Analeigh Tipton
Tipton in 2008
Born	Analeigh Christian Tipton (1988-11-09) November 9, 1988 (age 23) Minneapolis, Minnesota, United States
Nationality	American
Occupation	Actress, model
Years active	2006-present (model) 2009–present (actress)
Agent	Abrams Artists Agency Ford Models
Height	5 ft 9.5 in (1.77 m)[1]

Analeigh Christian Tipton (born November 9, 1988) is an American figure skater, actress,^[2] and fashion model, most noted for placing third on Cycle 11 of America's Next Top Model and for starring in the 2011 film Crazy, Stupid, Love.

Life and career[link]

1988-2007: Early life and figure skating[link]

Analeigh Tipton was born on November 9, 1988 in Minneapolis, Minnesota.^[3] When Tipton was 8, her family relocated to Sacramento, California,^[3] where she later attended St. Francis High School and the New York Film Academy's Film School program at Universal Studios, Los Angeles.^{[citation needed]} She studied at Marymount College in Palos Verdes, California.^[4][5] Tipton was also a supporter of the Invisible Children.^{[citation needed]} She participated in the Global Night Commute in the Cesar Chavez park.^{[citation needed]}

Prior to America's Next Top Model, Tipton was signed to I Model & Talent in Los Angeles^[6] and walked in Los Angeles Fashion Week Fall 2008 for designer, Kelly Nishimoto for her Fall 2008 collection, Imasu.^[7]

Tipton began skating at the age of two and a half,^[3] and competed in four U.S. Synchronized Skating Championships.^{[citation needed]} Later, she and her pair partner, Phillip Cooke,^[8] became two-time regional champions, and competed at the U.S. Junior Figure Skating Championships twice on the Juvenile level.^[8] She retired from competitive skating at 16 but continued to skate in charity ice shows for AIDS foundations and to rebuild a rink damaged in a fire.^[3][9]

[edit] 2008-2010: America's Next Top Model and modeling career

Tipton placed third on Cycle 11 of America's Next Top Model in 2008.^[10] She was recruited through Myspace and was asked to audition in Los Angeles.^[3] At the beginning of the show, Tipton revealed that she once encountered sex traffickers posing as modeling agents. She was then sold to a Saudi Arabian prince but managed to get out of the situation before the deal was finalized.^[5][11] After landing in the bottom 2 in the episode "You're Beautiful, Now Change" for not using her ice-skating moves to her advantage, she rebounded and appeared in the top three for seven consecutive weeks.^{[citation needed]} Tipton was called first twice, one for the first CoverGirl commercial, which Tyra Banks deemed "the best CoverGirl commercial in the history of America's Next Top Model."^[12] She also won the go-sees challenge, by booking all three of her go-sees she went to and getting back on time.^[13] In a challenge won by Elina Ivanova, Ivanova shared her prize with Marjorie Conrad and Tipton; they appeared alongside each other in the December 2008/January 2009 issue of Seventeen magazine.^{[citation needed]} She was subsequently eliminated in the finale after forgetting her lines in the second CoverGirl commercial, which left Samantha Potter and McKey Sullivan to walk in the finale runway show.^[12]

Tipton signed with Ford Models in Los Angeles and Abrams Artists Agency, in both the commercial and theatrical divisions.^[1] Additionally, she appeared on Spain's Marie Claire, Seventeen magazine's December 2008-January 2009 edition, and a several page spread in Maxim.^[14] She has also done catalog work for Forever 21, Guess, Three Dots and featured in the CampusGirls USA 'Girls of Pac 10 Conference' calendar which is published by her cousin and raises money for breast cancer.

