Events in Music
- 1818 Pesaro opera theater opens with Gioacchino Rossini's "La gaza ladra"
Music Premiere
1865 Richard Wagner's opera "Tristan und Isolde" premieres in Munich, Germany
Richard Wagner
Music Concert
1966 Janis Joplin's 1st live concert (Avalon Ballroom in San Francisco)
Janis Joplin
- 1967 15,000 attend Fantasy Faire and Magic Mountain Music Festival, California
Music Recording
1972 Elvis Presley records a live album at NYC's Madison Square Garden
Elvis Presley
- 1972 "Too Young" single released by Donny Osmond
- 1974 "Feel Like Makin' Love" single released by Roberta Flack (Billboard Song of the Year 1974)
- 1985 19th Music City News Country Awards: Statler Brothers, B Mandrell
- 1990 "Accomplice" closes at Richard Rodgers Theater NYC after 52 performances
- 1990 "Meet Me in St Louis" closes at Gershwin Theater NYC after 253 performances
- 1990 Rap group 2 Live crew members arrested in Florida for obscenity
- 1991 25th Music City News Country Awards: Ricky Van Shelton
- 1992 "Price" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 47 performances
- 1993 "She Loves Me" opens at Criterion Theater NYC for 61 performances
- 1995 "Month in the Country" closes at Roundabout Theater NYC after 79 performances
- 1996 30th Music City News Country Awards: Alan Jackson
Film Release
2003 "Wicked", starring Idina Menzel and Kristin Chenoweth, officially opens at the Curran Theatre in San Francisco
Idina Menzel
Birthdays in Music
- 1781 Giovanni Battista Polledro, composer
- 1790 Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer
- 1831 W. A. Remy [Wilhelm Mayer], Austro-Bohemian composer (d. 1898)
- 1843 Heinrich von Herzogenberg, composer
- 1879 Benjamin Lambord, composer
- 1890 Powell Weaver, composer
- 1891 Al Dubin, Swiss songwriter (Tiptoe Thru the Tulips)
- 1893 Franz Andre, Belgian conductor
- 1894 Pavel Borkovec, Czech composer (Stmivani, [Twilight])
- 1901 Frederick Loewe [Friedrich Löwe], Austrian-born American composer (My Fair Lady, Camelot), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 1988)
- 1902 Gaston Brenta, composer
- 1906 Janos Viski, Hungarian composer, born in Kolozsvár (d. 1961)
- 1909 Erwin Dressel, composer
- 1910 Howlin' Wolf, [Chester Arthur Burnett], harmonica (Big City Blues)
- 1910 Robert Still, English composer (d. 1971)
- 1911 Ralph Kirkpatrick, American musician, musicologist and harpsichordist (Domenico Scarlatti), born in Leominster, Massachusetts (d. 1984)
- 1913 John Edmunds, composer
- 1913 Thor Johnson, Wisconsin Rapids Wisconsin, conductor (Cin Symph 1958)
- 1913 Tikhon Nikoleyevich Khrennikov, composer
- 1915 Oscar Comras, drummer (namesake of Comras Mall in Bronx Park), born in The Bronx, New York
- 1920 Zbynek Vostrak, composer
Judy Garland
1922 Judy Garland [Frances Gumm], American actress and singer (The Wizard of Oz), born in Minnesota (d. 1969)
Judy Garland
- 1929 Harald Juhnke, German actor, comedian and entertainer (Guitars of Love, Schtonk), born in Berlin, Germany (d. 2005)
- 1929 Vasile Herman, composer
- 1931 João Gilberto, Brazilian singer and guitarist
- 1934 Nicolas Roussakis, composer
- 1940 John William Stevens, jazz drummer
- 1941 Harry Muskee, Dutch rock vocalist (Cuby & Blizzards)
- 1941 Shirley Owens Alston, singer (Shirelles-Soldier Boy), born in Passaic, New Jersey
- 1941 Mickey Jones, American musician and actor (Home Improvement, Justified), born in Houston, Texas (d. 2018)
- 1942 Janet Vogel, rocker (Skyliners)
- 1945 Martin Wesley-Smith, composer
