Events in Music
- Feb 2 Philip Glass' Symphony No. 6 (Plutonian Ode), for soprano and orchestra, based on the poem by Allen Ginsberg, premieres with the American Composers Orchestra conducted by Dennis Russell Davies, at Carnegie Hall, NYC
- Feb 17 Westlife go to No.1 on the UK singles chart with 'World Of Our Own.' The Irish boy band's 10th UK No.1 single.
Grammy Awards
Feb 27 44th Grammy Awards: "Walk On"; Alicia Keys win
Music History
Feb 27 Singer-songwriter Joni Mitchell receives Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award
Weddings in Music
LeAnn Rimes
Feb 23 "Blue" country and pop singer LeAnn Rimes (19) weds backup dancer Dean Sheremet (21) at Perkins Chapel in Dallas, Texas
Deaths in Music
Waylon Jennings (1937-2002)
Feb 13 American country singer and guitarist ("I'm A Ramblin' Man"), dies of diabetic complications at 64
- Feb 14 Mick Tucker, English rock drummer (Sweet - "Ballroom Blitz"), dies of leukemia at 54
- Feb 16 Billy Ward, American singer and songwriter (Billy Ward and his Dominoes), dies at 80
- Feb 18 Nathan Perelman, Soviet Russian pianist and pedagogue, dies at 95
- Feb 24 Arthur Lyman, American jazz vibraphone and marimba player (b. 1932)
- Feb 24 Leo Ornstein, Russian-American composer and pianist, (born about 1893)
- Feb 26 Oskar Sala, German physicist, composer, electronic music pioneer, and Trautonium (an early synthesizer) player, dies at 91
- Feb 28 Helmut Zacharias, German violinist and composer, dies at 82
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