In 2010, Tipton modeled Geren Ford's pre-fall 2010 collection. For Los Angeles Fashion Week she walked for Skingraft and David Alexander for the S/S 2010 season.^{[citation needed]} Tipton's other runway credits include Mercedes Benz Fall Fashion Show, Ticket Fashion Show, Nick Verreos Line, Guess?, and America's Next Top Model obsessed fashion show.^{[citation needed]}

2010-present: Acting career[link]

Tipton and Samantha Potter appeared as guest stars on the television series The Big Bang Theory, in the episode "The Panty Piñata Polarization."^[15] She made her film debut in The Green Hornet, where she acted alongside Cameron Diaz and Seth Rogen, which was released on January 14, 2011.^[16] Tipton also played a babysitter who has a crush on Steve Carell's character in Crazy, Stupid, Love., alongside Julianne Moore, Marisa Tomei, Emma Stone, and Ryan Gosling.^[17] Her role in Crazy, Stupid, Love. garnered some praise from the critics, as she was called a "face to watch" by The New York Times,^[18] and was featured in Nylon, Details, Teen Vogue and Interview.^{[19][clarification needed]}

Tipton, who is studying film,^{[citation needed]} is also the head supervisor for an upcoming film called Stealing Second.^[5]

She was cast in the third season of HBO's TV comedy Hung, portraying Sandee, a young gigolo's scheming fiancee.^[20]

Tipton will star in the zombie-apocalyptic horror film Warm Bodies; directed by Jonathan Levine. Tipton is set to star along actors Dave Franco, Teresa Palmer and John Malkovich. Tipton will play Palmer’s character's best friend.^[21]

Filmography[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

• America's Next Top Model portfolio
• Analeigh Tipton at the Internet Movie Database

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Coordinates: 52°31′33″N 2°04′30″W / 52.5259°N 2.0751°W / 52.5259; -2.0751

Tipton
Tipton  Tipton shown within the West Midlands
Population	47,000
OS grid reference	SO9592
Metropolitan borough	Sandwell
Metropolitan county	West Midlands
Region	West Midlands
Country	England
Sovereign state	United Kingdom
Post town	TIPTON
Postcode district	DY4
Police	West Midlands
Fire	West Midlands
Ambulance	West Midlands
EU Parliament	West Midlands
List of places: UK • England • West Midlands

Tipton is a town in the Sandwell borough of the West Midlands, England, with a population of around 47,000. Tipton is located about halfway between Birmingham and Wolverhampton. It is a part of the West Midlands conurbation and is a part of the Black Country.

Historically within Staffordshire, Tipton was an urban district until 1938, when it became a municipal borough. The vast majority of the Borough of Tipton was transferred into West Bromwich County Borough in 1966, although the Tividale part of the town became part of Warley. Along with the rest of West Bromwich and Warley, Tipton became part of the Sandwell Metropolitan Borough in 1974 and remains within this local authority to this day.

Tipton was once one of the most heavily industrialised towns in the Black Country.^{[citation needed]} But most of its factories closed during the 1980s and new housing estates have been built on the site of many former factories, the new private homes have seen an upturn in Tipton's fortunes by rising house prices.

The far right British National Party has recently performed well in municipal elections in Tipton, currently having two elected councillors; one in Princes End and one in Tividale, as well as a third councillor, Simon Smith, who was elected in Great Bridge but has since left the party and serves as an independent member. Tividale has a relatively high percentage of ethnic minority residents, mostly Muslims of Pakistani origin, but the Princes End and Great Bridge areas are predominantly occupied by white English residents.

History[link]

Grade II listed Tipton District Library, which was built in 1905 but has not been used as a library since the service was moved to a new site in the town centre in 2000

Until the 18th century, Tipton was a collection of small hamlets.^{[citation needed]} Industrial growth started in the town when ironstone and coal were discovered in the 1770s. A number of canals were built through the town and later railways, which greatly accelerated the pace of industrialisation.

The engineer James Watt built his first steam engine^{[citation needed]} in or very near Tipton in the 1770s, which was used to pump water from the mines. In 1780, James Keir and Alexander Blair set up a chemical works there, making vast quantities of alkali and soap.

