Some major works composed during this period include Wavemaker ( 1977 ), Phrygian Gates for solo piano ( 1977 ), Shaker Loops ( 1978 ), Common Tones in Simple Time ( 1979 ), Harmonium ( 1980 – 81 ), Grand Pianola Music ( 1982 ), Light Over Water ( 1983 ), Harmonielehre ( 1984 – 85 ), The Chairman Dances ( 1985 ), Short Ride in a Fast Machine ( 1986 ), and Nixon in China ( 1985 – 87 ).

Milford composed the music for Salome, based on the Oscar Wilde play and also starred in it as Mark Taper Forum, in Los Angeles in 1979.

The Basij militia founded by Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini in November 1979 is composed of 10, 000 regular soldiers, and ultimately draws from about 11 million members, and is subordinate to their Army of the Guardians of the Islamic Revolution in Iran.

In 1979, Vangelis composed the score for another animal documentary by Frédéric Rossif, Opéra sauvage.

However his most durable compositions are related to his music for the cinema ; he composed the sound tracks of a great number of films of the Italian director Federico Fellini covering the period from 1950 to 1979.

Norris Johnson, after investigating a panic at a 1979 Who concert concluded that the crowd was composed of many small groups of people mostly trying to help each other.

Beginning in late 1979, Carmine Coppola composed a score incorporating themes taken from various sources such as Ludwig van Beethoven, Hector Berlioz, Bedřich Smetana, Erich Mendelsohn and George Frideric Handel.

The children's sketch comedy series You Can't Do That on Television ( 1979 – 1990, with international airings beginning in 1981 ) utilized a laugh track composed exclusively of children's laughter ; while unique and appropriate for the nature of the show, the use and quality of the laugh track varied from season to season.

In 1979 LuPone starred in the original Broadway production of Evita, the musical based on the life of Eva Peron, composed by Andrew Lloyd-Webber and Tim Rice, and directed by Harold Prince.

Highlights of the score, as conducted and composed by John Barry, were released on an LP by Disneyland Records in 1979.

In 1979 an official delegation from the Japanese government composed of 50 academics, government officials from the Foreign and Transport ministries, officials from the now-defunct Okinawa Development Agency, and Hiroyuki Kurihara, visited the islands and camped on Uotsuri for about four weeks.

Sega's 1982 arcade game Super Locomotive featured a chiptune rendition of Yellow Magic Orchestra's " Rydeen " ( 1979 ); several later computer games also covered the song, such as Trooper Truck ( 1983 ) by Rabbit Software as well as Daley Thompson's Decathlon ( 1984 ) and Stryker's Run ( 1986 ) composed by Martin Galway.

During this time Lockwood worked with environmental sounds, capturing them and building developed compositions around an environmental inspiration: A Sound Map of the Hudson River ( 1982 ), World Rhythms ( 1975 ), and parts built on of archetypes and conversations with significant people, Conversations with the Ancestors ( 1979 ), composed on conversations with 4 women in their eighties, Delta Run ( 1982, based on a conversation with the sculptor Walter Wincha ), One piece, Three Short Stories and Apotheosis ( 1985 ) notably used what Lockwood named the Soundball, which was a foam-covered ball that was made of 6 small speakers and a radio receiver.

In 1979, Polydor released her solo album entitled Odes, with music performed ( and partly composed ) by Vangelis Papathanassiou ( also previously a member of Aphrodite's Child ).

Cecilia Payne-Gaposchkin ( May 10, 1900 – December 7, 1979 ) was an English-American astronomer who in 1925 was first to show that the Sun is mainly composed of hydrogen, contradicting accepted wisdom at the time.

The team composed of Boardman, Pemba Lama, Tim Leach and Guy Neithardt reached the South Summit ( 7, 010m ) on 9 November 1979 via the West Ridge.

Miss Havisham's Fire ( 1979, revised 2001 ) is an opera composed by Dominick Argento with a libretto by John Olon-Scrymgeour, based on Dickens ' character.

* Alouette ( song ), by Denise Emmer ( specially composed for a Brazilian soap-opera named Pai Heroi ( in Portuguese ), broadcasted by Globo TV in 1979 )

He composed the music for all six of the Six Plays by Alan Bennett which were broadcast during 1978 and 1979.

