Famous people who have studied the Alexander Technique include writers Aldous Huxley, Robertson Davies and Roald Dahl, playwright George Bernard Shaw, actors Judy Dench, Hilary Swank, Ben Kingsley, Michael Caine, Jeremy Irons, John Cleese, Kevin Kline, William Hurt, Jamie Lee Curtis, Paul Newman, Mary Steenburgen, Robin Williams and Patti Lupone, musicians Paul McCartney, Madonna, Yehudi Menuhin and Sting, and Nobel Prize winner for medicine and physiology Nikolaas Tinbergen.

Sir Stafford Cripps, George Bernard Shaw, Henry Irving and other stage grandees, Lord Lytton and other eminent people of the era also wrote positive appreciations of his work after taking lessons with Alexander.

This divergence between American English and British English once caused George Bernard Shaw to say that the United States and United Kingdom are " two countries divided by a common language "; a similar comment is ascribed to Winston Churchill.

According to Capp's brother Elliot, Alfred had finished all of Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw by the time he turned 13.

Nothing was considered more holy than the covenant of marriage, and to portray it in such a way was completely unacceptable ; however, a few more open-minded critics such as the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw found Ibsen's willingness to examine society without prejudice exhilarating.

George Bernard Shaw called Chaplin " the only genius to come out of the movie industry ".

Sarandon appeared in The Rothschilds and The Two Gentlemen of Verona on Broadway, as well making regular appearances at numerous Shakespeare and George Bernard Shaw festivals in the United States and Canada.

Dublin has a world famous literary history, having produced many prominent literary figures, including Nobel laureates William Butler Yeats, George Bernard Shaw and Samuel Beckett.

It went on to provide a breakthrough for some of the city's most famous writers, such as Synge, Yeats himself and George Bernard Shaw.

A point of interest is that it is probably Daniel Jones ( and not as is often thought Henry Sweet ) who provided George Bernard Shaw with the basis for his fictional character Henry Higgins in " Pygmalion ".

* Shaw v Chesterton: a Debate between George Bernard Shaw and G. K. Chesterton.

Writer George Bernard Shaw claimed to have read the complete 9th edition — except for the science articles — and Richard Evelyn Byrd took the Britannica as reading material for his five-month stay at the South Pole in 1934, while Philip Beaver read it during a sailing expedition.

At its peak of popularity eugenics was supported by a wide variety of prominent people, including Winston Churchill, Margaret Sanger, Marie Stopes, H. G. Wells, Theodore Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, John Maynard Keynes, John Harvey Kellogg, Linus Pauling and Sidney Webb.

He was " the creator of ... that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg ," in which "... imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates ", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.

The portrait of George Bernard Shaw located at Niagara-on-the-Lake was commissioned by hotelier Si Wai Lai and sculpted by Dr. Elizabeth Bradford Holbrook, CM ( 1913 – 2009 ).

* The Selected Prose of Bernard Shaw ( 1952 ).

* Shaw on Shakespeare: An Anthology of Bernard Shaw's Writings ( 1961 )

* London Music in 1888 – 89 as Heard by Corno di Bassetto ( later known as Bernard Shaw ) with Some Further Autobiographical Particulars, 1937.

* Shaw's Music: The Complete Musical Criticism Of Bernard Shaw.

* Shaw v. Chesterton, a debate between George Bernard Shaw and G. K. Chesterton ( 2000 ) Third Way Publications Ltd. ISBN 0-9535077-7-7.

" George Bernard Shaw ".

" Dear Mr Shaw Selections from Bernard Shaw's postbag " Bloomsbury, 1987 ISBN 0-7475-0256-0.

* Gibbs, A. M. " Bernard Shaw, A Life ".

Bernard Wisehall, a prominent local architect, designed Federal Park ( also known as Riverbreeze Park ) with a capacity to 6, 000.

The George Bernard Shaw Theatre is a black box theatre with a capacity of 100.

