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His commissions have included The Marshes of Glynn for the Royal opening of the Adrian Boult Hall in Birmingham in 1986 ; Centenary Fire Dances for the City of Birmingham ’ s Centenary Festival of Fireworks and Music ; an Overture for the Three Choirs Festival ; songs for the Cantamus Girls Choir ; song cycles for mezzo-soprano Sarah Walker and tenor John Mitchinson for broadcast on BBC Radio 3 ; anthems for the BBC Radio 4 Daily Service ; Sonata for 8 Horns for the Horn Octet of the University of New Mexico ; Suite for 6 Horns for the Vienna Horn Society ; Song of the Eagle for the James Madison University Flute Choir of Virginia ; Concerto for Two Pianos for the Duo Scaramouche ; Sonata for 8 Pianists for soloists from France, Italy and Britain ; Mela Kamavardhani for performances by Indo-Jazz Fusions in Calcutta, Delhi and Bombay ; Fanfare for Madam Speaker, for the Installation of the Rt Hon Betty Boothroyd MP as Chancellor of the Open University in 1994 ; Concerto for Two Guitars for Simon Dinnigan and Fred T. Baker with Strings from the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra ; Concert Overture ' Towards a New Age ' for the 150th anniversary of the British Institution of Mechanical Engineers, premiered in Symphony Hall, Birmingham, by the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra ; and Suite for Brass Sextet for the Czech Philharmonic Brass Sextet.
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Major composers have usually composed anthems in response to commissions and for special occasions.
Usually those commissions and leading groups have jurisdiction on both Party and State apparatus, and include ranking leaders up to the President of the People's Republic of China and the Premier of the State Council.
The results have included various bilateral trade and economic agreements and permanent joint commissions involving Ghana and its immediate neighbors, sometimes in the face of latent ideological and political differences and mutual suspicion, as well as numerous reciprocal state visits by high-ranking officials.
Parliament approved “ An Act to enable His Majesty to grant commissions to a certain number of foreign Protestants, who have served abroad as officers or engineers, to act and rank as officers or engineers in America only, under certain restrictions and regulations .” Earl of Loudoun, who as commander-in-chief of the forces in North America, was appointed colonel-in-chief of the regiment.
Also, it has been argued that Justice Marshall should have recused himself on the grounds that he was still acting Secretary of State at the time the commissions were to be delivered and it was his brother, James Marshall, who was charged with delivering a number of the commissions.
" The Early medieval Codex Argenteus and Codex Vercellensis, the Stockholm Codex Aureus and the Codex Brixianus give a range of luxuriously produced manuscripts all on purple vellum, in imitation of Byzantine examples, like the Rossano Gospels, Sinope Gospels and the Vienna Genesis, which at least at one time are believed to have been reserved for Imperial commissions.
Because of the perceived success of the reconciliatory approach in dealing with human-rights violations after political change either from internal or external factors, other countries have instituted similar commissions, though not always with the same scope or the allowance for charging those currently in power.
The presidential authority to commission officers would have a large impact on the 1803 case Marbury v. Madison, where outgoing Federalist President John Adams feverishly signed many commissions to the judiciary on his final day in office, hoping to, as incoming Democratic-Republican President Thomas Jefferson put it, " into the judiciary as a stronghold.
" However, in his haste, Adams ' Secretary of State neglected to have all the commissions delivered.
Federal courts have ruled that the Sixteenth Amendment allows a direct tax on " wages, salaries, commissions, etc.
As market reforms have deepened and social inequality has widened, legal forums-ranging from mediation and arbitration commissions to courts-have come to play an increasingly prominent role.
Striped bass have been introduced to the Pacific Coast of North America and into many of the large reservoir impoundments across the United States by state game and fish commissions for the purposes of recreational fishing and as a predator to control populations of gizzard shad.
The United States Constitution, for instance, states that " The Congress shall have Power To ... grant Letters of marque and reprisal ...”, without separately addressing privateer commissions.
Soon he was competing with Pindar for commissions from the leading families of Aegina and, in 476 BC, their rivalry seems to have reached the highest levels when Bacchylides composed an ode celebrating Hieron's first victory at the Olympian Games ( Ode 5 ).
The smaller towns have simpler systems, often ruled by commissions presided by a Communal President ( presidente communal ) or a similarly named authority.
The Republic of China, Cuba, Libya, Nigeria, Senegal, Sierra Leone, the United Kingdom, and the United States of America have embassies or high commissions in The Gambia.
The right of petition does not imply an accompanying right to be answered, but in practice all public bodies have special commissions to do just that.
In many places there were, or were later said to have been, false claims of official commissions from some local authority to perform the actions, and by the end of the outbreak some northern towns removed images by order of the local authority, presumably to prevent the disorder that would accompany a mob action.
In Minnesota, county commissions usually have five members, but Hennepin, Ramsey, and St Louis counties have seven members.
