Jeffrey Orleans, the Ivy League's executive director, searched for answers.
So entranced that the director searched out Astatke in New York, then wrote an Ethiopian character into the movie to accommodate his music.
With music supervisor George Drakoulias, the director searched for the right pop songs that reflected the era, including Three Dog Night's cover of "Easy to Be Hard" because "it's so ingrained in my psyche as being what the summer of '69 sounded like in northern California".
She was discovered by an MGM casting director searching Los Angeles singing schools for someone to portray the opera star Ernestine Schumann-Heink as a child.
In my first two days this year, I saw major West End and Broadway producers and an off-Broadway artistic director searching for the next big thing.
In Ulysses' Gaze (1995), Harvey Keitel plays a director searching for three lost reels by the pioneering Macedonian film-makers Ianachia and Milton Manaki.
AMSkier became aware of the Internet issue several months ago when a camp director searching MySpace found his camp's name over a photograph of a naked woman, Mr. Friedman said.
Elsewhere across the United States, major orchestras have ended protracted music director searches in the last three years by selecting marquee names over up-and-comers.
It takes the form of an animated documentary in which the director searches through lost memories of his experiences as a teenage Israeli soldier in the 1982 war with Lebanon.
He has come a long way in a short time, and his name surfaced in connection with a recent round of music director searches at the most prestigious American orchestras.
