The current organist ( September 2008 ) is Ian Shaw.

Jonathan Vaughn was appointed as assistant organist in 2007, and the current organ scholars are Owain Park and William Fox.

In addition to his current position with the Chorus, current director George Kent is organist and choirmaster at Christ Episcopal Church, Westerly, RI, and Professor of Music at the University of Rhode Island.

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.

Dutch composer Adriaen Valerius recorded the current melody of the Wilhelmus in his " Nederlantsche Gedenck-clanck " in 1626, slowing down the melody's pace, probably to allow it to be sung in churches.

As to the current status of Cui the composer, in the last few decades one of his children's operas ( of which he composed four ) entitled Puss-in-Boots ( from Perrault ) has had wide appeal in Germany.

The current name dates back to 1932 to honor the composer of the state anthem “ Dios Nunca Muere ” ( God Never Dies ).

The Met's official site also provides complete composer and background information, detailed plot summaries, and cast and characters for all current and upcoming opera broadcasts, as well as for every opera broadcast since 2000.

He was also the composer for the state anthem of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic, whose tune is one of the five current choices to become the next state anthem of Armenia.

The composer of the melody is unknown, but it was later re-arranged by singer and composer Ahmed Al-Jumairi, where it became the current, widely-used anthem.

Legendary gospel singer, pianist, and composer, Roberta Martin, also based in Chicago, composed another version of " I'll Overcome ", the last 12 bars of which are the same as the current version of ' We Shall Overcome.

He was a prolific composer in many of the current styles, and was especially famous for his polyphonic settings of the psalms in Dutch known as the Souterliedekens.

Bosnia is home to the composer Dušan Šestić, creator of the current national anthem of Bosnia and Herzegovina and father of singer Marija Šestić, and the pianist Sasha Toperich.

Famous people born in Chesham Bois were the crime writer and composer Edmund Crispin, Lieutenant Commander Peter Scawen Watkinson Roberts, who was awarded the Victoria Cross for gallantry in the face of the enemy during World War II and Mervyn King, current governor of the Bank of England.

* Stanisław Moniuszko, composer, born in current Belarus,

* Ignacy Jan Paderewski, composer, diplomat, politician, born the village of Kurilovka, current Ukraine,

* Karol Szymanowski, composer, born in Tymoszówka, current Ukraine,

Ma Di 馬迪 is a current composer and soloist known for his technique on the instrument.

Weasel Walter is a composer and instrumentalist who founded the band The Flying Luttenbachers in Chicago in 1991 with late jazz cult figure Hal Russell and is a current member of Cellular Chaos and Behold ... The Arctopus.

* Evangelical Lutheran Worship, the current primary hymnal of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, includes a hymn entitled Canticle of the Turning, written by composer Rory Cooney, which sets different words to the tune Star of the County Down.

Originally featuring composer John Foulds's World Requiem it includes military displays by current members of the armed forces, choral performances, and prayers.

Mark Walk is an American composer, producer, multi-instrumentalist and current member of the bands Skinny Puppy and ohGr.

Prominent current residents are former CEO of Meridian Energy Dr Keith Turner, artist Pauline Morse ( whose work has appeared on NZ postage stamps ) and composer Jenny McLeod.

Other famous persons that has frequented Caffé Lavena include the Venetian violinist Raphael Frontalli, the composer Franz Liszt, Rubinstein, Rostropovich, Böhm, Maag, Del Monaco, Gasdia, Kabaivanska, Ughi and the writers Piovene, Parise, Saviane and Alberto Moravia along with the current plethora of famous and not so famous movie stars that visits during the annual Venice Film Festival.

* Valery Kipelov, a Russian heavy metal singer and composer ( former member of Aria ( band ) and current leader of Kipelov bands )

David Lowe is a British composer, focusing primarily on music for television and radio, including all the current themes for BBC News.

