Several days later, Douglass delivered his first speech at the Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society's annual convention in Nantucket.

Several colleges host annual independent competitions, many of which hold varying degrees of prestige, such as the Contest of Champions at Middle Tennessee State University, which is the longest running high school band contest in the United States.

Several weeks later, at the movement's annual Rabbinical Assembly conference in Boston, he called for the disintegration of Israel's chief rabbinate and its network of courts.

Several significant annual festivals and events are held in or near Athens:

Several locations in North America hold annual Lilac Festivals, including:

Several newspapers hold annual contests in which readers submit photos of dioramas featuring Peeps.

Several historic homes dot the landscape of Cherokee County and, while many of them are not generally open to the public, several annual tours of these homes take place.

Several of the events held at Brodie Park are: The Race Around The Lake, on Memorial Day weekend, several camps and concerts during the summer, a community picnic in July, and an annual children's Christmas Party held in Berkshire Hall.

Several Tank players ( including Glenn Presnell ) continued their football careers by joining the nearby Portsmouth Spartans who continued the annual tradition until their demise after the 1933 season.

Several annual festivals, including a bluegrass festival, are held at the Dunlap Coke Ovens Park every year.

Several annual music concerts are held featuring local musicians.

Several annual competitions take place between Go computer programs, the most prominent being the Go events at the Computer Olympiad.

* Several unrelated racing events, best-known of which is perhaps Scandinavian Gold Cup, annual nation race of 5. 5 metre class yachts.

Several board members of the THC, including its chairman, former Toronto councillor Karl Jaffary, were opposed to the continuation of the island airport, which forced the THC to sell land to pay for the annual deficit.

Several of the annual lectures have garnered national media attention and debate, such as 2008's " How to Read the Constitution " by the Honorable Clarence Thomas and 2009's " Decline is a Choice " by Dr. Charles Krauthammer.

Several awards for students were created starting in 2005 as well as activities for students at annual meetings.

* Several national and local annual festivities also take place in the province.

Several festivals and annual events are held in Aguas Buenas.

Several nations of the world hold an annual Armed Forces Day in honor of their military forces.

Several of the early Mike Pearse stories were reprinted in the 2010 Bash Street Kids annual.

Several annual events affect the usual services along route 96:

Several campus musical groups perform in the Chapel each semester, as well as artists who visit WVWC as a part of its annual " Arts Alive " Program.

Several scientists like Sidney Holt and Daniel Pauly believe the assessments by commercial contractors paid by the fisheries create a conflict of interest because assessors have an financial incentive in recommending fisheries and getting more work and profits from the resulting annual audits.

Several dozen Seattle neighborhoods have one or more annual street fairs, and many have an annual parade or foot race.

Several existing pieces of music were adapted to the poem.

Several of Milne's children's poems were set to music by the composer Harold Fraser-Simson.

Several techniques are used by DJs as a means to better mix and blend recorded music.

Several hours of music were prepared for it, including Bach fugues, all of Mozart's Eine kleine Nachtmusik, Christmas carols, and numerous popular songs.

Several rock historians have claimed that rock and roll was one of the first music genres to define an age group.

Several notable music artists died of unnatural causes in the 1980s.

Several songs were cut from the Season 1 DVD release due to music licensing issues.

Several music factions wanted to claim the Jordan sound as its own and encouraged him to follow in the track of other artists.

Several passages have leanings towards folk music, as manifested in Austrian serenades.

Several cafes feature live music, a few of which specialize in jazz music, including Jazzcafe De Spieghel on the Peperstraat.

Several bandmembers are currently active in UK music industry bodies – amongst them the FAC, whilst Mark Kelly was elected in November 2009 to both the Performer and Main Boards of the UK's PPL.

Several references to The Cure and their music have been made in popular culture.

Several music cues from the program are still used today as background music during prize descriptions on The Price Is Right.

Several people on The Current's initial staff are well known in the area for previous work at stations that highlight music from Minnesota and the Upper Midwest.

Several of Stein's writings have been set to music by composers, including Virgil Thomson's operas Four Saints in Three Acts and The Mother of Us All, and James Tenney's setting of Rose is a rose is a rose is a rose as a canon dedicated to Philip Corner, beginning with " a " on an upbeat and continuing so that each repetition shuffles the words, e. g. " a / rose is a rose / is a rose is / a rose is a / rose.

Several characters are based on real country music figures: Henry Gibson's Haven Hamilton is a composite of Roy Acuff, Hank Snow, and Porter Wagoner ; Ronee Blakely's Barbara Jean is based on Loretta Lynn ; the black country singer Tommy Brown ( played by Timothy Brown ) is based on Charley Pride ; and the feuding folk trio is based on Peter, Paul and Mary ; within the trio, the married couple of Bill and Mary were inspired by Bill Danoff and Taffy Nivert, who later became Starland Vocal Band .< ref >

Several New York musicians who had already been performing Cuban dance music for decades when salsa was popularized initially scoffed at the term.

Several prominent hip hop producers, such as DJ Premier, and RjD2 also favour retaining the lo-fidelity characteristics of the records they sample in order to achieve a hard, unpolished and " uncut " sound in their own music.

Several record albums of original soundtrack music from the series were released, some having alternate theme music for the series that was never used.

" Funk, jazz, and Brazilian music were inspirations, and the sounds of minimalist composers Philip Glass and Steve Reich can be found on 1999's Cobra and Phases Group .... Several critics have commented that the band's later work, like Instant 0 in the Universe ( 2003 ) and Margerine Eclipse ( 2004 ), sound similar to their guitar-driven earlier style.

Several critics have said that Stereolab lacked stage presence, arguing that Sadier's vocal delivery was too subdued and that the band tended to play instead of perform its music.