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TIL Kelsey Grammer was the first actor to be nominated for an Emmy for the same character on three different series: Wings, Cheers, and Frasier.He played Dr. Frasier Crane on Wings, Cheers, and Frasier.

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X0VRR TIL William Grant Still's Symphony No. 1, Afro-American, performed in 1931 is considered the first symphony by a Black American composer to be performed by an established orchestra. It is a “blues symphony,” with blues theme in call-and-response with horns and woodwinds and ends with a spiritual
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