Impressionism has also influenced at least some of the music of Manuel de Falla, Paul Dukas, Jean Sibelius, George Butterworth, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Gustav Holst, John Ireland, Cyril Scott, Zoltán Kodály, Ottorino Respighi, Jacques Ibert, Bohuslav Martinu, Olivier Messiaen, Alan Hovhaness, Ned Rorem, György Ligeti, Selim Palmgren, and Toru Takemitsu, among others, as well as jazz musicians such as Bix Beiderbecke, Duke Ellington, Claude Thornhill, Bud Powell, Dave Brubeck, Gil Evans, Bill Evans, Herbie Hancock, Frank Kimbrough, Antônio Carlos Jobim, Shirley Horn and Esperanza Spalding, progressive rock musicians such as King Crimson, Frank Zappa, Pink Floyd, and Yes, the entire genre of post-rock, and electronic artists like Tangerine Dream and Popol Vuh, as well as Aphex Twin and Autechre.

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* One of the earliest appearances of Kim Philby as a character in fiction was in " Gentleman Traitor " by Alan Williams in 1974.

She was part of an ensemble cast that included Robin Williams, Bonnie Hunt, and David Alan Grier.

Whilst still at university, Cook wrote for Kenneth Williams, for whom he created an entire West End comedy revue called One Over the Eight, before finding prominence in his own right in a four-man group satirical stage show, Beyond the Fringe, with Jonathan Miller, Alan Bennett and Dudley Moore.

The team was managed by Dick Williams, and it had an offense that featured the veterans Steve Garvey, Garry Templeton, Graig Nettles, Alan Wiggins, plus the new, young star Tony Gwynn, who won his first of eight National League batting championships that year ( he won in 1987, 88, and 89 and from 1994 through 97 ).

Notable past winners of WOTF include Stephen Baxter, Karen Joy Fowler, James Alan Gardner, Nina Kiriki Hoffman, Jay Lake, Michael H. Payne, Patrick Rothfuss, Robert Reed, Dean Wesley Smith, Sean Williams, Dave Wolverton, Nancy Farmer, and David Zindell.

In consequence, Foss actively promoted the performance and sought publication of music by Ralph Vaughan Williams, William Walton, Constant Lambert, Alan Rawsthorne, Peter Warlock ( Philip Heseltine ), Edmund Rubbra and other English composers.

The Father of the House is not necessarily the sitting MP with the earliest date of first election: Sir Peter Tapsell was first elected in 1959, and is the only remaining 1950s MP, but lost his seat in 1964 and was out of Parliament until 1966 ; this meant that Alan Williams was Father of the House until his retirement at the 2010 general election by virtue of his continuous service since the 1964 general election.

The Rubettes went on to have a number of other hits across Europe during the mid-1970s, such as " Tonight ", " Juke Box Jive " and " I Can Do It " sung by Alan Williams, mostly written by the Bickerton – Waddington songwriting team.

Original members John Richardson and Mick Clarke, along with ex-Kinks keyboardist Mark Haley, feature with Alan Williams in his band.

* Rubettes featuring Alan Williams, John Richardson, Mick Clarke

In 1975, Williams put together a band he called " The New Tony Williams Lifetime ," featuring bassist Tony Newton, pianist Alan Pasqua, and English guitarist Allan Holdsworth, which recorded two albums for Columbia Records, Believe It and Million Dollar Legs.

Notable later 20th century productions include the Hilton Edwards ' 1959 production at the Gate Theatre in Dublin, starring Milo O ' Shea and Anna Manahan ; John Barton's 1960 Royal Shakespeare Company ( RSC ) production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Peter O ' Toole and Peggy Ashcroft, and which included both the complete Induction and the epilogue from A Shrew ; Maurice Daniels's 1961 RSC production at the Aldwych Theatre, starring Derek Godfrey and Vanessa Redgrave ; Trevor Nunn's 1969 RSC production also at the Aldwych, starring Michael Williams and Janet Suzman ; Clifford Williams ' 1973 RSC production at the Royal Shakespeare Theatre, starring Alan Bates and Susan Fleetwood ; William Ball's 1976 commedia dell ' arte-style production at the American Conservatory Theater ; Wilford Leach's 1978 production at the Delacorte Theater, starring Raúl Juliá and Meryl Streep ; Barry Kyle's 1982 RSC production at the Barbican Centre, starring Alun Armstrong and Sinéad Cusack ; Toby Robertson's 1986 production at the Clwyd Theatr Cymru, starring Timothy Dalton and Vanessa Redgrave ; Jonathan Miller's 1987 RSC production at the Barbican, starring Brian Cox and Fiona Shaw ; A. J.

