Music History
1946 "Yours Is My Heart", an adaptation of Franz Lehar's operetta "The Land of Smiles", opens at Shubert Theater, NYC; runs for 36 performances
Intimations of Immortality
1950 1st performance of Gerald Finzi's setting of William Wordsworth's "Intimations of Immortality" at Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester (England) Cathedral; Eric Greene as solo tenor with Herbert Sumsion conducting orchestra and choir
Very Good Eddie
1976 Revival of Jerome Kern and Schuyler Greene's musical "Very Good Eddie" closes at Booth Theater, NYC, after 307 performances
Music History
1976 Richard Rodgers, Sheldon Harnick, and Sherman Yellen's musical "Rex", starring Nicol Williamson and Glenn Close, closes at Lunt-Fontaine Theater, NYC, after 48 performances
Satyagraha
1980 Philip Glass and Constance DeJong's opera "Satyagraha", loosely based on the life of Mahatma Gandhi, premieres the Schouwburg, in Rotterdam, Netherlands
Video Music Awards
1986 3rd MTV Video Music Awards: Whitney Houston wins
- 1991 8th MTV Video Music Awards: REM wins
Music History
1993 Cy Coleman, Betty Comden and Adolph Green's musical "The Will Rogers Follies" closes at The Palace Theater, NYC after 981 performances and 6 Tony Award wins
- 1993 David Shiner and Bill Irwin's sketch comedy "Fool Moon" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater, NYC, after 207 performances
- 1993 George C. Wolfe, Susan Birkenhead, and Luther Henderson's musical "Jelly's Last Jam", based on the life and work of Jelly Roll Morton, starring Gregory Hines and Savion Glover, closes at Virginia Theater, NYC, after 569 performances
Music History
1996 Revival of Tennessee Williams' stage drama "Summer and Smoke", starring Harry Hamlin and Mary McDonnell, opens at Criterion Theater, NYC; runs for 53 performances
- 2001 John Cage's musical composition "As Slow as Possible", to be played for 639 years, begins at St. Burchardi Church, Halberstadt, Germany
Electric Saint
2021 Stewart Copeland's opera "Electric Saint" about the life of Nikola Tesla, with libretto by Jonathan Moore, premieres at the Deutsches Nationaltheater in Weimar, Germany
Music History
2022 Ringo Starr resumes his All-Starr Band tour after two musicians recover from COVID
