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Events in Music

Events 1 - 8 of 8

1882 - Richard Wagner completes his opera "Parsifal"
1908 - Rhoads Opera House fire in Boyertown, PA killing 171 people.
1914 - IWW-leader/songwriter Joe Hill arrested "Girl from Utah" East-Prussia
1948 - 1st country music TV show, Midwestern Hayride, premieres on WLW Cin
1967 - Rolling Stones appear on Ed Sullivan Show
1969 - Beatles release "Yellow Submarine" album
1976 - Sarah Caldwell is 1st woman to conduct at NY's Metropolitan Opera House as she led orchestra in a performance of "La Traviata"
2003 - Rock musician Pete Townshend of The Who was arrested in London on suspicion of possessing indecent images of children. He was later cleared.

Birthdays in Music

Birthdays 1 - 45 of 45

1683 - Johann Christoph Graupner, German composer
1690 - Gottfried Heinrich Stolzel, composer
1727 - Johann Christoph Schmugel, composer
1734 - Luca Sorkocevic, composer
1778 - Anton Fischer, composer
1788 - Carl Ludwig Cornelius Westenholz, composer
1824 - Ignacy Marceli Komorowski, composer
1850 - Leon Francis Victor Caron, composer
1866 - Vasily Sergeyevich Kalinnikov, composer
1870 - Henryk Opienski, Polish composer/conductor (St Moniuszko)
1884 - Sophie Tucker, [Kalish], Russia, singer/last of red hot mammas
1893 - Jan Evangelista Zelinka, composer
1895 - Fortunio Bonanova, Palma de Mallorca Spain, opera singer
1900 - Yasuji Kiyose, composer
1904 - Richard Addinsell, London England, composer (Taming of Shrew)
1905 - Percy Humphrey, musician
1906 - Maxime Jacob, composer
1909 - Danny Barker, jazz guitarist
1917 - Felix Guerro Diaz, composer
1918 - Lester Sill, pioneer music publisher/record producer
1923 - Danil Shafran, cellist
1925 - Gwen Verdon, LA, actress/singer/dancer (Cotton Club, Sweet Charity)
1929 - Joseph Anthony Pass, guitarist
1930 - Liz Anderson, rocker
1936 - Ami Maayani, composer
1938 - Paavo Johannes Heininen, composer
1943 - William Duckworth, composer
1946 - Eero Koivistoinen, Finnish musician
1947 - John Lees, England, rock guitarist/vocalist (Medicine Man)
1948 - T Bone' Burnett, rocker
1952 - Cornelius Bumpus, keyboardist (Doobie Bros-Minute by Minute)
1955 - Fred White, rocker (Earth Wind & Fire-Shining Star, Easy Lover)
1955 - Trevor Rabin, rocker (Yes)
1955 - Paul Kelly, Australian singer
1956 - Malcolm Foster, rock bassist (Pretenders-Mystery Achievement)
1957 - Don Snow, rocker (Squeeze)
1959 - James Lomenzo, American musician (Megadeth)
1961 - Graham "Suggs" McPherson, Sussex, rock vocalist (Madness-Our House)
1961 - Suggs, English singer
1963 - Tim Patrick Kelly, Trenton NJ, guitarist (Slaughter-Stick it Live)
1967 - George Paterson, Scottish singer/songwriter DMP
1968 - Chara, Japanese singer and actress
1980 - Krzysztof Czerwinski, Polish conductor and organist
1981 - Jason James, Welsh musician (Bullet for My Valentine)
1989 - Triinu Kivilaan, Estonian singer

Deaths in Music

Deaths 1 - 24 of 24

1762 - Leonhard Trautsch, composer, dies at 68
1795 - Francois-Joseph Krafft, composer, dies at 73
1828 - Alexandre-Auguste Robineau, composer, dies at 80
1838 - Ferdinand Reis, composer, dies at 53
1838 - Ferdinand Ries, German composer (b. 1784)
1864 - Stephen Foster, composer (My Old Kentucky Home), dies at 37 in NY
1892 - Charles Albert White, composer, dies at 62
1901 - Carlo Angeloni, composer, dies at 66
1914 - Valentin de Zubiaurre y Unionbarrenechea, composer, dies 76
1954 - Roland Diggle, composer, dies at 69
1971 - Robert Still, composer, dies at 60
1971 - Robert Still, English composer (b. 1910)
1979 - Donny Hathaway, Chicago Ill, rocker (Ghetto), commits suicide at 33
1979 - Marjorie Lawrence, Australian soprano (b. 1907)
1980 - Andre Kostelanetz, Russian conductor, dies at 78
1993 - Camargo Guarnieri, Brazilian composer (b. 1907)
1994 - Frederick William Sternfield, musicologist, dies at 79
1995 - Ruby Starr, vocalist (Grey Ghost), dies of brain tumor at 44
2001 - Michael Cuccione, Canadian actor and singer (b. 1985)
2005 - Nell Rankin, American mezzo-soprano (b. 1924)
2007 - Michael Brecker, American jazz saxophonist (b. 1949)
2009 - Mansour Rahbani, Lebanese composer and lyricist (b. 1925)
2010 - Teddy Pendergrass, American R&B singer (b. 1950)
2010 - Jay Reatard, American garage punk musician (b. 1980)