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.

He decided he would name his future studio " Zoetrope " after receiving a gift of zoetropes from Mogens Scot-Hansen, founder of a studio called Lanterna Film and owner of a famous collection of early motion picture making equipment.

In April 1937, he signed a long-term contract with Warner Bros., and the same year composed the famous fanfare which introduced pictures produced by the studio, although this is no longer in use ( curiously, this was never used for the studio's television productions ).

One famous application was in the Ampex MR-70, a costly studio tape recorder whose entire electronics section was based on nuvistors.

This recording also established the band's long term recording studio relationship with the famous Compass Point Studios in Nassau, Bahamas.

* Romulus Films, a famous British film studio.

The studio then cast her in Grand Hotel, which starred the most famous actors of the 1930s and was MGM's most prestigious movie of 1932.

Moore was famous for " corpsing " — the programmes often went on live, and Cook would deliberately make him laugh in order to get an even bigger reaction from the studio audience.

The cartoon is a standard hunter / prey pairing for which Leon Schlesinger's studio was famous, but Daffy ( barely more than an unnamed bit player in this short ) was something new to moviegoers: an assertive, completely unrestrained, combative protagonist.

Among the most famous early independent producers are the famed songwriting-production duo Leiber & Stoller, " Wall of Sound " creator Phil Spector and British studio pioneer Joe Meek.

The most famous of these was a studio in 1968 in which Venturi and Scott Brown, together with Steven Izenour, led a team of students to document and analyze the Las Vegas Strip, perhaps the least likely subject for a serious research project imaginable.

Iwerks ' most famous work outside creating and animating Mickey Mouse was Flip the Frog from his own studio.

John spent most of his adolescence skipping school to opt for music activities instead, and ended up playing in local bands with friends and his cousin Tony Bongiovi, who owned the then famous New York recording studio, The Power Station.

On 30 October 2009, as part of the celebrations for the 75th anniversary of the BBC's world famous Maida Vale Studios, Jenny Seagrove and Nigel Havers starred in a special Radio 2 production of Brief Encounter, performed live from Maida Vale's studio 6 ( MV6 ).

* Marie Bashkirtseff ( 1858 – 1884 ), Russian artist famous for her published journal ; her tomb is a recreation of her studio and has been declared a historical monument by the government of France

As well as the world famous 007 Stage, which is the largest stage at any of the studios under The Pinewood Studios Group at 59, 000 sq ft, the studio has fifteen other stages ranging from just 1, 728 sq ft, to cater for productions of all sizes.

On his famous boat Botin, which he had turned into a studio, he painted along the Seine and Oise, often in the region around Auvers.

Many of the most famous artists of the Franco-Belgian comics started in this period, including André Franquin and Peyo who started together at an animation studio, and Willy Vandersteen, Jacques Martin and Albert Uderzo who worked for Bravo.

The 2010 tribute Million Dollar Quartet is based on the famous photograph of Carl Perkins, Johnny Cash and Jerry Lee Lewis grouped round Elvis Presley at the piano, the night when the four joined in an impromptu jam at Sun Record's one-room sound studio, the " Million Dollar Quartet " of 4 December 1956.

Here Mr. Tait had a studio and painted such famous pictures, as " Arguing the Point " in which there is an excellent portrait of Jonathan Bellows.

It includes an external studio shed where dried paint from Pollock's projects is splattered on the floor and evokes Pollock's most famous works.

The studio drew many other famous vocalists and musicians who wanted the benefit of Paul's expertise.

His famous Decca Das Lied von der Erde with Kathleen Ferrier, Julius Patzak, and the Vienna Philharmonic was made in May, 1952, and he recorded it again in studio with the New York Philharmonic in 1960.

But it did teach Roy the basic techniques of commercial art, and later, for twelve years, he and his sister Nina conducted an advertising art studio in Philadelphia.

( which later became the major studio, Toho ), advertised for assistant directors.

However, his training in Wolgemut's studio, which made many carved and painted altarpieces and both designed and cut woodblocks for woodcut, evidently gave him great understanding of what the technique could be made to produce, and how to work with block cutters.

Capp's studio provided special artwork for various civic groups and non-profit organizations as well.

During the next eight years, Andersson ( together with Ulvaeus ) wrote music for and produced eight studio albums with ABBA.

On 23 September 2011, Bille August announced that he has opened his studio in Hangzhou, China and taken a position as Tianpeng Media's Art Director, aiming to produce Chinese films for Tianpeng Media over the next few years.

Nonetheless, he recorded so prolifically that Coral Records was able to release brand-new albums and singles for 10 years after his death, although the technical quality was very mixed, some being studio quality and others home recordings.

The demand for unissued Holly material was so great that Norman Petty resorted to overdubbing whatever he could find: alternate takes of studio recordings, originally rejected masters, " Crying, Waiting, Hoping " and the other five 1959 tracks ( adding new surf-guitar arrangements ), and even Holly's amateur demos from 1954 ( where the low-fidelity vocals are often muffled behind the new orchestrations ).

* Kafi Benz ( b. 1941 ), American entrepreneur who is a preservationist, writer, and artist ; studio director for sculptor Jim Gary ; and the founder of Friends of Seagate Inc. and Kafi Benz Productions

Hill Top remained a working farm but was now remodelled to allow for the tenant family and Potter ’ s private studio and work shop.

The programme acts as a morning news bulletin for the Asia-Pacific region and is broadcast as a double-headed news bulletin with Rico Hizon in Singapore and Babita Sharma in London's N8 studio.

Before becoming the studio host for The NFL on NBC in 1984, Costas did play-by-play of NFL games with analyst Bob Trumpy.

" Tucker's studio produced the posters for Hugh Hudson's Pirelli-sponsored film The Tortoise & The Hare ( 1967 ), for which Fulcher designed the poster lettering on a freelance basis.

John R. Freuler, the studio President, explained, " We can afford to pay Mr Chaplin this large sum annually because the public wants Chaplin and will pay for him.

Although the studio was quickly brought back into operation, it marked the beginning of severe difficulties for Chaplin.

Chaplin founded a new production company, Attica, for the film and rented a studio from Shepperton Studios for the shooting.