By comparison with the valuation commissions, the timetable for these monastic visitations was very tight, with some houses missed altogether, and inquiries appear to have concentrated on gross faults and laxity ; consequently where the reports of misbehaviour returned by the visitors can be checked against other sources, they commonly appear to have been both rushed and greatly exaggerated, often recalling events and scandals from years before.
The municipalities have municipal governments, similar to city commissions, and are further divided into parishes.
The popularly elected Mayor, who does not vote on council actions, does have the right to veto council actions and holds the power to appoint the city's planner, assessor, attorney, and members of various commissions.
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His early Roman commissions included terracotta and some marble portrait busts, while he supported himself with small works like crucifixes.
His commissions included The Triumphal Arch, a vast work printed from 192 separate blocks, the symbolism of which is partly informed by Pirckheimer's translation of Horapollo's Hieroglyphica.
With his reputation as " Mr. T ", Tureaud attracted strange offers and was frequently approached with odd commissions, which included: assassination, tracking runaway teenagers, locating missing persons, and large firms asking him to collect past-due payments by force.
Artistic and architectural commissions included the family palace in Rome, the Palazzo Barberini, the college of the Propaganda Fide, the Fontana del Tritone in Piazza Barberini, the cathedra in St Peters and other prominent structures in the city.
Preparations for the Council took more than two years, and included work from 10 specialised commissions, people for mass media and Christian Unity, and a Central Commission for overall coordination.
That day's agenda included the election for members of the ten conciliar commissions.
Holbein's commissions in the early stages of his second English period included portraits of Lutheran merchants of the Hanseatic League.
Recent work has included many commissions from academic institutions, including campus planning and university buildings, and civic buildings in London, Toulouse and Japan.
Her career included commissions to design the gardens for private residences, estates and country homes, public parks, botanic gardens, college campuses, and the White House.
BBC commissions premiered by the BBC SO in the 1980s included Alfred Schnittke's Second Symphony, Harrison Birtwistle's Earth Dances, and John Tavener's The Protecting Veil.
Mesmer's ideas became so influential that King Louis XVI of France appointed two commissions to investigate mesmerism ; one was led by Joseph-Ignace Guillotin, the other, led by Benjamin Franklin, included Bailly and Lavoisier.
Lawrence procured for Clive a position as the commissary at Fort St. George, a potentially lucrative posting ( its pay included commissions on all supply contracts ).
The architect was Herman Major Backer ( 1856-1932 ), whose other commissions included old Skaugum and St John's Church, Bergen.
As chancellor Loftus was included in the commissions which inquired into the state of the church and completed the Ulster settlement.
German was by then in high demand to write music for plays, and his commissions included Henry Arthur Jones's The Tempter in 1893, Johnston Forbes-Robertson's Romeo and Juliet at the Lyceum in 1895, Herbert Beerbohm Tree's productions of As You Like It ( 1896 ) and Much Ado about Nothing ( 1898 ), and Anthony Hope's English Nell ( later known as Nell Gwynn ) in 1900, starring Marie Tempest.
Subsequent commissions included MIT's Kresge Auditorium ( 1954 ), Tanglewood's Koussevitzky Music Shed ( 1959 ), Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall ( 1962 ), the Cultural Center of the Philippines ( 1969 ) and Baltimore's Joseph Meyerhoff Symphony Hall ( 1978 ).
Neutra's appointment was part of an ambitious program of architectural commissions to renowned architects, which included embassies by Walter Gropius in Athens, Edward Durrell Stone in New Delhi, Marcel Breuer in The Hague, Josep Lluis Sert in Baghdad, and Eero Saarinen in London.
Major commissions in the early Burji period in Egypt included the complexes built by Barquq ( r. 1382 – 99 ), Faraj ( r. 1399 – 1412 ), Mu ’ ayyad Shaykh ( r. 1412 – 21 ), and Barsbay ( r. 1422 – 38 ).
His commissions in Ireland included: Dublin, Soane was commissioned by the Bank of Ireland to design a new headquarters for the triangular site on Westmoreland Street now occupied by the Westin Hotel.
Other enabling legislation has included a law on citizenship, a law on elections to the Supreme Soviet, a law on the status of Supreme Soviet deputies, regulations for the Supreme Soviet, a resolution on commissions, regulations on local government, and laws on the Supreme Court and the Procuracy.
Howe's earliest commissions included political cartoons, magazine illustrations, comics, animated films, advertising, of which he says were nightmares.
Other educational commissions included the new buildings of Christ's Hospital in Horsham, Sussex ( 1893 – 1902 ), the Royal College of Science, South Kensington ( 1900 – 1906 ), King's College, Cambridge ( 1908 ), the Royal School of Mines, South Kensington ( 1909 – 1913 ), Royal Russell School, Coombe, Croydon, Surrey and the Royal College of Science for Ireland which now houses the Irish Government Buildings.
Residential commissions included Nos 2 ( The Gables ) and 4 ( Windermere ) Blackheath Park, in Blackheath, south-east London.
The King then unsuspectingly issued commissions of array which included Warwick's name, authorising him to raise his own army of professional soldiers.
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