The massive expansion in iron and coal industries led to the population of Tipton expanding rapidly through the 19th century, going from 4,000 at the beginning of the century to 30,000 at the end.^{[citation needed]} Tipton gained a reputation as being "the quintessence of the Black Country" because chimneys of local factories belched heavy pollution into the air, whilst houses and factories were built side by side. Most of the traditional industries which once dominated the town have since disappeared.

The Black Country Living Museum in nearby Dudley re-creates life in the early 20th century Black Country, in original buildings which have been painstakingly rebuilt and furnished. There is a residential canal basin at the museum - Tipton was once known as the Venice of the Midlands because it had so many canals, although some of the 'minor' canals in the town were filled-in during the 1970s. The canals today form a vital cycling, wildlife and leisure facility.

The area has a distinctive spoken dialect, different from the Birmingham accent. The richest of Tipton speech is very similar to that which Shakespeare, or even Chaucer, would have spoken.^{[citation needed]} Those who grew up here can often tell the difference between Tipton speech and the speech of people from other Black Country towns.

The town has retained a traditional horse-keeping culture; private horses are kept freely on public land and are occasionally 'trotted' on roads (pulling a rider on a lightweight racing cart). There are also "tatters" (i.e. rag-and-bone men), who also have links to the horse culture. Despite persistent council attempts to clear horses off public land, horses still appear in parks and on canal banks from time to time.

Until 1966, the town had its own council. The headquarters were originally based in a 19th century building on Owen Street, near the railway station, until 1935 when it relocated to the former Bean offices site on Sedgley Road West, straddling the border with Coseley. The council remained at this site for the next 31 years, until the dissolution of the borough council in April 1966. The building was later taken over by Dudley College who retained it until about 1993. It has since been occupied by various businesses.

The bulk of the Tipton borough was absorbed into an expanded West Bromwich borough, although a fragment of the town near the border with Coseley (including the former council offices and the bulk of the new Foxyards housing estate) was absorbed into Dudley and most of the Tividale area became part of the new County Borough of Warley. In this reorganisation, the township of Tipton was expanded around Princes End to take over a section of the former Coseley urban district.

Since 1974, Tipton has been part of the Metropolitan Borough of Sandwell, which was created by a merger of the former West Bromwich and Warley boroughs.

Local industry[link]

Tipton was one of the key towns in the Industrial Revolution of the 19th century, and even during the 18th century it had established its first key industries. This included the world's first successful steam pumping engine, which was erected at Conygre Coalworks in 1712 by industrialist Thomas Newcomen. A full size replica of the engine now exists at the Black Country Living Museum just over Tipton's borders in Dudley.^[1]

In 1800, it was a predominantly rural area with just a few coal mines and some 4,000 residents. However, mass building of factories and digging of coal mines took place, and resulted in Tipton becoming a heavily built up and industrialised area with more than 30,000 residents by the end of the 19th century. The town's population grew further in the 20th century as new housing developments, mostly by the local council but with a significant number in the private sector as well, took place.

However, coal mining had disappeared from Tipton by the mid 20th century, and the town lost a large percentage of its factories during the recessions of the 1970s and 1980s, which contributed to a rise in unemployment and poverty in the Tipton, although living conditions continued to improve.

Further industrial sites have been abandoned since the 1970s, paving the way for mass private house building on the land previously occupied by factories.^[2] This includes the town's naptha gas plant, which opened in 1965 but closed just 10 years later due to the emergence of natural gas from the North Sea. Standbridge Park housing estate was built on its site during the 1990s.^[3]

Etymology[link]

Tipton gains its name from a large slag heap to the west of town, where wagons would 'typ ye tonne of coal duste'

Public transport[link]

Buses[link]

Tipton has direct bus links with the towns of Dudley, Walsall, Stourbridge, Brierley Hill, Sedgley, Coseley, West Bromwich, Oldbury, Bilston, Wednesbury and Darlaston, though not all buses reach the town centre.

Railway[link]

Tipton has a direct rail link with the areas of Wolverhampton, Birmingham, Coventry and from 14 December 2008 this now links to Walsall. There are two railway stations - Tipton in the town centre and Dudley Port. Both are on the electrified line from Birmingham to Wolverhampton.