- 1954 Richard "Rich" Hall, American comedian, writer, and musician (Saturday Night Live, Fridays, Not Necessarily the News), born in Alexandria, Virginia
- 1961 Maxi Priest, [Max Elliott], Jamaican/English singer (Wild World)
- 1961 Kim Deal, American musician (Pixies), (The Breeders)
- 1961 Kelley Deal, American musician (The Breeders)
- 1964 Jimmy Chamberlin, American musician (The Smashing Pumpkins)
- 1967 Human Beatbox, [Darren Robinson], rocker (Fat Boys-Jail House Rock)
- 1967 Emma Anderson, British guitarist and songwriter (Lush, Sing-Sing)
- 1968 The D.O.C., American rapper
- 1970 Mike Doughty, American singer
- 1971 Joel Hailey, American singer
- 1973 Faith Evans, American singer
- 1977 Takako Matsu, Japanese singer and actress
- 1977 Adam Darski, Polish musician most known for being the leader of Behemoth
- 1979 Lee Brice, American country singer and songwriter (Love Like Crazy, Hard to Love), born in Sumter, South Carolina
- 1981 Hoku, American singer and actress
Weddings in Music
- 1995 Actress-singer Holly Robinson (30) weds NFL Philadelphia Eagle quarterback Rodney Peete (29) in Los Angeles
- 2006 Spanish singer Bertin Osborne (51) weds Venezuelan model Fabiola Martinez in Seville, Spain
- 2012 Country music singer Wynonna Judd (48) weds "Highway 101" drummer Cactus Moser in Leiper's Fork, Tennessee
Deaths in Music
- 1556 Martin Agricola [M Sore], German composer/cantor, dies
- 1800 Johann Abraham Peter Schulz, German composer, dies at 53
- 1849 Friedrich Kalkbrenner, German-French pianist and composer, dies at 63
- 1883 Carl Gradener, composer, dies at 71
- 1893 Elek Erkel, Hungarian composer, son of Ferenc Erkel, dies at 49
- 1899 Ernest Chausson, French composer (Solitude dance le bois), dies at 44
- 1918 Arrigio Enrico Boito, composer, dies at 76
- 1934 Frederick Delius, British composer (A Mass of Life, Brigg Fair, In a Summer Garden), dies at 72
- 1953 Grzegorz Fitelberg, Polish composer, dies at 73
- 1954 Will Rossiter, composer, dies at 87
- 1964 Louis Gruenberg, Russian-American composer (Daniel Jazz), dies at 79
- 1968 Yury Sergeyevich Milyutin, composer, dies at 65
- 1982 Addie "Micki" Harris, US singer (Shirelles-Mama Said), dies at 42
- 1992 Hachidal Nakamura, composer (Sukiyaki), dies at 61 of heart failure
Ray Charles
2004 Ray Charles [Robinson], American singer and pianist who pioneered soul music (Georgia on My Mind, Mess Around), dies at 73
Ray Charles
- 2004 Graeme Kelling, British pop guitarist (Deacon Blue), dies at 47
- 2009 Barry Beckett, American keyboardist and record producer (David Hood, Jimmy Johnson, Roger Hawkins), dies from complications of a stroke at 66
- 2016 Christina Grimmie, American singer and contestant on "The Voice", dies of a gunshot wound at 22
June in History
Why an American Bought London Bridge
An iconic piece of Olde England was just what an American oil tycoon wanted for his new township in the Arizona desert. Did he get what he was after?
June 7, 1761
France's Biggest-Ever Bank Robbery
Its vault was thought to be impregnable, but the bank had not reckoned on the ingenuity of a determined thief who died on this day, with the loot still missing.
June 8, 1989
A Beautiful Day in Moscow
Often depicted as grey and formal, the comrades of Soviet Russia let their hair down and held their first beauty pageant, changing the life of one schoolgirl.
June 12, 1988
Cricket's T20 is Born. Howzat!?
Cricketing enthusiasts are fearful for the future of Test matches. The seeds of doubt were sewn on this day when the furiously fast T20 format was introduced.
June 13, 2003