He was also chairman of RJM exports which manufactured scientific models and is now known as Cochranes of Oxford.

Following the RJR Nabisco takeover by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. led by Henry Kravis, Johnson started his own private investment company, RJM Group, Inc., based in Atlanta, Georgia.

* Organised Sound: An International Journal of Music and Technology.

Other accreditations include the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance ; American Chemical Society ; Commission on Accreditation of Allied Health Education Professionals ( surgical technology ); Council on Academic Accreditation of the American Speech-Language-Hearing Association ( communication disorders ); Council on Social Work Education ; Department of Transportation Federal Aviation Administration Certification ; International Association of Counseling Services, Inc .; Michigan Department of Licensing and Regulation, State Board of Nursing ; National Accrediting Agency for Clinical Laboratory Sciences ; National Association of Industrial Technology ; National Association of Schools of Music ; Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology.

It has a common programme for all pupils, and covers all the classical subjects ( Italian language and literature, History, Geography, Mathematics, Natural sciences, English language, a second Foreign Language-usually French, German or Spanish, Technology, Arts, Music, and Physical Education ).

Colleges and universities located in the city include the University of Memphis, Rhodes College, Memphis College of Art, LeMoyne – Owen College, Christian Brothers University, Baptist College of Health Sciences, Memphis Theological Seminary, Harding School of Theology, Embry – Riddle Aeronautical University, Worldwide ( Memphis Campus ), Reformed Theological Seminary ( satellite campus ), William R. Moore College of Technology, Southern College of Optometry, Southwest Tennessee Community College, Tennessee Technology Center at Memphis, Visible Music College, and the University of Tennessee Health Science Center.

Such Applied Courses include in the areas of Equine studies, Winemaking and viticulture, aquaculture, Information Technology, Music, Illustration, Culinary Management and many more.

Groups created include Toshiba Music Industries / Toshiba EMI ( 1960 ), Toshiba International Corporation ( 1970s ) Toshiba Electrical Equipment ( 1974 ), Toshiba Chemical ( 1974 ), Toshiba Lighting and Technology ( 1989 ), Toshiba America Information Systems ( 1989 ) and Toshiba Carrier Corporation ( 1999 ).

After graduating from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology with a degree in humanities, Sharifi went on to further his musical education at Berklee College of Music in Boston.

As an academic discipline at university level, Music Technology ( meaning music produced using software or electronic hardware ) first emerged in the middle of the 1980s, most notably at the University of York, where the Departments of Music and Electronics set up a joint Masters programme in Music Technology in 1986.

* Music Technology in Education

* Music Technology Resources

Unfiled: Music under New Technology 0402 vol.

Offers courses at undergraduate level in Music, Drama, Creative Music Technology, Popular Music and Performing Arts and at postgraduate level in Music Therapy and Dramatherapy.

* Jensen, David P. ( 1998 ) " A Florentine Harpsichord: Revealing a Transitional Technology " Early Music, February issue, pp. 71 – 85.

Programs are accredited by the Higher Learning Commission of North Central Association of Colleges and Schools, the Accreditation Board for Engineering & Technology, the American Chemical Society, the Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, the Commission on Accreditation of Athletic Training Education, and the National Association of Schools of Music.

The campus consists of five buildings: Valley Park High School and its Music and Industrial Technology building, Valley Park Middle School, Valley Park Elementary School and the Dennis Lea Early Childhood Center.

At the 1997 MTV Video Music Awards, the creative music video for " Virtual Insanity " won four awards ; Best Video, Best Special Effects, Best Cinematography, and Breakthrough Video, and the band performed the song at the ceremony.

The song went on to win " Best Song of 2000 " at the MTV Europe Music Awards, " Best Single of the Year " at the BRIT Awards and an MTV Video Music Award for Best Special Effects.

The film won Saturn Awards for Best Science Fiction Film, Best Writing, Best Special Effects, Best Music, and Best Poster Art, while Henry Thomas, Robert McNaughton, and Drew Barrymore won Young Artist Awards.

Since You Went Away won the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture ( Max Steiner ) and was nominated for Best Picture, Best Actress in a Leading Role ( Claudette Colbert ), Best Actress in a Supporting Role ( Jennifer Jones ), Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Monty Woolley ), Best Cinematography, Black-and-White ( Lee Garmes ), Best Film Editing, Best Art Direction-Interior Decoration, Black-and-White ( Mark-Lee Kirk, Victor A. Gangelin ), and Best Effects, Special Effects.

Spellbound won the Academy Award for Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture, and was nominated for Best Actor in a Supporting Role ( Michael Chekhov ); Best Cinematography, Black-and-White ; Best Director ; Best Effects, Special Effects ; and Best Picture.

At the 59th Academy Awards, The Voyage Home was nominated for Best Cinematography, Sound ( Terry Porter, David J. Hudson, Mel Metcalfe and Gene Cantamessa ), Sound Effects Editing, and Music.

The film was nominated for eight Oscars at the 50th Academy Awards, including Direction, Supporting Actress ( Melinda Dillon ), Visual Effects, Art Direction ( Joe Alves, Daniel A. Lomino, Phil Abramson ), Original Music Score, Film Editing, and Sound ( Robert Knudson, Robert Glass, Don MacDougall and Gene Cantamessa ).

