Events in Music
- 1888 1st performance of Caesar Franck's "Psyche"
- 1906 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine"
- 1940 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci
- 1951 "Where's Charley?" closes at Broadway Theater NYC after 56 performances
- 1965 "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail" album by Buck Owens is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1965)
Music Recording
1970 Barbra Streisand records "The Singer" & "I Can Do It"
Barbra Streisand
Music Awards
1992 6th Soul Train Music Awards: Natalie Cole, Color Me Badd win
Natalie Cole
Music Awards
2007 21st Soul Train Music Awards: Jermaine Dupri, Jennifer Hudson win
Jennifer Hudson
Event of Interest
2009 Billy Corgan testifies in front of Congress, on behalf of the musicFIRST Coalition, in support of H.R. 848, the Performance Rights Act
Billy Corgan
Event of Interest
2015 The family of Marvin Gaye win a record $7.3 million lawsuit for music copyright infringement against Robin Thicke, Pharrell Williams, and T.I.
Marvin Gaye
Pharrell Williams
Film Release
2015 "See You Again" released by Wiz Khalifa featuring Charlie Puth commissioned by film "Furious 7" as tribute to Paul Walker (Billboard Song of the Year 2015)
Paul Walker
Birthdays in Music
- 1698 Gaetano Maria Schiassi, composer
- 1713 Christian Friedrich Schale, composer
- 1713 Raphael Weiss, German composer and priest, born in Wangen (d. 1779)
- 1755 Philipp Christoph Kayser, composer
- 1780 Juan Jose Landaeta, composer
- 1839 Dudley Buck, organist and church composer, born in Hartford, Connecticut
- 1844 Pablo de Sarasate, Spanish violinist and composer (Spanish Dancer), born in Pamplona, Spain (d. 1908)
- 1870 Alfred Kastner, composer
- 1872 Felix Borowski, composer
- 1875 Alexander Borisovich Goldenweiser, composer
- 1888 Krsto Odak, Croatian composer, born in Siverić (d. 1965)
- 1892 Arthur Honegger, Swiss composer (King David, Pacific 231), born in Le Havre, France (d. 1955)
- 1892 Eva Turner, British soprano
- 1899 Finn Hoffding, composer
- 1903 Leon Bismarck "Bix" Beiderbecke, Davenport, Iowa, American jazz cornetist, considered one of the most influential jazz soloists of the 1920s
- 1905 Rene Bernier, Belgian composer, born in Saint-Gilles (d.1984)
- 1907 Robert de Roos, composer
- 1915 Sir Charles Groves, English conductor(d. 1992)
- 1916 Manuel A "Manny" Greenhill, record producer
- 1919 Marion Hutton, American actress and singer (Glenn Miller Orchestra), born in Battle Creek, Michigan (d. 1987)
- 1920 Kenneth "Jethro" Burns, US country singer (Homer & Jethro)
- 1920 Boris Vian, French writer and musician (d. 1959)
- 1927 Donn Trenner, orchestra leader (ABC's Nightlife), born in New Haven, Connecticut
- 1928 Sara Montiel, Spanish actress and singer (The Last Torch Song, The Violet Seller), born in Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real, Spain (d. 2013)
- 1930 Raymond Rasberry, pianist/singer
- 1931 Georges Dor, Quebec author, playwright, singer and songwriter (d. 2001)
- 1933 Bernadetta Matuszczak, Polish composer
- 1934 Judith Jamison, artistic director (Alvin Ailey Dance Theater)
- 1938 Norman Blake, American traditional stringed instrument artist and songwriter, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee
- 1940 Dean Torrence, surf music singer (Jan & Dean-Little Old Lady), born in Los Angeles, California
- 1940 Francis Schwartz, composer
- 1941 Daniel Kirkland Lentz, American composer, born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania
- 1941 Piotr Warzecha, composer
- 1943 Alfred Whitford 'Fred' Lerdahl, American composer (Arches), born in Madison, Wisconsin
- 1943 Stephen Montague, composer
- 1946 Gaylord Birch, drummer (Reconstruction, Honey Dripper)
- 1947 Tom Scholz, rock guitarist/keyboardist (Boston-More Than a Feeling)
- 1950 Ted McKenna, rocker (Alex Harvey Band)
- 1953 Ronnie Earl [Ronald Horvath], American blues guitarist (The Broadcasters), born in Queens, New York
- 1955 Bunny DeBarge, rocker (Debarge), born in Grand Rapids Michigan
- 1955 Youssra, Egyptian actress and singer
- 1955 Gary Louris, American singer-songwriter and musician (Jayhawks), born in Toledo, Ohio
- 1962 Gary Clark, rocker (Danny Wilson-Mary's Prayer)
- 1962 Seiko Matsuda, Japanese pop singer
- 1963 Jeff Ament, American musician (Pearl Jam)
- 1963 Rick Rubin, American record producer, co-founder of Def Jam Recordings, born in Long Beach, New York
