Among the more prominent were Toni Halliday, on Original, Djum Djum on Afro-Left and Earl 16 and Cheshire Cat on Release the Pressure.

She made her debut at Carnegie Hall playing the theremin, an electronic instrument.

She developed a whole technique for playing the instrument, including a fingering system, which allowed her to perform accurately fast passages and large note leaps without the much known portamento on theremin.

Jimmy Page also used a short segment of theremin as an added sound effect while playing the song live, as can additionally be seen in the movie.

Soon he was playing in the Cologne Municipal Orchestra, and during World War 1,, when musicians were scarce, he joined the opera orchestra as well.

Again among those jubilantly reunited bunkmates, I was shy with Jessie and acted as I had during those early Saturday mornings when we all seemed to be playing for effect, to be detached and unconcerned with the girls who were properly our dates but about whom, later, in the privacy of our bunks, we would think in terms of the most elaborate romance.

Guest performers and conductors during the coming season will include many renowned artists who began their careers playing with the orchestra, including violinists Yehudi Menuhin, Isaac Stern, Ruggiero Ricci and David Abel ; ;

Sentenced to prison for murder, Alex gets a job at the Wing chapel playing religious music on the stereo before and after services as well as during the singing of hymns.

A Canadian bagpiper playing " Amazing Grace " during a memorial service, October 29, 2009, at Forward Operating Base Wilson, Afghanistan

This was all done under complete secrecy during the playing season because players were all free agents in those days and they did not want their current club and especially the fans to know they were leaving to play elsewhere the next year.

The new songs included in this production had been added during a 1971 Los Angeles production: " Echo Song " ( sung by Hero and Philia ), and " Farewell " ( added for Nancy Walker playing the role of Domina as she and Senex depart for the country ).

* List of ice hockey players who died during their playing career

" In 1982 BJU's then-president Bob Jones III, during interviews in which he defended the school's tax-exempt status, cited nine passages from the Bible-drawn both from the Old and New Testaments-which he claimed demonstrated that God intended races to be segregated: " The Bible clearly teaches, starting in the 10th chapter of Genesis and going all the way through, that God has put differences among people on the earth to keep the earth divided ", he said, adding that inter-racial marriage was " playing into the hands of the antichrist and the one-world system.

Another long-standing tradition is the playing of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries at 7: 00 each morning during finals week with the largest, loudest speakers available.

The playing of the Ride is such a strong tradition that the music was used during Apollo 17 to awaken Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a Caltech alumnus.

The term wasn't new, as during the 19th century Capoeira was in some places referred to as brincar de angola ( meaning playing Angola ) and many other masters, which did not use Pastinha's techniques, adopted it.

A coalition government might also be created in a time of national difficulty or crisis, for example during wartime, or economic crisis, to give a government the high degree of perceived political legitimacy, or collective identity it desires whilst also playing a role in diminishing internal political strife.

The Indians also have a rivalry with the Pittsburgh Pirates, as the two teams play an annual three game series during interleague play in June, playing in Cleveland during even numbered years, and in Pittsburgh in odd number seasons.

However, despite playing in the NFC Championship Game three consecutive years ( 1980 – 1982 ), the Cowboys did not reach the Super Bowl during the 1980s.

With Brad Johnson and Brooks Bollinger playing as backups, Dallas went 1 – 2 during a three-game stretch.

However, injuries mounted during the season with the team losing several starters for the year, such as Kyle Kosier, Felix Jones, safety Roy Williams and punter Mat McBriar, and several other starters playing with injuries.

Tex Schramm was believed to be a " one-man committee " in choosing inductees and many former Cowboys players and fans felt that Schramm deliberately excluded linebacker Lee Roy Jordan because of a bitter contract dispute the two had during Jordan's playing days.

He had a small part in Oliver Stone's Natural Born Killers, playing a ranting inmate during a prison riot ; his part was eventually cut, but can be seen on the Special Edition DVD.

The only exception to this rule is if a player receives a 5th non-victory point progress card on his or her turn, in which case he or she has the option of playing any one of the five progress cards in his or her hand during the turn, thus bringing the progress card count back down to four.

* Grounded into double play, in baseball the act of making two outs during the same continuous playing action

Lineker still helped out on the stall at the height of his playing career during the late 1980s and early 1990s, though usually only in the closed season.

Geddy Lee playing his Roland Fantom X7 during the 2010 – 2011 Time Machine Tour

In addition to maintaining the Discovery One spacecraft systems during the interplanetary mission to Jupiter, HAL is capable of speech, speech recognition, facial recognition, natural language processing, lip reading, art appreciation, interpreting and reproducing emotional behaviours, reasoning, and playing chess.

