* 1942 – Curtis Mayfield, American singer-songwriter, musician, and producer ( The Impressions ) ( d. 1999 )

* The song " Music Matters " by Faithless mentioned Kurtis Blow: " From Bamma Lamma to Tamla Mo, Curtis Mayfield to Kurtis Blow ".

* " Underground ", a song by Curtis Mayfield from his second studio album, Roots

* New World Order ( album ), a 1997 album by Curtis Mayfield

The Band's music fused many elements: primarily old country music and early rock and roll, though the rhythm section often was reminiscent of Stax or Motown, and Robertson cites Curtis Mayfield and the Staple Singers as major influences, resulting in a synthesis of many musical genres.

* December 26 – Curtis Mayfield, American musician and composer ( b. 1942 )

** Curtis Mayfield, American musician ( d. 1999 )

His artistic influences include Sly & the Family Stone, Parliament-Funkadelic, Joni Mitchell, The Beatles, Johnny " Guitar " Watson, Miles Davis, Carlos Santana, Jimi Hendrix, James Brown, Led Zeppelin, Marvin Gaye, the Isley Brothers, Duke Ellington, Curtis Mayfield, and Stevie Wonder.

In Chicago, Curtis Mayfield helped develop the sweet soul sound that later earned him a reputation as the Godfather of northern soul.

The social and political ferment of the times inspired artists like Gaye and Curtis Mayfield to release album-length statements with hard-hitting social commentary.

Curtis Mayfield not only scored many hits with his group, The Impressions, but wrote many hit songs for Chicago artists and produced hits on his own labels for The Fascinations and the Five Stairsteps.

The Impressions's " We're a Winner ", written by their lead singer Curtis Mayfield, became a virtual anthem of the black power and black pride movements, as did James Brown's " Say It Loud-I'm Black and I'm Proud ", Collin Carlone's " Life As a ' Boro Black Boy ", and, unwittingly, Martha & the Vandellas ' " Dancing in the Street ".

His contribution in pioneering soul music led to the rise of Aretha Franklin, Bobby Womack, Al Green, Curtis Mayfield, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, and popularized the likes of Otis Redding and James Brown.

Curtis Lee Mayfield ( June 3, 1942 – December 26, 1999 ) was an American soul, R & B, and funk singer, songwriter, and record producer.

Mayfield's father left the family when Mayfield was five and his mother moved Curtis and his siblings into various Chicago projects before settling at the Cabrini – Green projects when Mayfield reached his teenage years.

In his 2003 biography of Curtis Mayfield, titled " People Never Give Up ", author Peter Burns noted that Curtis has 140 songs in the Curtom vaults.

Two other albums, featuring Curtis Mayfield present in the Curtom vaults and as yet unissued are, a 1982 / 83 live recording titled " 25th Silver Anniversary " ( which features performances by Curtis, The Impressions and Jerry Butler ) and a live performance, recorded in September 1966 by The Impressions titled ' Live at the Club Chicago '.

Curtis Mayfield was known for introducing social consciousness into African American music as well as R & B and wrote songs protesting social and political equality.

Curtis Mayfield died on December 26, 1999 at the North Fulton Regional Hospital in Roswell, Georgia his health having steadily declined following his paralysis.

* Movin ' On Up-" The Music and Message of Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions " ( DVD-2008 )

* Curtis Mayfield Live at Ronnie Scotts-issued on VHS and DVD ( 2002 )

*" Curtis Mayfield and The Impressions perform ' We're a Winner ' " for the WGBH series, Say Brother

* Yehudi Menuhin and Curtis W. Davis, The Music of man, Methuen, 1979.

Category: Curtis Institute of Music alumni

Other notable All-Steinway Schools are the Yale School of Music at Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, the Juilliard School located at the Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts in New York City, the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the Cleveland Institute of Music in Ohio, Royal Holloway, University of London in England, the University of Melbourne Faculty of the VCA and Music in Victoria, Australia, the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing, China, and the University of South Africa in Pretoria, South Africa.

Prior to release of the film, the Los Angeles Daily News reported that Bellaman " heads west to help Erich Wolfgang Korngold on the scoring " of the film, and that Bellaman used to be on the faculty of the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia.

In 1939 Philadelphia industrialist Samuel Simeon Fels commissioned Barber to write a violin concerto for Fels ' ward, Iso Briselli, a graduate from the Curtis Institute of Music the same year as Barber, 1934.

Category: Curtis Institute of Music alumni

He was the first black graduate at the renowned Curtis Institute of Music, where he received an Artist Diplomas degree, and he was the first black recipient of a Doctoral degree at the Eastman School of Music.

Category: Curtis Institute of Music alumni

Lawrence was educated at the University of Michigan and the Curtis Institute of Music.

Category: Curtis Institute of Music alumni

Music, as exemplified by Curtis Mayfield, was to foster mobilization by presenting the political ideology of Black Power that enforced notions of black pride, but it also offered a venue for the creation of black culture that was not defined by the dominant white culture.

