Events in Music
Academy Awards
Apr 5 37th Academy Awards: "My Fair Lady", Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady) & Julie Andrews (Mary Poppins) win awards
Theater Premiere
Apr 15 James Baldwin's 1954 stage drama "The Amen Corner" opens at Ethel Barrymore Theater, NYC; runs for 84 performances
- Apr 23 "I Can't Help Myself (Sugar Pie Honey Bunch)" single released by the Four Tops (Billboard Song of the Year 1965)
- Apr 24 "Comedy in Music-Opus 2" closes at John Golden NYC after 192 performances
- Apr 26 Charles Ives' 4th Symphony premieres at Carnegie Hall, New York, 11 years after the composer's death
- Apr 27 "I'm Solomon" closes at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC after 7 performances
Television Premiere
Apr 28 "My Name is Barbra", Barbra Streisand's first television special, premieres on CBS
Music Concert
Apr 28 Luciano Pavarotti makes his debut at La Scala, Milan in Franco Zeffirelli's production of "La bohème" with Mirella Freni
Music History
Apr 29 Canadian folk singer-songwriter Joni Anderson (soon to be known as Joni Mitchell) meets American folk singer and future husband Chuck Mitchell at a gig in Toronto, Ontario
Birthdays in Music
- Apr 1 Peter O'Toole, Irish pop bassist (Hothouse Flowers - "People"; "Thing Of Beauty"), born in Dublin, Ireland
- Apr 1 Robert Steadman, English composer, born in Chiswick, London
- Apr 3 Nazia Hassan, Pakistani pop singer-songwriter, lawyer and social activist known as "Queen of Pop" in South Asia, born in Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan (d. 2000)
- Apr 6 Black Francis [Charles Thompson IV], American singer and songwriter (Pixies; Frank Black), born in Boston, Massachusetts
- Apr 15 Linda Perry, American singer-songwriter and producer (4 Non Blondes - "What's Up"; Christina Aguilera - "Beautiful"), born in Springfield, Massachusetts
- Apr 16 Gerardo [Mejía], Ecuadorian-American rapper, born in Guayaquil
- Apr 18 Diana Villegas, American-Mexican rocker (The Triplets), born in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- Apr 18 Sylvia Villegas, American-Mexican rocker (The Triplets), born in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- Apr 18 Vicky Villegas, American-Mexican rocker (The Triplets), born in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
- Apr 19 Lilya Zilberstein, Russian concert pianist (Busoni Prize, 1987), born in Moscow, USSR
- Apr 19 Marion "Suge" Knight, American record producer, and label executive (Death Row Records), born in Compton, California
- Apr 19 Natalie Dessay, French soprano and actress, born in Lyon, France
- Apr 25 Eric Avery, American musician (Jane's Addiction, Deconstruction, Polar Bear), born in Los Angeles, California
- Apr 27 Rob Squires, American rock bassist (Big Head Todd and the Monsters), born in Denver, Colorado
