" Sondheim then said of Babbitt, " I am his maverick, his one student who went into the popular arts with all his serious artillery.

In The Nutcracker Suite, animator Art Babbitt is said to have credited The Three Stooges as a guide for animating the dancing mushrooms in the Chinese Dance routine.

In an intentional reference to Richard Nixon ( who said after losing the California governorship that the press " won't have to kick around anymore "), Babbitt joked in his last campaign press conference that the media " won't have Bruce Babbitt to puff up anymore.

“ Kay left a strong recording legacy in American popular music, including his ' Kollege of Musical Knowledge ,' " said Babbitt.

Babbitt finally left Disney for good and on his own free will in 1947.

Milton Babbitt admired Schenker's work and his own work may be seen as part response, revision, and alternative to Schenker's.

When Paul was sentenced to a three-year jail term, “ Babbitt returned to his office to realize that he faced a world which, without Paul, was meaningless .” Shortly after Paul ’ s arrest, Myra and Tinka go to visit relatives, leaving Babbitt more or less on his own.

In America, composers like Milton Babbitt, John Cage, Elliott Carter, Henry Cowell, Philip Glass, Steve Reich, George Rochberg, and Roger Sessions, formed their own ideas.

Some of these composers ( Cage, Cowell, Glass, Reich ) represented a new methodology of experimental music, which began to question fundamental notions of music such as notation, performance, duration, and repetition, while others ( Babbitt, Rochberg, Sessions ) fashioned their own extensions of the twelve-tone serialism of Schoenberg.

Some of the more popular members included vocalist Harry Babbitt, cornetist Merwyn Bogue ( aka Ish Kabibble ), trombonist Bruce King, saxophonist Jack Martin ( who sang lead vocal on the number one hit, " Strip Polka "), Ginny Simms ( who had her own successful acting and singing career after leaving Kyser ’ s band ), Sully Mason, Mike Douglas ( years before he became a popular TV talk show host ) and Georgia Carroll.

In the introduction to the later edition, Babbitt recollected his thoughts upon reading the work for the first time: “ ere was a book ... which concerned itself interestedly, admiringly, enthusiastically, even affectionately with works of music which, in most academic environments, were unmentionables, untouchables, and unspeakables, and anywhere else were unknowns .” Babbitt specifically mentions his appreciation for her discussion of the serialist composers with accompanying musical examples ; during the Depression years, scores ( especially of new music ) were prohibitively expensive to own personally, and only a few libraries had copies.

To fit consumer needs, the pair began producing bearings made from their own Babbitt metal called " Mogul ", an alloy of tin, antimony and copper.

' a title which reflects little of the letter and nothing of the spirit of the article " ( Babbitt 1991, 17 ).

For his title character this biography even included a detailed genealogy as well as a list of Babbitt ’ s college courses.

As one reviewer puts it: “ There is no plot whatever … Babbitt simply grows two years older as the tale unfolds .” Lewis presents a chronological series of scenes in the life of his title character.

When the song began, one of the band's lead singers ( usually Babbitt ) sang the title phrase, and then the first verse or two of the song was performed instrumentally before the lyrics resumed.

Sinclair Lewis's novel Babbitt includes an extensive passage in which the title character reads from Three Black Pennies.

In Ziegfeld Follies ( 1946 ) – which was produced in 1944 but not released until 1946 – Kelly collaborated with Fred Astaire – for whom he had the greatest admiration – in the famous " The Babbitt and the Bromide " challenge dance routine.

In 1919 Irving Babbitt, founder of a movement called the " New Humanism ", wrote a critique of what he called " sentimental humanitarianism ", for which he blamed Rousseau.

Sondheim says that when he asked Babbitt if he could study atonality, Babbitt replied " You haven ’ t exhausted tonal resources for yourself yet, so I ’ m not going to teach you

Milton Babbitt incorporated integral serialism into works for children's chorus, while Daniel Pinkham wrote for choir and electronic tape.

Their industry brought about many inventions like Babbitt metal, the rotary harrow, the circular saw, the clothespin, the Shaker peg, the flat broom, the wheel-driven washing machine, a machine for setting teeth in textile cards, a threshing machine, metal pens, a new type of fire engine, a machine for matching boards, numerous innovations in waterworks, planing machinery, a hernia truss, silk reeling machinery, small looms for weaving palm leaf, machines for processing broom corn, ball-and-socket tilters for chair legs, and a number of other useful inventions.