Music students enjoy close proximity to Philadelphia's music tradition: the Philadelphia Orchestra and The Curtis Institute of Music, where students can receive discounted concert tickets and take on extra instrument or voice lessons.

Around this time, von Sternberg introduced Antheil to his patron of the next two decades: Mary Louise Curtis Bok, later the founder of the Curtis Institute of Music.

Category: Curtis Institute of Music faculty

She attended the Curtis Institute of Music in Philadelphia and was the prize student of William Kincaid, the ' grandfather ' of the majority of flutists in the United States.

Curtis Allen Huff, 41, of 1630 Lake Av., Wilmette, was arrested yesterday on a suppressed federal warrant charging him with embezzling an undetermined amount of money from the First Federal Savings and Loan association, 1 S. Dearborn St., where he formerly was employed as an attorney.

The company was badly hit by the economic contraction of the early 1980s as worldwide sales of Aston Martin shrank to three per week and chairman Alan Curtis together with fellow shareholders American Peter Sprague and Canadian George Minden came close to shutting down the production side of the business, to concentrate on service and restoration.

Conceived while Atkinson and Curtis were working on Not the Nine O ' Clock News, the series dealt comically with a number of medieval issues in Britain – witchcraft, Royal succession, European relations, the Crusades and the conflict between the Church and the Crown.

However Robert Spitzer later criticized his own work on it in an interview with Adam Curtis saying it led to the medicalization of 20-30 percent of the population who may not have had any serious mental problems.

A third grade project growing out of the day to day life of the nearby Hudson river became one of the most celebrated units of the school, a unit on boats, which under the guidance of its legendary teacher Miss Curtis, became an entrée into history, geography, reading, writing, arithmetic, science, art and literature.

Curtis noticed that these novae were, on average, 10 magnitudes fainter than those that occurred within our galaxy.

The Home Office removed gunpowder from its list of Permitted Explosives ; and shortly afterwards, on 31 December 1931, the former Curtis & Harvey's Glynneath gunpowder factory at Pontneddfechan, in Wales, closed down, and it was demolished by fire in 1932.

Hoover's reputation, experience, and popularity coalesced to give him the nomination on the first ballot, with Senator Charles Curtis named as his running mate.

Jaxson's first appearance was on August 18, 1996 and has been played by Curtis Dvorak since his inception.

Niven was an adviser to Ronald Reagan on the creation of the Strategic Defense Initiative anti missile policy, as covered in the BBC documentary Pandora's Box by Adam Curtis.

LambdaMOO was founded in late 1990 or early 1991 by Pavel Curtis at Xerox PARC .< ref name =" internetculture "> Now hosted in the state of Washington, it is operated and administered entirely on a volunteer basis.

Then, when the U. S. Army Air Forces on the Marianas Islands ran out of conventional thermite incendiary bombs for its B-29 Superfortresses to drop on Japanese cities, its top commanders, such as General Curtis E. LeMay turned to napalm bombs to continue its fire raids on the large Japanese cities.

Around 1982, Pavel Curtis started work on a freeware clone of the Bell Labs curses, named pcurses, which was maintained by various people through 1986.

Curtis committed suicide on 18 May 1980, the day before Joy Division were scheduled to depart for their first American tour, and prior to release of the band's second album, Closer.

The rest of the band decided soon after Curtis ' death that they would carry on.

The situation began to change on 19 October 1948, when Lieutenant General Curtis LeMay assumed leadership of the Strategic Air Command, a position he held until June 1957, the longest tenure for any United States armed forces commander since Winfield Scott.

Many early SCCA events were held on disused air force bases, organized with the help of Air Force General Curtis LeMay, a renowned enthusiast of sports car racing.

Then on second down and 35 to go, Morton threw a pass that went through the hands of running back Dan Reeves and into the arms of linebacker Mike Curtis, who returned the ball 13 yards to the Cowboys 28-yard line.

Running back Curtis Martin would be the focal point of the rushing attack with his 1, 152 yards and 14 touchdowns on the ground, while also catching 46 passes for another 333 yards and 3 touchdowns.

The Hollywood Flames had also recorded " I Know " in 1953, a song which has been called " a chord-for-chord blueprint for " Earth Angel ," and which featured the same Curtis Williams piano intro that Williams himself reused on the Penguins hit.

* Stories of the Underground Railroad, 1941, by Anna L. Curtis ( stories about Thomas Garrett, a famous agent on the Underground Railroad )

In 1933, incumbent Vice President Charles Curtis announced the election of House Speaker John Nance Garner as his successor, while Garner was seated next to him on the House dais.

Anderson agreed to play Nancy Rizzi, the first girlfriend of John Curtis ( based on Landon and played by Lance Kerwin ), saying she was very thrilled to have been asked.