Rococo music -- a lot of it -- was played in Carnegie Recital Hall on Saturday night in the first of four concerts being sponsored this season by a new organization known as Globe Concert Arts.

Andrew Carnegie (, but commonly or ; November 25, 1835 – August 11, 1919 ) was a Scottish-American industrialist who led the enormous expansion of the American steel industry in the late 19th century.

Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, and emigrated to the United States with his parents in 1848.

He built Pittsburgh's Carnegie Steel Company, which was later merged with Elbert H. Gary's Federal Steel Company and several smaller companies to create U. S. Steel.

Andrew Carnegie was born in Dunfermline, Scotland, in a typical weaver's cottage with only one main room consisting of half the ground floor which was shared with the neighboring weaver's family.

Carnegie was a consistent borrower and a " self-made man " in both his economic development and his intellectual and cultural development.

In spring 1861, Carnegie was appointed by Scott, who was now Assistant Secretary of War in charge of military transportation, as Superintendent of the Military Railways and the Union Government's telegraph lines in the East.

Carnegie later joked that he was " the first casualty of the war " when he gained a scar on his cheek from freeing a trapped telegraph wire.

He was invited to many important social functions — functions that Carnegie exploited to his own advantage.

In the late 1880s, Carnegie Steel was the largest manufacturer of pig iron, steel rails, and coke in the world, with a capacity to produce approximately 2, 000 tons of pig metal per day.

In 1901, Carnegie was 66 years of age and considering retirement.

Carnegie's share of this amounted to $ 225, 639, 000 ( presently, $), which was paid to Carnegie in the form of 5 %, 50-year gold bonds.

It was said that "... Carnegie never wanted to see or touch these bonds that represented the fruition of his business career.

The highlight for them all was a triumphal return to Dunfermline, where Carnegie's mother laid the foundation stone of a Carnegie Library for which he donated the money.

Carnegie was also known to be a great journalist.

Carnegie also opposed the annexation of Cuba by the United States and in this, was successful with many other conservatives who founded an anti-imperialist league that included former presidents of the United States, Grover Cleveland and Benjamin Harrison, and literary figures like Mark Twain.

From 1901 forward, public attention was turned from the shrewd business acumen which had enabled Carnegie to accumulate such a fortune, to the public-spirited way in which he devoted himself to utilizing it on philanthropic projects.

Originally called the Binghamton Public Library, it was created with a gift of $ 75, 000 from Carnegie.

In 1911, Carnegie became a sympathetic benefactor to George Ellery Hale, who was trying to build the 100 inch ( 2. 5 m ) Hooker Telescope at Mount Wilson, and donated an additional ten million dollars to the Carnegie Institution with the following suggestion to expedite the construction of the telescope: " I hope the work at Mount Wilson will be vigorously pushed, because I am so anxious to hear the expected results from it.

Carnegie was a large benefactor of the Tuskegee Institute under Booker T. Washington for African-American education.

Carnegie was honored for his philanthropy and support of the arts by initiation as an honorary member of Phi Mu Alpha Sinfonia Fraternity on October 14, 1917, at the New England Conservatory of Music in Boston, Massachusetts.

By the standards of 19th century tycoons, Carnegie was not a particularly ruthless man but a humanitarian with enough acquisitiveness to go in the ruthless pursuit of money ; on the other hand, the contrast between his life and the lives of many of his own workers and of the poor, in general, was stark.

Despite being a supporter of culture in general, Carnegie was opposed to the multipurpose facility the village intended to build, as it exceeded his default start-up donation of $ 10, 000.

In 1945, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra recorded the music in Carnegie Hall, one of the few commercial recordings Toscanini made of music by an American composer.

Two other groups contributed to the design of the language and developed implementations: Harlequin released a commercial IDE for Microsoft Windows and Carnegie Mellon University released an open source compiler for Unix systems.

Marvin Sirbu, professor of Engineering and Public Policy at Carnegie Mellon University said on September 14, 2001, that " The fact of the matter is that cell phones can work in almost all phases of a commercial flight.

It is unusual among commercial UNIX implementations, as it is built on top of the Mach kernel developed at Carnegie Mellon University.

Whilst he made no commercial recordings with the orchestra, he and the BSO toured the United States, including their debut at Carnegie Hall in April 1997.

Two live albums, both recorded at Carnegie Hall in 1959 and 1960, enjoyed critical and commercial success.

In the late 1940s, he produced a highly regarded series of commercial folk music albums for Decca records and organized a series of concerts at New York's Town Hall and Carnegie Hall, featuring blues, calypso, and flamenco music.

* In Homestead, Pennsylvania, the site once occupied by Carnegie Steel has been converted into a successful commercial center, The Waterfront.

An early commercial system from the mid 1980s was JASPER built for Reuters by the Carnegie Group with the aim of providing real-time financial news to financial traders.