Between the wars the British developed the Birch gun, a general purpose artillery piece on an armoured tracked chassis capable of maintaining formation with their current tanks.

In England, an Oath of Abjuration was taken by Members of Parliament, clergy, and laymen, pledging to support the current British monarch and repudiated the right of the Stuarts and other claimants to the throne.

The current southern border of British Columbia was established by the 1846 Oregon Treaty, although its history is tied with lands as far south as California.

BBC Radio 1 is a British national radio station operated by the British Broadcasting Corporation which also broadcasts internationally, specialising in current popular music and chart hits throughout the day.

In 1994, journalist Richard Gott described the prize as " a significant and dangerous iceberg in the sea of British culture that serves as a symbol of its current malaise.

In AD 60 or 61, while the current governor, Gaius Suetonius Paulinus, was leading a campaign against the island of Mona ( modern Anglesey ) in the north of Wales, which was a refuge for British rebels and a stronghold of the druids, the Iceni conspired with their neighbours the Trinovantes, amongst others, to revolt.

* 1959 – The current flag of Singapore is adopted, six months after Singapore became self-governing within the British Empire.

In 1999, the British Medical Journal ( BMJ ) published a Clinical Review of current medical research on hypnotherapy and relaxation therapies, it concludes,

Today there are an estimated 700, 000 people of Irish ancestry in Argentina, approximately 15. 5 % of the Republic of Ireland's current population ; however, these numbers may be far higher, given that many Irish newcomers declared themselves to be British, as Ireland at the time was still part of the United Kingdom and today their descendants integrated into Argentine society with mixed bloodlines.

A true International English might supplant both current American and British English as a variety of English for international communication, leaving these as local dialects, or would rise from a merger of General American and standard British English with admixture of other varieties of English and would generally replace all these varieties of English.

The current President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom, Lord Phillips of Worth Matravers, has voiced displeasure of Caribbean and other Commonwealth countries continuing to rely on the British JCPC.

The British School of Athens excavated the Emporeio site in 1952 – 1955, and most current information comes from these digs.

As British public opinion was turned against Germany, Admiral Sir John Fisher twice – in 1904 and 1908 – proposed using Britain ’ s current naval superiority to ' Copenhagen ' the German fleet, that is, to launch preemptive strikes against the Kiel and Wilhelmshaven naval bases as the Royal Navy had done against the Danish navy in 1801 and 1807.

The island is chiefly notable for its " mysterious " prehistoric ruins, its once-extensive deposits of phosphatic guano ( exploited by Australian interests from c. 1860-1927 ), its former use as the site of the first British H-bomb tests ( Operation Grapple, 1957 ), and its current importance as a protected area for breeding seabirds.

Other expeditions by Spanish and English ships followed, with the islands ' current name stemming from British explorer John Marshall.

The current electoral system based on the Westminster system, was devised by the British and incorporates what is commonly known as " Best losers ", which maintains ethnic representation of MPs in the legislative assembly.

In 1907, a union of smaller groups with the Methodist New Connexion and Bible Christian Church brought about the British " United Methodist Church ", then the three major streams of British Methodism united in 1932 to form the current Methodist Church of Great Britain.

The Phanerozoic ( British English Phanærozoic ) is the current geologic eon in the geologic timescale, and the one during which abundant animal life has existed.

The latter song also went to number one in America, making Orbison impervious to the current chart dominance of British artists on both sides of the Atlantic.

The current flag of South Australia was adopted on 13 January 1904, and is a British blue ensign defaced with the state badge.

This is a chart of trend of regional gross value added of Suffolk at current basic prices published ( pp. 240 – 253 ) by Office for National Statistics with figures in millions of British Pounds Sterling.

However, Conroy Maddox, one of the first British Surrealists whose work in this genre dated from 1935, remained within the movement, and organized an exhibition of current Surrealist work in 1978 in response to an earlier show which infuriated him because it did not properly represent Surrealism.