After a year in a studio on Sheridan Square, having married an American girl who was a native of Virginia, Helion moved to a village in the Blue Ridge mountains, where he produced some of the most imposing of his abstract canvases.

After an unspeakable siege, lasting the better part of two months, it was announced that the studio `` owed '' the government a tax debt in excess of eight million dollars while I, who had always remained aloof from such iniquitous practices as paying taxes on the salary I had earned and the little I legally inherited as Morris' helpless relict, was `` stung '' with a personal bill of such astronomical proportions as to `` wipe out '' all but a fraction of my poor, hard-come-by savings.

Whenever he deigned to appear at the studio he was `` hung over '', uncooperative, rude and insulting.

When Felix first opened the door on it, all these shades were tightly drawn and the whole studio was as dark as night.

The upshot of the evening was that I got the address of Pendleton's studio -- or rather, of the studio in which he gave his classes, for he didn't work there himself -- and joined the life class, which met every Tuesday and Thursday from ten to twelve in the morning.

I think I was what you might call a convivial man, and yet it was when I was alone in my studio, doing my work, that I really felt alive.

Gershwin was on hand to " supervise " the recording ; however, Shilkret was reported to be in charge and eventually asked the composer to leave the recording studio.

The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.

His studio, The Factory, was a famous gathering place that brought together distinguished intellectuals, drag queens, playwrights, Bohemian street people, Hollywood celebrities, and wealthy patrons.

Kurosawa's essay earned him a call to take the follow-up exams, and director Kajirō Yamamoto, who was among the examiners, took a liking to Kurosawa and insisted that the studio hire him.

Although the studio version of Freudiana was produced by Parsons ( and featured the regular Project backing musicians, making it an ' unofficial ' Project album ), it was primarily Woolfson's idea to turn it into a musical.

This was because Woolfson and Parsons saw themselves mainly in the roles of writing and production, and also because of the technical difficulties of reproducing on stage the complex instrumentation used in the studio.

Algardi was born in Bologna, where at a young age, he was apprenticed in the studio of Agostino Carracci.

His mind was entirely absorbed in the labors of his studio, and, with the exception of his journeys to Paris, one to Vienna, and a few short intervals of absence in Florence and other parts of Italy, he never quit Rome.

Audio processing was necessary for early radio broadcasting, as there were many problems with studio to transmitter links.

In 2010, the Australian a cappella Quartet The Idea of North was nominated for an ARIA for their seventh studio album, " Feels Like Spring ", bringing a cappella music back into pop culture.

During 1976, Grant wrote her first song (" Mountain Man "), performed in public for the first time — at Harpeth Hall School — the all-girls school she attended, recorded a demo tape for her parents with church youth-leader Brown Bannister, then later when Bannister was dubbing a copy of the tape, Chris Christian, the owner of the recording studio, heard the demo and called Word Records.

A Cuyp drawing may look like he intended it to be a finished work of art, but it was most likely taken back to the studio and used as a reference for his paintings.

Present in the studio was Bob Geldof, wife Paula Yates and six-year-old daughter, Fifi Trixiebelle, who was eager to meet Jason Donovan.

Experiencing a career and personal rejuvenation, Norwood was eager to scale back on her previous pop venture, and return to her authentic R & B, soul sound and love vocalizing on sixth studio album Two Eleven, for summer 2012 release, which would acquire a " gritty " and experimental edge.

Though the eventual breakup of the studio system and its restrictive chain-theater distribution network would leave independent movie houses eager for the kind of populist, seat-filling product of the Poverty Row studios, that same paradigm shift would also lead to the decline and ultimate disappearance of " Poverty Row " as a Hollywood phenomenon.

Jack Warner was prepared to pay Raft a $ 10, 000 settlement, but the actor either misunderstood or was so eager to be free of the studio that it was he who gave Warner a check in that amount.

RCA was eager for Presley to record in Germany, but Parker insisted that it would ruin his reputation as a regular soldier if he was able to go into a recording studio and sing.

He played to an eager studio audience and often ejected guests from the set, using uniformed private security guards.

Pliny the Elder, in his " Natural History ," relates the story of a contest between Apelles and Protogenes: ' Apelles sailed Rhodes, eager to see the works of a man only known to him by reputation, and on his arrival immediately repaired to the studio.

