Leo V, byname Leo the Armenian (died Dec. 25, 820, Constantinople) Byzantine emperor responsible for inaugurating the second Iconoclastic period in the Byzantine Empire.
The label was singularly responsible for inaugurating the second wave of Jamaican ska music, which is often referred to as 2 Tone.
December 25, 820 Istanbul, Turkey Leo V, byname Leo the Armenian (died Dec. 25, 820, Constantinople) Byzantine emperor responsible for inaugurating the second Iconoclastic period in the Byzantine Empire.
Explaining his motivation for inaugurating the program, the Signature's artistic director, James Houghton, talked about a growing sense of frustration when he mulled the usual worries about developing new audiences.
We have flax to thank not only for inaugurating the history of fashion generally but also -- oddly enough -- for bringing about the oversize, silken "water sleeves" that in the hands (or rather, over the hands) of a great actress of Chinese opera can be far more expressive than Britney Spears's navel.
Credited for inaugurating the Taiwan New Wave of Cinema along with Edward Yang and Tsai Ming-liang, Hou Hsiao-hsien is not widely recognized as a feminist filmmaker or at least not yet.
He was cited for a number of accomplishments that were "responsible in a large measure for inaugurating a new era in cardiovascular surgery".
He has big plans for revamping the affiliated Brooklyn Philharmonic Orchestra, for strengthening BAM's offerings in opera, and for inaugurating a workshop program in which visual artists would be the intiators of performances, rather than mere collaborators in them.
Moving from the management of that orchestra to the BBC in 1972, I was grateful to Henze for inaugurating, with two programmes, the studio series The Composer Conducts – and he was certainly one of those who could.
From 1996 onwards, he excoriated Birt and his apparatchiks for inaugurating "a decline in morale and consequently the quality of programmes" (as he once put it in a book review).
