Ali. White House daughter Chelsea Clinton was also present for the event. The political committee New York Senate 2000 failed to file proper documentation for the event with the Federal Election Commission,"
"Lift Every Voice and Sing ""Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"" – often referred to as the ""Black National Anthem"" – is a song written as a poem by James Weldon Johnson (1871–1938) in 1900 and set to music by his brother John Rosamond Johnson (1873–1954) in 1905. ""Lift Ev'ry Voice and Sing"" was publicly performed first as a poem as part of a celebration of Abraham Lincoln's birthday on February 12, 1900, by 500 school children at the segregated Stanton School in Jacksonville, Florida. Its principal, James Weldon Johnson, wrote the words to introduce its honored guest Booker T. Washington."