Cowell also wrote songs of a similarly mythological character, including Angus Og ( The Spirit of Youth ) ( 1917 ) and Manaunaun's Birthday ( 1924 ).

* American Piano Concertos: Henry Cowell ( col legno 20064 )— performed by Stefan Litwin ( also includes orchestrated version performed by Radio Symphony Orchestra Saarbrücken, Michael Stern – director, Stefan Litwin – piano )

Lambeth is also the birthplace of famous talent scout Simon Cowell.

Cowell had suggested that just as there is a scale of pitch frequencies, there might also be a scale of tempi.

On this trip to New York, he met Cowell and heard a performance of John Cage's Sonatas and Interludes for prepared piano ( also influenced by Cowell's aesthetics ), which would later lead to Nancarrow modestly experimenting with prepared piano in his Study No. 30.

In addition to " futurist ", Ornstein was also sometimes labeled — along with Cowell and others in their circle — an " ultra-modernist.

Cowell, who had encountered Ornstein while studying in New York, would pursue a similarly radical style as part of a grand intellectual and cultural mission, which also involved ambitious writings on music theory and publishing and promotional efforts in support of the avant-garde.

He also heard music by George Antheil and Henry Cowell.

The flickering black-and-white footage, ( characteristic of F2 propagation ) included Jasmine Bligh, one of the original BBC announcers, and a brief shot of Elizabeth Cowell, who also shared announcing duties with Jasmine, an excerpt from an unknown period costume drama and the BBC's station identification logo transmitted at the beginning and end of the day's programmes.

Poor singers often faced harsh criticisms from the judges, especially from Simon Cowell ( whose controversial rantings also made him famous on American Idol ).

Known for his profanity, Ruggles was also anti-semitic ; for example, he wrote to Henry Cowell about, " that filthy bunch of Juilliard Jews ... cheap, without dignity, and with little or no talent ," especially picking on Arthur Berger.

Cowell also thought many of the judges were trying to copy his abrasive style.

" Abdul said that she reminded her of " a young Gladys Knight " after she performed the Garth Brooks song " Ain't Goin ' Down (' Til the Sun Comes Up )," Nickolas Ashford of famed soul duo Ashford & Simpson called her performance of " Ooo Baby Baby " by Smokey Robinson as " beautiful " and full of " sex appeal ," Famed film director Quentin Tarantino called her a " powerhouse " after her performance of " Somewhere " from the musical West Side Story, and Cowell announced her as " the best singer in the competition " after she sang " All the Time " by Barry Manilow and gave her " a ten out of ten " for her performance of " Don't Rain on My Parade ," which also garnered standing ovations from Abdul and Jackson.

Cowell also suggested that contestant Jasmine Trias would almost certainly be voted off the next day.

He also appeared on the popular TV show Hannah Montana as a talent show judge modeled after Simon Cowell in the episode " Judge Me Tender ".

Notable persons involved with Halcyon and the Temple include composer and pianist Henry Cowell ( see also The Tides of Manaunaun ), Irish poet and fiction writer Ella Young, and mystic poet and community leader John Varian ( 1863-1931 ); Varian's sons Russell ( 1898-1959 ) and Sigurd ( 1901-1961 ), who spent part of their childhood in Halcyon, invented the klystron, an important microwave amplifier tube, and founded the Varian electronics empire.

Parrington House, one of the residence halls at Cowell, has also been dubbed the Diversity Awareness House, and encourages Cowell residents to come together to promote diversity in the University.

Cowell also features a wide variety of annual events and programs.

Cowell College also sponsors a UCSC a cappella group, Acquire.

Cowell is also known for beautiful wisteria plants that bloom in the spring around the college.

Cowell also has glass display cases that are used to display student and class art work.

In 2004, G4, a quartet of operatic male singers, also appeared in the UK on the Simon Cowell TV show X-factor.

She is also good friends with Simon Cowell.

In the twentieth century, the concerto grosso has been used by composers such as Igor Stravinsky, Ernest Bloch, Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bohuslav Martinů, Malcolm Williamson, Henry Cowell, Alfred Schnittke, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Andrei Eshpai, Eino Tamberg, Krzysztof Penderecki, Jean Françaix and Philip Glass.

Immediately after the second series of Pop Idol, the same set was used to host World Idol, in which winners of various Idol series around the world, including original Pop Idol winner Will Young, American Idol winner Kelly Clarkson and Australian Idol winner Guy Sebastian, competed in a one-off competition, complete with a large judging panel featuring one judge from each country ( Simon Cowell officially representing American Idol, with Pete Waterman the " official " UK judge ).

Just as the harmonic series was and is used as a justification for consonance, such as by Rameau, among others, the harmonic series is often used as physical or psychoacoustic justification for the gradual emancipation of intervals and chords found further and further up the harmonic series over time, such as is argued by Henry Cowell in defense of his tone clusters.

Surrounding areas, including the non-contiguous Fall Creek unit, were logged extensively in the mid-to-late 1800s for lumber and as fuel for the many lime kilns that used to operate in the area, such as the ones preserved at nearby Cowell Lime Works.

Plates taken at his observatory in Arequipa, Peru, showed no evidence for the predicted planet, and British astronomer P. H. Cowell showed that the irregularities observed in Uranus's orbit virtually disappeared once the planet's displacement of longitude was taken into account.

The town of Cowell now incorporated into Concord, produced cement.

* G. tibicen telonocua, found from Cowell south into the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas in southern South Australia, as well as the southwestern Gawler Ranges.

