Events in Music on May 29

1901 Ignacy Jan Paderewski's opera "Manru" has its world premiere in Dresden, Germany

1913 Igor Stravinsky's avant-garde ballet score "Le Sacre du Printemps" (The Rite of Spring) for the Ballets Russes premieres at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées in Paris, provoking a riot

1942 Bing Crosby records Irving Berlin's song "White Christmas", world's best-selling single (estimated 100 million copies sold)

1942 "Yankee Doodle Dandy", based on life of George M. Cohan, directed by Michael Curtiz, starring James Cagney and Joan Lesley, premieres in NYC (Academy Awards Best Actor 1943)

1950 The Carter family debut on the Grand Ole Opry with Chet Atkins

1956 Arnold Schoenberg's "Modern Psalm" premieres

1960 Everly Brothers single "Cathy's Clown" hits #1

1962 Barbra Streisand appears on "The Garry Moore Show"

1976 Car tune "One Piece At A Time" by Johnny Cash hits #29

1987 Michael Jackson attempts to buy Elephant Man's remains

1994 Revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's musical "Joseph & the Amazing Dreamcoat" closes at Minskoff Theater, NYC, after 223 performances

2006 Singer David Bowie joins guitarist David Gilmour as special guest during encore at Royal Albert Hall, London concert; they perform "Arnold Layne" and "Comfortably Numb" in what becomes Bowie's final UK appearance