# Famous Foreigners who took extended tours of the U.S.A. **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [December 12, 2009, 6:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-foreigners-who-took-extended-tours-of-the-u-s-a/521004 "2009-12-12T18:42:35Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 2\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![MikeS](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/919ad9/32.png) [@MikeS](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MikeS)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 5:15pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-foreigners-who-took-extended-tours-of-the-u-s-a/521004/41 "2009-12-15T17:15:47Z")
> [@ErinPuff](#): > > Darius Milhaud (French composer, 1892-1974) moved to California in 1940 because of the Nazis, but before that, he came to the US at least twice for concert tours. Along the same lines, [Maurice Ravel](http://www.maurice-ravel.net/america.htm) did a fifteen-week concert tour of the U.S. in 1928. Notably, he met George Gershwin and was wowed by him; you can hear more than a few echoes of “Rhapsody in Blue” in Ravel’s Piano Concerto ([I](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LbI4c2os6YU), [II](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ud6nbX5XKVk), [III](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwSQQ2qIc-0)), written shortly after his return to Europe. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2009, 7:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-foreigners-who-took-extended-tours-of-the-u-s-a/521004/42 "2009-12-15T19:29:46Z")
> [@Miss\_Mapp](#): > > The future Edward VII, as a boy of 18 or thereabouts in 1860, toured the U.S. and Canada… As did his grandson, the future Edward VIII, in 1919. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/famous-foreigners-who-took-extended-tours-of-the-u-s-a/521004.md?page=2)