Events in Music History in November 2005

  • Nov 2 Philip Glass' Symphony No. 8, premieres with the Bruckner Orchester Linz conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music in Brooklyn, NYC

39th Awards

Nov 15 39th Country Music Association Awards: Keith Urban & Gretchen Wilson win

Some Hearts

Nov 15 Carrie Underwood releases her debut album "Some Hearts" (2006 Billboard Album of the Year, Grammy Award Best New Artist 2007)

Music History

Nov 16 CBS television broadcasts ”I Walk the Line: A Night For Johnny Cash” featuring concert performances by Dwight Yoakam, Martina McBride, Alison Krauss, U2, Norah Jones, Foo Fighters, Sheryl Crow, and others

Rent

Nov 17 Film adaptation of Joanthan Larson's musical "Rent", starring Idina Menzel and Taye Diggs, premieres at Ziegfeld Theater, NYC

  • Nov 17 Italy's choice of national anthem, "Il Canto degli Italiani", becomes official in law for the first time, almost 60 years after it was provisionally chosen following the birth of the republic.
  • Nov 18 20th Century Fox releases "Walk the Line", starring Joaquin Phoenix as Johnny Cash and Reese Witherspoon as June Carter, and directed by James Mangold; Witherspoon wins an Academy Award