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Today in Music History
1857 - Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra," premieres in Venice
1897 - Vincent d'Indy's opera "Fervaal," premieres in Brussel
1963 - Beatles perform as a trio, John Lennon is ill with a cold
1966 - Love's 1st album released "Love"
1969 - Paul McCartney marries Linda Louise Eastman in London
1971 - Rolling Stone Mick Jagger marries Bianca Perez Morena de Macias
Births in Music
1940 - Al Jarreau, Milwaukee WI, jazz singer (Moonlighting)
1948 - James Taylor, Boston MA, vocalist/guitarist/composer
1957 - Steve Harris, London, hard rock bassist (Iron Maiden-Gypsy's Kiss)
1515 - Caspar Othmayr, composer
1710 - Thomas Augustine Arne, English composer (Alfred, Rule Britannia)
1768 - Carolus Antonius Fodor, composer
1793 - Augustin-Philippe Peellaert, composer
1826 - Robert Lowry, composer
1837 - Felix Alexandre Guilmant, composer
1848 - Cyrill Kistler, composer
1855 - John White, composer
1859 - Josef Cyril Sychra, composer
1860 - Salvatore Di Giacomo, composer
1874 - Edmund Eysler, Austrian composer
1875 - Julio Garreta, composer
1878 - Joseph Gustav Mraczek, composer
1883 - Judge Jackson, composer
1888 - Hall Johnson, composer
1900 - Zoltan Vasarhelyi, composer
1912 - Paul Weston, Springfield Mass, orch leader (Jim Nabors Hour)
1914 - Jan Kapr, composer
1921 - Ralph Shapey, Phila, composer (Fantasy, Rituals)
1922 - Thomas Hugh Eastwood, composer
1923 - Norbert Brainin, violinist
1925 - Georges Delerue, composer
1926 - Rolv Berger Yttrehus, composer
1927 - Mstislav Rostropovich, Baku Russia, cellist (Cello Concerto) [3/22 NS]
1930 - Stanko Horvat, composer
1935 - Helga Pilarczyk, German soprano (Salome, Lulu)
1937 - Elizabeth Vaughan, opera soprano (Victor-Victoria)
1938 - Tona Scherchen-Hsiao, composer
1938 - Dimitri Terzakis, composer
1942 - Brian O'Hara, rocker
1942 - Paul Kantner, SF Calif, rock singer/guitarist (Jefferson Airplane)
1945 - Hans van Emden, Dutch guitarist (Les Baroques)
1948 - Dana Walden, rock keyboardist (Champaign)
1948 - Les Holroyd, Oldham England, rocker (Barclay James Harvest)
1949 - Bill Payne, Waco TX, rock keyboardist (Little Feat-Time Loves a Hero)
1949 - Mike Gibbons, Swansea Wales, rock drummer (Badfinger)
1951 - Jack Green, rocker
1953 - Labamba, [Richard Rosenberg], rocker (Asbury Jukes)
1957 - Marlon D Jackson, Gary IN, singer (Jackson 5-Maybe Tomorrow)
1969 - Graham Coxon, singer (Blur)
Deaths in Music
1563 - John Bull, English organist/composer, composer of British natl anthem (God Save The King)
1824 - Heinrich Carl Ebell, composer, dies at 48
1831 - Johann Franz Volkert, composer, dies at 64
1832 - Daniel Friedrich Kuhlau, German/Danish opera composer, dies at 45
1840 - Friedrich Westenholz, composer, dies at 61
1852 - Juan Bros y Bertomel, composer, dies at 75
1877 - Crystobal Oudrid y Segura, composer, dies at 52
1913 - Joseph Bayer, composer, dies at 61
1937 - Charles-Marie-Jean-Albert Widor, French organist/composer, dies at 93
1937 - Jeno Hubay, composer, dies at 78
1941 - Charles Sanford Skilton, composer, dies at 72
1942 - Enrique Morera, composer, dies at 76
1955 - Charlie "Bird" Parker, US jazz saxophonist, dies at 34 in NYC
1973 - Esther Williamson Ballou, composer, dies at 57
1978 - Tolchard Evans, composer/conductor, dies
1993 - June Valli, singer (Crying in the Chapel), dies of cancer at 62
News of Today
- French Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner and his Swedish counterpart Carl Bildt pronounce their support for Serbian membership in the European Union (Reuters) (Xinhua)
- Chinese police fire tear gas to disperse a second day of protests by Buddhist monks in Lhasa demanding Tibetan independence. (AFP)
- New York Governor Eliot Spitzer resigns effective March 17 amid a prostitution ring scandal (Yahoo Finance)
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