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Today in Music History
1830 - V Bellini's opera "I Capuleti e i Montecchi," premieres in Venice
1877 - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky's ballet Swan Lake premiers at the Bolshoi Theatre in Moscow.
1885 - Gilbert and Sullivan's opera "Mikado," premieres in London
1913 - Gabriel Faur‚'s opera "Penelope," premieres in Monte Carlo
1925 - Pres Coolidge's inauguration broadcast live on 21 radio stations
1955 - 1st radio facsimile transmission sent across the continent
1966 - John Lennon, says "We (Beatles) are more popular than Jesus"
Births in Music
1678 - Antonio Vivaldi, Venice, Baroque violin virtuoso/composer (4 Seasons)
1948 - Billy Gibbons, rock guitarist (ZZ Top)
1948 - Chris Squire, London, rock bassist (Yes-Fish Out of Water)
1949 - Carroll Baker, Canadian country singer and songwriter
1963 - Jason Newstedt, US heavy-metal bassist (Metallica-Kill 'em All)
1492 - Francesco de Layolle, Italian composer
1525 - Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina, Italian composer of Renaissance music (d. 1594)
1742 - Johann Heinrich Egli, composer
1745 - Charles Dibdin, English composer (d.1814)
1754 - Dieudonne-Pascal Pieltain, composer
1757 - Ignaz Malzat, composer
1773 - Pierre-Louis Hus-Desforges, composer
1819 - Charles Oberthur, German-born harpist,composer(d. 1895)
1834 - Peter Nicolai von Wilm, composer
1838 - Paul Lacome, composer
1877 - Alexander Fyodorovich Gedike, Russian composer
1878 - Egbert Van Alstyne, American songwriter and pianist (d. 1951)
1886 - Paul Bazelaire, French cellist (d. 1958)
1895 - Bjarne Brustad, Norwegian violinist (d. 1978)
1904 - Joseph Schmidt Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (d. 1942)
1905 - Lili Kraus, Budapest Hungary, pianist (Austrian Cross of Honor 1978)
1913 - Willie Johnson, American guitarist (d. 1995)
1913 - Taos Amrouche, Algerian writer and singer (d. 1976)
1915 - Carlos Surinach, Barcelona Spain, composer (Monte Carlo) [OS]
1915 - Eunice Catunda, composer
1921 - Halim El-Dabh, Egyptian-born composer
1925 - Paul Mauriat, French musician (d. 2006)
1926 - Don Rendell, English jazz musician and arranger
1926 - Fran Warren, American singer
1927 - Robert Di Domenica, composer
1927 - Cy Touff, American jazz musician (d. 2003)
1928 - Samuel Adler, American composer
1929 - Bernard Haitink, Dutch conductor
1929 - Josep Mestres Quadreny, Catalan composer
1931 - Gennady Rozhdestvensky, composer
1932 - Guido Baggiani, composer
1932 - Miriam Makeba, Johannesburg South Africa, singer (Grammy 1965)
1933 - Ann Burton, [Anna Rafalowicz], Dutch jazz singer (d. 1989)
1934 - John Duffey, bluegrass musician
1934 - Mario Davidovsky, Buenos Aires Argentinia, composer (Synchronisms)
1934 - Barbara McNair, American singer and actress (d. 2007)
1935 - Nancy Whiskey, Scottish folk singer (d. 2003)
1936 - Aribert Reimann, German composer
1936 - Eric Allandale, rocker (Foundations)
1937 - Ron Carter, jazz bassist (Ron Carter Meets Bach)
1937 - [Bernard Barney Jean] Wilen, French jazz saxophonist
1941 - Bobby Shew, American jazz musician
1942 - Gloria Gaither, American gospel songwriter
1942 - David Matthews, American keyboardist, pianist, and arranger
1943 - Lucio Dalla, Italian singer and songwriter
1943 - Zoltan Jeney, Hungarian composer
1944 - Ulrich Roski, German singer-songwriter (d. 2003)
1944 - Bobby Womack, Cleve, RandB singer/guitarist (Woman's Got to Have It)
1945 - Dieter Meier, Swiss singer
1946 - Robert Raymond, rocker
1946 - Ralph Kirshbaum, Denton TX, cellist (RNCM Manchester Intl Festival)
1947 - Jan Garbarek, Norwegian musician
1948 - Shakin' Stevens, [Mike Barrett], Wales, Welsh singer (You Drive Me Crazy)
1950 - Emilio Estefan, Cuba, Cuban percussionist (Miami Sound Machine)
1951 - Chris Rea, English rock guitarist (Fool If You Think It Is Over)
1951 - Linda Yamamoto, Japanese singer
1952 - Umberto Tozzi, Italian singer
1955 - Rowland Charles Gould (Boon Gould) English musician (Level 42)
1956 - Kermit Driscoll, American jazz bassist
1960 - Mikko Kuustonen, Finnish singer and songwriter
1963 - MDV, [Michiel de Vos], Dutch pop bassist (Burma Shave-Stash)
1963 - Janey Lee Grace, English singer, author, television presenter and radio disc jockey
1965 - Gary Helms, American country singer
1966 - Grand Puba, American rapper
1966 - Patrick Hannan, English pop drummer (Sundays-Can't Be Sure)
1968 - Evan Dando, rocker (Lemonheads)
1969 - Stina Nordenstam, Swedish experimental pop singer, songwriter and musician
1969 - Jason Townsend, American artist and record producer
1971 - Fergal Lawler, Irish drummer (The Cranberries)
1972 - Ivy Queen, American composer and singer
1972 - Alison Wheeler, British singer (The Beautiful South)
1974 - ICS Vortex (Simen Hestnæs), Norwegian vocalist (Arcturus)
1975 - Hawksley Workman, Canadian rock singer-songwriter
1976 - Scott Sturgeon (Stza Crack), American musician (Choking Victim and Leftover Crack)