Recent speakers at the LSE have included Kofi Annan, Hilary Benn, Ben Bernanke, Tony Blair, Hazel Blears, Cherie Booth, Gordon Brown, David Cameron, Noam Chomsky, Bill Clinton, Alistair Darling, Niall Ferguson, Joschka Fischer, Vicente Fox, Milton Friedman, Muammar al-Gaddafi, John Lewis Gaddis, Alan Greenspan, Tenzin Gyatso, Will Hutton, Paul Krugman, Richard Lambert, Jens Lehmann, Lee Hsien Loong, John Major, Nelson Mandela, Mary McAleese, Dmitri Medvedev, John Atta Mills, Mario Monti, George Osborne, Robert Peston, Sebastián Piñera, Kevin Rudd, Jeffrey Sachs, Gerhard Schroeder, Carlos D. Mesa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Costas Simitis, George Soros, Lord Stern, Jack Straw, Aung San Suu Kyi, Baroness Thatcher, Archbishop Desmond Tutu and Rowan Williams.

It was directed by Clifford Williams with Alan Webb or Eric Porter as Pius XII, Alec McCowen as Father Fontana and Ian Richardson.

He was succeeded as Father of the House by Alan Williams.

" Moonlight ", a rare jazz performance by Sting for the 1995 remake of Sabrina, written by Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman and John Williams, was nominated for a 1997 Grammy Award for Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television.

In 2008, headliners included Hank Williams Jr., ZZ Top, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Trace Adkins, and in 2009, headliners included Taylor Swift, Blake Shelton, Charlie Daniels, Alan Jackson, Brooks and Dunn, The Black Crowes, Kid Rock and many more.

Parsons would produce and engineer songs written by the two, and the Alan Parsons Project was born.

Sir Alan Ayckbourn CBE ( born 12 April 1939 ) is a prolific English playwright.

James Alan McPherson ( born September 16, 1943 ) is an American short story writer and essayist.

Richardson was born in Southport, Lancashire, to Marian Georgina ( née Townsend ), a housewife, and William Alan Richardson, a marketing executive.

Thomas Alan " Tom " Waits ( born December 7, 1949 ) is an American singer-songwriter, composer, and actor.

Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman ( born 21 February 1946 ) is an English actor of stage and screen.

* Alan Sugar ( businessman, born in Hackney )

* Alan Bond ( businessman ) ( born 1938 ), Australian businessman

He has two brothers, Robert Alan Novoselic and Dillon Malloy Novoselic, and in 1973, Novoselic's sister Diana was born.

According to The Descendants of William Sabin, compiled by Gordon Alan Morris, Thomas J. Prittie, and Dixie Prittie, the first Caucasian child born in the county was Mary Stuart Sabin, daughter of Dr. Warren Sabin, c. 1812.

Alan Shearer OBE, DL ( born 13 August 1970 ) is a retired English footballer.

Shearer was born in Gosforth, Newcastle in 1970 to working-class parents Alan and Anne Shearer.

Fry was born in Hampstead, London, on 24 August 1957, the son of Marianne Eve Fry ( née Newman ) and Alan John Fry, who was an English physicist and inventor.

Shepard was born in Derry, New Hampshire to Lieutenant Colonel Alan B. Shepard, Sr. and Renza ( née Emerson ) Shepard.

Alan was born in Dulwich, London, to Alfred Walter Bush ( 1869 – 1935 ), a director of the manufacturing chemists, W. J. Bush & Co., and his wife, Alice Maud Brinsley ( 1870 – 1951 ).

Alan Garner was born in the front room of his grandmother's house in Congleton, Cheshire, on 17 October 1934.

Other notable people born in or associated with Newcastle include: engineer and industrialist Lord Armstrong, engineer and father of the modern steam railways George Stephenson, his son, also an engineer, Robert Stephenson, engineer and inventor of the steam turbine Sir Charles Parsons, inventor of the incandescent light bulb Sir Joseph Swan, modernist poet Basil Bunting, Lord Chief Justice Peter Taylor, the Portuguese writer Eça de Queiroz who was a diplomat in Newcastle from late 1874 until April 1879 — his most productive literary period, The Prime Minister of Thailand Abhisit Vejjajiva, singers Eric Burdon, Sting and Brian Johnson, lead singer of AC / DC from 1980 to the present, actors Charlie Hunnam multiple circumnavigator David Scott Cowper, Neil Tennant, Alan Hull, Mark Knopfler, Hank Marvin, Bruce Welch, Cheryl Cole, entertainers Ant and Dec, and international footballers Peter Beardsley, Michael Carrick, Andy Carroll, Paul Gascoigne and Alan Shearer.

Alan Bennett ( born 9 May 1934 ) is a British playwright, screenwriter, actor and author.

* Alan Watts, philosopher, born and raised in Chislehurst, moved to the United States in 1938.

* Winston Bazoomies ( Alan Sayag ) of Bad Manners was born and still lives in Stoke Newington.

* Alan Wheatley, who is probably best known for his role as the Sheriff of Nottingham in the TV series The Adventures of Robin Hood in the 1950s, was born in Tolworth.

Richard Alan Garcés Mendoza, Jr. ( born May 18, 1971 in Maracay, Venezuela ) is a former right-handed relief pitcher in Major League Baseball.