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Today in Music History
1797 - Cherubini's opera "Medae," premieres in Paris
1845 - Felix Mendelssohn's Violin Concerto is premièred in Leipzig with Ferdinand David as soloist.
1963 - Hindemith and Wilder's opera "Long Christmas Dinner," premieres in NYC
1965 - Beatles' "Eight Days a Week," single goes #1 and stays #1 for 2 weeks
1968 - Beatles release "Lady Madonna" in the UK
Births in Music
1910 - Sammy Kaye, Rocky River Ohio, orch leader/saxophonist (Sammy Kaye Show)
1925 - Roy Haynes, US jazz drummer (Trio Music with Chick Corea)
1933 - Mike Stoller, composer (Lieber and Stoller-Hound Dog, Charlie Brown)
1939 - Neil Sedaka, American singer and songwriter
1960 - Adam Clayton, Oxfordshire, rock bassist (U2-I Will Follow)
1700 - James Kent, composer
1700 - Michel Blavet, French flutist/composer
1712 - Isfrid Kayser, composer
1746 - Maurus Haberhauer, composer
1752 - Josef Reicha, composer
1767 - Heinrich Domnich, composer
1779 - Oliver Shaw, composer
1832 - Alberto Randegger, composer
1850 - Emilio Serrano y Ruiz, composer
1860 - Hugo Filipp Jakob Wolf, Windisch-Graz, Austria, composer
1862 - Vasily Mikhaylovich Metallov, composer
1883 - Enrico Toselli, Italian (Florentine) composer and pianist
1887 - Carlos Isamitt, composer
1890 - Michael Taube, composer
1890 - Fritz Busch, German conductor (d. 1951)
1892 - Alec Rowley, composer
1899 - Pancho Vladigerov, composer
1908 - Helen Sinclair Glatz, musician
1911 - Jose Ardevol, composer
1912 - Igor Youskevitch, dancer
1912 - Ernst Hess, composer
1914 - Carl-Olof Anderberg, composer
1917 - Ina Ray Hutton, Chicago Ill, orch leader (Ina Ray Hutton Show)
1925 - Anthony Milner, composer
1929 - Will Eisma, composer
1930 - Liz Anderson, C and W singer-songwriter
1930 - Jan Howard, American singer
1931 - Rosalind Elias, Lowell Mass, mezzo-soprano (Grimgerde-Die Walkuere)
1938 - Hans-Joachim Hespos, composer
1938 - Jean-Claude Risset, composer
1938 - Erma Franklin, American singer (d. 2002)
1942 - Scatman John, (real name John Larkin) American singer (d. 1999)
1947 - Beat Richner, Swiss physician and cellist
1949 - Julia Migenes, American soprano
1950 - Danny Kirwan, London, rock guitarist (Fleetwood Mac)
1950 - Steve Hill, country vocalist (A Winning Hand)
1952 - Wolfgang Rihm, German composer
1959 - Ronnie Rogers, guitarist (T'Pau-Heart and Soul)
1963 - Fito Páez, Argentine musician and songwriter
1972 - Common, American rapper
1973 - David Draiman, American musician and songwriter (Disturbed)
1976 - James Dewees, musician
1977 - Ed Sloan, American musician (Crossfade)
1977 - Kay Tse, Hong Kong singer
1979 - Spanky G, American musician (Bloodhound Gang)
1980 - Lee Jung-hyun, South Korean pop singer and actress
Deaths in Music
1716 - Georg Gabriel Schutz, composer, dies at 46
1756 - Johann Melchior Conradi, composer, dies at 81
1817 - Matej Sojka, composer, dies at 77
1839 - Robert Gallenberg, composer, dies at 55
1890 - Henry Wylde, composer, dies at 67
1918 - Karel Stecker, composer, dies at 57
1918 - César Cui, Russian composer (b. 1835)
1934 - Fritz Cortolezis, composer, dies at 56
1945 - Herbert Bedford, composer, dies at 78
1946 - Thomas Frederick Dunhill, composer, dies at 69
1970 - Rick Besoyan, composer, dies at 45
1971 - Piero Coppola, composer, dies at 82
1978 - David McKinley Williams, composer, dies at 91
1980 - Tauno Kullerve Pylkkanen, composer, dies at 61
1982 - Albert Weisser, composer, dies at 64
1987 - Finn Videro, composer, dies at 80
1987 - Gerald Moore, England, pianist (Am I Too Loud), dies at 87
1990 - Karl Münchinger, German conductor (b. 1915)
1991 - Jimmy McPartland, US, jazz cornetist
1992 - Clarence Wright, singer, dies at 84
1999 - Bidu Sayão, Brazilian born soprano (b. 1902)
Todays News
- Serbian President Boris Tadić disbands parliament and calls an early general election for May 11. (BBC)
- Democratic Party (United States) presidential primaries, 2008: Geraldine Ferraro resigns from the Clinton campaign after making comments that "if Obama was a white man, he would not be in this position." (New York Times)
- The U.S. dollar, after repeatedly testing 100 yen in Asian dealings and early European action, breaks through to touch 99.75, its lowest level since November 1995. (Reuters)
- Melbourne, Adelaide and Hobart experience some of their warmest weather of record for this season as result of an Australian autumn heatwave. (The Age)
- Leaders of the European Union meet in Brussels, Belgium, with climate change and energy security dominating the agenda. (BBC)
- The United States Environmental Protection Agency announces a major expansion of efforts to fight smog in cities and towns throughout the United States. (Associated Press) About Time?
- The total amount of digital information is estimated at 281 billion gigabytes in 2007, exceeding available data storage for the first time. (Ars Technica)
- Crude oil futures contracts end trading at a new closing high of $109.92 a barrel after earlier topping $110 a barrel for the first time. (MarketWatch) Wow
- Governor of New York Eliot Spitzer resigns effective March 17 amid a prostitution ring scandal. He will be replaced by David Paterson, the first African American and legally blind person to hold this position. (Yahoo Finance)
News in History for Today
1781 - William Herschel discovers the planet Uranus.
1930 - The news of the discovery of Pluto was telegraphed to the Harvard College Observatory.
1938 - World News Roundup is broadcast for the first time on CBS Radio in the United States.
1986 - Microsoft has its Initial public offering.
1989 - A geomagnetic storm caused the collapse of the Hydro-Québec power grid. Six million people were left without power for nine hours.
1997 - The Phoenix lights were seen over Phoenix, Arizona, & were seen by hundreds of people, & millions on television. And are now, hotly debated in controversy.
2003 - Human evolution: The journal Nature reports that 350,000-year-old upright-walking human footprints have been found in Italy.
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