Since 2007, HGOco has commissioned 14 operas and two song cycles, most of them based on the stories of the city's immigrants.
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Nevertheless, of the two Beyonce song nominations, it seems odd that " Halo" is getting a Record of the Year nomination while " Single Ladies" is getting Song of the Year.
Just as Eurovision's organisers are planning a two-tier song contest from next year, with only those countries that survive a qualifying round going through to the finals, the convention has been discussing a two-tier European Commission, in which smaller countries would lose their automatic right to nominate a commissioner.
When Lindsey Stirling and Peter Hollens collaborated on their Skyrim theme song cover video, the two musicians performed every aspect of the song.
But let's jump forward to 1957, when the song met two extraordinary music masters.
Two minutes into the song, after a solo, Townshend whipped into his trademark windwill on his Stratocaster.
As a stunned populace watched in disbelief, the pair warbled the children's song "Two Tigers" on national television.
Roberts wraps it up, ending the song with two mellow yet mysterious chords that sound neither major nor minor.
Every day for the next two weeks, Song of the Day will showcase a track by an artist playing the South by Southwest music festival.
In a report for Rio Tinto and the Australian National University, Ross Garnaut and Ligang Song, two economists, argue that by 2020 China's demand for metals may increase by the equivalent of the industrial world's annual total demand now.
Two criminal drifters, Song and Tang, have developed a scam: they befriend one of the many uprooted men looking for work and tell him that they know of a job at a rural mine, but that the man must pretend to be their brother in order to be hired.
No one involved in the creation of "Love Me Do" or "Dr. No" would have expected that either would be anything more than quick money spinners -- a throwaway two-minute pop song and a low-budget adaptation of a cheap paperback attempting to cash in on the Cold War appetite for espionage thrillers.
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If you're not a country fan, the song comes in two versions.
Houston, which has finished last in the majors each of the last two seasons, decided the song would be its postgame music after wins this season.
"But the fact that two species have the same song is actually a pretty weird finding, " said Joe Tobias from Oxford's Edward Grey Institute, who led the research.
Well, the song is probably two minutes long, if that.
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Arsenal, who had Alex Song sent off for two yellow cards, missed a penalty when Tomas Rosicky blazed over after Ahmed Elmohamady had fouled Samir Nasri.
In 2002, he was named ASCAP's songwriter of the year, and a few years after he earned two Grammy nominations for album and song of the year.
Holly has generated a lot of value since then, spinning off its pipeline assets into a master limited partnership, and acquiring two refineries in Tulsa for a song and combining them.
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For the 2009 Oscars, the number of nominations in the original song category was limited to two per film to make it more competitive.
Their subsequent arrest only reinforced people's perceptions of the Pistols - both positive and negative - and the song ended up at number two.
Jordan, who is bidding to represent the UK at the Eurovision Song Contest, has a two-year-old son, who was born blind, with footballer Dwight Yorke.
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The news report - which ran for almost 40 seconds longer than the song itself - also included two views from members of the public on the controversy, with one saying it was "quite funny", while the other said it was "disgraceful".
But just a few weeks into 2005, this song will be on one of two full length CDs he will release.
The researchers from Oxford University believe this is the first evidence of two separate species having evolved the same territorial song.
The team made detailed comparisons of the watermarked and unwatermarked versions of the first song, and then analysed the two watermarked songs using their knowledge of past techniques for watermarking.
Our radio explanation also includes two bits from an old Tin Pan Alley song by Yip Harburg (who wrote the lyrics for the Wizard of Oz score) and Vernon Duke, called "April in Paris" played by the Count Basie Band.
You can express yourself in two hours and not in a three-minute song.
At the height of the disco craze, the Bee Gees were number one and number two with "Night Fever" and that other song that just wouldn't die.
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