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.

" 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.

She initially performed her own composition called " Colours " to judges Simon Cowell, Nicki Chapman, Neil Fox and record producer Pete Waterman.

The group recently put on a large free show at Cowell called Acquirefest featuring all three on campus a cappella groups and some other guest groups.

However, Iain Burton changed his mind and called Cowell to advise that he was pulling the plug on Fanfare Records.

Simon Cowell said that Ashley's bet was the inspiration behind his new game show called Red or Black ?.

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

A song based on the poem, called " Footprints in the Sand ", was written by Per Magnusson, David Kreuger, Richard Page and Simon Cowell and recorded by Leona Lewis.

She then starred on the short-lived television series, CBS's Live to Dance, which lasted one season in 2011, and was subsequently a judge on the first season of American version of The X Factor with her former American Idol co-judge Simon Cowell which premiered on September 21, 2011.

Later that year, fellow American Idol judge Simon Cowell invited her to be a guest judge at some of the early auditions for the third series of his similar UK talent show The X Factor.

Simon Cowell came to Abdul's defense, calling Corey Clark a creep and stating “ It was just somebody using her to get a lot of publicity for an appalling record, full stop.

Bundy was born Theodore Robert Cowell at the Elizabeth Lund Home For Unwed Mothers ( now the Lund Family Center ) in Burlington, Vermont, on November 24, 1946, to Eleanor Louise Cowell ( known for most of her life as Louise ).

Julia recalled awakening one day from a nap to find herself surrounded by knives from the Cowell kitchen ; her three-year-old nephew was standing by the bed, smiling.

In 1950 Louise changed her surname from Cowell to Nelson, dropped her first name Eleanor, and at the urging of multiple family members, left Philadelphia with her son to live with cousins Alan and Jane Scott in Tacoma, Washington.

An unofficial created by two students ( Thomas Cowell & Joey Guy ) entitled " Verity: Men, Bitches & Daleks " was created about Verity and charts her struggle in getting Doctor Who on TV.

Clifford has since represented various clients, including: David Copperfield ; Mohamed Al-Fayed ; Simon Cowell ; brain-damaged boxer Michael Watson ; Liverpool left-wing politician Derek Hatton, for whom Clifford created an affair in order to change his image ; former MI6 officer Richard Tomlinson ; Norfolk farmer Tony Martin, who was imprisoned for fatally shooting a burglar ; Rebecca Loos, when she negotiated with the press about her alleged affair with England football captain David Beckham ; Cheryl Cole ; Celebrity Big Brother 2007 winner Shilpa Shetty ; and Jade Goody, in the period of the reality star's cervical cancer and death.

For example, if a valet were to give her the wrong car when leaving a restaurant, which Kutcher's crew members did to Simon Cowell during the Season 5 Premiere.

Simon Cowell, who previously endorsed her as the best singer in the competition, suggested that his only complaint with London was that after ten weeks he still did not know anything at all about her.

Cowell also used specially devised notations to introduce variability into the performance of a work, sometimes instructing the performers to improvise a short passage or play ad libitum ( Griffiths 2001 ).

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.

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.

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.

" 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.

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.

* Ah Chee Ngala, P., Cowell C. ( 1996 ): How to Play the Didgeridoo – and history.

These included the Rhythmicon, commissioned by the American composer and theorist Henry Cowell.

* 1897 – Henry Cowell, American composer and impresario ( d. 1965 )

In the same period the American composer Henry Cowell, in referring to the projects of Nikolai Loptatnikoff, believed that " there was a wide field open for the composition of music for phonographic discs.

Abdul, along with fellow judges Simon Cowell and Randy Jackson ( joined by Kara DioGuardi in 2009 ) evaluated thousands of amateur contestants in their ability to sing.

She seemed especially kind compared to fellow judge Simon Cowell, who was often blunt in his appraisals of the contestants ' performances.

Although their differences often resulted in extremely heated on-air exchanges and confrontations, Cowell says he played a major role in convincing Abdul not to leave the show.

On May 8, 2011, it was announced that Abdul would rejoin Simon Cowell on the first season of the American version of The X Factor.

The judging panel consisted of Abdul, Cowell, music executive L. A. Reid, and former Pussycat Dolls lead singer Nicole Scherzinger ( who replaced Cheryl Cole ).

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.

Many quatrains are mashed together: and something lost, I doubt, of Omar's simplicity, which is so much a virtue in him " ( letter to E. B. Cowell, 9 / 3 / 58 ).

Better a live Sparrow than a stuffed Eagle " ( letter to E. B. Cowell, 4 / 27 / 59 ).

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In 1930 – 32, the spectacularly innovative and hard to use Rhythmicon was realized by Leon Theremin at the request of Henry Cowell, who wanted an instrument with which to play compositions whose multiple rhythmic patterns, based on the overtone series, were far too hard to perform on existing keyboard instruments.

Received with considerable interest when it was publicly introduced in 1932, the Rhythmicon was soon set aside by Cowell and was virtually forgotten for decades.

Composers such as Henry Cowell wrote music which asks for the player to reach inside the piano and pluck the strings directly, or to " bow " them with bow hair wrapped around the strings, or play them by rolling the bell of a brass instrument such as a trombone on the array of strings.