In January 1985, they were nominated for an American Music Award for Favorite Pop / Rock Band / Duo / Group Video Artist, and in September 1985, they were nominated for 2 MTV Video Music Awards for Best Special Effects and Best Art Direction for their video " It's a Miracle ".

* Effects of the Bologna Declaration on Professional Music Training in Europe

Gremlins won numerous awards, including the 1985 Saturn Awards for Best Director, Best Horror Film, Best Music, Best Special Effects, and the award for Best Supporting Actress, given to Holiday's performance as Mrs. Deagle.

On September 9, the video for " Special " wins ' Best Special Effects ' but loses out ' Best Art Direction ' at MTV Video Music Awards.

The following is a list of MTV Video Music Awards winners for Best Special Effects in a Video.

He is the author of many influential books, including The Sociology of Rock ( Constable, 1978 ), Sound Effects: Youth, Leisure and the Politics of Rock ' n ' Roll ( Pantheon, 1981 ), Art into Pop ( Methuen, 1987-written with Howard Horne ), Music for Pleasure: Essays on the Sociology of Pop ( Cambridge University Press, 1988 ), and Performing Rites: On the Value of Popular Music ( Oxford University Press, 1996 ).

The music video, directed by duo Godley & Creme and featuring robot-like movable sculptures ( by Jim Whiting ) dancing, spinning and even walking in time to the music in a " virtual house " in London, England, garnered five MTV Video Music Awards in 1984, including Best Concept Video and Best Special Effects.

* Music and Effects Editing: Hank Goetzenberg, Inc.

* Music and Effects Editing: Hank Goetzenberg, Inc.

It garnered a Saturn Award for Best Special Effects, a BMI Film Music Award, and the Audience Award for Best Director at the European Film Awards while also receiving a Razzie Award for Worst Remake or Sequel.

It was nominated for Best Actor in a Leading Role ( Alexander Knox ), Best Director, Best Effects, Special Effects, Best Music, Scoring of a Dramatic or Comedy Picture and Best Picture.

* You Know My Name-( CD ) 2000-Track # 6 " Gizmo "-Moonshine Music

Guest holds an honorary doctorate from and is a member of the board of trustees for Berklee College of Music in Boston.

Yet another story holds that the freestyle name evolved in Miami over confusion between two tracks produced by Tony " Pretty Boy " Butler, " Freestyle Express " by Freestyle and Debbie Deb's " When I Hear Music ".

1, No. 2, July 1970, A Charlton Publication ) attributes this song to Susan Heather ( a pseudonym used by Marian B. Yarneall ), ( c ) 1952, 1965 by Mamy Music Corp out of Paoli, Pa. Later references show copyrights held by Gaylord Program Services, Inc. out of Nashville, TN, but this may be because Gaylord holds the copyrights for " Hee Haw.

In 1998, PolyGram was in turn sold to Seagram and merged into what is now one of the Big Four record labels, the Universal Music Group, the company that today holds the rights to the entire ABBA back catalogue.

The town also holds the Rockfield Country Music Festival and the Monmouth Women's Festival each year.

The Oberlin Conservatory of Music in Ohio holds the longest partnership with Steinway.

To celebrate this unique breed, the county holds an annual festival known as Goats, Music and More drawing visitors from around the world.

The Laguna Beach Chamber Music Society holds an annual chamber music festival during the winter season.

During the last week of July, the Insea Sound Shop of Nelsonville, Ohio, holds the annual Diamond Music Festival at the Isaac Walton Clubhouse, situated on the banks of Lake Logan.

During the festival the Country Music Association of Australia holds the Country Music Awards of Australia ceremony awarding the Golden Guitar trophies.

In April of every year, the GMA holds what has come to be called " GMA Music Week " ( formally " GMA Week ") around Nashville, Tennessee.

As Görlitz was part of Silesia from 1815 onward, it has a Silesian Museum dedicated to the region ( Schlesisches Museum zu Görlitz ) and even holds a Silesian Music festival ( Schlesisches Musikfest ).

McEntire holds the record for the most Academy of Country Music Top Female Vocalist Awards ( seven ), and American Music Awards for Favorite Country Female Artist ( twelve ), and ties with Martina McBride for most Country Music Association Female Vocalist of the Year Awards ( four ), though McEntire does have the distinction of winning the award 4 times consecutively.

Recent speculation by Professor Martin Jarvis of Charles Darwin University School of Music, in Darwin, Australia, holds that Anna Magdalena may have been the composer of several musical pieces attributed to her husband.

A manor house on Kirsimägi in the Castle ruins was restored and holds the Estonian Traditional Music Center ( or Traditional Music Storehouse ).

The Music Academy of the West holds many of its summer concerts in the Lobero.

Since the hospital closed its doors, a popular local legend holds that a stained glass dome in the Hall Rotunda was salvaged from the Temple of Music at Buffalo's Pan-American Exposition.

The Greer Music Library in Cummings Arts Center holds books and periodicals about music and musicians, printed music, and numerous recordings.

He holds a Ph. D. in French Literature from Princeton University and has taught at Harvard University, Stony Brook University, University of Chicago, University of Oxford and the Royal Northern College of Music.

Raunds Music and Drama Society ( MADS ) holds several stage performances throughout the year.