Lady Oscar is a 1979 film, written and directed Jacques Demy, with music composed by Michel Legrand.

In July 1979, after Brian and Mike Love quickly composed some new original songs, the Beach Boys all reconvened at Western Recorders in Los Angeles ( where most of the band's classic 1960s material had been produced by Brian ) and hoped for the best.

These symphonies were composed between 1968 and 1979.

Beginning in 1979, the Administrative Committee became composed of four members almost always including the President, the Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Sciences, a senior faculty member of Harvard University, and ( until 1994 ) the Director of Dumbarton Oaks.

Satyagraha (; Sanskrit सत ् य ा ग ् रह, satyāgraha " insistence on truth ") is a 1979 opera in three acts for orchestra, chorus and soloists, composed by Philip Glass, with a libretto by Glass and Constance DeJong.

" The year 1979 saw the Commodores score another Top Five ballad hit, " Sail On ", before reaching the top of the charts once again with another ballad, " Still ".

Sweeney Todd ( 1979 ), Sondheim's most operatic score and libretto ( which, along with A Little Night Music, has been seen in opera houses ), once again explores an unlikely topic, this time murderous revenge and cannibalism.

In late 1979, Mentzer won the heavyweight class of the Mr. Olympia, again with a perfect 300 score, but he lost in the overall to Frank Zane who was awarded the title for a third time that year.

He won for Star Wars, though he later won two Grammy Awards in 1979 for his Close Encounters score ( one for Best Original Film Score and one for Best Instrumental Composition for " Theme from Close Encounters ").

Dimitri Zinovievich Tiomkin ( May 10, 1894November 11, 1979 ) was a Ukrainian-born Hollywood film score composer and conductor.

The idea was inspired by a March 1979 Sports Illustrated score card column detailing clever team names of " fantasy teams " ( including the Pomona Fighting Pimentos ), but the GFL included completely re-written rules.

In 1979, Porter became only the sixth catcher in Major League history to score 100 runs and have 100 runs batted in.

Shore's first film score was to David Cronenberg's first major film The Brood ( 1979 ).

Excerpts from his Symphony # 2 were used to accompany several exterior sequences and the end credits in the released versions of Ridley Scott's 1979 horror movie Alien without his permission, but Hanson decided not to fight it in court — they replaced certain sections of the late Jerry Goldsmith's original score at the behest of 20th Century Fox.

From 1969 through 1979, the competition adopted the European standard method of aggregate score, with away goals.

His best season offensively was 1979, during which he became the second defenseman ( Orr being the first ) to score 30 goals and 100 points in a single season.

* Highest score: Fitzroy: 36. 22 ( 238 ) v Melbourne: 6. 12 ( 48 ) in round 17, 1979

* " Blues " ( 1979 ), graphic score for four instruments

Since 1979, he has been exploring the setting up of this aleatory score into time and space.

In 1979 Unión played the final matches of the Nacional championship, but lost at the hands of River Plate, because the goal scored by River in the first match ( with a final score of 1-1 ) ended up in an average over Union according to the away goals rule applied to that tournament.

However, in his first international competition, the 1979 SEA Games, Fandi did not score in four matches.

The Belgian painter Jan Cox ( 1919-1980 ) made two paintings on the theme of the death of Socrates ( 1952 and 1979, a year before his suicide ), both paintings referring to Satie's Socrate: pieces of the printed score of Satie's Socrate were glued on one of these paintings ; the other has quotes of Cousin's translation of Plato on the frame.

* Bright's best ODI batting score of 19 not out was made against West Indies, Melbourne, 1979 – 1980

He established himself as United goalkeeper in the late 1970s following the retirement of Alex Stepney, but in one of his first crucial games he missed a cross in the 1979 FA Cup final, allowing Alan Sunderland to score the winning goal for Arsenal with just seconds remaining.

Carmine and Francis together scored Apocalypse Now ( 1979 ), for which they won a Golden Globe Award for best original score.

He composed music for the TV series Bailey's Bird ( 1977 ) and wrote the score for Michael Pate's 1979 film version of Colleen McCullough's first novel, Tim, starring the then unknown Mel Gibson.