Briefings containing "Van Cliburn Classical Pianist"
Norm Van Lier—American Basketball Player
Norm Van Lier Takes His Audiences by the Horns A charismatic public speaker, Norm Van Lier is best known as former NBA guard for the Chicago Bulls from 1969 to 1979. ... A talented sports personality, Van Lier was awarded an Emmy for his television work, and recently appeared in the feature film Barbershop 2. Van Lier returns to television as co-studio analyst for the Bulls' 2005/06 Season, along with former Bulls center Stacey King, for Comcast SportsNets new half-hour Bulls Pre-Game Live. ... Former Chicago Bulls guard Norm Van Lier
http://nmmarketingbiz.com/celebrity-sports-speakers-bio.htm
George Van Horn Moseley—United States Army Officer
George Van Horn Moseley (born in Evanston, Illinois, on September 28, 1874; died November 7, 1960) was a United States Army general.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Van_Horn_Moseley
Burt Bacharach—pianist
Burt Bacharach (born May 12, 1928 in Kansas City, Missouri) is an American pianist and composer. He studied music at McGill University and Mannes School of Music . In the 1950s and the early 1960s he was the pianist and bandleader for Marlene Dietrich. Bacharach's music has been sung by a number of popular singers including the Carpenters, Aretha Franklin, Jack Jones, Tom Jones, Dusty ...
http://www.ezgeography.com/encyclopedia/Burt_Bacharach
Woody Van Dyke
Woody Van Dyke, the director, always worked fast, and Myrna Loy recalled that all the movies they worked together on were made at frantic pace.
http://www.mininova.org/tor/1149167
Michael Van Swaaij—eBay
We‘ll remind Michael van Swaaij was holding a post of Skype SEO after Niklas Zennstrom, head and cofounder of Skype had left in October. Despite this disposition Michael van Swaaij will remain fully involved into Skype's activity.
http://www.ecommerce-journal.com/news/global_changes_in_ebay_managemen...
Van Buren State Park—Ohio
Van Buren’s State Park website sucks horribly. Looking at their website makes me NOT want to visit the park. I need to get my buddy Allen to go for another lake shore flight this summer, I have much better photography equipment this time around!
http://michpics.wordpress.com/2007/06/15/michigan-shoreline-tour-van-b...
Jennifer Higdon—20th Century Classical Composer
The music of composer Jennifer Higdon communicates with the audience. It is just one reason why her orchestral piece, Blue Cathedral, will receive 20 performances this year. Jennifer Higdon Philadelphia-based composer Jennifer Higdon has entered the concert music big leagues with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra's recording of her City Scape and Concerto for Orchestra (Telarc). The album, conducted by Robert Spano, has garnered four Grammy nominations, including "Best Classical Album," "Best Orchestral Performance" and, for Higdon's Concerto for Orchestra, "Best Classical Contemporary Composition." ... "My dad, an illustrator, worked at home and there was always a lot of rock music playing –the Beatles, Bob Marley, Simon & Garfunkel," Higdon remembers. "There happened to be a flute laying around the house that I picked up when I was fifteen and I taught myself to play.
http://www.ascap.com/playback/2005/winter/radar-higdon.html
Nick Van Exel—African American Basketball Player
Nick Van Exel is the kind of player teams look to add in order to get that extra kick for a playoff run, not when they are forecast as last in their divisions.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m0FCJ/is_1_32/ai_n6332468
Theodore Van Kirk—American World War II Veteran
Theodore Van Kirk: We dropped hundreds of thousands of leaflets over Japan that did notify the Japanese people that they would face a rain, I think it was; the rain of ruin from the air, and thats what that first leaflet said. The drops then that were made between Hiroshima and Nagasaki were just a continuation of those. Brent Clough: Theodore Dutch Van Kirk, navigator of the B29 bomber, the Enola Gay, which left from this airfield, here on the island of Tinian, on August 6, 1945, to drop a single bomb on the Japanese mainland.
http://www.abc.net.au/rn/arts/radioeye/features/pacificfootsteps/progr...
Giovanni van Bronckhorst—La Liga Footballer
Giovanni van Bronckhorst came through the ranks at Feyenoord’s Varkenoord youth complex, making his first team debut in 1994. Despite his tender age, the left back was one of the club’s most important players for four seasons, and a big hit with the fans. He left Feyenoord in 1998 after 141 official appearances, with a Dutch cup medal on his mantelpiece. With his new club Glasgow Rangers he won two Scottish titles, before moving south to Arsenal, where he won an English Premier league winner’s medal. In August 2003 he joined FC Barcelona and in Spain he realised his full potential, becoming one of Europe’s leading players. Two Spanish titles and a Champions league triumph (2006) with Barça were added to Van Bronckhorst’s role of honour, which also includes 67 international caps. He has scored four times for his country. Giovanni van Bronckhorst is Feyenoord’s fourth close-season signing after Luigi Bruins, Andwélé Slory and Tim De Cler. He will wear the number eight shirt.
http://www.feyenoord.com/pages/newsdetail/s1/10010000013607-999-100100...
