On This Day in Music
Events in Music
- 1927 "Grand Ole Opry" first named as such during Barn Dance radio broadcast, in Nashville, Tennessee
- 1953 "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 performances
- 1965 "Yearling" opens at Alvin Theater NYC for 3 performances
- 1978 "Platinum" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 33 performances
- 1991 "Crucible" opens at Belasco Theater NYC for 32 performances
- 1991 IM Pei receives $5 million for design of Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
- 1992 "My Favorite Year" opens at Vivian Beaumont Theater NYC for 37 performances
- 2016 Bob Dylan is awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature at a ceremony he does not attend in Stockholm
Birthdays in Music
- 1764 Louis-Sébastien Lebrun, French composer, born in Paris (d. 1829)
- 1813 Errico Petrella, Italian composer, born in Palermo, Italy (d. 1877)
- 1822 César Franck, Belgian composer and organist, born in Liège, Belgium (d. 1890)
- 1823 Theodore Furchtegott Kirchner, German composer, born in Neukirchen, Germany (d. 1903)
Deaths in Music
- 1618 Giulio Caccini, Italian composer
- 1665 Tarquinio Mercula, composer, dies
- 1770 Theophil "Gottlieb" Muffat, German court organist/composer, dies at 80
- 1805 Friedrich Franz Hurka, composer, dies at 43
Weddings in Music
- 1947 Jazz musician Ella Fitzgerald (30) weds bass player Ray Brown (21)
- 2005 "Audioslave" drummer Brad Wilk (37) weds "Seven Year Bitch" former lead vocalist Selene Vigil near the frozen waters of Emerald Bay in Lake Tahoe
- 2005 Country music artist Garth Brooks (43) weds singer Trisha Yearwood (41) in Claremore, Oklahoma