Edgar Meyer (born November 24, 1960) is an American bassist, multi-instrumentalist and composer. His styles include classical, bluegrass, newgrass, and jazz. Meyer has worked as a session musician in Nashville, part of various chamber groups, a composer, and an arranger. His collaborators have spanned a wide range of musical styles and talents; among them are Joshua Bell, Yo-Yo Ma, Jerry Douglas, Béla Fleck, Zakir Hussain, Sam Bush, James Taylor, Chris Thile, Mike Marshall, Mark O'Connor, Alison Krauss, Mary Chapin Carpenter, Guy Clark, and the trio Nickel Creek.
Meyer participates yearly in a bluegrass super group in Telluride, Colorado, at their annual Bluegrass Festival known as the House Band. The band also consists of Meyer's contemporaries Sam Bush, Béla Fleck, Jerry Douglas, and Stuart Duncan.
Meyer grew up in Oak Ridge, Tennessee. He learned to play the double bass from his father, the late Edgar Meyer, Sr., who directed the string orchestra program for the local public school system. Meyer later went on to Indiana University to study with Stuart Sankey.
Edgar Meyer is the 2006 solo album from the artist of the same name. Unlike Meyer's other albums, Meyer is the only musician on this album, accompanying himself on double-bass, piano, mandolin, dobro, guitar and gamba. It was released on Sony Classical.
All tracks recorded and composed by Meyer.
Edgar Meyer (1853–1925) was an Austrian painter who built himself a castle and engaged in politics.
Professor Edgar Meyer was born on 5 September 1853 in Innsbruck, Tyrol, Austria. His parents were Martin Meyer (1821–1897),(a prosperous businessman, painter, poet and compiler of folksongs) and Theresia Megucher (1826–1905). He studied at the Akademie der Bildenkünste in Munich and from 1874 to 1878 at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf under the direction of Eugene Dücker. He extended his studies by visiting Rome and Venice. In Düsseldorf between 1880–1881 he was a member of an association of artists and academics called Malkasten (also known as Paintbox). From 1886 as Professor he taught at the Kunstschule Weimar (later Bauhaus University). He was also Professor at Charlottenburg-Berlin.
Meyer's preferred medium was watercolour and his impressionist styled landscapes, mountain scenes and castles were popular, particularly in Germany where they sold well. Meyer's paintings can be found at the Tiroler Landesmuseum (Ferdinandeum), Innsbruck and in private collections around the world. Towards the end of the nineteenth century the progression of Revolutionary Art caused his work to lose favour and he returned to the Tyrol.
Big Top may refer to:
A circus is a company of performers that may include clowns, acrobats, trained animals, trapeze acts, musicians, hoopers, tightrope walkers, jugglers, unicyclists and other object manipulation and stunt-oriented artists. The term 'circus' also describes the performance which has followed various formats through its 150-year modern history. Philip Astley is credited with being the 'father' of the modern circus when he opened the first circus in 1768 in England. Early circuses were almost exclusively demonstrations of equestrian skills with a few other types of acts to link the horsemanship performances. Performances developed significantly through the next fifty years, with large scale theatrical battle reenactments becoming a significant feature. The 'traditional' format, whereby a ringmaster introduces a varied selection of acts that mostly perform choreographed acts to traditional music, developed in the latter part of 19th century and continued almost universally to be the main style of circus up until the 1970s.
The Vodafone Big Top 40 is a chart show broadcast on 140 radio stations in the UK with an audience each week of 2.5 million listeners. It is the single biggest radio programme on UK Commercial Radio, and around twice the size of its competitor. The chart has no affiliation with the Official Charts Company as it is based on radio airplay and music download figures provided by iTunes.
The Vodafone Big Top 40 was launched following the demise of Hit40UK, and is produced by Global Radio, broadcast from the studios at Leicester Square in London. It claims to be the first real-time chart ever to be broadcast in the United Kingdom and broadcasts on 140 local commercial radio stations across the country.
The first show was broadcast on Sunday 14 June 2009 at 16:00.
The show was originally presented by Capital radio DJs Rich Clarke and Kat Shoob, with Heart radio DJ Matt Wilkinson deputising both Clarke and Shoob. The radio broadcast also features voice over artist Howard Ritchie who announces the chart position for each of the songs broadcast, along with the names of the presenters and radio station it is being broadcast on. Clarke presented his final show on 29 December 2013, with Marvin Humes joining the show from 5 January 2014., with Greg Burns deputising Marvin.
Painted expressions filling the stands
Are the best at twisting animal balloons
And it's so funny watching the magician
Pulling big green rabbits out of little leather pouches
Under the Big Top there's a tickle in my ear
It's creepy, crawly, scary
I don't feel fear
-CHORUS-
Under the Big Top
You've got a home
If they can fill the seats
And pay the loan
There went a donkey and an elephant
Telling everyone about what is to come
And when the birdies sing, I am reminded
Not everyone who cries "Lord, Lord" will enter the Kingdom
Under the Big Top there's a tickle in my ear
It's creepy, crawly, scary
I don't feel fear
(repeat CHORUS)
Under the Big Top there's a tickle in my ear
It's creepy, crawly, scary
I don't feel fear
Blank expressions filling the pews
Are the best at twisted animal views
And it's so funny to watch the minister
Pulling big green rabbits out of little leather purses