The committee's final report, on December 30, 1907, stated, in part, that " the first scheme for playing baseball, according to the best evidence obtainable to date, was devised by Abner Doubleday at Cooperstown, New York, in 1839.

Kane made her Wicked debut on the 1st National Tour, playing the role from March 9 through December 19, 2005.

In December 1873, Major Walter Clopton Wingfield designed and patented a similar game – which he called sphairistike (, from ancient Greek meaning " skill at playing at ball "), and was soon known simply as " sticky " — for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate of Nantclwyd, in Llanelidan, Wales.

The band reformed in 2001, and has been playing regularly ever since, most notably on the US East Coast around St Patrick's Day and across the UK and Ireland every December.

In 2005 the Abbey Theatre produced the play with an all male cast ; it also featured Wilde as a character – the play opens with him drinking in a Parisian café, dreaming of his play .. More recently the Melbourne Theatre Company staged a production in December 2011 with Geoffrey Rush playing Lady Bracknell.

* December – Major Walter Clopton Wingfield designs and patents a racquet sport which he calls sphairistike ( Greek σφάίρίστική, " skill at playing at ball "), soon known simply as Stické, for the amusement of his guests at a garden party on his estate of Nantclwyd, in Llanelidan, Wales.

* December 24 – Actor Lionel Barrymore begins what will become an annual tradition of the Golden Age of Radio – playing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in dramatizations of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

The band finished a Far East tour in December 1968 ( where his copy of Naked Lunch was confiscated by Australian Customs ) and then filmed an NBC television special, 33⅓ Revolutions Per Monkee, which rehashed many of the ideas from Head, only with the Monkees playing a strangely second-string role.

His playing can be heard on recordings by Henry " Red " Allen from July 1929 (" Biff ' ly Blues " and " Feeling Drowsy "), and Barbarin played on the first recordings by Louis Armstrong to feature the instrument – " Rockin ' Chair " ( December 1929 ) and " Song of the Islands " ( January 1930 ).

Desmond Wilkinson Llewelyn ( 12 September 1914 – 19 December 1999 ) was a Welsh actor, famous for playing Q in 17 of the James Bond films between 1963 and 1999.

The Red Shoes opened on 16 December 1993 at the Gershwin Theatre, with Steve Barton playing Boris Lermontov, Margaret Illmann playing Victoria Page, and Hugh Panaro playing Julian Craster.

According to Van Vliet, the 28 songs on the album were written in a single 8½ hour session at the piano, an instrument which he had no skill in playing, an approach Mike Barnes compared to John Cage's " maverick irreverence toward classical tradition ", though band members have stated that the songs were written over the course of about a year, beginning around December 1967.

On December 11, 1969, the Flyers introduced what would become one of the team's best-known traditions: playing a recording of Kate Smith singing God Bless America instead of the The Star-Spangled Banner before important games.

Seasons presently run from March to December, with each team playing 34 games in the regular season.

The Spurs, playing with 9 new players, struggled early as they missed the presence of David Robinson while the new players struggled to fit in, as they held a 9 – 10 record on December 3.

Pulp announced in July 2012 that they would be playing a one-off concert in their hometown of Sheffield in December that year, at the 13, 500 capacity Motorpoint Arena.

She joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in December 1961 playing Anya in The Cherry Orchard at the Aldwych Theatre in London, and made her Stratford-upon-Avon debut in April 1962 as Isabella in Measure for Measure.

On 19 December that year, at Southend Crown Court, he was imprisoned for four months ( being freed after half of his sentence on 15 February 1991 ) but after being released, his alcoholism continued and he was involved in further alcohol-related incidents, including playing through a match during the 1993 – 94 season despite being drunk, falling down stairs and needing 29 stitches to a head wound when drunk, and letting off fire extinguishers and firing a flare gun into a disabled lavatory with team-mate Ray Parlour at Pizza Hut in Hornchurch where they were being taunted by supporters of rival clubs.

William Manuel " Bill " Johnson ( August 10, 1872 – December 3, 1972 ), was an American jazz musician, considered the father of the " slap " style of string bass playing.

Boyer's only child, Michael Charles Boyer ( December 10, 1944 – December 10, 1964 ), committed suicide, aged 20, playing Russian roulette after separating from his girlfriend.

The tour was confirmed to be playing 11 venues throughout 2011-13, starting at the Wales Millenium Centre in Cardiff from December 10, 2011.

Donald Hayes, of New Hampshire, USA, scored a world record 10, 627, 331 points playing Millipede on December 26, 2004.