Events in Music
Events 1 - 10 of 10
1797 - Cherubini's opera "Medée," premieres in Paris
1911 - Ivan Caryll's musical "Pink Lady," premieres in NYC
1928 - Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers," premieres in NYC
1963 - Hindemith & Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in NYC
1965 - Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
1965 - Jeff Beck replaces Eric Clapton of the Yardbirds
1968 - Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
1982 - Ice Dance Championship at Copenhagen won by Torvill & Dean (GRB)
1987 - Ice Dance Championship at Cincinnati won by Bestemianova & Bukin (URS)
1995 - 9th Soul Train Music Awards: Boyz II Men, Anita Baker win
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 48 of 48
1700 - James Kent,
composer
1700 - Michel Blavet, composer
1712 - Isfrid Kayser,
composer
1746 - Maurus Haberhauer,
composer
1767 - Heinrich Domnich,
composer
1779 - Oliver Shaw,
composer
1832 - Alberto Randegger,
composer
1850 - Emilio Serrano y Ruiz,
composer
1860 - Hugo Wolf,
Austrian composer (d. 1903)
1862 - Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov,
composer
1883 - Enrico Toselli,
composer
1886 - Henri D Gagnebin,
Swiss organist
1887 - Carlos Isamitt,
composer
1890 - Michael Taube,
composer
1890 - Fritz Busch, German conductor (d. 1951)
1892 - Alec Rowley,
composer
1899 - Pancho Vladigerov,
composer
1908 - Helen Sinclair Glatz,
musician
1910 - Sammy Kaye,
Rocky River Ohio, orchestra leader (Sammy Kaye Show)
1911 - Jose Ardevol,
composer
1912 - Ernst Hess,
composer
1912 - Igor Youskevitch, dancer
1913 - Sammy Kaye,
saxophonist (Swing & Sway with Sammy Kaye)
1914 - Carl-Olof Anderberg,
composer
1917 - Ina Ray Hutton,
Chicago Ill, orchestra leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show)
1925 - Anthony Milner,
composer
1925 - Roy Haynes, US jazz drummer (Trio Music with Chick Corea)
1929 - Will Eisma,
composer
1930 - Jan Howard,
American singer
1931 - Rosalind Elias,
Lowell Mass, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)
1933 - Mike Stoller,
composer (Lieber & Stoller-Hound Dog, Charlie Brown)
1938 - Hans-Joachim Hespos,
composer
1938 - Jean-Claude Risset, composer
1938 - Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002)
1939 - Neil Sedaka,
Bkln NY, singer/songwriter (Breaking Up is Hard to Do)
1947 - Lesley Collier,
British ballet dancer
1947 - Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist
1949 - Julia Migenes,
American soprano
1950 - Steve Hill,
country vocalist (A Winning Hand)
1952 - Wolfgang Hihm,
composer
1959 - Ronnie Rogers,
guitarist (T'Pau-Heart & Soul)
1960 - Adam Clayton,
Oxfordshire, rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow)
1973 - David Draiman,
American musician and songwriter (Disturbed)
1976 - James Dewees,
musician
1977 - Ed Sloan,
American musician (Crossfade)
1978 - Karina Smirnoff,
Ukrainian dancer
1979 - Spanky G,
American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1980 - Lee Jung-hyun,
South Korean pop singer and actress
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 23 of 23
1716 - Georg Gabriel Schutz,
composer, dies at 46
1756 - Johann Melchior Conradi,
composer, dies at 81
1817 - Matej Sojka,
composer, dies at 77
1839 - Robert Gallenberg,
composer, dies at 55
1890 - Henry Wylde,
composer, dies at 67
1918 - Karel Stecker,
composer, dies at 57
1934 - Fritz Cortolezis,
composer, dies at 56
1945 - Herbert Bedford,
composer, dies at 78
1946 - Thomas Frederick Dunhill,
composer, dies at 69
1970 - Rick Besoyan,
composer, dies at 45
1971 - Piero Coppola,
composer, dies at 82
1978 - David McKinley Williams,
composer, dies at 91
1980 - Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen,
composer, dies at 61
1982 - Albert Weisser,
composer, dies at 64
1987 - Finn Videro,
composer, dies at 80
1987 - Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87
1990 - Karl Münchinger,
German conductor (b. 1915)
1991 - Jimmy McPartland,
US, jazz cornetist, dies
1992 - Clarence Wright,
singer, dies at 84
1994 - Danny Barker,
US banjo player/guitarist (Bourbon St Black), dies at 85
1995 - Lorraine Macleod,
dancer (Girls Just Want to Have Fun), dies at 65
1999 - Bidu Sayão,
Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
2011 - Owsley Stanley,
Sound Engineer for The Grateful Dead and renowned LSD manufacturer (b. 1935)
