Guitarist Christopher Parkening is quoted in the book Classical Gas: The Music of Mason Williams as saying that it is the most requested guitar piece besides Malagueña and perhaps the best known instrumental guitar piece today.

* 1947 – Christopher Parkening, American guitarist

Segovia influenced a generation of classical guitarists who built on his technique and musical sensibility, including such luminaries as Christopher Parkening, Julian Bream, John Williams ( guitarist ) and Oscar Ghiglia, all of whom have acknowledged their debt to him.

As president of the Young Musicians Foundation, Bernstein became acquainted with classical guitarist Christopher Parkening and wrote a Concerto for Guitar and Orchestra, which Parkening recorded with the London Symphony Orchestra under Bernstein's baton for the Angel label in 1999.

She took another sabbatical from fiction writing, working with guitarist Christopher Parkening on his autobiography Grace Like a River.

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That list includes performers Nadia Boulanger, Pablo Casals, the Martha Graham Dance Company, James Galway, pianists Angela Hewitt, Radu Lupu, Rudolf Serkin, Richard Goode, Krystian Zimerman, Garrick Ohlsson, Yundi Li, Richard Stoltzman and Isaac Stern ; vocalists Marian Anderson, Dawn Upshaw, Ben Heppner, David Daniels, and Lorraine Hunt Lieberson ; guitarists Andrés Segovia, Christopher Parkening, Julian Bream, and Sérgio and Odair Assad ; conductors Arthur Fiedler and Kurt Masur ; composers Béla Bartók and Aaron Copland ; jazz legends Stan Getz and Benny Goodman ; and the Budapest, Juilliard, Guarneri and Tokyo string quartets.

** Pajaros de primavera ( 1972 ; commissioned by Dr. Isao Takahashi, a promotor of classical guitar in Japan, for his wife Take Takahashi ; first performed in 1972 at the hospital bedside of Take Takahashi in Japan, " interpreted by a guitarist friend ," as she was dying of cancer — Christopher Parkening gave the first public performance, also in Japan )

These include the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment, the London Classical Players under the direction of Sir Roger Norrington and the Academy of Ancient Music under Christopher Hogwood, among others.

* Collard, Christopher and Martin Cropp, Euripides Fragments: Aegeus – Meleanger, Loeb Classical Library ( June 30, 2008 ).

* Collard, Christopher and Martin Cropp, Euripides Fragments: Aegeus – Meleanger, Loeb Classical Library ( June 30, 2008 ).

A guide to Toscanini's recording career can be found in Mortimer H. Frank's " From the Pit to the Podium: Toscanini in America " in International Classical Record Collector ( 1998, 15 8 – 21 ) and Christopher Dyment's " Toscanini's European Inheritance " in International Classical Record Collector ( 1998, 15 22 – 8 ).

Recent recordings include Handel ’ s oratorio, Messiah, with an all-star soloist line-up: Carolyn Sampson, Catherine Wyn-Rogers, Mark Padmore and Christopher Purves ( winner of a MIDEM Classical Award 2009 ), Dixit Dominus featuring Handel's eponymous early work and Steffani's Stabat Mater, Ceremony and Devotion: Music for the Tudors, which accompanied the 2010 Choral Pilgrimage and Hail, Mother of the Redeemer which accompanies the 2011 Choral Pilgrimage.

Reviewed by Christopher Francese at The Bryn Mawr Classical Review

* Christopher Gray, " The Architecture of Delano & Aldrich ; How an Upper-Class Firm Tweaked Classical Norms " in The New York Times, April 27, 2003

Guitarist Christopher Thorn, originally from Pennsylvania, was added shortly thereafter ; the four eventually convinced drummer Glen Graham to relocate from Mississippi to complete the group after failing to find a drummer in Los Angeles.

* Christopher " Top " Suzara ( GS, HS )-Freestyle Band Guitarist and more recently, Solo Performer.

The Freedom Association's council includes Tim Congdon CBE ( Honorary Chairman ), Christopher Gill RD ( Honorary President ) and Vladimir Bukovsky ( Honorary Vice-President ).