Tipton station started a multi-million pound refurbishment on 14 September 2009 with an estimated completion date of May 2010. The station was reopened on 28 March 2010 and all services have been resumed.

Closed lines include that from Walsall to Stourbridge, closed to all traffic in 1993. This line had served stations at Dudley Port Lower Level and Great Bridge North, but both were closed in 1964 by the Beeching Axe. The line is set to re-open during the mid- to late- 2010s as a Midland Metro expansion on one side and a goods track on the other.

The line between Great Bridge and Swan Village in nearby West Bromwich was closed in 1968 under the Beeching Axe.

The line between Princes End and Ocker Hill closed to passenger trains in 1916 but remained open to goods traffic until 1980. The closure of the railway was followed by the construction of a pedestrian walkway on the trackbed. The final stub of the line, which linked Wednesbury with Ocker Hill Power Station, was closed in 1991.

Notable people[link]

Steve Bull, who was born on the town's Moat Farm Estate on 28 March 1965, was a professional footballer who scored more than 300 goals for Wolverhampton Wanderers between 1986 and 1999, also being capped for England on several occasions.

Other footballers born in Tipton included Isaac Clarke (1915–2001), Joe Mayo (born 1953) and Mick Hoban (born 1952).

Arthur Hooper was an amateur sprinter with Tipton Harriers and a member of the England Schoolboys' team. However, he stopped training for Tipton Harriers and he became a professional footballer with Wolverhampton Wanderers amongst others.

Other sportsmen from Tipton include William Perry, a Victorian bareknuckle boxer Champion of England from 1850-57. There is a statue to Perry, known as 'the Tipton Slasher' in Coronation Gardens in Tipton centre. Jack Holden (1907–2004) was a runner for Tipton Harriers and Great Britain. Shaun Perry is a rugby union player for Bristol Rugby and England.

Norman Kendrick was a resident of Prince's End, Tipton. He was an early pioneer of the Coach Travel Industry and a civic leader for over 50 years up to his death at 75. Known as 'Ten Men' Kendrick because of his 6' 7", 21 stone frame.

Tipton boasts a couple of nineteenth-century composers, one of them, Joseph Williams, was a coalminer who lived in Watery Lane.

Sport[link]

Tipton Town football club were formed in 1948 as Ocker Hill United, adopting their current name in 1967. They currently play in the non-league Midland Alliance and made history in the 2010-11 football season by reaching the FA Cup first round proper for the first time in their history, earning a trip to Carlisle United, the League One (third highest English division) club.^[4] They were the first club that Steve Bull played for; he joined them on leaving school in 1981 and remained with them until he signed for West Bromwich Albion, then a top division club, in 1985. However, it was after signing for Wolverhampton Wanderers in November 1986 that Bull achieved fame; by the time he retired in 1999, he had scored more than 300 goals for the club. He was also capped 13 times by the England national football team between May 1989 and October 1990, scoring four goals.^[5]

Outsiders' opinion of Tipton[link]

The Newcastle upon Tyne based adult comic Viz used Tipton as a perennial butt of jokes throughout the 1990s, involving a fictitious councillor, Hugo Guthrie. Guthrie may, however, have been based on the real inter-war figure of Councillor Doughty who forbade any more pubs to open until one was opened carrying his name — the pub carrying his name, the Doughty Arms, opened in 1923 but was renamed the "Pie Factory" in 1987.

Districts[link]

• Tipton Green
• Princes End
• Tibbington
• Toll End
• Ocker Hill
• Great Bridge
• Tividale
• Tividale Quays

Education[link]

Secondary schools[link]

• RSA Academy (formerly Willingsworth High School)
• Alexandra High School and Sixth Form Centre
• Orminston Sandwell Academy

The town has three secondary schools, though in the Tipton Green area of the town a significant percentage of children attend High Arcal School in the borough of Dudley, which has been a popular choice with children living in the area since 1990. Ormiston Sandwell Academy, formed in September 2009 from Tividale High School, also takes in pupils from parts of Dudley and Oldbury.