1977 - Jason Marsalis, American musician
1979 - John Lawler (John Fratelli), Scottish singer (The Fratellis)
1981 - Carol Banawa, Filipino singer and celebrity
1981 - Donny Tourette, English punk rock singer (Towers of London)
Deaths in Music
1617 - Arcangelo Crivelli, composer, dies at 70
1804 - Karl Leopold Rollig, composer
1831 - Georg Michael Telemann, composer, dies at 82
1839 - Ignace Antoine Ladurner, pianist/composer, dies at 72
1851 - Michael Henkel, composer, dies at 70
1876 - Alfred Holmes, composer, dies at 38
1918 - Eugene D'Harcourt, composer, dies at 58
1925 - Moritz Moszkowski, Polish/German composer, dies at 70
1933 - Willie Walker, US jazz singer/guitarist (Dupree Blues), dies at 36
1936 - Ruben Mattias Liljefors, composer, dies at 64
1941 - Edoardo Mascheroni, composer, dies at 81
1942 - Yuliya Lazarevna Veysberg, composer, dies at 62
1953 - Sergei S Prokoviev, Russian composer (Peter and the wolf), dies at 61
1954 - Georg Gohler, composer, dies at 79
1954 - Noel Gay, [Richard Moxon Armitage], composer, dies at 55
1966 - Janis Medins, composer, dies at 75
1968 - Alexandre Cellier, composer, dies at 84
1981 - Yip Harburg, American lyricist (b. 1896)
1984 - Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer, dies at 79
1986 - Richard Manuel, rock vocalist/pianist (The Band), commits suicide at 40
1986 - Howard Greenfield, American songwriter (b. 1936)
1989 - Tiny Grimes, American jazz and R&B guitarist (b. 1916)
1992 - Mary Osborne, jazz guitarist, dies at 70 of liver cancer
1993 - Art Hodes, American jazz pianist (b. 1904)
1995 - Eden Ahbez, American composer (b. 1908)
2001 - Glenn Hughes, American singer (The Village People) (b. 1950)
2004 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (b. 1955)
2004 - Claude Nougaro, French singer (b. 1929)
2005 - Robert Consoli, American actor and musician (b. 1964)
2005 - Una Hale, Australian soprano (b. 1922)
2007 - Natalie Bodanya (Natalie Bodanskaya), American soprano (b. 1908)
2007 - Richard Joseph, British games soundtrack composer (b. 1954)
2007 - Tadeusz Nalepa, Polish composer, guitar player, vocalist and lyricist (b. 1934)
Todays News
- The Swedish government formally recognizes Kosovo.(Ministry for Foreign Affairs)
- The remains of Padre Pio, the Capuchin monk who died in 1968 after living for decades with inexplicable, bleeding wounds on his hands and feet have been exhumed. (AP via IHT)
- Iran considers shutting down private access to Internet service during its legislative elections. (International Herald Tribune)
- The U.N. Security Council approves a third round of sanctions against Iran with near unanimous support. (AP via Yahoo! News)
- Earth Liberation Front sets fires to five model luxury homes in Woodinville, Washington in an act of eco-terrorism. (CNN) (AP via Yahoo! News) (KIRO-TV). How stupid is this. Does this help.
- Albertans go to the polls in a provincial general election, electing an eleventh straight Progressive Conservative government. (CBC)
News in History
1275 - Chinese astronomers observe a total eclipse of the sun.
1493 - Explorer Christopher Columbus arrives back in Lisbon, Portugal aboard his ship Niña from his discovery voyage to America. He returned to Spain on March 15.
1519 - Hernan Cortes arrives in Mexico in search of the Aztec civilization and their wealth.
1634 - Samuel Cole opens the first tavern in Boston, Massachusetts.
1774 - First sighting of Orion Nebula by William Herschel.
1791 - A Constitutional Act is introduced by the British House of Commons in London which envisages the separation of Canada into Lower Canada (Quebec) and Upper Canada (Ontario).
1882 - Britain's first electric trams run in East London.
1890 - The longest bridge in the United Kingdom, the Forth Bridge (railway) (1,710 ft) in Scotland is opened by the Prince of Wales, who later became King Edward VII.
1933 - Bertha Wilson is appointed as first woman to sit on the Supreme Court of Canada.
1954 - Peter Bent Brigham Hospital in Boston, Massachusetts, announces the first successful kidney transplant.
1957 - The S&P 500 stock market index is introduced, replacing the S&P 90.
1980 - Nationalist leader Robert Mugabe wins a sweeping election victory to become Zimbabwe's first black prime minister.
1997 - US President Bill Clinton bans federally funded human cloning research.
2002 - Canada bans human embryo cloning but permits government-funded scientists to use embryos left over from fertility treatment or abortions.
2008 - Green Bay Packers quarterback, Brett Favre, retires after 17 seasons and 3 MVP Awards.
Holidays and Observances
- Pennsylvania - Charter Day (1681).
- St. Thomas, Ontario, Canada - Charter Day (1881)
- United States - Inauguration Day (1789 - 1933)
- Vermont - Admission Day (1791).
- Roman Catholicism - Feast day of Saint Casimir, patron saint of Lithuania.
- Roman Catholicism - Commemoration of Saint Lucius I, pope, martyr.
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