- 1964 Neneh Cherry, Swedish singer-songwriter and rapper (Money Love), born in Stockholm, Sweden
- 1966 Edie Brickell, Mrs Paul Simon/rocker (& New Bohemians)
- 1966 Gráinne Mulvey, Irish composer
- 1969 Ricky Seagall, rocker (Partridge Family)
- 1970 Matt Barlow, American singer (Iced Earth)
- 1973 John LeCompt, American guitarist
- 1974 Hugo Ferreira, American rock musician
- 1976 Kisaki, Japanese musician
- 1976 Haifa Wehbe, Lebanese actress, model and singer
- 1977 Matt Rubano, American musician (Taking Back Sunday)
- 1977 Robin Thicke, Canadian American singer, born in Los Angeles, California
- 1978 Ben Burnley, American musician (Breaking Benjamin)
Carrie Underwood
1983 Carrie Underwood, American country singer, born in Muskogee, Oklahoma
Carrie Underwood
Weddings in Music
- 2000 Country singer Vince Gill (42) weds christian pop singer Amy Grant (39) in Nashville, Tennessee
- 2007 Brazilian singer-actress Tania Mara (24) weds director Jayme Monjardim (50) at Chapel of Sao Jose das Botas on the grounds of Hotel Fazenda Florenca in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
- 2007 Noteable singer and stage performer Matt Hetherington (36) weds Australian television presenter Melissa Kotsos at the Morning Star Estate on Mt. Eliza
Deaths in Music
- 1700 Diogo Dias Melgaz, Portuguese composer, dies at 61
- 1701 Johann Schelle, German composer, dies at 52
- 1716 Wenzel Ludwig von Radolt, composer, dies at 48
- 1832 Muzio Clementi, Italian composer, dies at 79
- 1861 Joseph-François Snel, Belgian composer, dies at 67
- 1866 Antonio Francesco Gaetano S Pacini, composer, dies at 87
- 1870 Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer, dies at 75
- 1875 Louis Joseph Daussoigne-Mehul, composer, dies at 84
- 1888 Ciro Pinsuti, Italian pianist/composer, dies at 57
- 1897 Teodulo Mabellini, Italian composer, dies at 79
- 1900 Johann Peter Emilius Hartmann, composer, dies at 94
- 1901 Vasily Georgiyevich Wrangell, Russian composer, dies at 38
- 1910 Carl Heinrich Carsten Reinecke, composer, dies at 85
- 1922 Arthur Hervey, composer, dies at 67
- 1922 Horace Wadham Nicholl, composer, dies at 73
- 1967 Yiorgos Batis, Greek composer and musician (b. 1885)
- 1971 Mabel Wheeler Daniels, American composer (Deep Forest, The Desolate City), dies at 92
- 1974 Quinto Maganini, American composer (The Argonauts), dies at 76
- 1975 Leopold Samuel, composer, dies at 91
- 1977 E. Power Biggs, English organist and composer (CBS), dies at 70
- 1988 William Brocklesby Wordsworth, composer, dies at 79
- 1989 Doc Green, American singer (The Drifters), dies at 54
- 1992 Giorgos Zampetas, Greek composer and musician (b. 1925)
- 1995 Hendrik W van Leeuwen, Dutch musician, dies at 79
- 1997 La Vern Baker, American singer (b. 1929)
- 2001 Massimo Morsello, Italian musician and far right activist (b. 1958)
- 2004 Dave Blood, real name David Schulthise; American musician, bassist for The Dead Milkmen (b. 1956)
- 2005 Danny Joe Brown, American singer (Molly Hatchet) dies of pneumonia at 53
- 2006 Anna Moffo, American soprano (Adventurers), dies at 73
- 2010 Micky Jones, Welsh rock guitarist (Man), dies of a brain tumour at 63
- 2010 Édgar Valcárcel, Peruvian pianist and composer, dies at 77
- 2012 Heinz Wunderlich, German organist and composer, dies at 92
- 2016 Keith Emerson, English rock musician (Emerson, Lake & Palmer), commits suicide at 71
- 2016 Gogi Grant [Myrtle Audrey Arinsberg], American singer (The Wayward Wind), dies at 91
- 2016 Ernestine Anderson, American jazz vocalist, dies at 87
- 2017 [Joan] Joni Sledge, American vocalist (Sister Sledge "We are Family"), dies at 60
March in History
Sinatra Snaps the Fight of the Century
Sinatra does it his way and secures a ringside seat as a photographer for the "Fight of the Century" between Muhammad Ali and Joe Frazier.
March 8, 1971
One-Man War Finally Ends
Japanese soldier Hiroo Onoda finally surrendered on this day – nearly 30 years after the Second World War had ended.
March 9, 1974
Mr. Watson come here, I want you
Alexander Graham Bell spoke only briefly by phone to his assistant on this day in 1876, but it proved to be a pioneering moment in telecoms history.
March 10, 1876
Wave of Doubt over Britannia
The composer who put "Rule, Britannia!" to music was born on this day, but the original words are not quite what they bellow out at the Last Night of the Proms.
March 12, 1710