Months in 1996: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Events in Music
Events 1 - 20 of 20
Jan 14th - "Swinging On a Star" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 97 perfs
Jan 26th - "Les Miserables," opens at Musichall Theatre, Duisburg
Jan 29th - 23rd American Music Award: Garth Brooks wins
Jan 29th - 6,138th performance of "Cats" is held in London, surpassing record of Broadway's longest-running musical, "A Chorus Line"
Jan 29th - La Fenice, Venice's opera house, is destroyed by fire.
Feb 13th - Rock musical "Rent," by Jonathan Larson, opens off-Broadway
Feb 28th - 38th Grammy Awards: Jagged Little Pill, Alanis Morisette wins
Mar 25th - Ice Dance Championship at Edmonton won by Gritshuk & Platov (RUS)
Mar 27th - "State Fair," opens at Music Box Theater NYC for 118 performances
Mar 29th - 10th Soul Train Music Awards: Patti Labelle, Boyz II Men
Apr 7th - Pakistan beat Sri Lanka to win Singer Cup in Singapore
Apr 24th - 31st Academy of Country Music Awards: Shania Twain
Jun 10th - 30th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson
Jun 30th - "State Fair," closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 118 performances
Jul 1st - Placido Domingo becomes art director of Washington Opera
Sep 4th - 13th MTV Awards: Alanis Morrisett & Smashing Pumpkins wins
Sep 8th - Sri Lanka defeat Australia to win Singer World Series at Colombo
Oct 2nd - 30th Country Music Association Award: Brooks & Dunn win
Singer Shania Twain
Dec 4th - 7th Billboard Music Awards
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 4 of 4
Feb 7th - Mai Hagiwara,
Japanese singer
Apr 18th - Alexey Zhigalkovich,
Belarusian Singer
Aug 21st - Jamia Simone Nash,
American singer and actress
Oct 14th - Lourdes Marie Ciccone Leon,
daughter of singer Madonna
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 100 of 161
Jan 1st - Hamish Imlach,
folk singer/comic, dies at 55
Jan 5th - Joseph Daniel White,
singer/bandleader, dies at 84
Jan 6th - Robert Russell "Chubby" Wise,
musician, dies at 80
Jan 8th - William Mac Lance "Tiny" McCloud,
musician/songwriter, dies at 52
Jan 8th - Howard Taubman, American music and theater critic (b. 1907)
Jan 11th - Ike Isaacs,
guitarist, dies at 76
Jan 14th - Pamelo Mounk'a,
musician, dies at 50
Jan 15th - Les Baxter,
singer/orchestra leader/composer (Born Again), dies at 73
Jan 16th - Marcia Davenport,
American author and music critic (b. 1903)
Jan 17th - Robert Covington,
drummer/singer, dies at 54
Jan 17th - Mostafa Sid Ahmed, Sudanese singer (b. 1953)
Jan 20th - Buster Benton,
singer/guitarist, dies at 63
Jan 20th - Gerald Joseph Mulligan, baritone saxophonist/composer, dies at 68
Jan 20th - Peter Stadlen, pianist/critic, dies at 85
Jan 25th - Jonathan Larson,
composer, dead Aortic aneurysm at 35
Jan 26th - Henry Jay Lewis,
conductor, dies at 63
Jan 26th - Stevie Plunder, Australian musician (b. 1963)
Feb 2nd - Gene Kelly,
actor/dancer (Singing in the Rain), dies at 83
Feb 3rd - Wild Jimmy Spruill,
blues guitarist, dies at 61
Feb 5th - Antonio Ruiz Soler,
spanish dancer, dies at 74
Feb 5th - Gianandrea Gavazzeni, conductor, dies at 86
Feb 7th - Isian Kehinde I K Dairo,
musician/academic, dies at 65
Feb 7th - Lillian Rambach, teacher violinist, dies at 84
Feb 7th - Tiny Winters, musician, dies at 87
Feb 8th - Mercer Kennedy Ellington,
trumpeter bandleader/composer, dies at 76
Feb 13th - Daniel K Womack,
singer/guitarist, dies at 91
Feb 16th - Walter Brown "Brownie" McGhee,
American blues singer/guitarist, dies at 80
Feb 17th - [Elsie] Evelyn Laye,
actress/singer (Sun Child), dies at 95
Feb 20th - Toru Takemitsu,
composer, dies at 65
Feb 21st - Morton Gould,
composer, dies at 82
Feb 23rd - George Alan Dawson,
jazz drummer/teacher, dies at 66
Feb 24th - Laurence Richard Deniz,
jazz guitarist, dies at 71
Feb 29th - Wes Farrell,
