June 1994 in Music History

Events in Music

Music History

Jun 5 Spalding Gray's one-man show "Gray's Anatomy" opens an encore run at Beaumont Theater, NYC; runs for 8 performances

Jun 6 28th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson & Ray Stevens win
Jun 11 "Meet The Flintstones" by The B-52's (stylized for this release as The B.C. 52's) from the 1994 film The Flintstones peaks at #33
Jun 12 48th Tony Awards: "Angels in America: Perestroika" (play) & "Passion: (musical) win

Music History

Jun 12 Cab Calloway suffers a massive stroke at his home in White Plaines NY

Music Premiere

Jun 15 Disney's animated musical film "The Lion King" opens in theaters with $42 million

Jun 19 "Sally Marrand Her Escorts" closes at Helen Hayes NYC after 50 performances
Jun 19 "She Loves Me" closes at Atkinson Theater NYC after 294 performances
Jun 19 "Twilight - Los Angeles 1992" closes at Cort NYC after 72 performances

Glastonbury Festival

Jun 24 Glastonbury Festival in Pilton, England opens: Levellers, Elvis Costello, and Peter Gabriel headline; other performers include Spin Doctors, Johnny Cash, Meshell Ndegeocello, Dwight Yoakam, Lucky Dube, Oasis, and Iris Dement

Jun 26 "Broken Glass" closes at Booth Theater NYC after 73 performances
Jun 26 "Medea" closes at Longacre Theater NYC after 82 performances
Jun 27 Aerosmith become first major band to let fans download a full new track free from the internet
Jun 27 Spalding Gray''s one-man show "Gray's Anatomy" closes at Beaumont Theater, NYC, after 8 performances

Birthdays in Music

Jun 12 Don Toliver, American singer and rapper (Heaver or Hell), born in Houston, Texas
Jun 18 Takeoff [Kirsnick Ball], American rapper (Migos), born in Lawrenceville, Georgia (d. 2022)

Weddings in Music

Eddie Vedder

Jun 3 American "Pearl Jam" singer Eddie Vedder (29) weds Beth Liebling (27) in the Eternal City

Divorces in Music

Jun 1 Guns N' Roses drummer Matthew Sorum files to divorce Kai

Deaths in Music

Jun 3 Hub Matthijsen, Dutch violinist and bandmaster, dies at 52
Jun 4 Derek "Lek" Leckenby, English rock guitarist (Herman's Hermits), dies of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma at 48
Jun 4 Earle Warren, American jazz alto sax player, dies at 79
Jun 5 Ish Kabbible [Merwyn A Bogue], American comedian and cornetist (Kay Kyser), dies at 86
Jun 6 Johnny Downs, American stage and screen actor, dancer, singer, and TV host, (Our Gang; Swing, Sister, Swing!), dies of cancer at 80
Jun 6 Willie Humphrey, American jazz clarinetist, dies at 93
Jun 8 William Marshall, American singer, bandleader and actor (State Fair, Pennsylvanians), dies at 76
Jun 9 Lloyd Lindroth, American harpist known as 'The Liberace of the Harp', dies at 63
Jun 13 Igor Youskevitch, Russian-Ukrainian ballet dancer, dies at 82

Henry Mancini (1924-1994)

Jun 14 American Grammy and Academy Award-winning film and television composer (Breakfast at Tiffany's; Peter Gunn; Pink Panther films), arranger, and conductor, dies of pancreatic cancer at 70

Jun 14 Lionel Grigson, British jazz musician, dies at 52
Jun 15 Manos Hatzidakis, Greek pianist, violinist, accordionist, conductor, and Academy Award-winning composer ("Never On Sunday"), dies at 68
Jun 16 Boris Alexandrov, Russian conductor (Red Army Song and Dance Ensemble), dies at 88
Jun 16 Kristen Pfaff, American rock bassist (Hole, 1993-94), dies of heroin overdose at 27
Jun 23 Alan Frank, English composer and music publisher, dies at 83
Jun 26 Thomas Henry Wait Armstrong, English organist (Christ College, Oxford), dies at 96
Jun 29 Kurt Eichhorn, German conductor, dies at 85
Jun 29 Ray Crane, English trumpeter, dies at 63