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American composer Charles Ives used " In Flanders Fields " as the basis for a song of the same name that premiered in 1917.
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Other Saturdays are devoted to studies of a selected American composer, a particular type of music or the music of a given country.
An American in Paris is a symphonic tone poem by the American composer George Gershwin, written in 1928.
Gershwin collaborated on the original program notes with the critic and composer Deems Taylor, noting that: " My purpose here is to portray the impression of an American visitor in Paris as he strolls about the city and listens to various street noises and absorbs the French atmosphere.
In 1945, Arturo Toscanini and the NBC Symphony Orchestra recorded the music in Carnegie Hall, one of the few commercial recordings Toscanini made of music by an American composer.
* AM ( musician ), an American musician, composer, and producer
* 1900 – Leo Robin, American songwriter and composer ( d. 1984 )
* 1927 – Gerry Mulligan, American jazz saxophonist, clarinetist, composer, and arranger ( d. 1996 )
* 1968 – Vanessa Lann, American composer
* 1916 – Russell Garcia, American composer ( d. 2011 )
* 1940 – Herbie Hancock, American jazz musician, bandleader, and composer
* 1962 – Art Alexakis, American singer, composer, and guitarist ( Everclear, Colorfinger, and The Easy Hoes )
* 1941 – Johnny Farina, American musician and composer ( Santo & Johnny )
* 1969 – Warren Defever, American musician and composer ( His Name Is Alive )
* 1937 – Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer ( d. 2007 )
* 1886 – Edward Ballantine, American composer ( d. 1971 )
* 1955 – Rusty Magee, American composer ( d. 2003 )
* 1942 – Jack DeJohnette, American drummer, pianist, and composer ( Gateway and Trio Beyond )
* 1951 – Dan Fogelberg, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer ( d. 2007 )
* 1924 – Joe Harnell, American pianist, composer, and arranger ( d. 2005 )
* 1917 – Scott Joplin, American musician and composer ( b. 1868 )
* 1910 – Walter Scharf, American composer ( d. 2003 )
* 1958 – Michael Penn, American singer-songwriter, guitarist, and composer ( Doll Congress )
* 1907 – Lawrence Brown, American trombonist and composer ( d. 1988 )
* 1921 – Richard Adler, American songwriter and composer ( d. 2012 )
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I should like at this time, Mr. Speaker, to pay warm tribute to Arthur Hays Sulzberger and Charles Merz on the occasion of their retirement from distinguished careers in American journalism.
* Charles Austin ( born 1967 ), American athlete
* 1936 – Charles Napier, American actor ( d. 2011 )
* 1961 – Charles Mann, American football player
* 1865 – Charles G. Dawes, American general and politician, 30th Vice President of the United States, Nobel Prize laureate ( d. 1951 )
* 1950 – Charles Fleischer, American actor
* 1874 – Charles Fort, American writer ( d. 1932 )
* 1980 – Charles McCarthy, American mixed martial artist
* 1901 – Charles Farrell, American actor ( d. 1990 )
While there he collaborated with American physician Charles Claude Guthrie in work on vascular suture and the transplantation of blood vessels and organs as well as the head, and Carrel was awarded the 1912 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for these efforts.
* 1904 – Charles " Buddy " Rogers, American actor and trombonist ( d. 1999 )
* 1954 – James Charles Kopp, American murderer of Barnett Slepian
* 1950 – Charles R. Drew, American physician ( b. 1904 )
* 1931 – Charles E. Rice, American scholar and author
* 1846 – Charles Woodruff, American archer ( d. 1927 )
* 1859 – Charles Comiskey, American baseball player and manager ( d. 1931 )
* 1920 – Charles Bukowski, American poet ( d. 1994 )
* 1782 – American Revolutionary War: Battle of Blue Licks – the last major engagement of the war, almost ten months after the surrender of the British commander Charles Cornwallis following the Siege of Yorktown.
* 1946 – Charles F. Bolden, Jr., American general and astronaut
* 1935 – Charles Wright, American poet
* 1946 – Charles Ghigna, American poet and author
* 1950 – Charles Fambrough, American bassist, composer, and producer ( d. 2011 )
* 1954 – Charles Busch, American actor and screenwriter
* 1876 – Charles F. Kettering, American engineer and businessman, founded Delco Electronics ( d. 1958 )
An important 19th Century American chef was Charles Ranhofer of Delmonico's Restaurant in New York City.
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