Primary schools[link]

• Tipton Green Junior School - located in Park Lane West, Tipton Green. Started life in 1880 at a site on Sedgley Road West before relocating to Park Lane West in 1976, a new building opening that building's grounds in 2011.
• Victoria Infant School - located in Queen's Road, Tipton Green. Opened in 1995 to replace Manor Road Infant School, which was built in the 1930s. The current school exists on the site of the former Park Lane Secondary Modern School, which was later an annex for the younger pupils of Alexandra High School and Sixth Form Centre.
• Summerhill Primary School - located in Central Avenue, Tibbington, on the merger of Locarno Primary School and Prince's End Primary School.
• Tividale Primary School - located in Dudley Road West, Tividale.
• Great Bridge Primary School - located in Mount Street, Great Bridge.
• Ocker Hill Infant and Nursery School - located in Prospect Street, Ocker Hill.
• Ocker Hill Junior School - located in Gospel Oak Road, Ocker Hill.
• Glebefields Primary School - located on the Glebefields Estate, Prince's End.
• Sacred Heart RC Primary School - located in Victoria Road, Tipton Green and is Tipton's only Roman Catholic school.
• Wednesbury Oak Primary School - located off Wednesbury Oak Road.
• St Paul's Church of England Primary School - located off Robert Road.
• St Martin's Church of England Primary School - located on Upper Church Lane.
• Joseph Turner Primary School - located on Powis Avenue.
• Jubilee Park Primary School - located on Highfield Road.
• Burnt Tree Primary School - located on Hill Road.

The town has no less than 14 schools which serve the 5-11 age range, 11 of them covering the whole age range, one nursery and infant school for children aged 3-7 years, and a 7-11 junior school. In the Tipton Green area of the town, a significant number of pupils attend Foxyards Primary School just over the border in the borough of Dudley.

Religion[link]

• Tipton Family Church^[6] was established in November 1992. It is an Evangelical Christian fellowship.

Tipton Christian Church^[7] was established around 70years ago and today is a very lively Penticostal Church situated in Waterloo Street Tipton.

Public parks[link]

This section requires expansion.

• Jubilee Park - situated in Powis Avenue
• Victoria Park - situated on Victoria Road in the Tipton Green area
• Tividale Park - situated in the centre of Tividale, north of New Birmingham Road

In popular culture[link]

The area is notable for being the location of filming for the British comedy film Anita and Me, set in the 1970s.

References[link]

Tipton Sports Academy

External links[link]

• Tipton - 1911 Encyclopædia Britannica article

Adam Brody
at the 2009 Toronto International Film Festival
Born	Adam Jared Brody (1979-12-15) December 15, 1979 (age 32) San Diego, California, US
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1995–present

Adam Jared Brody (born December 15, 1979) is an American film and television actor and part time musician. He began his career in 1995, appearing on Gilmore Girls and other series, and subsequently came to fame for his role as Seth Cohen on The O.C.^[1] Brody later appeared in several film roles, including Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Thank You for Smoking, Jennifer's Body, In the Land of Women, Cop Out, and Scream 4.^[2]

Early life[link]

Brody was born in Carlsbad, San Diego County, California, the oldest son of Valerie (née Siefman), a graphic artist, and Mark Brody, a lawyer.^[3][4] His parents, both Jewish, were originally from Detroit, Michigan.^[5] He has younger twin brothers, Sean and Matt. Brody attended Wangenheim Middle School and Scripps Ranch High School, receiving "poor grades",^[6] and grew up in suburban San Diego, spending time surfing.^[7] He has said that while he was not a "Casanova", he had "cute girlfriends" and "pretty much lived at the beach".^[6] Brody attended community college for one year and dropped out at the age of nineteen, moving to Hollywood in order to become an actor.^[1] He subsequently hired an acting coach and signed with a manager.^[8]

Career[link]

