Events in Music
Music Premiere
Mar 16 Noël Coward's musical "Operette" premieres in London
Radio History
Mar 26 NBC radio performance of Howard Hanson's 3rd Symphony
Birthdays in Music
- Mar 2 Simon Estes, American bass-baritone (Wonton, Don Carlos), born in Centerville, Iowa
- Mar 3 Douglas Leedy, American composer, born in Portland, Oregon (d. 2015)
- Mar 3 Willie Chambers, American rock guitarist, and songwriter (Chambers Brothers - "Time Has Come Today"), born in Flora, Mississippi
- Mar 4 Angus MacLise, American percussionist, mystic, shaman, and composer (Velvet Underground), born in Bridgeport, Connecticut (d. 1979)
- Mar 5 Paul Evans, singer/pedal guitarist (Damascus Road)
- Mar 6 Lovelace Watkins, American singer known as "The Black Sinatra" (The Big, Big Voice of Lovelace Watkins), born in New Brunswick, New Jersey (d. 1995)
- Mar 9 Lill-Babs [Barbro Margareta Svensson], Swedish pop singer, (Eurovision, 1961) actress, and television presenter, born in Järvsö, Sweden (d. 2018)
- Mar 10 Norman Blake, American guitarist, mandolin, banjo, and fiddle player and songwriter, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee
- Mar 12 Dimitri Terzakis, Greek composer (Die Farben des Ozeans), born in Athens
- Mar 12 Lew DeWitt, American country singer and composer (Statler Brothers - "Flowers on the Wall"), born in Roanoke, Virginia (d. 1990)
- Mar 12 Ron Tutt, American session and touring drummer (Elvis Presley, Emmylou Harris; Jerry Garcia; Neil Diamond), born in Dallas, Texas (d. 2021)
- Mar 12 Tona Scherchen-Hsiao, composer, born in Neuchâtel, Switzerland
- Mar 13 Erma Franklin, American gospel and R&B singer ("Piece Of My Heart"), born in Shelby, Mississippi (d. 2002)
- Mar 13 Hans-Joachim Hespos, German composer, born in Emden, Germany
- Mar 13 Jean-Claude Risset, French composer, born in Le Puy-en-Velay, France (d. 2016)
- Mar 13 Julian Bahula, South African British based jazz and world music drummer, composer and bandleader, born in Eersterust, Pretoria
- Mar 14 Takehisa Kosugi, Japanese violinist and experimental music composer (Group Ongaku; Taj Mahal Travellers), born in Tokyo (d. 2018)
- Mar 15 Dick Higgins, American composer, born in Cambridge, England (d. 1998)
- Mar 17 Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer and choreographer (Kirov), born on a train near Irkutsk, Soviet Union (d. 1993)
- Mar 17 Zoletta "Zola" Taylor, American pop singer (The Platters, 1954-62 - "The Great Pretender"; "Only You"; "Twilight Time"), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2007)
- Mar 18 Charley Pride, American country singer (Sweet Country), born in Sledge, Mississippi (d. 2020) [1]
- Mar 23 Dave Pike, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player, born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2015)
- Mar 24 Holger Czukay [Schüring], German musician (Can), born in Danzig, Poland (d. 2017)
- Mar 25 Hoyt Axton, American songwriter, singer ("No No Song"; "Joy To The World"; "I've Never Been To Spain"), and actor (McCloud; Gremlins; The Rousters), born in Duncan, Oklahoma (d. 1999)
- Mar 31 Arthur B. Rubinstein, American composer
Deaths in Music
- Mar 2 Ben Harney, American composer and 'Father of Ragtime Piano' ("You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You Done Broke Down"), dies of a heart attack at 66 [1]
- Mar 9 Sydney Baynes, British conductor, arranger, band leader and composer (Destiny Waltz; Endure to Conquer), dies at 59
- Mar 18 Cyril Rootham, English composer, dies at 62
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