* 1944 – Leonard Slatkin, American conductor and composer

* Complete variation performed by the Philharmonia Orchestra conducted by Leonard Slatkin in 1995 BBC Proms.

The Choir has appeared at the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts in Washington, DC and the Lincoln Center and Carnegie Hall ( in New York City ) on numerous occasions, performing and premiering works such as John Corigliano ’ s “ Poem On His Birthday ,” “ Too Hot to Handel ” arranged by Broadway composers Bob Christianson and Gary Anderson and Hannibal Lokumbe ’ s “ African Portraits ,” led by music director Leonard Slatkin, as part of the Kennedy Center ’ s African Festival.

Besides visiting composers, some legendary conductors have led the orchestra, including Artur Rodziński, Walter Damrosch, Sir Thomas Beecham, John Barbirolli, Andre Kostelanetz, Lorin Maazel, Leonard Bernstein, Guido Cantelli, Victor de Sabata, Dmitri Mitropoulos, Erich Leinsdorf, George Szell, Charles Münch, Paul Paray, Rafael Kubelík, Daniel Barenboim, István Kertész, Karl Richter, Antal Doráti, Leonard Slatkin, Andrew Davis, Nikolaus Harnoncourt, Yevgeny Svetlanov, Simon Rattle, Kurt Masur, Neeme Järvi, Kiril Kondrashin, Eugene Ormandy, Georg Solti, Alex Shkurko, Michael Kamen, Christopher Hogwood and Bruno Walter

The final concert in the opera house, a Beethoven program conducted by Leonard Slatkin, was in June 1980.

Leonard Slatkin

In 2000, Davis was succeeded by Leonard Slatkin, whose relationship with the players was uneasy, and whose repertoire was not generally liked by the orchestra or the audiences ; he was felt to emphasise twentieth century American music at the expense of cutting-edge modern works and the central European classics.

The Orchestra has also had many distinguished guest conductors, including Leonard Bernstein, Aaron Copland, Edward Elgar, Morton Gould, Walter Hendl, Erich Kunzel, Erich Leinsdorf, Charles Munch, Eugene Ormandy, André Previn, Sergei Prokofiev, Sergei Rachmaninoff, Maurice Ravel, Arnold Schoenberg, Leonard Slatkin, Leopold Stokowski, Richard Strauss, George Szell, Michael Tilson Thomas, Bruno Walter, and John Williams.

After a five-year search, the DSO announced on October 7, 2007, the appointment of Leonard Slatkin as its twelfth music director.

* Leonard Slatkin ( 2008 – present )

Recordings include Eugene Onegin with Sinfonia 21 and Edward Downes, Salad Days and Walton's Henry V with the BBC Symphony Orchestra and Leonard Slatkin.

Leonard Slatkin, chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra from 2000 – 2004, expressed a desire to tone down the nationalism of the Last Night somewhat, and on the Last Night of the seasons from 2002 until 2007 Rule Britannia has only been heard as part of Henry Wood's Fantasia on British Sea Songs ( another piece traditional to the Last Night ) rather than separately.

In June 2007, the orchestra announced the appointment of American conductor Leonard Slatkin as the orchestra's principal guest conductor, as of the 2008-2009 season.

** William Hoekstra ( engineer ), Leonard Slatkin ( conductor ) & the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for Copland: Music for Films ( The Red Pony, Our Town, Etc.

** Jay David Saks ( producer ), Leonard Slatkin ( conductor ) & the Saint Louis Symphony Orchestra for Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat

** Paul Goodman ( engineer ), Leonard Slatkin ( conductor ) & the Saint Louis Symphony for Prokofiev: Symphony No. 5 in B Flat, Op.

** Joanna Nickrenz ( producer ), Leonard Slatkin ( conductor ), Michelle De Young, various artists, the Washington Choral Arts Society Male Chorus, the Washington Oratorio Society Male Chorus & the National Symphony Orchestra for Corigliano: Of Rage and Remembrance

** Lawrence Rock, William Hoekstra ( engineers ), Leonard Slatkin ( conductor ) & the Saint Louis Symphony for Copland: Dance Symphony ; Short Symphony ; Organ Symphony

The piece, titled The Melody of Rhythm ; Concerto premiered on 9 September 2006 with Leonard Slatkin conducting the Nashville Symphony.

On the recording, the orchestral parts are performed by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra, with Leonard Slatkin once again holding the baton.

In 2006, Leonard Slatkin and the University of Michigan School of Music Symphony won a Grammy for Songs Of Innocence And Of Experience.

