George Blaha (born 1945), the radio and TV play-by-play voice of the Detroit Pistons since the 1976–77 NBA season
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John E. Blaha (born 1942), engineer, retired United States Air Force Colonel and a former NASA astronaut
In the 2010 Slovak parliamentary election Blaha ran as a candidate for the SMER party.
His other commissions and premiers include works by composers such as Steven Stucky, David Maslanka, Jorge Liderman, Verne Reynolds, Christopher Theofanidis, John Fitz Rogers, David Liptak, Robert Morris, Jeff Tyzik, Joseph Turrin, Kyle Blaha, Jacob Bancks, James Matheson, Steven Burke, Sally Lamb, Sydney Hodkinson, and David Borden.
Koshkin's most celebrated guitar work is "Usher-Waltz." a piece inspired by the Edgar Allan Poe story The Fall of the House of Usher, in which Poe wrote, "I listened, as if in a dream, to the wild improvisations of his speaking guitar." Koshkin's piece was written for the famed guitarist Vladislav Blaha.