The only commercial recording approved by Toscanini was taken mostly from a 1953 concert with the NBC Symphony Orchestra in Carnegie Hall.

AFS was originally developed at Carnegie Mellon University, and developed as a commercial product by the Transarc Corporation, which was subsequently acquired by IBM.

Carnegie was originally part of the City of Caulfield and by the 1920s it had a substantial commercial area.

Their second live album to be released in the US, it was Chicago's first of the sort since 1971's Chicago at Carnegie Hall and 1972's Live in Japan, though the band had released commercial VHS tapes of two concerts in the early 1990s.

High culture dominated commercial network television programming in the 1950s and 1960s with the first television appearances of Leonard Bernstein and Arturo Toscanini, the first telecasts from Carnegie Hall took place during this era, the first live American telecasts of plays by Shakespeare, the first telecasts of Tchaikovsky's ballets The Sleeping Beauty and The Nutcracker and the first opera specially composed for television, Amahl and the Night Visitors.

Moreover, Carnegie urged other wealthy people to contributed to society in the form of parks, works of art, libraries and other endeavors that improved the community, and contributed to the “ lasting good ” Carnegie also held a strong opinion against inherited wealth.

In July 1916, “ former LC staff member Elizabeth West, director of the Carnegie Library of San Antonio, Texas, suggested to Putnam that the Library of Congress cooperate with other libraries to send books to American soldiers .”

“ Aided by a grant of $ 320, 000 from the Carnegie Corporation, the War Service built thirty-six libraries, completing the majority by February 1918.

The university holds two classifications from the Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, as a “ research university with high research activity ” and for “ community engagement ” in curriculum, outreach and partnerships.

The “ t ” in < tt > tcsh </ tt > comes from the “ T ” in TENEX, an operating system which inspired Ken Greer at Carnegie Mellon University, the author of tcsh, with its command-completion feature.

The Choir has appeared at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC and the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall ( in New York City ) on numerous occasions, performing and premiering works such as John Corigliano ’ s “ Poem On His Birthday ,” “ Too Hot to Handel ” arranged by Broadway composers Bob Christianson and Gary Anderson and Hannibal Lokumbe ’ s “ African Portraits ,” led by music director Leonard Slatkin, as part of the Kennedy Center ’ s African Festival.

* “ Carnegie Libraries: The Future Made Bright ”, a National Park Service Teaching with Historic Places ( TwHP ) lesson plan

In 2006 Tulane became the first Carnegie ranked “ high research activity ” institution to have an undergraduate public service graduation requirement.

Lewis ’ s appreciation of the illustrations is evident in a letter Lewis wrote to Baynes after The Last Battle won the Carnegie Medal for best Children ’ s book of 1956: “ is it not rather ‘ our ’ medal?

“ Therefore, the committee desires to express to the public as its firm belief that both the public and the employees aforesaid have equitable rights and interests in the said mill which cannot be modified or diverted without due process of law ; that the employees have the right to continuous employment in the said mill during efficiency and good behavior without regard to religious, political or economic opinions or associations ; that it is against public policy and subversive of the fundamental principles of American liberty that a whole community of workers should be denied employment or suffer any other social detriment on account of membership in a church, a political party or a trade union ; that it is our duty as American citizens to resist by every legal and ordinary means the unconstitutional, anarchic and revolutionary policy of the Carnegie Company, which seems to evince a contempt public and private interests and a disdain the public conscience.

It was first called the Carnegie Technical Schools, or Carnegie Tech, when it was founded in 1900 by Andrew Carnegie who intended to build a “ first class technical school ” in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for the sons of local steel mill workers.

As part of Carnegie Mellon University, the College of Engineering works to carry out the university ’ s mission of “ changing the needs of society by building on its traditions of innovation, problem solving and interdisciplinarity ”.

He was Chairman and principal author of the “ Memo to the President-Elect: Harnessing Process to Purpose ,” a blue-ribbon Commission report sponsored by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace and the Institute for International Economics.

The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education has named NDSU to the elite “ Research University / Very High Research Activity ” category, which represents the 108 top ranked private and public universities in the United States.

The Carnegie Commission on Higher Education has named NDSU to the elite “ Research University / Very High Research Activity ” category, which represents the 108 top ranked private and public universities in the United States.

Mann describes these acts as “ murderous ethnic cleansing on stupendous scale not previously seen in Europe ” referring to the 1914 Carnegie Endowment report.

At the outset of America ’ s involvement in World War I in 1917, the Carnegie Endowment trustees unanimously declared that “ the most effective means of promoting durable international peace is to prosecute the war against the Imperial Government of Germany to final victory for democracy .” In December 1918, Carnegie Endowment Secretary James Brown Scott and four other Endowment personnel, including James T. Shotwell, sailed with President Woodrow Wilson on the USS George Washington to join the peace talks in France.