Christopher Jackson ( born 24 May 1935 ) is a British politician and businessman and Honorary Member of the European Parliament.

He holds several honorary degrees, a Visiting Professorship and a Doctorate at Berklee College of Music, and has been honored in his home country by being named a Knight of the Heraldic Order of Christopher Columbus, and being awarded the Silver Cross of the Order of Duarte, Sanchez & Mella.

* The Last Supper ( 1983 ) Introduction to Christopher's parents in pre-WWII Germany ; Christopher is imprisoned in China

* Grabow, Stephen: Christopher Alexander: The Search for a New Paradigm in Architecture, Routledge & Kegan Paul, London and Boston, 1983.

In the 1970s and 1980s, new concerti included Nino Rota's Divertimento for Double Bass and Orchestra ( 1973 ), Jean Françaix's Concerto ( 1975 ), Einojuhani Rautavaara's Angel Of Dusk ( 1980 ), Gian Carlo Menotti's Concerto ( 1983 ), Christopher Rouse's Concerto ( 1985 ), and Henry Brant's Ghost Nets ( 1988 ).

* 1983 – Christopher Paolini, American novelist

* Peacocke, Christopher ( 1983 ).

* One year later in 1983, the Natalie Wood / Christopher Walken film Brainstorm revolved around the production, use, and misuse of a VR device.

* Christopher Chope — Member of the British Parliament ( 1983 – 92 ; 1997 – present )

They appear in his books The Hobbit ( 1937 ), The Lord of the Rings ( 1954 – 55 ), and the posthumously published The Silmarillion ( 1977 ), Unfinished Tales ( 1980 ), and The History of Middle-earth series ( 1983 – 96 ), the last three edited by his son and literary executor Christopher Tolkien.

Swit was one of only four cast members ( the others being Alan Alda, Jamie Farr, and William Christopher ) to stay for all 11 seasons of the show, from 1972 to 1983.

This is found in the History of Middle-earth books edited by Christopher Tolkien and published by Harper Collins from 1983 to 1990, particularly in Volume I.

* Reeves, A. C., The Marcher Lords ( Dyfed: Christopher Davies ), 1983.

It was featured in the 1983 film Brainstorm, ridden by Christopher Walken, and in the popular cycling reference Richard's Bicycle Book by Richard Ballantine.

* Jean Seberg, musical with a book by Julian Barry, lyrics by Christopher Adler, and music by Marvin Hamlisch ; directed by Peter Hall ( 1983 ).

* Christopher George ( 1931 – 1983 ), actor

The History of Middle-earth is a 12-volume series of books published from 1983 through to 1996 that collect and analyse material relating to the fiction of J. R. R. Tolkien, compiled and edited by his son, Christopher Tolkien.

" City Road " in Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert ( 1983 ) The London Encyclopedia.

* Ben Weinreb and Christopher Hibbert ( 1983 ) " Old Street " in The London Encyclopedia.

* The Dead Zone ( 1983 ), which starred Christopher Walken, Martin Sheen, Brooke Adams and Tom Skerritt

They have a son James Christopher ( born 1983 ).

In Christopher Durang's play Beyond Therapy ( 1983 ), the character Bruce claims that he " Wanted to see Gary Gilmore executed on television.

A school, Sir Christopher Hatton School, known sometimes as ' Hatton School ' was opened in 1983 in his memory in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire.

In 1983, Christopher Turner demonstrated that the Hopeton Earthworks encode various sunrise and moonrise patterns, including the winter and summer solstices, the equinoxes, the cross-quarter days, the lunar maximum events, and the lunar minimum events.

# Christopher John Russell ( b. 1983 ), only son of Rupert Alick Villiers Russell

* Cunneen, Christopher ( 1983 ) King ’ s Men: Australia ’ s Governors-General from Hopetoun to Isaacs ( Allen & Unwin: North Sydney )

Following a 1983 divorce, he married Martha Ann Stacy in 1985, and with her he has two children, Christopher and Benjamin.