Music History on February 16

Orpheus Premieres

1854 Franz Liszt's symphony "Orpheus" premieres

Werther Premieres

1892 Opera "Werther" by Jules Massenet premieres in Vienna

Music History

1927 Noël Coward's stage comedy "The Marquise", starring Marie Tempest, opens at the Criterion Theatre, London; runs for 129 performances

  • 1946 Frank Black's musical "The Duchess Misbehaves" closes at Adelphi Theater, NYC, after 5 performances

Symphony No. 3

1947 Morton Gould's 3rd Symphony, premieres

  • 1949 Revival of Sidney Howard's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1924 stage drama "They Knew What They Wanted", opens at the Music Box Theatre, NYC; runs for 61 performances

Music Premiere

1962 Darius Milhaud's 12th Symphony premieres

  • 1963 Beatles top British rock charts with "Please, Please Me"

Foxy

1964 Robert Emmett Dolan and Johnny Mercer's musical "Foxy", starring Bert Lahr, opens at Ziegfeld Theater, NYC; runs for 72 performances, with Lahr winning a Tony Award

The Beatles on Ed Sullivan

1964 The Beatles' 2nd appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show", live from Deauville Hotel in Miami, Florida; broadcast draws about 70 million television viewers

  • 1965 "Baker Street" opens at Broadway Theater NYC for 313 performances

Music History

1968 Beatles George Harrison, John Lennon and their wives fly to India for transcendental meditation study with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi

Music History

1968 Elvis Presley receives a gold record for "How Great Thou Art"

Music History

1972 American guitar legend Chuck Berry and former Beatle John Lennon perform together, with Yoko Ono, on 'The Mike Douglas Show' TV program

  • 1979 George Harrison releases single "Blow Away"
  • 1986 "Uptown... It's Hot!" closes at Lunt-Fontanne NYC after 24 performances
  • 2020 David Byrne's musical revue "American Utopia" closes at Hudson Theatre, NYC, after 106 performances