About 1683, John Blow composed Venus and Adonis, often thought of as the first true English-language opera.

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About 1683, John Blow composed Venus and Adonis, often thought of as the first true English-language opera.

Joe Blow is also used, often to suggest a possibly undesirable person.

The register of Lambeth degrees notes that in 1677, on taking his doctorate, Blow said that his birthplace was ‘ the faithful borough of Newark ’.

In 1687 Blow became choirmaster at St Paul's Cathedral ; in 1695 he was elected organist of St Margaret's, Westminster, and is said to have resumed his post as organist of Westminster Abbey, from which in 1680 he had retired or been dismissed to make way for Purcell.

Lancelot Layne is said to have invented the genre with his 1971 hit " Blow Away ", while Cheryl Byron brought rapso to calypso tents in 1976.

The Washington Posts Tom Ham said that " equally impressive " as the environmental detail were the " true-to-life " animations: " Blow away a baddie and he'll grab his throat, blood splatting, and then fall to the ground, still convulsing ," Ham wrote.

" At length, when he had filled up the space between the two steep mountain sides, he said, " Blow ( with your bellows )" then, when he had made it ( red ) as fire, he said: " Bring me, that I may pour over it, molten lead.

< td style =" width: 50 %;">" Give me pieces of iron "-till, when he had leveled up ( the gap ) between the cliffs, he said: " Blow!

Kael wrote in her review of Blow Out, " At forty, Brian De Palma has more than twenty years of moviemaking behind him, and he has been growing better and better.

Cruz achieved recognition for her lead roles in the 2001 films Vanilla Sky and Blow.

Jeff Vice of the Deseret News commented that " unfortunately, casting Cruz as a tough girl is a hilariously bad ..." and Michael Miller of the Village Voice writing that " as Satan's helper Carmen, Penélope Cruz doesn't hold a candle to her cocaine-huffing enabler in Blow.

Blow her up.

Reno then puts her evangelistic training to good use and, continuing the revival, leads the anthem " Blow, Gabriel, Blow ".

Emma eventually became an actress as well, making her film debut at age 9 in the 2001 drama Blow.

Additional film credits include The Parent Trap ( 1998 ), Blow Dry ( 2001 ), Chelsea Walls ( 2001 ), Waking Up in Reno ( 2002 ), Maid in Manhattan ( 2002 ), Asylum ( 2005 ), which won her a second Evening Standard Award for Best Actress, The White Countess ( 2005 ), and Evening ( 2007 ).

In 2011, Van Der Beek portrayed Kesha's nemesis in her music video for " Blow ".

" He defeats all of them in turn, but Shiva attempts to complete Batman ’ s training by manipulating him into killing an opponent using her fatal Leopard Blow.

Lady Shiva's trademark finishing move is the Leopard Blow, which is used against her strongest opponents.

David and her sisters grew up in Wootton Manor in Sussex, a Jacobean manor house with extensive modern additions by Detmar Blow.

Although her mother initially wanted her to have a normal childhood, Roberts made her acting debut at age nine in Ted Demme's 2001 drama Blow.

Neil Simon's play, Come Blow Your Horn, starring Michael Crawford, played in 1962, followed by a season of Martha Graham's dance company, including the world première of her ballet Circe.

Blow studied for her A-levels at Heathfield School, after which she enrolled at a secretarial college and then took odd jobs.

In 1989, Blow married her second husband, art dealer Detmar Hamilton Blow, in Gloucester Cathedral ; he is a grandson ( and namesake ) of the early 20th-century society architect Detmar Blow.

Realizing Treacy's talent, Blow established Treacy in her London flat, where he worked on his collections.

Toward the end of her life, Blow had become seriously depressed and was reportedly anguished over her inability to " find a home in a world she influenced ".

Joplin's early performances from when she was a folk-blues singer have been released on several well received compilations through the years, one such compilation is the nine disc Blow All My Blues Away.

episode, " Deal a Blow ", which he directed when he was 26.

His first album was Kurtis Blow, while his second was the Top 50 pop album Deuce.

was a child, he is shown to be a fan of Blow.

* In the fourth chapter of Chronicles: Volume One, Bob Dylan says he knew Blow, and that it was Blow who introduced Dylan to the rap genre of the time ( mentioning contemporary artists like Ice-T, N. W. A.

" Her next film was Blow, adapted from Bruce Porter's 1993 book Blow: How a Small Town Boy Made $ 100 million with the Medellin Cocaine Cartel and Lost It All.

Simmons appeared onstage as a DJ for rapper Kurtis Blow, who was managed by Russell.

The script was loosely based on the short story The Devil's Drool ( otherwise known as Blow Up ) by Argentinian writer Julio Cortázar.

The most frequently used of these was Denis Leary, who he directed as a lead or star in No Cure for Cancer, The Ref, Denis Leary: Lock ' n Load, and Monument Ave .. Leary also worked as a producer on the 2001 crime drama film Blow which starred Johnny Depp as George Jung.

Blow was a minor box office success.

Many of Porter's ribald lyrics were altered to conform to the guidelines of the Motion Picture Production Code, and " Blow Gabriel Blow " was eliminated completely, replaced by a song Merman was forced to perform in a headdress made of peacock feathers while surrounded by dancers dressed as Chinese slave girls.

In 1820, he was taken by his owner, Peter Blow, to Missouri.

In the late 1790s, Dred Scott was born into slavery in Southampton County, Virginia, as property to the Peter Blow family.

He was able to convince his wife Irene to return Scott to his original owners, the Blow family.

When this cemetery was closed nine years later, Taylor Blow transferred Scott's coffin to a plot in the nearby Catholic cemetery, Calvary Cemetery, St. Louis, Missouri, which permitted burial of non-Catholic slaves by Catholic owners.

A stop-gap EP recorded by Steve Albini, Blow It Out Your Ass It's Veruca Salt, was released in 1996.

The orchestral Meditations on a Theme by John Blow ( 1955 ) was a particularly deep-felt work, and Bliss regarded it highly among his output.

When the general election was called in 1987, Red Wedge also organised a comedy tour featuring Lenny Henry, Ben Elton, Robbie Coltrane, Craig Charles, Phill Jupitus and Harry Enfield, and another tour by the main musical participants along with The The, Captain Sensible and the Blow Monkeys.

John Blow ( baptised 23 February 1649 – 1 October 1708 ) was an English Baroque composer and organist, appointed to Westminster Abbey in 1669.