"Take the A Train" was written by a kid who lived in Pittsburgh named Billy Strayhorn.
He plays many pieces with remarkable speed and dexterity, including a version of "Take the A Train" that races along the tracks.
Was it worth the cost of my son's college tuition, which gave him entry to the magazine internship, to have his decision-making abilities honed by making split-second choices about whether to take the A train or the No. 3 train?
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The answer is the story behind "Take the 'A' Train, " part of the NPR 100 our list of the 100 most influential American musical works of the 20th century.
Sometimes the two intersect: In this studio session, they play Billy Strayhorn's "Take the 'A' Train, " but in an arrangement by the contemporary American composer Paul Chihara.
Home Of: Bentley Motor CarsFamous For: Hand-stitched leather, exotic wood hewn by carpenters into glossy veneers, excellent train accessHow to get there: Fly into London Heathrow, spend the night in the city, then take a train through the countryside toward Cheshire County.
In other situations, the decision about how to reach a particular destination may depend on personal preference, such as the traveler who chooses to take the train to work instead of a car.
The Nets planned to take a train home instead of flying because of the expected blizzard in the New York area.
In towns across the Alps you can rent a sled, take a train or ski lift a mile or two up the hill, and launch yourself on a terrifying run that puts the rides at Disney World to shame.
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Send him a telegram when you arrive at the airport and then take any train on the railroad that stops at a little place called New Jerusalem.
Instructions came to take the ransom on a night train to Mumbai five days after the abduction.
People travelling from Camberley to London now have to take the slow train or drive five miles to Farnborough to get a train which takes 43 minutes.
But you also include a Honduran grandmother who takes care of her nine grandchildren, and she talks about being willing to take a dangerous ride on a freight train to come to the U.S. for a better life.
Take the Narita Express train just one stop (about a 10-minute ride) to the city of Narita, where a trail of local shops and restaurants line the path to the Naritasan Shinshoji Temple.
All of which leaves riders wondering why Amtrak has spent so much effort advertising its free Wi-Fi as a reason to take the train when the service is so unreliable.
If you take a week off as a programmer at Apple, you missed the train, you lost the job.
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The Brooklyn Nets planned to take a train home instead of flying from Washington D.
King's Lynn is also a similar distance to King's Cross station, where tourists will then be able to take a seven-minute transfer to the Olympic Park via a new high-speed train.
Literature fans may want to take a brief side trip to Tegna where the author Patricia Highsmith (Strangers on a Train, The Talented Mr. Ripley) spent the last years of her life (her grave is in the Tegna cemetery).
Take an Underground train a few stops from the borough of Westminster, and life expectancy drops by 12 years.
Fearing that my Wednesday, February 2nd flight out of St Louis would be canceled due to inclement weather and wanting to arrive in North Texas in a timely fashion, I had a colleague suggest that I take the train.
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"Obviously, it was a bad idea" to take them on the train, he told the newspaper.
Take the following: You are rushing for a meeting and miss your train.
In hot countries, falconers take their children to the desert and train them to handle the bird and establish a mutual relationship of trust.
In Mongolia, Morocco, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, for example, falconers take their children to the desert and train them to handle the bird and build a relationship of trust with it.
Hours earlier the government declared that it would take a railway line run by National Express, a train franchise, into state ownership.
When the train reached York, Mr Primo decided to phone ahead to a take-away restaurant.
It is also to prevent the government -- give safe space to the Afghan government as it continues to take control, and to give us a time to train up Afghan national security forces, which we are doing.
There were tears in the foyer as hotel staff queued up to take pictures of the press corps - then sent a couple of brave porters on to the bullet train platform to pursue us out of the station waving the flag of St George.
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