An important educator during the modernization of Japan during the Meiji Era, Fenollosa was an enthusiastic Orientalist who did much to preserve traditional Japanese art.

The entire studio became very enthusiastic to create the series and consequently assigned its top talents to help develop it.

Furnivall then became editor ; he was enthusiastic and knowledgeable, yet temperamentally ill-suited for the work.

Late in life Ayn Rand renewed her childhood interest in stamps and became an enthusiastic collector.

This new configuration became very popular in the Boston area, and by the fall of 1971, enthusiastic word-of-mouth led to the Modern Lovers ' first exposure to a major label when Stuart Love of Warner Bros. Records contacted them and organized the band's first multi-track session at Intermedia Studio in Boston.

However, after witnessing Baltimore's segregated housing and discriminatory real estate practices, he changed his mind and became an enthusiastic speaker on racial issues.

Though at first an enthusiastic champion of Wagner's music, Nietzsche ultimately became hostile, viewing the festival and its revellers as symptom of cultural decay and bourgeois decadence — an event which led him to turn his eye upon the moral values esteemed by society as a whole-" Nietzsche clearly preferred to see Bayreuth fail than succeed by mirroring a society gone wrong.

Many Dutch statesmen were essentially politiques ; they soon became disenchanted with the Earl's enthusiastic fostering of what he called " the religion ".

But with the successes of Khevenhüller and the enthusiastic " insurrection " of Hungary, Maria Theresa's opposition became firmer, and she divulged the provisions of the truce, in order to compromise Frederick with his allies.

While a captive there, Philip received a military and diplomatic education from Epaminondas, became eromenos of Pelopidas, and lived with Pammenes, who was an enthusiastic advocate of the Sacred Band of Thebes.

She loved dancing and pageants, activities often frowned upon in Presbyterian Scotland, but for which she found a vibrant outlet in Jacobean London, where she created a " rich and hospitable " cultural climate at the royal court, became an enthusiastic playgoer, and sponsored lavish masques.

After this he became an enthusiastic supporter of Crowley, joining his magical Order, the A. A .. within which he became a leading member, editing Order documents and its journal, The Equinox.

After the Lord Stanley of Preston was appointed by Queen Victoria as Governor General of Canada on June 11, 1888, he and his family became highly enthusiastic about ice hockey.

In the late sixteenth century efforts to establish an English colony in the New World began to gain momentum, and White soon became an enthusiastic supporter.

Originally an enthusiastic supporter of the ideas of the French revolution, Arndt dissociated himself from them when the Reign of Terror of the Jacobins became apparent.

Bull met with Prime Minister Errol Barrow who became an enthusiastic supporter of HARP, and arranged for a firing site in Foul Bay, on the south-west corner of the island near the Seawell Airport.

Perkin, who had an interest in painting and photography, immediately became enthusiastic about this result and carried out further trials with his friend Arthur Church and his brother Thomas.

Gernreich, declaring the document " the most dangerous thing had ever read ", became an enthusiastic financial supporter of the venture, although he did not lend his name to it ( going instead by the initial " R ").

Tron received enthusiastic praise from film critic Roger Ebert, became a cult favorite and turned out — many years later — to have a greater influence on animation ( at Disney and elsewhere ) than expected.

While still a youth ( 393 ) he went with his brother Euoptius to Alexandria, where he became an enthusiastic Neoplatonist and disciple of Hypatia.

He was known from early life as a cultured musician, and became an enthusiastic golf player, becoming captain of The Royal and Ancient Golf Club of St Andrews in 1894 – 1895.

Berab exerted a great influence upon him, and Karo became an enthusiastic supporter of Berab's plans for the restitution of semicha ( rabbinical ordination ) which had been in abeyance for over 11 centuries.

Grieg and Sinding were enthusiastic and became warm supporters of Delius.

Monturiol also became an enthusiastic follower of the utopian thinker and socialist Étienne Cabet ; he popularised Cabet's ideas through La Fraternidad and produced a Spanish translation of his novel Voyage en Icarie.

While there are many audiophiles who still prefer vinyl records over digital music sources ( primarily compact disc ) for superior sound quality, they represent an enthusiastic minority of listeners.

The Concertina Band Revival is stimulated by regular weekends and meetings for players to make music together and get tuition, folk festival workshops and enthusiastic groups meeting monthly.

However, encouraged by Reyer and Massenet, Bizet fashioned a four-movement suite from the music, which was performed under Pasdeloup on 10 November to an enthusiastic reception.

Basie is remembered by many who worked for him as being considerate of musicians and their opinions, modest, relaxed, fun-loving, dryly witty, and always enthusiastic about his music.

Himself a cellist, he was an enthusiastic chamber music player, an interest that deepened during his chemical studies in Heidelberg between 1859 and 1861.

The album opened in Billboards top ten and scored enthusiastic lead reviews in major music magazines.

* A New group of enthusiastic people staged a version of the Passion Play with music and script written by Roy Pires in a completely original score.

She also wanted to work with a core-group of young musicians who she felt would be enthusiastic about the music.

He wrote " Gli orti esperidi ," which was set to music by Nicola Porpora, and sung by Porpora's pupil, the castrato Farinelli, making a spectacular début, it won the most enthusiastic applause.

He was an enthusiastic admirer of Johann Sebastian Bach, whose music he did much to popularize.

New trends in music ( like music based on synthetic chords ) were proposed by enthusiastic clubs such as Association for Contemporary Music.

Puebla was a significant center of music composition in the 17th century, as the city had considerable wealth and for a time was presided over by Bishop Juan de Palafox y Mendoza, who was an enthusiastic patron of music.

Originally reserved for the ceremonies of the gentry, the local passion for music resulted in enthusiastic participation by the lower classes.

The term krautrock was originally a humorous one coined by the UK music press ( such as New Musical Express and Melody Maker ), where " krautrock " found an early and enthusiastic underground following.

Between the world wars, she and her younger sister, Princess Marie Louise, were enthusiastic patrons of music at Schomberg House, their London residence.

Dvořák, a Bohemian composer, was fascinated with Native and African American folk music, and he was enthusiastic about encouraging a nationalist American field of music that utilized those fields.

During a panel on digital piracy in Comic-Con 2010, the comic and music critic and writer for Techland, Douglas Wolk, expressed concern in response to the actions of Manga Multi-national Anti-Piracy Coalition stating that he had seen the music industry " destroy " itself by " alienate its most enthusiastic customer base " in attempts to fight piracy.

They worked on the film while traveling through New England and Canada with the Rolling Thunder Revue, a concert tour that made impromptu stops, entertaining enthusiastic crowds with poetry and music.