Music History on March 24

Bach's Brandenburg Concertos

1721 Johann Sebastian Bach dedicates his Brandenburg Concertos to Christian Ludwig, Margrave of Brandenburg-Schwedt

Sibelius' 7th Symphony

1924 1st performance of Jean Sibelius' 7th Symphony in C at the Konsertföreningenin in Stockholm

Shostakovich's Suite for Jazz

1934 Dmitri Shostakovich's Suite for Jazz Orchestra No. 1 premieres in Leningrad, USSR

Glenn Miller's 1st Film

1941 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie "Sun Valley Serenade", starring Sonja Henie and John Payne, for 20th Century Fox

Big Band Leader and Jazz Composer Glenn Miller

Music History

1955 Tennessee Williams' stage drama "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof", starring Ben Gazzarra, Barbara Bel Geddes, and Burl Ives, and directed by Elia Kazan, opens at the Morosco Theater, NYC; runs for 694 performances and wins a Pulitzer Prize

Elvis Presley in the Army

1958 Elvis Presley joins the U.S. Army (serial number 53310761)

Conscripted in 1958, Elvis Presley served two years in the U.S. Army

Music History

1962 Mick Jagger & Keith Richards perform as Little Boy Blue & Blue Boys

Music Concert

1975 New Orleans R&B piano player Professor Longhair with the Meters perform at record release party for Paul McCartney and Wings' "Venus and Mars", aboard the Queen Mary in Long Beach, California

Tony Awards

1977 Lily Tomlin is the first woman to appear solo in a Broadway show in "Appearing Nitely" (special Tony award 1977)

Comedian, Actress and Singer Lily Tomlin

1978 Wings release single "With a Little Luck"
1979 "Ballroom" closes at Majestic Theater NYC after 116 performances
1980 Capitol Records releases some rare Beatles tracks on the LP "Rarites"
1984 Philip Glass' opera "Akhnaten", based on the life and religious convictions of the Egyptian pharaoh, premieres at the Staatstheater, in Stuttgart, Germany