USR was founded in 1976 in Chicago, Illinois ( and later moved to Skokie, Illinois ), by a group of entrepreneurs, including Casey Cowell, who served as CEO for most of the company's history and Paul Collard who designed modems into the mid-80's.

Although written originally in German, it was later translated into English under the auspices of John Cage and Henry Cowell and received wide acclaim.

On Top 4 performance night, when she received criticisms for her performance of " It's Raining Men " by The Weather Girls, Cowell suggested that night that she will almost be eliminated the next day but she made it into the top 3.

From 1955 through 1960 Erdman toured extensively as a solo artist throughout the U. S. Notable works from her repertory of that period include Changingwoman ( 1951 ) with a commissioned score by Henry Cowell including vocalizations by Erdman as she moved through a multi-colored abstract projected environment, Portrait of a Lady created to jazz recordings that were layered by John Cage into his eight track commissioned score, Dawn Song, a lyrical solo with commissioned score by Alan Hovhaness, Fearful Symmetry ( 1956 ) an allegory in six visions inspired by William Blake's poem, The Tyger to Ezra Laderman's Sonata for Violincello in which Erdman emerged from and interacted with a metal sculpture by Carlus Dyer, and Four Portraits from Duke Ellington's Shakespeare Album ( 1958 ), a suite of comic portrayals of Shakespearean heroines.

As the collegiate system was brought to UC Santa Cruz in order to help create a small college feel at a major university, so too was Cowell designed with two quads of small buildings to further break up the College into clusters of students.

Determined to make Sinitta a hit, Cowell re-promoted the single, where it finally broke into the Top 10, hitting the Number 2 position and becoming one of the biggest hits of the year.

However, she was the favourite of Simon Cowell, and after being put through to the semi-final stages, the public voted McManus into the top twelve, though she entered the finals as the bookmaker's rank-outsider.

The competition was split into several stages: auditions, bootcamp and live shows, with Simon Cowell, Sharon Osbourne, Louis Walsh as judges.

* Colleen, Nathalie and Melanie, a trio of TV-addicted chavettes who, regardless of their homeland, all speak in thick Jamaican dialects, and get into lengthy, barely comprehensible conversations about the " likkle battams " of famous faces such as Bono or Simon Cowell.

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.

As judges Randy Jackson and Paula Abdul tried to restrain their laughter, judge Simon Cowell dismissed Hung's performance, remarking " You can't sing, you can't dance, so what do you want me to say?

For the final performance of the season, Barrino offered a second performance of " Summertime " that again drew praise from the judges ; Simon Cowell remarked that she was the best contestant to ever compete in any competition, including the more than seventy Idol champions crowned nationally and internationally since the show began its first global incarnations.

Jackson labeled her performance as " brilliant " and " what the search for a superstar is all about ," Abdul called her " unbelievable " and praised her " quiet confidence ," and notoriously harsh judge Simon Cowell said she was " the best of the group " and that it was a " superb, outstanding performance.

Cowell called her performance of Chaka Khan's " Ain't Nobody " as " amazing " and " awesome.

" The performance was uniformly given extraordinarily high praise by the judges ( including perennial skeptic Simon Cowell ).

Her performance of the Burt Bacharach classic " A House Is Not a Home " was described by Judge Simon Cowell as " one of the best performances on television " that he had ever seen.

His performance group performed " Metamorphosis " at the 1999 Los Angeles Fetish Ball as well as for close friend Annie Sprinkle's Benefit Show at the Cowell Theater in San Francisco after her houseboat and archives were destroyed by fire.

During the top 11 finalists ' performance on the March 22, 2005, Idol episode, Underwood sang a rendition of the number one 1980s rock hit " Alone ", made famous by Heart, and Cowell predicted that Underwood would not only win the competition, but she would also outsell all previous Idol winners.

But his performance in the audition stage of The Allman Brothers Band's song " Whipping Post " drew raves from the judges, with Simon Cowell saying it was ' brilliant ' and Randy Jackson saying that he was surprised that he picked a song like Whipping Post to perform for the auditions.

Her theatre credits include :" Speaking in tongues " for the State theatre of South Australia ( 2011 ); " Stockholm " for The Sydney Theatre Company ( 2010 );" Saturn's Return " For the Sydney Theatre Company ( 2010 ); Othello for the Bell Shakespeare Company ( 2007 ); The Shape of Things for the Sydney Theatre Company ( STC ) co-starring Brendan Cowell ( Jan 2003 ); The Cosmonaut's Last Message to the Woman He Once Loved in the Former Soviet Union at Belvoir St. Theatre ( Feb – Mar 2002 ); playing the junkie muse to Robyn Nevin's artist in the STC production of Old Masters ( Oct – Nov 2001 ); The Recruit ( Jan 2000 ) also featuring John Howard, Christopher Stollery, Conrad Coleby, Genevieve Lemon, Drew Forsythe, and Brendan Cowell ; and her breakthrough performance in La Dispute ( May 2000 ) also starring Rose Byrne, David Field, Rhondda Findleton and Justine Saunders.

Of her first performance in the Top 12 ( Dionne Warwick's " Anyone Who Had a Heart ," February 28, 2005 ), judge Simon Cowell said Solomon needed to do something memorable to make it far in the competition.

The following week, Cowell called her performance of the Emotions ' " Best of My Love " her first memorable performance of the competition.

During this performance, judge Simon Cowell compared McPhee's abilities to that of Aguilera's, saying the former's performance was almost as good as the original singer.