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American musician and composer Frank Zappa and his band The Mothers of Invention were central to the freak scene in the mid to late 1960s, both in the Los Angeles / San Francisco Bay Area music scene and in New York, where the band had a now infamous residency at the Garrick Theatre.
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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.
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* 1937 – Alice Coltrane, American pianist and composer ( d. 2007 )
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