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Today in Music History
1938 - Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler," premieres in Zurich
1964 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th String quartet
1967 - Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 2nd Violin concert
1971 - Paul McCartney releases his 2nd solo album "Ram"
Births in Music
1910 - T-Bone Walker, Linden Tx, blues guitarist (Funky Town, Well Done)
1917 - Papa John Creech, American musician (d. 1994)
1945 - John Fogerty, Berkeley Cal, singer, songwriter, guitarist (Creedence Clearwater Revival)
1765 - Jean Baptiste Cartier, composer
1777 - Joseph-Henri-Ignace Mees, composer
1778 - Friedrich Westenholz, composer
1780 - Joseph Frohlich, composer
1798 - Josef Dessauer, composer
1830 - Karoly Filtsch, composer
1841 - Giovanni Sgambati, composer
1844 - Leon Felix Augustin Joseph Vasseur, composer
1883 - George Dyson, composer
1883 - Luigi Perrachio, composer
1889 - Jose Padilla, composer
1896 - Marius Monnikendam, Dutch choir composer
1898 - Andy Kirk, jazz musician
1900 - Tommy Ladnier, American musician (d. 1939)
1904 - Shalva Mikhaylovich Mshvelidze, composer
1906 - Phil Regan, singer (My Wild Irish Rose)
1915 - Wolfgang Schneiderhan, violinist
1923 - Gyorgy Ligeti Dicsoszentmartin, Transylvania, Hungary composer
1925 - Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, German baritone
1927 - Bernhard Lewkovitch, composer
1928 - Jacob R Druckman, composer
1930 - Julian Penkivil Slade, composer
1931 - Ervin Junger, composer
1931 - Peter Talbot Westergaard, composer
1932 - Henning Christiansen, composer
1934 - Julian Slade, composer
1934 - Rob du Bois, composer
1936 - Maki Ishii, composer
1938 - Prince Buster, Jamaican musician
1943 - Tony Mansfield, [Anthony Bookbinder], rock drummer (Billy J Kramer)
1943 - Dennis Riley, composer
1943 - Elena Souliotis, Greek soprano (d. 2004)
1944 - Billy Vera, musician (and Beaters-At This Moment, Into the Night)
1944 - Gladys Knight, Atlanta Ga, singer, leader of Pips (Last Train)
1945 - Gary Stewart, Latcher County Ky, country singer (She's Actin' Single)
1948 - Ray Laidlaw, British rock drummer (Jack the Lad)
1949 - Wendy O. Williams, American musician (The Plasmatics) (d. 1998)
1953 - Arto Lindsay, American guitarist and singer
1954 - Youri Egorov, Soviet classical pianist (d.1988)
1955 - John McGeoch, Scottish musician (Siouxsie and the Banshees) (d. 2004)
1956 - Jerry Douglas, American dobro player
1959 - Leon "The Bop" Klaasse, rock drummer/singer (The Pilgrims-Red)
1961 - Roland Gift, UK, English musician (Fine Young Cannibals-She Drives Me Crazy)
1963 - Gavin Harrison, British drummer (Porcupine Tree)
1964 - Phil Vassar, American country music singer
1965 - Chris Ballew, American musician
1968 - Kylie Minogue, Melbourne Australia, rock vocalist (Locomotion)
1977 - Ashley Ryan Ruiz Offord, Miami Fla, singer (Menudo-Cannonball)
1980 - Mark Feehily, Irish musician (Westlife)
1981 - Adam Green, American singer and songwriter
1985 - Colbie Caillat, American folk singer-songwriter
Deaths in Music
1650 - Gilles Hayne, composer, dies at 59
1787 - Johann Georg Leopold Mozart, Austrian composer, dies at 67
1791 - Joseph Schmitt, composer, dies at 57
1805 - Ridolfo Luigi Boccherini, Italian composer/cellist (Minuet), dies at 62
1833 - Johann Christian Friedrich Haeffner, composer, dies at 74
1836 - Anton Reicha, composer, dies at 66
1838 - Thomas Busby, composer, dies
1883 - August Freyer, composer, dies at 79
1890 - Viktor Ernst Nessler, composer, dies at 49
1914 - Adolf Gustaw Sonnenfeld, composer, dies at 76
1922 - Carl Tieke, composer, dies at 58
1940 - Theodor Streicher, composer, dies at 65
1954 - Achille Longo, composer, dies at 54
1958 - Mikulas Schneider-Trvavsky, composer, dies at 77
1963 - Vissarion Yakovlevich Shebalin, composer, dies at 60
1973 - Hans Schmidt-Isserstedt, Germ composer/conductor (Hassan), dies at 73
1977 - Jiri Reinberger, composer, dies at 63
1981 - Mary Lou Williams, musician, dies at 71 in Durham NC
1988 - Sy Oliver, Jazz trumpeter, composer and bandleader (b. 1910)
2002 - Jean Berger, German-born composer (b. 1909)
Today in the News
- The Majlis of Iran elects Ali Larijani as its new Speaker. (AFP via Google News)
- The Nepalese Constituent Assembly meets for the first time since the Nepalese Constituent Assembly election, 2008 with the Assembly expected to abolish the Nepalese monarchy and preparing a new Constitution of Nepal. (BBC)
- Argentine farmers announce that they will stop selling grain for export from 28 May to 2 June in a deepening row with the federal government over export taxes. (AFP)
- The Russian Constitutional Court meets in its first session since it relocated from Moscow to the historical building of the Governing Senate at the Decembrists Square in Saint Petersburg. (Itar-Tass)
- The S&P/Case-Shiller index shows a record annual decline in United States house prices of 14.1%. (CEP News)
News from this Day in History
585 BC - A solar eclipse occurs, as predicted by Greek philosopher and scientist Thales, while Alyattes is battling Cyaxares in the Battle of the Eclipse, leading to a truce. This is one of the cardinal dates from which other dates can be calculated.
1934 - Near Callander, Ontario, the Dionne quintuplets are born to Olivia and Elzire Dionne, later becoming the first quintuplets to survive infancy.
1934 - The Glyndebourne festival in England is inaugurated.
1936 - Alan Turing submits On Computable Numbers for publication.
1937 - The Golden Gate Bridge in San Francisco, California, is officially opened by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in Washington, DC, who pushes a button signaling the start of vehicle traffic over the span.
1952 - Memphis Kiddie Park opens in Brooklyn, Ohio. The park's Little Dipper roller coaster would become the oldest operating steel roller coaster in North America.
1961 - Peter Benenson's article "The Forgotten Prisoners" is published in several internationally read newspapers. This will later be thought of as the founding of the human rights organization Amnesty International.
1999 - In Milan, Italy, after 22 years of restoration work, Leonardo da Vinci's masterpiece "The Last Supper" is put back on display.
Holidays and Observances
- Republic Day in Azerbaijan and Armenia (both 1918).
- National Flag Day in the Republic of the Philippines
Feast day of the following saints in the Roman Catholic Church:
Germain of Paris
Augustine of Canterbury
William of Gellone
Bernard of Menthon
Lanfranc
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