On This Day in Music
Events in Music
- 1736 George Frideric Handel's "Alexander's Feast" premieres at the Covent Garden Theatre, London
- 1914 Riccardo Zandonai's opera "Francesco da Rimini" premieres in Turin
- 1923 Jean Sibelius' 6th Symphony premieres
- 1942 Tommy Dorsey & his orchestra recorded "I'll Take Tallulah"
- 1949 "Inside USA" closes at Century Theater NYC after 339 performances
- 1964 UK flies ½ ton of The Beatles wigs to the US
- 1971 Paul McCartney releases "Another Day" in UK
- 1973 "Tie a Yellow Ribbon Round the Ole Oak Tree" single released by Dawn featuring Tony Orlando (Billboard Song of the Year 1973)
Birthdays in Music
Seal
56th Birthday
Deaths in Music
- 1605 Orazio Tiberio Vecchi, Italian composer, dies at 54
- 1653 Luigi Rossi, composer, dies
- 1785 Johann Christoph Richter, composer, dies at 84
- 1790 Jean-Baptiste Krumpholtz, Czech composer, dies at 47
Weddings in Music
- 1995 "Baywatch" actress Pamela Anderson (27) weds rocker Tommy Lee (32) in Cancun, Mexico