On This Day in Music for May 30
Events in Music
- 1866 Opera "Die Verkaufte Braut" premieres (Prague)
- 1917 Jazz standard "Dark Town Strutters Ball" by Shelton Brooks recorded by the Original Dixieland Jazz Band
- 1923 Howard Hanson's 1st Symphony "Nordic" premieres
- 1938 Walter Piston's dance work, The Incredible Flutist, written for the Boston Pops Orchestra, which premieres it, Arthur Fiedler conducting
- 1959 George Weiss, Bo Goldman, and Glenn Paxton musical "First Impressions", adapted from Jane Austen's "Pride and Prejudice", starring Polly Bergen; Farley Granger, and Hermione Gingold, closes at Alvin Theater, NYC, after 84 performances
- 1959 "Nervous Set" closes at Henry Miller's Theater NYC after 23 performances
- 1962 Benjamin Britten's "War Requiem" incorporating the poems of Wilfred Owen premieres, marking the consecration of the new Coventry Cathedral
- 1964 "Beyond the Fringe" closes at John Golden Theater NYC after 673 performances
- More Events in Music
Benny Goodman
Tom Morello
Wynonna Judd
Idina MenzelWeddings in Music
- 1966 American country singer-songwriter Dolly Parton (20) weds Carl Dean (23) in Ringgold, Georgia
- 1992 American singer-songwriter Paul Simon (50) weds American rock singer-songwriter Edie Brickell (26)
More Weddings & Divorces in Music
Musicians Who Died on May 30
- 1746 Giovanni Antonio Pollarolo, composer, dies at 69
- 1791 Ildephons Haas, German composer, dies at 56
- 1797 Carl Ludwig Junker, German composer, dies at 48
- 1833 Josef Slavik, Czech composer, dies at 27
May in Music History
My Fair Lady's Special Day
This was a day to remember for Eliza Doolittle, the 'My Fair Lady' of the stage and film musical that won and broke hearts.
May 20, 1956Memories of Elvis
Only one actor has appeared on film with both the Beatles and Elvis Presley: the little-known Norman Rossington.
May 21, 1999Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band
One of the most famous album covers in music history, The Beatles' Sgt Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band, designed by artists Peter Blake and Jann Haworth
May 26, 1967A Modern Major-General of Light Entertainment
William Gilbert, celebrated as the unique lyricist behind the highly popular Gilbert and Sullivan comic operas, met his death in highly unexpected circumstances.
May 29, 1911
