* Drum Major Institute – 13 % for 2005

For his actions on board Flight 93, Homer received many awards and citations posthumously, including honorary membership in the historic Tuskegee Airmen ; the Congress of Racial Equality's Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Award ; the Southern Christian Leadership Conference Drum Major for Justice Award ; and the Westchester County Trailblazer Award.

Hand salutes similar to those used in the military are rendered by the Drum Major of a marching band or drum corps just prior to beginning their performance ( after the show announcer asks if the group is ready ), as well as following completion of the performance, both rendered to the audience.

In the US, a Drum Major carrying a large baton or mace will often salute by bringing the right hand, holding the mace with the head upward, to the left shoulder.

Specific movements of the mace from the Drum Major will signal specific orders to the band he or she leads.

* Drum Major, Wozzeck ( Berg )

* David " Dave " Tucker-Sheriff of Kanawha County ( 1997 – 2005 ) and Drum Major of the Beni Kedem Shriners Oriental Band, a popular attraction in parades all across West Virginia.

Young also has been a director of the Drum Major Institute for Public Policy, and also is the chairman of the board for the Global Initiative for the Advancement of Nutritional Therapy.

* Tom Major-Ball ( 1879 – 1962 ), part of " Drum and Major " and " Drum and Ball " acts, ( father of former British Prime Minister John Major )

To be qualified as a Pipe Major or Drum Major in the pipes and drums of a regiment of the British Army, candidates must successfully pass a series of courses at the school.

Drum Major: Eric D. Scott, CD

With the exception of the West Point Band Drum Major, today the West Point cadet officer is the only person in the Army who wears a sword and sash, the sole guardian of the tradition.

The band is run by Terry Whittingham, a former Band Master for the Queen's Royal Highlanders, and is always lead by the Senior Drum Major who, along with the pupil Band Captain, receives ceremonial buttons after being appointed.

While the appointment of a Band Captain is always a pupil in their final year, the Senior Drum Major can be of any age if there are not enough skilled applicants on a more senior year.

Lautenberg received an " A " on the Drum Major Institute's 2005 Congressional Scorecard on middle-class issues.

) Under the command of the Senior Drum Major, the massed bands march and countermarch at Horse Guards Parade in slow and quick time.

The rank of Fife Major was introduced, a noncommissioned officer responsible for the regiment's fifers, just as a Drum Major was responsible for the drummers.

Even so, motifs for the Captain, the Doctor and the Drum Major are very prominent.

He performed under Leopold Stokowski as the Drum Major in the second American performance of Alban Berg's Wozzeck on November 24, 1931.

The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ( 1975 ) ( by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta ) and The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) ( by Schlöndorff alone ) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

The work of post-war Germany's leading novelists Heinrich Böll and Günter Grass provided source material for the adaptations The Lost Honour of Katharina Blum ( 1975 ) ( by Schlöndorff and Margarethe von Trotta ) and The Tin Drum ( 1979 ) ( by Schlöndorff alone ) respectively, the latter becoming the first German film to win the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.

* 1980 Academy Awards Best Foreign Language Film The Tin Drum

He also performed the score and played a role in the Academy Award-winning film, Tsotsi and the movie Drum.

He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Sundown ( 1941 ), Arabian Nights ( 1942 ), The Climax ( 1944 ), Flower Drum Song ( 1961 ), That Touch of Mink ( 1962 ), Gambit ( 1966 ), Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 ), Sweet Charity ( 1969 ), Airport ( 1970 ), and Earthquake ( 1974 ).

In film, he was twice nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performances in Bang the Drum Slowly and Moonstruck.

Birmingham's current music venues-large and small-include Symphony Hall at the ICC, The National Indoor Arena, O2 Academy Birmingham, the National Exhibition Centre, The CBSO Centre, The Glee Club, The Adrian Boult Hall at Birmingham Conservatoire, The Yardbird, mac ( Midlands Arts Centre ) at Cannon Hill Park, The Custard Factory, the Drum Arts Centre, The Jam House, and pub and bar venues including The Rainbow ( Digbeth ), The Bull's Head ( in the suburb of Moseley ), The Cross ( Moseley ), the Ceol Castle ( Moseley ), the Hare and Hounds ( Kings Heath ), Scruffy Murphy's, the Jug of Ale, The Queen's Arms ( city centre ), a branch of Barfly and the Hibernian.

The George N. Parks Drum Major Academy ( DMA ) is a nationwide summer camp for high school drum majors and majorettes.

The Drum Major Academy is held at various locations around the United States, by 2010 the academy drew up to 3, 000 students each year.

* George N. Parks Drum Major Academy

The United States Army has designated four premier bands: the United States Army Band, primarily serving within the Washington D. C. area, the United States Army Field Band under the command of the Office of the Chief of Public Affairs and serving the entire nation, the United States Military Academy Band serving as do the bands in the other academies, and the Old Guard Fife and Drum Corps, serving as ceremonial support but in the style of the American Revolutionary era.

Her very first film role was as an extra in the Academy Award winning film The Tin Drum which happened to be filming near her home.

He was also nominated for an Academy Award for his work on Sundown ( 1941 ), Arabian Nights ( 1942 ), The Climax ( 1944 ), Flower Drum Song ( 1961 ), That Touch of Mink ( 1962 ), Gambit ( 1966 ), Thoroughly Modern Millie ( 1967 ), Sweet Charity ( 1969 ), Airport ( 1970 ), and Earthquake ( 1974 ).

Villa is known for the Villa Drum Squad that provides rhythmic support at the soccer matches, and their annual " Villa Man Auction " where dates are purchased with all money going to charity .< ref >

In addition, it has been used for the DCI ( Drum Corps International ) Championships in 2004 and the annual Drums Along the Rockies competition.

Drum Corps International has held its annual World Championships at the Citrus Bowl four times in 1996, 1997, 1998, and 2003

Drum Corps International held its annual Drum and Bugle Corps World Championships at the stadium in 1975 and 1976.

During his time there, he composed music for several world-premiere plays for the community-oriented Cornerstone Theater, and a work for the USC Percussion Ensemble, which was premiered at the Watts Towers ’ annual Day of the Drum Festival.

Union Island holds an annual calypso competition, as well as the Big Drum Festival.

Guitar Center also hosts annual events such as the Drum Off, King of the Blues, contests, and artist appearances throughout the nation.

* Drum Corps – The drum corps participates in the annual Burwood march, the ANZAC march through the streets of Sydney City, the Sandakan service at Burwood and reserve forces day.

At the same square, there is the Museum of Drums, Cegléd being a town with vivid jazz life, featuring also the annual Drum and Percussion Gala, that attracts interest from all over Hungary and even from abroad.

The town features the annual Drum and Percussion Gala, which is a jazz event, as well as numerous jazz concerts throughout every year.

The Drum Corps International World Championships are scheduled the site annually through the 2018 season, and the Circle City Classic that is an annual American football game featuring two historically black colleges / universities ( HBCUs ) that is held in October.