Today in Music History

Welcome to Today in Music for Saturday, May 17, 2008.

1890 - Pietro Costanzi's opera "Rustic Chivalry," premieres in Rome
1938 - Radio quiz show "Information Please!" debuts on NBC Blue Network
1944 - Operation Straightline: Allies land in Neth New-Guinea
1974 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 15th String quartet
1975 - Mick Jagger punches a restaurant window, gets 20 stitches
1986 - "Chicken Song" by Spitting Image hit #1 on the UK pop chart

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1924 - Frantisek Kovaricek, composer
1931 - Dewey Redman, jazz musician
1936 - Philippe Boesmans, composer
1938 - Pervis Jackson, rocker (Spinners)
1941 - David Howell Cope, composer

More Birthdays in Music on this Day in History

1840 - Niccolo Paganini, composer, dies at 57
1866 - Adolf Bernhard Marx, composer, dies at 70
1872 - Fryderyk Edward Sobolewski, composer, dies at 63
1884 - Louis Brassin, composer, dies at 43
1916 - Gervais Bernard Gaston Salvayre, composer, dies at 68

More Deaths in Music on this Day in History

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