Onlookers were shocked and delighted when the musical icon set up shop in the middle of the station concourse, performing a piano medley on the instrument which had been rolled into the place for the performance.
The Power of Four was so negatively received, that it was announced that future British and Irish Lions tours would have songs and themes chosen by a musical committee set up in the wake of the 2005 tour instead of by the team coach.
Since then, Jessie's Fund has installed musical instruments and set up music therapy posts in 36 of the UK's 46 children's hospices and over 100 special schools.
The most satisfying part of his career was a musical society he set up called Music for the Masses.
Of course, that was the total wrong thing you could say to them at that point in their development, because they were new and fresh on the scene, too, and now they're supposed to work this other person into their musical arrangement and set up?
And the Chamber Players of the Greenwich Symphony set up musical shop in Second Congregational Church.
Mr. Theil, an avid cellist and rock guitarist who was a music production major at Hocking College near the university, had planned to work that summer in southern Ohio helping to set up musical festivals.
His father is a vicar and the family vicarage turned into a studio for musical experiments: "I could set up cellos in the kitchen, drum kits in my sister's room," he says mischievously.
Realizing that Chinese singers required training not just in singing but in ensemble work, language coaching, stylistic analysis and musical preparation, Ms. Zhou set up her elite opera center, the Zhou Xiaoyan Young Opera Singers Trainee Center on the fourth floor of an outlying block of the Shanghai Conservatory.
What it was we did, apparently - those of us whose ancestors wiped their noses upon their elbows - was to read classic literature, go to concerts and the theatre, learn to play musical instruments, join libraries, set up mutual improvement societies and generally attempt to pull ourselves up by our bootstraps.
