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The American composer Philip Glass has also written a symphonic cantata named Itaipu, in honour of the structure.
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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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And in the role of Will Danaher, Philip Bosco roars and sneers sufficiently to intimidate not only one American but the whole British army, if he chose.
* 1949 – Philip Casnoff, American actor
* 1900 – Philip Phillips, American archaeologist ( d. 1994 )
* Jenkins, Philip, Mystics and Messiahs: Cults and New Religions in American History ( Oxford University Press, New York, 2000 ).
* 1981 – Philip Rivers, American football player
* 1928 – Philip K. Dick, American writer ( d. 1982 )
* 1985 – Philip DeFranco, American video blogger, YouTube celebrity
* 1923 – Philip Warren Anderson, American physicist, Nobel laureate
* 1908 – Philip Dunne, American screenwriter, director and producer ( d. 1992 )
* 1953 – Philip Anglim, American actor
* 1896 – Philip Showalter Hench, American physician, Nobel laureate ( d. 1965 )
* Dare, Philip N. American Communes to 1860: A Bibliography.
* 1716 – Philip Livingston, American founding father ( d. 1778 )
* 1918 – Philip José Farmer, American writer ( d. 2009 )
* 1778 – Philip Livingston, American merchant and statesman, signer of the United States Declaration of Independence ( b. 1716 )
* 2012 – Philip H. Corboy, American lawyer ( b. 1925 )
* 1921 – Philip Rose, American Broadway producer ( d. 2011 )
* 1906 – Philip Johnson, American architect, designed the IDS Center and PPG Place ( d. 2005 )
* 1686 – Philip Livingston, American politician ( d. 1749 )
* 1883 – Philip Schuster, American gymnast ( d. 1926 )
* 1952 – Philip Taylor Kramer, American bass player ( Iron Butterfly ) ( d. 1995 )
* 1940 – Philip Proctor, American voice actor
* 1928 – Philip Levine, American poet
* 1925 – Philip Carey, American actor ( d. 2009 )
* 1967 – Philip Seymour Hoffman, American actor and director
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