An in-demand bassist who studied under Charlie Haden and has performed with a rich roster of talents that includes Ani DiFranco, Andrew Bird, Nels Cline and Scott Amendola, Todd Sickafoose's knotted and lovely 2008 album, "Tiny Resistors," was one of the top jazz releases of that year.
Like Corden, Ferguson was deemed an unlikely choice when he was tapped for "The Late Late Show" in 2004 and was at the time known for talents that included pretty much everything but hosting a talk show.
At Rada she was part of a coterie of talent that included Andrea Riseborough, Andrew Buchan and Ben Whishaw.
Junior to and often feistier than the Metropolitan Opera, City Opera was a spawning ground for top opera talent that included Beverly Sills, Placido Domingo, Renee Fleming and Samuel Ramey.
Bach's Band Johann Sebastian Bach is the unifying force that brings together a lineup of talent that includes Pablo Casals, Glenn Gould, Jascha Heifetz, Ton Koopman, Herbert von Karajan and Wanda Landowska.
What she did was nurture a wide variety of talent that included Harry H Corbett (the junior half of Steptoe and Son), Barbara Windsor, Victor Spinetti and Brian Murphy.
As John Adams writes in The Knoxville News-Sentinel, Baylor looked a lot like some of Summitt's dominating Lady Vols teams over the years, except with a new level of talent that includes the transcendent Brittney Griner.
Although not to the same all-conquering level, Poland may be the latest to adopt this theory, with the co-hosts' boasting a new wave of talent that includes the Borussia Dortmund teammates Robert Lewandowski, Lukasz Piszczek and Jakub Blaszczykowski.
KickTV is a channel dedicated to presenting original programming and features with on-air talent that includes Conrad; the former Liverpool player and New England Revolution coach Steve Nicol; the former Houston and current Bolton midfielder Stuart Holden; and the English Olympian Jo Ankier.
"However, any attempts to dismantle industry protections that have created an incredible pool of talent that includes the likes of Cate Blanchett, Geoffrey Rush, Chris Hemsworth and Joel Edgerton will be fiercely resisted by MEAA and our members," Angus said.
