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1894 in music, 1894 in Norwegian music – Cello Concerto and Humoresques by Antonín Dvořák. 1893 in music, 1893 in Norwegian music – Symphony No. 9 and String Quartet No. 12 by Antonín Dvořák; Symphony No. 3 by Gustav Mahler; Karelia Suite by Jean Sibelius; Death of Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, Russian composer.
Franklin and Presley were arguably the greatest female and male voices in modern music history. ON THIS DAY IN HISTORY, AUGUST 15, 1935, ENTERTAINER WILL ROGERS, AVIATOR WILEY POST, KILLED IN ...
The year 1967 was an important one for psychedelic rock, and was famous for its "Summer of Love" in San Francisco.It saw major releases from multiple well-known bands including The Beatles, Small Faces, the newly renamed Eric Burdon and the Animals, Jefferson Airplane, Love, The Beach Boys, Cream, The Byrds, The Rolling Stones, The Who, and The Monkees.
Also in 1975. John Rutter becomes Director of Music at Clare College, Cambridge. Billy Davis Jr. and Marilyn McCoo leave the 5th Dimension and start solo careers. The Goodies have five top twenty singles (in the UK) becoming, according to Bill Oddie, "the first, the only and the most successful comedy rockers".
March 5 – 1963 Camden PA-24 crash: Patsy Cline is killed in small plane crash near Camden, Tennessee, while on her way to Nashville, Tennessee, from Kansas City, Missouri, at the height of her career, together with Cowboy Copas and Hawkshaw Hawkins. March 22 – The Beatles release their first album, Please Please Me, in the UK.
"But that music is a language by whose means messages are elaborated, that such messages can be understood by the many but sent out only by the few, and that it alone among all language unites the contradictory character of being at once intelligible and untranslatable—these facts make the creator of music a being like the gods and make music itself the supreme mystery of human knowledge."
The year-end "Top Disks" of 1944 will now be based on performance on the "Best Selling Retail Records" and "Most Played Juke Box Records" charts. July 28 – Sir Henry Wood, aged 75, conducts his last Promenade Concert, evacuated to Bedford. August 19 – Italian singers Lucia Mannucci and Virgilio Savona get married.
On This Day in History. On This Day In History was a feature on the BBC Radio 1 breakfast show in the UK between 1988 and 1993. It was devised by the programme's presenter at the time, Simon Mayo, and was broadcast at approximately 8.45am. [ 1] Mayo, a history graduate from University of Warwick, used the day's date each morning to regurgitate ...