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 band performed mostly covers of international hits, but Andersson soon started writing his own material, and gave the band the classic hits " No Response ", " Sunny Girl ", " Wedding ", " Consolation ", " It's Nice To Be Back " and " She Will Love You " amongst others.

The High School had rock band KISS visit for Homecoming on October 9 & 10, 1975 after the football team started playing their music in the locker room which led to the team winning more.

The band, who all wore white shirts with a big, black S painted on the front, pulled black ties from around the backs of their necks to form a dollar sign, then started playing a new song titled " Pull My Strings ", a barbed, satirical attack on the ethics of the mainstream music industry, which contained the lyrics, " Is my cock big enough, is my brain small enough, for you to make me a star ?".

Day started her career as a big band singer in 1939, but only began to be noticed after her first hit recording, " Sentimental Journey ", in 1945.

Stating that he hung out with the " band nerds " in high school, he started a ska band.

Connick's musical talents soon came to the fore when he started learning the keyboards at age three, playing publicly at age five, and recording with a local jazz band at ten.

One of the more notable groups on the roster of SST Records ( who released most of their albums ), the Meat Puppets started as a punk rock band, but like most of their SST peers, the Meat Puppets established their own unique style, blending punk with country and psychedelic rock, and featuring Curt's warbling vocals.

The band became a top act across Canada in the following months, and Men At Work started receiving top 40 US airplay by August.

In 1948, hoping to gain more success, Perez Prado moved to Mexico City and started his own band, where he composed and recorded most of mambos.

New Wave became a catch-all term, encompassing disparate styles such as 2 Tone ska, the mod revival inspired by The Jam, the sophisticated pop-rock of Elvis Costello and XTC, the New Romantic phenomenon typified by Ultravox, synthpop groups like Tubeway Army ( which had started out as a straight-ahead punk band ) and Human League, and the sui generis subversions of Devo, who had gone " beyond punk before punk even properly existed ".

In Japan, Osamu Kitajima's 1974 psychadelic rock album Benzaiten utilized electronic equipment such as a synthesizer and drum machine, and one of the record's contributors was Haruomi Hosono, who later started the electronic music band Yellow Magic Orchestra ( as " Yellow Magic Band ") in 1977.

I've heard it said about The Velvet Underground that while not a lot of people bought their albums, everyone who did started a band.

They soon started a rock band.

Doughty started to follow around Gratzer's band, eventually sitting in on a song or two.

The same year he began to open concerts for The Eagles, who started as Linda Ronstadt's backup band.

When Orbison started with " Crying " and hit the high notes, Goodwin stated, " The strings were playing and the band had built up, and sure enough, the hair on the back of my neck just all started standing up.

The most notable RAC band was Skrewdriver, which started out as a non-political punk band but evolved into a neo-Nazi band after the first lineup broke up and a new lineup was formed.

Accompanied by his band, the Savages, he started by coming out of a black coffin.

He then started to wear a head band saying " Rozelle ", after then-league commissioner Pete Rozelle.

Demands for the " classic " line-up of the band — Macainsh, Bob Starkie, Strachan, Strauks and Symons — to reform were successful and on 23 April 1983, they started the Living in the 80's Tour.

Undismayed by this contretemps, a small band of the faithful gathered at Lauchli's home at 6:30 A.M. the next day, put on their uniforms, and headed for a farm several miles away.

But while the two men are riding into the country, where they are going to dinner, they are attacked in the dark of the forest by a band of thieves, who strip them of everything, including most of their clothes.

Mulligan's band has been infected with his solid sense of swing, and what it does seems far more meaningful than most of the noise generated by the big concert aggregations.

Divided almost equally into two parts, it consisted of `` The Evolution Of The Blues '', narrated by Jon Hendricks, who had presented it last year at the Monterey, Calif., Jazz Festival, and an hour-long session of Maynard Ferguson and his orchestra, a blasting big band.

* Aberdeen ( song ) A song by alternative rock band Cage The Elephant

Possibly the most notable current version of " America the Beautiful " is the setting for band and symphonic orchestra by the late arranger / conductor / composer Carmen Dragon.

* Animal, a 2009 album by the London-based electronic band autoKratz

* Atlas ( album ), an album by Mexican electro-pop band Kinky

* Abducted ( album ), an album by death metal band Hypocrisy

) for 3 alphorns and concert band, by Kurt Gable.

Although Collins used it as a catharsis for her opposition to the Vietnam War, two years after her rendition, the Royal Scots Dragoon Guards, senior Scottish regiment of the British Army, recorded an instrumental version featuring a bagpipe soloist accompanied by a pipe and drum band.

* During the finale of the song Distant Early Warning by Canadian band Rush, Geddy Lee sings, " Absalom Absalom Absalom.

* " Absalom " is an album by the Experimental / Progressive band " Stick Men " featuring Tony Levin, Markus Reuter and Pat Mastelotto.

They withdrew to Mercia, but, in January 878, made a sudden attack on Chippenham, a royal stronghold in which Alfred had been staying over Christmas, " and most of the people they killed, except the King Alfred, and he with a little band made his way by wood and swamp, and after Easter he made a fort at Athelney in the marshes of Somerset, and from that fort kept fighting against the foe ".

* Atmosphere ( Atmosphere album ), the debut album by Polish rock band, Atmosphere

* Ark ( L ' Arc-en-Ciel album ), by the Japanese rock band L ' Arc-en-Ciel

* " Ark ", a song by the Japanese band Sound Horizon