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In the fall of that year the best musicians of the Berlin and Frankfurt Kulturbund orchestras joined under the combined efforts of Bronislaw Hubermann and Steinberg to become the Palestine Orchestra -- now known as the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra -- with Steinberg as founder-conductor.
Easily the best known of these three novels is The Space Merchants, a good example of a science-fiction dystopia which extrapolates much more than the impact of science on human life, though its most important warning is in this area, namely as to the use to which discoveries in the behavioral sciences may be put.
But the best known exploiters of the new medium are Kenneth Rexroth and Kenneth Patchen.
And there, on the way, had been the box turtle, that slow, self-contained, world-ignoring relic of pre-history, bent, for reasons best known to itself, on crossing the road.
So frequently have pictures of the bridge appeared in books and in national publications that it vies with the old John Brown Fort at Harpers Ferry as the two nationally best known structures in West Virginia.
The best known field of application for builders is in heavy-duty, spray-dried detergent formulations for household use.
As long as the bar prefers to adduce evidence by written deposition, rather than viva voce before an authoritative judicial officer, I fear that the antiquated rules will remain unchanged, and expensive prolixity remain the best known characteristic of Equity ''.
G. David Thompson is one of those names known to the stewards of transatlantic jetliners and to doormen in Europe's best hotels, but he is somewhat of an enigma to most people in his own home town of Pittsburgh.
Although there are seven other types of annual awards presented by the Academy ( the Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award, the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, the Gordon E. Sawyer Award, the Scientific and Engineering Award, the Technical Achievement Award, the John A. Bonner Medal of Commendation, and the Student Academy Award ) plus two awards that are not presented annually ( the Special Achievement Award in the form of an Oscar statuette and the Honorary Award that may or may not be in the form of an Oscar statuette ), the best known one is the Academy Award of Merit more popularly known as the Oscar statuette.
Her beauty and celebrity status made her one of the best known tennis stars worldwide, despite her never winning a WTA singles title.
" His best known comment on the subject was recalled on his death:
The Ancient Pueblo culture is perhaps best known for the stone and adobe dwellings built along cliff walls, particularly during the Pueblo II and Pueblo III eras.
Throughout the southwest Ancient Puebloan region and at Mesa Verde, the best known site for these large number of well preserved cliff dwellings, housing, defensive and storage complexes were built in shallow caves and under rock overhangs along canyon walls.
Jackson Pollock is the artist best known for starting that revolution.
Leopold is the author of several essays and is perhaps best known for his book A Sand County Almanac ( 1953 ).
Callicott is, perhaps, best known for his research which explores an Aldo Leopold ethic as a response to global climate change.
Alfonso Cuarón Orozco (; born 28 November 1961 ) is a Mexican film director, screenwriter and film producer, best known for his films Children of Men, Y tu mamá también, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, and A Little Princess.
By 2006, the best known attacks were on 7 rounds for 128-bit keys, 8 rounds for 192-bit keys, and 9 rounds for 256-bit keys.
* 1944 – IBM dedicates the first program-controlled calculator, the Automatic Sequence Controlled Calculator ( known best as the Harvard Mark I ).
Many of these designs are still under patent, and other types are best known by their original trademarked names.
* Adrian Rollini ( 1903 – 1956 ), American multi-instrumentalist best known for his jazz music
* Adrian Utley ( born 1957 ), English musician best known as a member of the band Portishead
He is best known for independently proposing a theory of evolution due to natural selection that prompted Charles Darwin to publish his own theory.
Ahmed II's best known act was to confirm Mustafa Köprülü as grand vizier.

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After listening to Verdi's Requiem, the German, prolific and eloquent in his comments on some other composers, stated, " It would be best not to say anything.
The pulse was best known from Terry Riley's early composition In C, and slowly more and more composers used it as a common practice.
In recordings, small errors in a performance could be " fixed ", but many older conductors and composers could remember a time when simply " getting through " the music as best as possible was the standard.
Adriana Lecouvreur is the opera of Cilea which is best known to international audiences today, and it reveals the spontaneity of a melodic style drawn from the Neapolitan school combined with harmonic and tonal shading influenced by French composers such as Massenet.
Authors and composers are not commonly referred to as " Orientalist " in the way that artists are, and relatively few specialized in Oriental topics or styles, or are even best known for their works including them.
Martin Williams said: " Duke Ellington lived long enough to hear himself named among our best composers.
Patriotic cantatas celebrating anniversaries of events in the Revolution or extolling state leaders were frequently commissioned in the Soviet Union between 1930 and the middle of the century, though these occasional works were seldom among their composers ' best.
In order to attract the best composers and lyricists, the CTW allowed songwriters like Sesame Streets first musical director Joe Raposo to retain the rights to the songs they wrote, which earned them lucrative profits and helped the show sustain public interest.
Unlike some other famous actor-managers, Tree engaged the best actors available to join his company and hired the best designers and composers for the plays with incidental music.
Schnabel was best known for his devotion to the core German composers, especially the Viennese classics of Mozart, Beethoven and Schubert.
The best prospect for aspirant opera composers was the Théâtre Lyrique company which, despite repeated financial crises, operated intermittently in various premises under its resourceful manager Léon Carvalho.
He is widely considered to be one of the best known and most influential classical guitar personalities of the 20th century, having a considerable influence on later guitarists, particularly because of important guitar works that were dedicated to him by composers such as Federico Moreno Torroba.
Metastasio's best known oratorio libretto La passione di Gesù Cristo was set by at least 35 composers from 1730 – 90.
Carissimi is also noted as one of the first composers of oratorios, with Jephte probably the best known, as well as Jonas ; this work and others are important as definitely establishing the form of oratorio unaccompanied by dramatic action, which maintained its hold for two hundred years.
He is best known outside Germany for his early lyric poetry, which was set to music in the form of Lieder ( art songs ) by composers such as Robert Schumann and Franz Schubert.
About a slightly earlier period, 1815, Beethoven's authoritative biographer, Alexander Wheelock Thayer, writes, " Diabelli, born near Salzburg in 1781, had now been for some years one of the more prolific composers of light and pleasing music, and one of the best and most popular teachers in Vienna.
During this decade, both men made names for themselves as being among the best composers in jazz.
Samba has become the best known form of Brazilian music worldwide, especially because of the country's carnival, although bossa nova, which had Antônio Carlos Jobim as one of its most acclaimed composers and performers, have received much attention abroad since the 1950s, when the song " Desafinado ", interpreted by João Gilberto, was first released.
Unlike most national anthems, few of which were composed by renowned composers, the state anthems were composed by some of the best Soviet composers, including world-renowned Gustav Ernesaks ( Estonia ), Aram Khatchaturian ( Armenia ), Otar Taktakishvili ( Georgia ) and Uzeyir Hajibeyov ( Azerbaijan ).
Considered one of the best church composers of his style and period, he seems to have founded the sentimental school of Italian church music.
Several classical composers have written mazurkas, with the best known being the 69 composed by Frédéric Chopin for solo piano.
During the latter half of the 17th century Biber was, together with the composers of the Dresden school ( Johann Jakob Walther and Johann Paul von Westhoff ), regarded as one of the best and most influential violinists in Europe.

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