On This Day in Music
Events in Music
- 1782 Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's opera "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" premieres in Vienna with Mozart conducting
- 1955 "Golden Horseshoe Revue" 1st of 50,000+ performances, Disneyland
- 1966 "Half a Sixpence" closes at Broadhurst Theater NYC after 512 performances
- 1994 "Sisters Rosensweig" closes at Barrymore Theater NYC after 556 performances
- 1994 3 tenors-Placid Domingo, Luciano Parvoti, Jose Carreras, perform in LA
- 1995 "Buttons on Broadway" closes at Ambassador Theater NYC after 40 performances
- 1995 "Chronicles of a Death Foretold" closes at Plymouth NYC after 55 performances
Birthdays in Music
Ginger Rogers
(1911 - 1995)
Michael Flatley
61st Birthday
Deaths in Music
- 1698 Cristoph Kaldenbach, composer, dies at 84
- 1729 Johann David Heinichen, German composer, dies at 46
- 1762 Jacques Hotteterre, French composer and flautist, dies at 87
- 1868 Louis François Dauprat, French composer and horn player, dies at 87
Weddings in Music
- 1974 "The Osmonds" singer Alan Osmond (25) weds Suzanne Pinegar at LDS Temple in Provo, Utah
- 1980 Five-time Grammy Award singer Donna Summer (31) weds award winning arranger Bruce Sudano (31) in Los Angeles, California
- 2010 Def Leppard lead guitarist Phil Collen (52) weds costume designer Helen L. Simmons (42) at Ritz-Carlton Palm Beach Resort in Florida
Divorces in Music
- 2012 Actor-comedian Russell Brand (36) divorces popstar Katy Perry (27) due to irreconcilable differences a year after the fairy-tale wedding in India