songwriter, dies at 56
Mar 6th - Herbert "Herb" Hall,
clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 88
Mar 8th - Paul Lewis Harrhy,
actor/opera singer (Intelligence Park), dies at 38
Mar 9th - George Burns,
American actor and singer (b. 1896)
Mar 15th - Olga Rudge,
violinist, dies at 100
Mar 16th - Joseph Lee Pope,
singer, dies at 62
Mar 17th - Terry Stafford,
American singer (b. 1941)
Mar 19th - Christopher John Magenis Headington,
musician, dies at 65
Mar 20th - Alan Ridout,
composer, dies at 61
Mar 22nd - Don Murray,
American musician (The Turtles) (b. 1945)
Mar 24th - Maria Lucia Beltran Alcayaga,
singer, dies at 66
Mar 31st - Jeffrey Lee Pierce,
musician, dies at 37
Apr 1st - Edwin H "Buddy" Morris,
music publisher, dies at 89
Apr 3rd - Roosevelt "Booba" Barnes,
bluesman, dies at 59
Apr 4th - Joy Newton,
dancer, dies at 82
Apr 4th - Larry Laprise, songwriter, dies at 83
Apr 8th - Charles Donald Adams,
singer, dies at 67
Apr 14th - Gaylord Birch,
drummer (Pointer Sisters, Herbie Hancock), dies at 50
Apr 16th - Lucille Bremer,
dancer/actress (Ziegfeld Follies), dies at 73
Apr 16th - Raymond Earl Hill, saxophonist, dies at 62
Apr 23rd - Leonard Kuntstat,
blues discographer, dies at 70
May 1st - William Mitchell Byers,
musician, dies on 79th birthday
May 11th - Bruce Boyce,
singer/teacher, dies at 85
May 11th - Walter Hyatt, #Musician, dies at 46
May 15th - George M Tindley,
songwriter/vocalist, dies at 57
May 17th - Johnny "Guitar" Watson,
musician, dies at 61
May 17th - Kevin Gilbert, American singer, composer and instrumentalist (b. 1966)
May 20th - Jack Wyngaard,
dancer, dies at 37
May 21st - Peter Fletcher,
music teacher, dies at 60
May 24th - Jacob R Druckman,
composer, dies at 67
May 26th - Matima Kinuani Mpiosso,
musician, dies at 45
May 27th - Albert "Pud" Brown,
clarinetist/saxophonist, dies at 79
May 29th - James George "Jimmy" Rowles,
jazz pianist, dies at 77
May 29th - Tamara Toumanova, dancer, dies at 77
May 30th - Bob Stroup,
trombonist, dies at 57
May 30th - John Kahn, bassist, dies at 47
May 31st - Elsbeary Hobbs,
singer, dies at 59
Jun 1st - Don Grolnick,
jazz musician, dies at 48
Jun 9th - Walter Pardon,
carpenter/traditional singer, dies at 81
Jun 11th - Ulysses Dove,
dancer/choreographer, dies at 49
Jun 14th - Thomas Edward Montgomery,
drummer, dies at 73
Jazz Singer Ella Fitzgerald (Jun 15th)
Jun 15th - Ella Fitzgerald,
singer, dies at 78
Jun 15th - Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician, dies at 88
Jun 19th - Alan Ande Anderson,
opera director, dies at 78
Jun 19th - Vivian Ellis, composer, dies at 91
Jun 28th - Willard F. McMurry,
musician, dies at 89
Jul 8th - James Woodie Alexander,
songwriter/vocalist, dies at 80
Jul 11th - Louis Gottlieb,
musician, dies at 72
Jul 12th - Gottfried von Einem,
composer, dies at 78
Jul 12th - Jonathan Melvoin, keyboardist (Smashing Pumpkins), dies of heorin OD
Jul 16th - John Panozzo,
drummer, dies at 48
Jul 17th - Amancio D'Silva,
musician, dies at 60
Jul 17th - Bryan Chas Chandler, musician/manager, dies at 57
Jul 17th - Chris Komar, dancer, dies at 48
Jul 19th - Emmanual Tettey Mensah,
musician, dies at 77
Jul 22nd - Tamara Danz,
singer, dies at 43
Jul 26th - Evelyn Levine,
composer, dies at 94
Jul 28th - Harold C Fox,
Fashion designer/musician, dies at 86
Jul 29th - Jason Thirsk,
American bassist (Pennywise) (b. 1967)
Jul 31st - Seagram Miller,
American rapper (b. 1970)
Aug 1st - Frida Boccara,
French singer (b. 1940)
Aug 8th - Didi Duprat,
French guitarist, dies at 69
Aug 11th - Mel Taylor,
drummer, dies at 63
Aug 11th - Rafael Jeronym Kubelik, conductor, dies at 82
Aug 13th - David Tudor,
composer, dies at 70
Aug 14th - Sergiu Celibidache,
conductor, dies at 84
Aug 20th - Rio Reiser,
rock singer, dies at 46
Aug 25th - Sylvia Fisher,
opera Singer, dies at 86