At the 2005 Toronto International Film Festival

After a year of training and auditioning, Brody landed the role of Barry Williams in the 2000 TV movie Growing Up Brady. He also was in the Canadian comedy television series The Sausage Factory. In 2001, he played a small role in American Pie 2, named as "high school guy". He was one of two high school guys who get chased away from Steve Stifler's party. He was cast in recurring roles on Gilmore Girls in 2002–2003 as Dave Rygalski, Lane's bandmate and love interest before his character left to go to California, or in this case, The O.C.. In 2003, Brody wrote "Home Security" (a short film),^[7] appeared in the feature film Grind and also in a music video of a song called "Too Bad About Your Girl" by The Donnas. Still in 2003, he began playing his most famous role to date, Seth Cohen, a slightly awkward teenager, on the television show The O.C.. Brody improvised some of the character's comic dialogue.^[7] The role turned him into a teen idol, with the character having been described by the Los Angeles Times as "TV's sexiest geek"^[7] and by Time as having "redefined" the screen persona of "unapologetic" nerdiness;^[1] his character (defined by director Jon Kasdan as the "new kind of nerdy Jewish guy: both self-deprecating and self-obsessed")^[1] has since inspired scripts to describe particular characters as "Adam Brody types".^[1] The role also developed Brody a female fan following and as a result, Brody was ranked No. 17 in Independent Online's "100 Sexiest Men Alive" of 2006^[9], was twice placed on Teen People's annual list of "25 Sexiest Stars under 25", and was the first male on the cover of Elle Girl.^[1][10][10] He also appeared thrice -2003, 2004, 2005- in People's Magazine "50 Hottest Bachelors".^[11][12][13]

During the show's run, Brody appeared alongside Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt in 2005's film Mr. & Mrs. Smith and played a Hollywood studio assistant in the 2006 film adaptation of Thank You for Smoking. Brody was signed to a seven-year contract for The O.C., playing the role of Seth Cohen, where he acted much like himself. The show was eventually canceled in 2007 and ended its run in February of that year; Brody has said that he is "not unhappy" with the show's cancellation^[10] and that although he was "fortunate" to be on a successful series, he was also glad to "not be on it for 10 years".^[1] After the end of The O.C.'s run, Brody turned to a full-time film career.^[7]

Brody with Greta Gerwig and Analeigh Tipton at the 2011 Toronto International Film Festival

His next film was In the Land of Women, a romantic comedy co-starring Meg Ryan and Kristen Stewart and released on April 20, 2007. In the film, Brody plays the lead role, a writer who returns to his mother's Michigan hometown in order to take care of his sick grandmother. Brody did not have to audition for the part, but was almost unable to appear in the film because of scheduling conflicts with the second season of The O.C.; the film's director pushed filming back eight months because he wanted Brody to star.^[7][10] The same year, Brody also appeared in supporting roles in the lower budget films Smiley Face, playing a pot dealer, and The Ten, as a skydiver.^[7] He also guest appeared in the Smallville episode "Crush".

Brody, along with actor Zac Efron, was in consideration for the lead part in the film Speed Racer, a role which was eventually given to Emile Hirsch.^[1] Brody was also set to produce a remake of Revenge of the Nerds, which was canceled early during filming.^[14]

In 2009, he co-starred with Josh Lucas in Boaz Yakin's drama, Death in Love, and in Academy Award-winner Diablo Cody's new horror film Jennifer's Body, co-starring Megan Fox.

In 2010, he appeared in Kevin Smith's film Cop Out, which was shot in NYC and co-starred Bruce Willis and Tracy Morgan and then in The Romantics alongside Katie Holmes and Josh Duhamel. It was announced on July 1, 2010 that Brody landed the role of Detective Hoss in Scream 4,^[2] released in April 2011.