George Bernard Shaw, in his capacity as a music critic, agreed with Beethoven's assessment of the work, writing that indeed, " In all subtler respects the Eighth is better the Seventh.

The Bernard Harris Middle School opened August 14, 2006, to have a capacity of 1500 students.

When military theorist Bernard Brodie studied the resulting target list, however, he strongly criticized the planners ' ignorance of actual Soviet military capacity and resulting failure to estimate what effect the attacks would have.

The Bernard C. Richardson Zone was added in 1999 at a cost of $ 32. 9 million raising the capacity to 82, 600.

He spent much of his time in the local movie theatre, adoring the music of such film composers as Bernard Herrmann and Franz Waxman.

Elfman cited his first time noticing film music being when he heard Bernard Hermann's score to The Day the Earth Stood Still as an eleven-year-old and being a fan of film music since then.

* 1854 – Bernard Zweers, Dutch composer and music teacher ( d. 1924 )

The music by Bernard Herrmann was his final score before his death on December 24, 1975, and the film is dedicated to his memory.

During the 1960s revival of traditional Irish music the low whistle was " recreated " by Bernard Overton at the request of Finbar Furey.

Johnny Marr returned to the music scene in 1989 with New Order's Bernard Sumner and Pet Shop Boy Neil Tennant in the supergroup Electronic.

By far his biggest hit was the musical My Fair Lady ( 1956 ), adapted from George Bernard Shaw's Pygmalion, with book and lyrics by Alan Jay Lerner and music by Frederick Loewe.

Performed by the Stuttgart Ballet, with music by the Stuttgart Radio Symphony Orchestra, it was directed by Bernard Kontarsky, and starred Richard Cragun and Marcia Haydee.

This is one of several Hitchcock movies with a music score by Bernard Herrmann and features a memorable opening title sequence by graphic designer Saul Bass.

The music score was composed by Bernard Herrmann in August 1951, and was his first score after he moved from New York to Hollywood.

* Bernard " Focus ..." Edwards, Jr., a U. S. music producer

" Indeed, in 1998, after researching the Pulitzer Prize for Music, music critic Kyle Gann wrote that the awards panel often included " the same seven names over and over as judges ": Gunther Schuller, Joseph Schwantner, Jacob Druckman ( now deceased ), George Perle, John Harbison, Mario Davidovsky, and Bernard Rands.

As for other Twilight Zone episodes, Bernard Herrmann — also composer of the first season's main title music and most of its stock music — wrote the music for this one.

Ian Bernard wrote the opening theme music, plus the infamous " What's the news across the nation " number.

He became interested in rock music due to the influence of his older brothers Bernard and James, whose band rehearsed in the family basement.

Bernard Shaw, in his role as a music critic, commented, " The stale wonderment which the great chorus never fails to elicit has already been exhausted "; he later wrote, " Why, instead of wasting huge sums on the multitudinous dullness of a Handel Festival does not somebody set up a thoroughly rehearsed and exhaustively studied performance of the Messiah in St James's Hall with a chorus of twenty capable artists?

On 27 April 2006, the orchestra named Bernard Haitink to the role of principal conductor and Pierre Boulez to the role of conductor emeritus " while music director search continues.

( Earlier, while music director of the New York Philharmonic, he conducted music by Abram Chasins, Bernard Wagenaar, and Howard Hanson.

* A second live teleplay was broadcast on November 4, 1954, as the fourth episode of the CBS anthology series Climax !, starring Lillian Bronson, adapted by Fletcher herself, with music provided by her then-husband, Bernard Herrmann.

He wrote the libretto for a new children's opera Chincha-Chancha Cooroo or The Weaver ’ s Wedding with music by Bernard Hughes.

* Dardanella, words by Fred Fisher, music by Felix Bernard ( 1897 – 1944 ) & Johnny S. Black ( 1895 – 1936 ), McCarthy & Fisher Inc. ( 1919 )