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.

The “ Pops ” have been Grammy nominated and are the first lower Manhattan all volunteer community band in a century.

In 1972 Torrence won the Grammy Award for Best Album Cover for the psychedelic rock band Pollution's first eponymous 1971 album, and was nominated three other times in the same category for albums of The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band.

The band did find some success at the American Music Awards, as Dr. Feelgood was nominated twice for Favorite Hard Rock / Metal Award, losing once to Guns N ' Roses ' Appetite for Destruction, but winning the following year, beating out Aerosmith's Pump and Poison's Flesh And Blood.

The band has not been nominated for entry into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame since their year of eligibility in 1998.

In 1993, the band were nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Alternative Music Album for Wish.

Jarvis Cocker and the band became major figures in the Britpop movement, and were nominated for the Mercury Music Prize in 1994 for His ' n ' Hers ; they won the prize in 1996 for Different Class.

The band was nominated for three Grammy Awards in 1998: Record of the Year, Best New Artist, and Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal.

In 2006, Isobel Campbell's collaboration with Mark Lanegan, Ballad of the Broken Seas, was included in the shortlist, despite Lanegan being American while Guillemots, whose album was also nominated in 2006, contained band members from Brazil and Canada.

Perhaps most infamously, the band was asked to play at MTV Video Music Awards, where they were nominated for the " Doll Parts " music video.

The band had previously been nominated for election seven times, each unsuccessful.

In 1998, the band won two Brit Awards — winning Best British Group, appeared on the cover of Rolling Stone magazine in March, and in February 1999, " Bitter Sweet Symphony " was nominated for the Grammy Award for Best Rock Song.

In February, 1983 the band was nominated for the Best New Artist award at the 25th annual Grammy Awards ( though the award eventually went to Men at Work.

They were nominated the same year for the Grammy Award for Pop Vocal by Group or Duo but the English rock band The Police won the award.

The band went on to win an ARIA Award, ' Breakthrough Artist-Single ', for " Get Free " in 2002, and were nominated for " Best Group ", " Best Rock Album ", " Best Cover Art ", and " Breakthrough Artist-Album ".

The album was nominated for a Grammy Award in 2004 for best engineered album, and the band contributed the song " Won't Back Down " to the Daredevil soundtrack earlier in the year.

More recently he has produced the UK band The Duke Spirit, London-based duo Helene, former Golden Virgins frontman Lucas Renney and has mixed the Mercury Prize nominated album The End Of History by Fionn Regan.

The first single, " Let's Get Rocked ", was an instant smash hit, and the band performed the song at the 1992 MTV Video Music Awards where it was nominated for Best Video of the Year.

As the band picked up the award, he commented on stage, " Seeing as we don't get nominated for this shit no more this'll have to do.

In 1990, the band was nominated for an American Music Award for " Best New Heavy Metal Band ".

In 1990, the band was nominated for an American Music Award for " Best New Heavy Metal Band ".

The title song, performed by Australian band The Seekers, became a hit single and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song ( music by Tom Springfield, lyrics by Jim Dale ).

This song propelled the band to stardom, as it stayed on top of Billboard Hot 100 Airplay charts for a record-breaking 18 weeks, and was nominated for three Grammys that year.

" became the band ’ s third instrumental and was their second song to be nominated for a Grammy, in 1991, losing to Eric Johnson's " Cliffs of Dover ".

Shock-rocker Marilyn Manson performed the song " The Beautiful People ", as the grand finale, and the video for this song was nominated for " Best Rock Video " and " Best Special Effects ", marking one of the most significant performances for the band.