During a visit to Philadelphia in 1812 following Congress ' declaration of war with Great Britain, Audubon became an American citizen and gave up his French citizenship.

After the Volta Associates gave several demonstrations in the City of Washington, businessmen from Philadelphia created the American Graphophone Company on March 28, 1887, in order to produce and sell the machines for the budding phonograph marketplace.

The U. S. Constitution, drafted in Philadelphia in 1787 and ratified by the states the following year, gave the President the responsibility for the conduct of the nation's foreign relations.

Delegates to the Philadelphia Convention gave each state a number of presidential electors equal to that state's combined share of House and Senate seats.

Bell Labs gave demonstrations of the New York – Philadelphia television link in 1940 – 1941.

The statement was subsequently included in a talk Sturgeon gave at a session of the World Science Fiction Convention in Philadelphia, held over the Labor Day weekend of 1953.

The Los Angeles Dodgers and Minnesota Twins also made offers, and the hometown Philadelphia Phillies gave him a tryout, but declined because of his " hitting skills ".

Active in Republican politics, he was the Platform Committee chairman at the 1868 Republican National Convention in Chicago, he offered Vice President Schuyler Colfax's name for renomination at the 1872 Republican National Convention in Philadelphia, and gave the nominating speech for Oliver H. P. Morton for President at the 1876 Republican National Convention in Cincinnati.

In Game Seven, the Bucks jumped out to a 34 – 25 second quarter lead before seldom-used reserve Raja Bell scored 10 points to spark a 23 – 4 run that gave Philadelphia the lead for good.

Philadelphia contributed US $ 1. 5 million and Pennsylvania gave US $ 1 million.

Earth Day 1970 in Philadelphia gave birth to Earth Week, April 16 – 22.

Assured by von Sternberg of Antheil's genius and good character, Bok gave him a monthly stipend of $ 150, and arranged for him to study at the Philadelphia Settlement Music School.

The Seligman family moved from merchandising to banking in the late 1860s, with operations in New York, St. Louis, and Philadelphia as well as Frankfurt, Germany, London and Paris that gave European investors an opportunity to buy American government and railroad bonds.

Rodman Wanamaker was credited with the artistic emphasis that gave the Wanamaker stores their cachet and also was a patron of fine music, organizing spectacular organ and orchestra concerts in the Wanamaker Philadelphia and New York stores under music director Alexander Russell.

Day gave her final public appearance at the Eucharistic Congress held on August 6, 1976, in the City of Philadelphia to honor the Bicentennial of the United States.

The major cities of Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Boston, and New York City gave Sunday even larger offerings.

He gave serious consideration to a $ 200, 000 bid from a Philadelphia group.

Having began his theatrical career with Hughes Royal Circus in London in the 1780s, Englishman John Bill Ricketts brought the modern circus to the US in 1792, and he gave America's first complete circus performance in Philadelphia on 3 April 1793.

Publishers Addison-Wesley gave Abu-Jamal a $ 30, 000 advance for the novel, prompting Maureen Faulkner, the widow of Daniel Faulkner, the Philadelphia Police Officer whom Abu-Jamal was convicted of murdering, to hire a plane to fly over the company's headquarters trailing a banner that read " Addison-Wesley Supports a Cop Killer ", an invocation of Pennsylvania's Son of Sam law, and promoted a boycott of Addison-Wesley by the Fraternal Order of Police.

On July 11, 1844, Philadelphia passed an ordinance that gave the city a battalion of artillery, a regiment of infantry and at least one full troop of cavalry for the purpose of providing the preservation of peace within the city when necessary.

The charter established Philadelphia as a city and gave the mayor, aldermen, and councilmen the authority to issue laws and ordinances and regulate markets and fairs.

He was a philanthropist who gave money to the Society of Friends, the Philadelphia Zoological Gardens and the Institute for Colored Youth.

His official reason was the long commute and late lectures he gave in Philadelphia.

While the Turk still occasionally gave performances, it was eventually relegated to the corners of the museum and forgotten about until 5 July 1854, when a fire that started at the National Theater in Philadelphia reached the Museum and destroyed the Turk.

That same year, MGM released Kelly's last film, the musical comedy High Society ( based on the studio's 1940 comedy Philadelphia Story ).

They were aware that voters had probably mistaken their film with the 1956 MGM musical of the same name starring Bing Crosby, Grace Kelly and Frank Sinatra which was based on The Philadelphia Story.

