In New York he was well received by what was then only a small brave band of non-figurative artists, including Alexander Calder, George K. L. Morris, De Kooning, Holty and a few others.

All day long Mr. Podger, who was a straw-hat man in the summer, had worn the feather in the band of his broad-brimmed sunshield.

His eyes had the same dreadful rigid stare as Dr. Grimesby Roylott's when he was found before his open safe wearing the speckled band.

At one time it was the ambition of every saxophone player in every high school band in America to blow like Bird.

One of the rings was a white gold band with a diamond setting, valued at $900.

Such fascinating novelties in the score as the fugual treatment of `` On The Side Of The Angels '' and `` Politics And Poker '' were handled splendidly, and I thought Rudy Bond and his band of tuneful ward-heelers made `` Little Tin Box '' even better than it was done by the New York cast ; ;

Beginning with Reginald Fessenden's audio demonstrations in 1906, it was also the original method used for audio radio transmissions, and remains in use today by many forms of communication —" AM " is often used to refer to the mediumwave broadcast band ( see AM radio ).

He was given the name Gaius Octavius Thurinus, his cognomen possibly commemorating his father's victory at Thurii over a rebellious band of slaves.

The Alan Parsons Project was an English progressive rock band, active between 1975 and 1990, consisting of singer Eric Woolfson and keyboardist Alan Parsons surrounded by a varying number of session musicians.

The one occasion where the band was introduced as " The Alan Parsons Project " in a live performance was at Night of the Proms 1990 ( at the time of the group's break-up ), featuring all Project regulars except Woolfson who was present but behind the scenes, while Parsons stayed at the mixer except during the last song, where he played acoustic guitar.

* The New Wave band Missing Persons ' best-selling album was called Spring Session M.

Louisa May Alcott, who was ten years old at the time, later wrote of the experience in Transcendental Wild Oats ( 1873 ): " The band of brothers began by spading garden and field ; but a few days of it lessened their ardor amazingly.

The tempo of their arrangement was slowed to allow for the bagpipes, but it was based on Collins ': it began with a bagpipe solo introduction similar to her lone voice, then it was accompanied by the band of bagpipes and horns, whereas in her version she is backed up by a chorus.

Alaric's first appearance was as the leader of a mixed band of Goths and allied peoples who invaded Thrace in 391, who were stopped by the half-Vandal Roman General Stilicho.

In general, the larger the ensemble, the greater the need for a formal arrangement, although the early Count Basie big band was famous for its head arrangements, so called because they were worked out by the players themselves, memorized immediately and never written down.

Articolo 31 was a popular band from Milan, Italy, melding hip hop, funk, pop and traditional Italian musical forms.

Urban Dance Squad was a Dutch rap rock band formed after what was originally intended as a one-time jam-session at a festival in Utrecht on December 20, 1986.

* Jon Anderson, singer with rock band Yes, was born there

In March 1964, " Elverket Spelmanslag " was up against another band in a talent contest, The Hep Stars.

After the previous album, Da Capo, keyboardist / drummer Alban " Snoopy " Pfisterer and flautist / saxophonist Tjay Cantrelli were dropped from the band, leaving Love a quintet.

The Sex Pistols, originally scheduled to play, were dropped by the organizers who said the band had gone " too far " in demanding top billing and certain amenities ; The Clash backed out in solidarity.

Despite having completely dropped out of the public eye for five years after the gold-selling Test for Echo ( which peaked at number 5 on the Billboard 200 ) and the band being relegated almost solely to classic rock stations in the U. S., Vapor Trails reached No. 6 on the Billboard 200 chart in its first week of release in 2002 with 108, 000 albums sold.

A legal issue forced the band to change their name at the last minute so they dropped " The " and added the letters " les " to the end to become Bangles.

However, this idea was dropped when the band discovered that the Monty Python comedy troupe had executed the very same idea three years earlier with their Matching Tie and Handkerchief album.

This album got the band some attention from the press ( namely NME, Sounds and Melody Maker ), and dropped most of their reliance upon the Theory of Obscurity.

The band was recruited to provide original songs for the Henry Selick-directed movie of Neil Gaiman's children's book Coraline, but were dropped because their music was not " creepy " enough.

Tommy Stinson dropped out of tenth grade to join the rest of the band on tour.

After his departure, the band dropped one letter from its name, becoming " Wir " ( still pronounced " wire "), and released The First Letter in 1991.

They also threatened with a multi-million dollar lawsuit, but both suits were dropped due to the band members ' personal lives.

The band was originally Bauhaus 1919 before they dropped the numerical portion within a year of formation.

" Thompson was dropped from the band in May, and the remaining trio ( Smith / Tolhurst / Dempsey ) were soon renamed The Cure by Smith.

Soon afterwards, Dempsey was dropped from the band because of his cold reception to material Smith had written for the upcoming album.

The release of Pornography was followed by the Fourteen Explicit Moments tour, where the band finally dropped the anti-image angle and first adopted their signature look of big, towering hair and smeared lipstick on their faces.

A second tour, in 2005, saw the band headline the 20-city Virgin College Mega Tour, playing alongside Gomez ; while the Tour was in California, the band announced that it had been dropped from Columbia Records.

A & M's Jerry Moss reportedly described this new direction as " too negative " and dropped the band from the label, although still under contract.

The LP was a commercial disappointment that spun off no charting singles in the UK, and the band was dropped from their long-time A & M label.

However, Reprise dropped the band after this one album.

Promotion for the album was affected by former band mate Justin Timberlake and Janet Jackson's Super Bowl XXXVIII halftime show controversy, after which Chasez was unceremoniously dropped from his halftime-show performance at the 2004 Pro Bowl.

Their major label debut Grey Britain was described as being even more aggressive than their previous material, and the band was subsequently dropped from the label.

The Texas Night Train often disappeared into the static of the AM band when the XERF transmitter power dropped off.

This new version of the band released a pair of albums for Word Records: 1992's The Seventy Sevens ( known by the band and fans as Pray Naked, the album's original title which was dropped by the record label without consulting the band due to Christian vendor pressures not to sell an album titled " Pray Naked ") and 1994's critically acclaimed Drowning with Land in Sight.