Despite a heavy touring schedule — resulting from the band being an in-demand fixture on the live concert circuit — The Byrds were eager to release another studio album as soon as possible.

After using some of the gear on initial recordings in Read's home studio, Perkins was eager to take it to the stage.

In an attempt to duplicate the Sun Records sound, RCA used a large empty hallway at the studio to create an echo, but it sounded nothing like the echo that Phillips had created at Sun Records.

Modern digital technology has also enabled a power trio to duplicate their studio performances in concert, as evidenced by Rush's 1989 live album, A Show of Hands, where Lee simultaneously sings, plays bass, and plays keyboard with foot pedals.

In 1958 the studio signed Hunter to its newly formed record division, although his subsequent recordings for the label failed to duplicate his success with Dot.

A film can be both a major studio release and a cult film, particularly if despite its affiliation with a major studio, it failed to achieve broad success on either the theatrical or home video markets but was championed by a small number of dedicated film fanatics who seek out lesser-known offerings.

McCutcheon, Jr., however, was not able to bring the studio success.

For all his success, he was still his melancholy old self, grumbling and feuding with the studio, while his health was beginning to deteriorate.

Their following studio album Meteora, continued the band's success, topping the Billboard 200 album chart in 2003, and was followed by extensive touring and charity work around the world.

Following Meteoras success, the band postponed working on a new studio album for the next few years, instead, working on many side projects.

However, Sennett enjoyed great success with short comedies starring Bing Crosby ; these films were probably instrumental in Sennett's product being picked up by a major studio, Paramount Pictures.

In 2011, Limp Bizkit's long awaited sixth studio album, Gold Cobra, was a commercial success, selling 63, 000 copies in the United States and peaking at number 16 on the Billboard 200 and the album has received mostly positive reviews.

Following the success of Moving Pictures and the completion of another four studio albums, Rush released their second live recording, Exit ... Stage Left, in 1981.

The success of his short film Stalk of the Celery Monster attracted the attention of Walt Disney Productions ' animation studio, who offered young Burton an animator's apprenticeship at their studio.

Presented as " Newman Laugh-O-Grams ", Disney's cartoons became widely popular in the Kansas City area and through their success, he was able to acquire his own studio, also called Laugh-O-Gram, for which he hired a vast number of additional animators, including Fred Harman's brother Hugh Harman, Rudolf Ising, and his close friend Ubbe Iwerks.

More success came after Ernst Lubitsch was hired as head director ; Harry Rapf left the studio and accepted an offer to work at MGM.

Thanks to the success of The Jazz Singer, the studio was cash-rich.

With the success of these first talkies ( The Jazz Singer, Lights of New York, The Singing Fool, and The Terror ), Warner Bros. became one of the top studios in Hollywood and the brothers were now able to move out from the Poverty Row section of Hollywood and acquire a big studio in Burbank, California.

After the success of the studio's 1929 First National film Noah's Ark, Harry agreed to make Michael Curtiz a major director at the Burbank studio.

In the wake of 42nd Streets success, the studio produced profitable musicals.

In 1936, following the success of The Petrified Forest, Jack Warner also signed Humphrey Bogart to a studio contract.

After the success of Yankee Doodle Dandy at the box office, Cagney again questioned if the studio would meet his salary demand and again quit to form his own film production and distribution company with his brother Bill.

Rundgren had been hired to trim the band's studio excesses and return them to commercial success.

In 2002, the band released its next studio album, Forever which, once again, was met with limited commercial and critical success.

The film was a success in the UK and Europe but had only limited distribution in the U. S. owing to the collapse of the studio that funded it and the lack of an American star in the movie.

Babelsberg, in the south-eastern part of Potsdam, was a major film production studio before the war and has enjoyed increased success as a major centre of European film production since the fall of the Berlin Wall.

However these cartoons were not a success and in 1937 MGM fired Harman and Ising and purchased their studio to create MGM cartoons, thus obtaining the rights to Bosko.

Thanks to the success of " Twist Español " and " Florida Twist ", among others, the band had continued success in Mexico and Latin America over the next few years, selling many recordings of Spanish and Spanish-flavored material and simulated live performances ( overdubbed audience over studio recordings ) on the Orfeon label and its subsidiary, Dimsa.