Music History on November 2

  • 1914 Victor Herbert & Henry Blossom's comic operetta "The Only Girl" opens at 39th Street Theatre, later transferring to the Lyric Theatre, NYC; runs for 240 performances

Music Premiere

1928 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Symphony premieres in US with Leopold Stokowski leading the Philadelphia Orchestra at The Academy of Music, Philadelpha

  • 1931 Warren, Dixon and Young's musical "Laugh Parade" premieres in NYC

The Barrier

1950 Jan Meyerowitz and Langston Hughes' musical drama "The Barrier" opens at Broadhurst Theater, NYC; runs for 4 performances

  • 1959 Musical "Girls against the Boys" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 16 performances
  • 1960 Dmitri Shostakovich's 8th String quartet premieres in Leningrad
  • 1961 Robert Wright and George Forrest's musical "Kean" opens at Broadway Theater, NYC; runs for 92 performances
  • 1963 "Tambourines to Glory" opens at Little Theater NYC for 24 performances
  • 1968 "Her First Roman" closes at Lunt Fontanne Theater NYC after 17 performances

The Grass Harp

1971 Claibe Richardson and Kenward Elmslie's musical "The Grass Harp", based on the novel by Truman Capote, opens at Martin Beck Theater, NYC; runs for 7 performances

Streisand & Other Musical Instruments

1973 "Barbra Streisand...and Other Musical Instruments" special premieres on CBS TV

Ringo

1973 Apple Records releases "Ringo", Ringo Starr's third studio album, in the US; his biggest commercial and critical success, featuring the singles "Photograph", "You're Sixteen", and "Oh My My"

Amadeus

1979 Peter Shaffer's musical "Amadeus" premieres in London

Thriller

1983 "Thriller" single released worldwide by Michael Jackson

Cloud 9

1987 George Harrison releases album "Cloud 9" & Paul McCartney releases greatest hits album "All the Best"

  • 1989 Musical "Meet Me In St Louis", based on the 1944 film, opens at Gershwin Theater, NYC; runs for 253 performances
  • 1991 Jermaine Jackson releases "Word to the Badd!!" anti Michael song
  • 1995 "Busker Alley" musical premieres at St James Theatre, NY
  • 1995 "Sacrilege" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 21 performances

Hughie

1996 Revival of Eugene O'Neill's' drama "Hughie", directed by Al Pacino, and starring Pacino and Paul Benedict, closes at Circle in the Square Theater, NYC, after 56 performances

  • 1997 "Barrymore" closes at Music Box Theater NYC after 240 performances

Cinderella

1997 Rodgers & Hammerstein's television musical "Cinderella", starring Brandy Norwood, Whitney Houston, and Bernadette Peters premieres on ABC-TV

  • 2005 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

Music History

2006 7th Latin Grammy Awards: Shakira first female artist to win Record of the Year, Album of the Year, and Song of the Year

She Remembers Everything

2018 Blue Note Records releases "She Remembers Everything", the fourteenth studio album by singer-songwriter Rosanne Cash, produced by Tucker Martine and Cash's husband John Leventhal

Now and Then

2023 Apple Records release the last Beatles song "Now and Then" as a double A-sided single, backed with their first "From Me To You"; the new song was built from an unfinished 1978 John Lennon demo and 1995 attempt to complete it that had been abandoned due to technical issues, resolved by new technology [1]