She appeared in the stage production, Miss Moffat, a musical adaptation of her film The Corn is Green, but after the show was panned by the Philadelphia critics during its pre-Broadway run, she cited a back injury and abandoned the show, which closed immediately.

During his years in the United States, Walter worked with many famous American orchestras, including the Chicago Symphony Orchestra, the Los Angeles Philharmonic, the NBC Symphony Orchestra, the New York Philharmonic ( where he was musical adviser from 1947 to 1949, but declined an offer to be music director ), and the Philadelphia Orchestra.

From the mid 1920s onwards Bliss moved more into the established English musical tradition, leaving behind the influence of Stravinsky and the French modernists, and in the words of the critic Frank Howes, " after early enthusiastic flirtations with aggressive modernism admitted to a romantic heart and given rein to its less and less inhibited promptings " He received two major commissions from American orchestras, the Introduction and Allegro ( 1926 ) for the Philadelphia Orchestra and Leopold Stokowski and Hymn to Apollo ( 1926 ) for the Boston Symphony and Pierre Monteux.

A performance as " wicked Uncle Willie " in High Society ( 1956 ), a musical remake of The Philadelphia Story, turned out to be the actor's final film.

Sister Sledge is an American musical group from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, formed in 1971 and consisting of four sisters: Kim Sledge ( born August 21, 1957 ), Debbie Sledge ( born July 9, 1954 ), Joni Sledge ( born September 13, 1955 ), and Kathy Sledge ( born January 6, 1959 ).

A major musical adaptation is now being planned for the Prince Theater in Philadelphia, directed by Marjorie Samov.

Along with musical centers such as Philadelphia, Seattle, New York City, San Francisco, New Orleans, Detroit, Minneapolis, Chicago, Atlanta, Nashville, Austin, and Los Angeles, many smaller cities such as Asbury Park, New Jersey have produced distinctive styles of music.

Following the American Revolution, Philadelphia became especially renowned for musical development and was the home of the esteemed Alexander Reinagle, John Christopher Moller, Rayner Taylor and Susannah Haswell Rowson.

" The Washington Post compared Zero Patience unfavorably to Hollywood's big-budget, big-star AIDS-themed film, Philadelphia, claiming that the latter's protagonist, Andrew Beckett, " looked sick, dealt with his illness and allowed the audience to sympathize ," unlike the " healthy hoofers " of the musical who, because they didn't look sick enough, " to deny some of the grim realities " of the disease.

After a stint in the navy, he began furthering his musical education in 1948, with a year at Royal Hamilton College of Music, then the Leo Ornstein School of Music in Philadelphia in 1949.

He performed often, too, at the fashionable Monte Carlo Opera and appeared at key musical venues in the North American cities of New York, Chicago, Boston, Baltimore, Washington, D. C., Philadelphia and San Francisco.

Keyboard player Rob Hyman built his own recording studio, Elmstreet Studios, in suburban Philadelphia, while also contributing to numerous musical artists as a songwriter, session musician, arranger and producer, among them being Joan Osborne and Ricky Martin.

An important musical educator and writer, Persichetti was a native of Philadelphia.

In 1987, a musical adaptation of The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz, with lyrics by David Spencer, was produced in Philadelphia.

Philadelphia, home of the esteemed Alexander Reinagle, John Christopher Moller, Rayner Taylor and Susannah Haswell Rowson, was especially renowned for musical development.

Alexander Smallens, musical director of the Philadelphia Civic Opera and later assistant conductor of the Philadelphia Orchestra, became interested in Eddy's career and coached him.

Metropolis Records is a Philadelphia, Pennsylvania based record label, distributor, and mail-order store specializing in the post-industrial field such as electro-industrial, synthpop, futurepop, darkwave, and gothic musical genres.

The Gershwins and George S. Kaufman had collaborated on a satirical musical in 1927 entitled Strike up the Band that played in Philadelphia.

WRDW-FM, also known as Wired 96. 5, is a Philadelphia radio station owned by Beasley Broadcast Group that plays a Rhythmic Top 40 musical format.

" and became the largest musical concert in history with performers on two main stages, one in London, England and the other in Philadelphia, USA ( plus some other acts performing in other countries ) and televised worldwide.

In 1956, the Philadelphia Wanamaker's premiered a Christmas Light Show, a large musical and blinking light display several stories high, viewable from several levels of the building, but with the best viewing on the central ground floor.