Richard Tauber (1891-1948)
Ivan Vishnegradsy (1893-1979)
Jan Kiepura (1902-1966)
Woody Herman (1913-1987)
Liberace (1919-1987)
Friedrich Gulda (1930-2000)
Betty Carter (1930-1998)
Donald Martino (1931-2005)
Robert Fripp (1946)
Monica Huggett (1953)
Andrew Litton (1959)
and
Maria Gaetana Agnesi (1718-1799)
Friedrich Rückert (1788-1866)
Louis "Studs" Terkel (1912-2008)
Adrienne Rich (1929-2012)
and from the New Music Box:
On
May 16, 1907, Miller Reese Hutchison filed an application at the U.S.
Patent Office for his invention, the motor-driven Diaphragm Actuated
Horn and Resonator, for use in automobiles. The patent was granted on
May 3, 1910. The carhorn would later be used as a musical instrument by
numerous composers ranging from George Gershwin in An American in Paris
(1928) to Wendy Mae Chambers who developed a Car Horn Organ in 1983.
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