* An American Cantata ( for Orchestra and 2000 Voices ( 2000 ), commissioned by the Kennedy Center – a choral symphony in three movements, which premiered on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial by the National Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Leonard Slatkin

British zoologist Leonard Goodwin claimed most hamsters kept in the United Kingdom were descended from the colony he introduced for medical research purposes during the Second World War.

Leonard Nimoy felt that the act was too reminiscent of a TV western ( some accounts say that he objected to a pacifistic Vulcan taking such overtly hostile action ), and thus introduced the famous non-lethal maneuver.

Boxing fans were first introduced to their sport on pay-per-view with the Muhammad Ali vs. Joe Frazier fight " Thrilla In Manila ", there was also another in 1980, when Roberto Duran defeated Sugar Ray Leonard.

Doctors was first shown on BBC One on 26 March 2000 with an episode entitled " Letting Go ", Dr. Brendan McGuire is introduced as the head partner at a general practice, The Riverside Surgery, in the Midland town of Letherbridge with his wife Kate ( Maggie Cronin ) as Office Manager and a team of young doctors ; Dr. Steve Rawlings ( Mark Frost ), Dr. Helen Thompson ( Corrine Wicks ), Dr. Rana Mistry ( Akbar Kurtha ) and Dr. Caroline Powers ( Jacqueline Leonard ).

Her time with the orchestra continued the programming of American repertoire from Litton's tenure, which she often introduced to the audience from the podium in the style of her mentor Leonard Bernstein.

In addition to seven original songs, the album included three covers: " Lilac Wine ", based on the version by Nina Simone ; " Corpus Christi Carol ", from Benjamin Britten's A Boy Was Born, Op. 3, a composition that Buckley was introduced to in high school, based on a 15th century hymn ; and " Hallelujah " by Leonard Cohen, based on John Cale's recording from the Cohen tribute album, I'm Your Fan.

When introduced, Duva said a few words to the crowd and spoke kindly about one of the bouts that took place comparing it to a Hagler / Leonard fight.

It was first introduced by Leonard Kleinrock in 1961.

The show was compered by Leonard Sachs who introduced the acts.

Another paper by Hartmanis from 1977, with Leonard Berman, introduced the still-unsolved Berman – Hartmanis conjecture that all NP-complete languages are polynomial time isomorphic.

Combining the three elements of the prior probability, the data, and the loss function then allows decisions to be based on maximizing the subjective expected utility, a concept introduced by Leonard J.

Grahame Clark ( 1961 ) wrote of a " palace economy introduced from Crete ...." Chester Starr ( 1961 ) said " Artisans and peasants were largeley embraced in a palace economy under royal control, ...." Leonard Palmer ( 1963 ) referred to the " highly centralized ' palace economy '" of Knossos and Pylos.

Unlike more general concepts of autology and self-reference, this particular distinction and opposition of " autological " and " heterological words " is uncommon in linguistics for describing linguistic phenomena or classes of words, but is current in logic and philosophy where it was introduced by Kurt Grelling and Leonard Nelson for describing a semantic paradox, later known as Grelling's paradox or the Grelling-Nelson paradox .< ref > Grelling and Nelson used the following definition when first publishing their paradox in 1908: " Let < big > φ </ big >( M ) be the word that denotes the concept defining M. This word is either an element of M or not.

The method of variation of parameters was introduced by the Swiss-born mathematician Leonard Euler ( 1707-1783 ) and completed by the Italian-French mathematician Joseph-Louis Lagrange ( 1736-1813 ).

Leonard Bloomfield introduced the concept of " Minimal Free Forms " in 1926.

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The original Mini is considered a British icon of the 1960s and has since been voted the second most influential Car of the Century | car of the 20th century, behind the Ford Model T. 1952: Professor Charlotte Anderson ( Leonard Parsons Professor of Paediatrics and Child Health ) is one of the team who prove that the glutens in wheat cause coeliac disease, from this gluten-free diets are introduced.

In 2004, Gilbert was cast in NBC ’ s The Contender, working along side Sylvester Stallone, Sugar Ray Leonard and a mass of talented boxers and was introduced to Hollywood ’ s elite.

( Appropriately, a Friars ' Club roast in honor of Rickles was emceed by Jack E. Leonard, who introduced Rickles as " a man who's been doing my act for about 12 years now!

Then Leonard Colebrook introduced it as a cure for puerperal fever.

Travelling there with Hastings, he is introduced by their host to Admiral Sir Harry Weardale, the First Sea Lord who is a guest at Sharples together with his wife and son, Leonard.

In descriptive linguistics, the term was first introduced by Leonard Bloomfield to account for uses of synsemantic words as autosemantic in sentences such as I'm tired of your ifs and buts.