A widespread tradition in antiquity suspected Aristotle of playing a role in Alexander's death, but there is little evidence for this.

Another long-standing tradition is the playing of Wagner's Ride of the Valkyries at 7: 00 each morning during finals week with the largest, loudest speakers available.

The playing of the Ride is such a strong tradition that the music was used during Apollo 17 to awaken Astronaut Harrison Schmitt, a Caltech alumnus.

The Donegal fiddle tradition is the way of playing the fiddle fiddle that is traditional in County Donegal, Ireland.

The ceremonial playing of the Russian national anthem before the game is an important tradition.

Ann Heymann has revived the ancient tradition and technique by playing the instrument as well as studying Bunting's original manuscripts in the library of Queens University, Belfast.

Much modern poetry reflects a critique of poetic tradition, playing with and testing, among other things, the principle of euphony itself, sometimes altogether forgoing rhyme or set rhythm.

In their tradition of playing a well-known album by another band for Halloween, Phish contracted a full horn section for their performance of The Who's Quadrophenia in 1995.

In part because of this, the Rangers began playing most of even their weekend games between May and September at night — a tradition that continues to this day.

* December 24 – Actor Lionel Barrymore begins what will become an annual tradition of the Golden Age of Radio – playing the role of Ebenezer Scrooge in dramatizations of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol.

Paul Scofield, as Lear, eschews sentimentality: this demanding old man with a coterie of unruly knights provokes audience sympathy for the daughters in the early scenes, and his presentation explicitly rejects the tradition ( as Daniel Rosenthal describes it ) of playing Lear as " poor old white-haired patriarch ".

According to Van Vliet, the 28 songs on the album were written in a single 8½ hour session at the piano, an instrument which he had no skill in playing, an approach Mike Barnes compared to John Cage's " maverick irreverence toward classical tradition ", though band members have stated that the songs were written over the course of about a year, beginning around December 1967.

While the tradition of soldiers playing music while marching into battle had ended soon after the American Civil War ( mid 19th century ), military bands continued to perform marches during related ceremonies and other events.

This actually spawned a whole new tradition of playing marches as a source of entertainment.

The film's plot can claim a tradition in fiction reaching back to Alexandre Duval's " Shakespeare amoureux ou la Piece a l ' Etude " ( 1804 ), in which Shakespeare falls in love with an actress who is playing Richard III.

He played with several different outfits including those of Frankie Duson and Sonny Celestin, and he was part of the New Orleans tradition of playing jazz during funeral marches.

The football team plays South Shore Voke for its Thanksgiving Day football game, having recently ended its tradition of playing East Bridgewater, who has opted to play Pembroke High instead.

Although they now had a modern facility in Green Bay, the Packers continued their tradition ( since 1933 ) of playing two or three regular-season games a year at County Stadium in Milwaukee, 120 miles to the south.

Rainey, who too was visually impaired, likely taught Tatum in the classical tradition, as Rainey did not improvise and discouraged his students from playing jazz.

Lyons's playing, strongly influenced by jazz icon Charlie Parker, retained a strong blues sensibility and helped keep Taylor's increasingly avant garde music tethered to the jazz tradition.

NASA began a tradition of playing music to astronauts during the Gemini program, and first used music to wake up a flight crew during Apollo 15.

NASA began a tradition of playing music to astronauts during the Gemini program, and first used music to wake up a flight crew during Apollo 15.

NASA began a tradition of playing music to astronauts during the Gemini program, and first used music to wake up a flight crew during Apollo 15.

NASA began a tradition of playing music to astronauts during the Gemini program, and first used music to wake up a flight crew during Apollo 15.

In rubber bridge, partnerships may be self-determined or decided by a cut of the cards, the two highest cut playing against the two lowest, and the first dealer is the player cutting the highest card.

Those playing it may agree to change the rules as they wish.

When playing without this rule, a player may generally make any shot desired, and as long as a disc remains completely inside the outer line of the playfield, it remains on the board.

If a player is playing don't pass instead of pass, they may also lay odds by placing chips behind the don't pass line.

Some content-control software includes time control functions that empowers parents to set the amount of time that child may spend accessing the Internet or playing games or other computer activities.

If resurrection is not possible or not desired, the player may instead create a new PC to resume playing the game.

Occasionally, one may find a domino set made of card stock like that for playing cards.

While playing in thumb position, few players use the fourth ( little ) finger, as it is too weak to produce a reliable tone ( this is also true for cellists ), although some extreme chords or extended techniques, especially in contemporary music, may necessitate its use.

By now he had taken over the Earl of Warwick's playing company, which may have included the famous comedian, Richard Tarleton.

Her almost 60-year career crossed most media frontiers with both supporting and leading roles, but she may be best-remembered for playing the sardonic but engaging title character, a high school teacher, on Our Miss Brooks, and as the Rydell High School principal in the films Grease and Grease 2.

Fiddlers tend to play fast and make heavy use of staccato bowing and may from time to time " play the bass ," meaning a second fiddler may play a melody an octave below where a first fiddler is playing it.

It can thus be played without too much trouble by trumpet and cornet players, though some adaptation to their playing style may be needed.

For instance, a player may bluff by playing a pair of aces as if it were a straight, touch, or full house.

The term football club is the most commonly used for a sports club which is an organised or incorporated body with a president, committee and a set of rules responsible for ensuring the continued playing existence of one or more teams which are selected for regular competition play ( and which may participate in several different divisions or leagues ).

Tackling is permitted as long as the tackler does not make contact with the attacker or his stick before playing the ball ( contact after the tackle may also be penalised if the tackle was made from a position where contact was inevitable ).

Keith suggests in his autobiography " Life " that Mick Jagger may have been the real driver for Parson ' departure given that Keith spent so much time playing music with Gram.

People who enjoy playing sports may be amateur athletes who play recreationally.

The fifth finger may also have been used on earlier, more lightly strung modern harps: Madame de Genlis, for example, in her Méthode, published in Paris in the early nineteenth century, promotes the use of all five fingers, while Roslyn Rensch suggests that Mlle de Guînes, the harpist for whom Mozart wrote his Concerto for Flute and Harp, might occasionally have used all five fingers when playing the harp.

In Egypt, 4000-year-old carvings feature teams with sticks and a projectile, hurling dates to before 1272 BC in Ireland, and there is a depiction from c. 600 BC in Ancient Greece where the game may have been called kerētízein or kerhtízein ( κερητίζειν ) because it was played with a horn or horn-like stick ( kéras, κέρας ) In Inner Mongolia, China, the Daur people have been playing beikou, a game similar to modern field hockey, for about 1, 000 years.

The term jazz guitar may refer to either a type of guitar or to the variety of guitar playing styles used in the various genres which are commonly termed " jazz ".

Bridges have been known to break during playing, and with some older instruments which have the surface where the bridges rest being worn due to much use, the bridges may fall during playing, especially when pressing strings.

In many orchestras, patrons may see the harpist playing a gold version of this harp.

In the 1960s, Lyon & Healy introduced a smaller lever harp, the " Troubadour ", a 36-string harp that is designed for young beginners, who have smaller hands and may find playing a concert harp difficult, as well as hobbyists.