Brody currently voices "Woodie" in the MTV animated series Good Vibes.^[15] In January 2012, it was announced he had joined the cast of Lovelace, a biopic about the late '70s porn star Linda Lovelace which will be directed by Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman and star Amanda Seyfried and Demi Moore. Brody will portray Harry Reems.^[16]

Personal life[link]

Brody lives in Los Angeles. He dated The O.C. co-star Rachel Bilson for three years.^[7] The relationship ended in December 2006.^[17] He dated Lorene Scafaria - a screenwriter - a little bit after their meeting on the set of The Romantics^[18] although the relationship has recently ended.

Brody plays drums for the band Big Japan^[7] with actor Bret Harrison. He writes screenplays and songs during his spare time^[1] and has co-written, along with Danny Bilson and Paul DiMeo, a comic book miniseries for Wildstorm Comics called Red Menace. Brody has also volunteered as an actor with the Young Storytellers Program, which is dedicated to developing literacy, self-expression and self-esteem in elementary school children.

Brody has described himself as a "fake intellectual" and his sense of humor as sarcastic.^[1] He is a secular Jew^[19] and has stated that he "couldn't be less religious".^[3] Brody has said that when he moved to Hollywood he became "more nerdy" and embraced his "neurotic side".^[6]

Filmography[link]

Film[link]

Television[link]

Accolades[link]

References[link]

External links[link]

Wikimedia Commons has media related to: Adam Brody

• Adam Brody at the Internet Movie Database
• Works by or about Adam Brody in libraries (WorldCat catalog)

Medal record
Competitor for  Australia
Men's Field hockey
Olympic Games
Bronze	2000 Sydney	Team Competition
Champions Trophy
Gold	1999 Brisbane	Team Competition

Stephen Harris Holt (born 1974 in Darwin, Northern Territory) is a former field hockey defender and midfielder from Australia, who was a member of the team that won the bronze medal at the 2000 Summer Olympics in Sydney.

He was nicknamed Shaggy by his team mates. Holt was first selected to play for Australia as one of the 'new bloods' to compete in the 1996 Champions Trophy in Madras.

References[link]

• Profile on Hockey Australia

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Hugo Becker (born Jean Otto Eric Hugo Becker) (February 13, 1863 – July 30, 1941) was a prominent German cellist, cello teacher, and composer. He studied at a young age with Alfredo Piatti, and later Friedrich Grützmacher in Dresden.^[1]

He was born in 1863 in Strasbourg; his father Jean Becker was a famous violinist. His father tried teaching him violin at the age of six, but the young Becker loved cello, and switched over at the age of nine. By age fifteen he was touring with a string quartet made up of him, his father, sister, and brother. He had also become a leading cellist in the court orchestra in Mannheim.^[1]

In 1884, Becker was appointed solo cellist with the Frankfurt Opera Orchestra, and the following year became the leading cello teacher at the Frankfurt Hoch Conservatory. From 1909 to 1929, he was professor of cello at the Hochschule für Musik in Berlin;^[2] among his students was George Georgescu, who would replace him as cellist in the Marteau Quartet before forsaking the cello for the conductor's podium on account of a hand injury.^[3] Later, Georgescu would remark, "All I know, I learned from Hugo Becker."^[4]

During this time Becker also toured extensively and played chamber music with Eugène Ysaÿe and Ferruccio Busoni in a piano trio.^[1], and later with Artur Schnabel and Carl Flesch as the third Schnabel Trio^[2] between 1914-21.

He owned two Strads: the 1720 Cristiani and another one built in 1719 now known as the Becker.^[1]

Selected works[link]

• Andante religioso
• Three Pieces for Cello with Piano Accompaniment
• Scènes d'amour, duo
• Deux Morceaux: Romance, Duo
• Deux Morceaux: Valse gracieuse, Duo
• Cello Concerto, Op.10 in A major (published by Schott in parts in 1902, piano/cello version ca.1896, in score in 1904)^[5][6][7]
• Aus dem Leben des Waldschrat, suite
• Mechanik und Ästhetik des Violoncellospiels

Sources[link]

• Allmusic
• Sadie, S. (ed.) (1980) The New Grove Dictionary of Music & Musicians, [vol. # 2].

References[link]

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