Yet, Babbitt sublimates his desire for self-respect and does encourage his son to rebel against the conformity that results from bourgeois prosperity, by recommending that he be true to himself: “ Don ’ t be scared of the family.

" Tolkien wrote to W. H. Auden that The Marvellous Land of Snergs " was probably an unconscious source-book for the Hobbits " and he told an interviewer that the word hobbit " might have been associated with Sinclair Lewis's Babbitt " ( like hobbits, George Babbitt enjoys the comforts of his home ).

Of Disney studio animators, Art Babbitt is most regarded for the creation of the Goofy character, while original concept drawings were by Frank Webb.

Hapgood audiotaped and transcribed a number of Babbitt's " trance lectures " which purported to come from Jesus, Albert Einstein, Mark Twain, and the Hindu god Vishnu, using the material to publish his final three books: Voices of Spirit, Through the Psychic Experience of Elwood Babbitt ( 1975 ), Talks with Christ and His Teachers Through the Psychic Gift of Elwood Babbitt ( 1981 ), and The God Within: a Testament of Vishnu, a Handbook for the Spiritual Renaissance ( 1982 ).

* Milton Babbitt wrote a song called " Philomel " based on the story, with a libretto by poet John Hollander, for vocalist Bethany Beardslee accompanied by synthesizer and recorded soprano.

Judge Babbitt, who died on February 15, 1920, was general counsel for and a director of several mining companies.

Although he would eventually shift his focus away from electronic music, the genre that first gained for him public notice, by the 1980s, Babbitt wrote both electronic music and music for conventional musical instruments, often combining the two.

* 1982-Special Citation by the Pulitzer Prize board, " to Milton Babbitt for his life's work as a distinguished and seminal American composer " ( Columbia University 1991, 70 ).

In 1958, Babbitt achieved unsought notoriety through an article in the popular magazine High Fidelity ( Babbitt 1958 ).

As he dresses for the day, Babbitt contemplates each article of his " Solid Citizen " uniform, most important being his Booster's club button, which he wears with pride.

To everyone's astonishment he seemed no more like the run-of-the-mine Russian ambassador than George Babbitt was like Fyodor Pavlovitch Karamazov.

Stanley Jordan was born in Chicago, Illinois, and he received a BA in digital music composition from Princeton University in 1981, studying under computer-music composers Paul Lansky and Milton Babbitt.

It was animated by Art Babbitt, Dick Huemer, Dick Lundy, and Ward Kimball and directed by Wilfred Jackson.

The company town was built to process taconite mined and shipped by train from Babbitt, MN, sixty miles to the northwest.

The city of Babbitt was left with the buildings due to the default of loans given to the company.

Franklin G. Babbitt, US Navy submarine commander, Naval Attaché and Defense Attaché to Moscow, was raised in Rushford.

In 1922, Mrs. Edward Babbitt was elected the first female mayor of New Albany.

It tells the story of an abrasive and selfish yuppie, Charlie Babbitt, who discovers that his estranged father has died and bequeathed all of his multimillion-dollar estate to his other son, Raymond, an autistic savant of whose existence Charlie was unaware.

When the need was realized, Frank Jones, Otis Lovercheck, John Bunn, Harve Babbitt and Nels Sherard started a fund raising project.

Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt tells of a family that was given eternal youth after drinking from a spring.

Milton Byron Babbitt ( May 10, 1916 – January 29, 2011 ) was an American composer, music theorist, and teacher.

Babbitt was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania ( Barkin & Brody 2001 ) to Albert E. Babbitt and Sarah Potamkin.

Babbitt's father was a mathematician, and it was mathematics that Babbitt intended to study when he entered the University of Pennsylvania in 1931.

Babbitt was less interested in producing new timbres than in the rhythmic precision he could achieve using the Mark II synthesizer, a degree of precision previously unobtainable in live performances ( Barkin & Brody 2001 ).

Babbitt's brother, Paul Babbitt, was a candidate for the United States House of Representatives in 2004.