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This Week in
Music History
March 10
- 1906 1st performance of Maurice Ravel's "Sonatine"
- 1940 1st US opera telecast, W2XBS, NYC, I Pagliacci
- 1965 "I've Got a Tiger By the Tail" album by Buck Owens is released (Billboard Album of the Year 1965)
March 10
March 11
- 1829 Johann Sebastian Bach's "St Matthew Passion" is revived by Felix Mendelssohn, aged 20, conducting in Berlin
- 1851 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Rigoletto" premieres in Venice
- 1867 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Don Carlos" premieres in Paris
March 11
March 12
March 12
- 1857 Giuseppe Verdi's opera "Simon Boccanegra" premieres in Venice
- 1946 Liza Minnelli, American singer/actress (Sterile Cuckoo, Cabaret), born in Hollywood, California
- 1947 "Chocolate Soldier" opens at Century Theater NYC for 69 performances
- 1954 1st performance of Arnold Schoenberg's "Moses und Aaron"
- 1969 11th Grammy Awards: "By the Time I Get to Phoenix" by Glen Campbell wins best record
March 13
March 13
- 1928 Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers" premieres in NYC
- 1947 "Brigadoon" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 581 performances
- 1965 Beatles' "Eight Days a Week" single goes #1 & stays #1 for 2 weeks
- 2004 Luciano Pavarotti performs in his last opera at New York Metropolitan Opera's "Tosca"
March 14
March 14
- 1847 Premiere of Giuseppe Verdi's "Macbeth" at the Teatro della Pergola, Florence
- 1885 Gilbert & Sullivan's comic opera "Mikado" premieres in London at the Savoy Theatre
- 1901 1st performance of Anton Bruckner's 6th Symphony in A
- 1940 "The Road to Singapore" directed by Victor Schertzinger starring Bob Hope, Bing Crosby and Dorothy Lamour, first of seven such films premieres
March 15
- 1945 17th Academy Awards: "Going My Way", Bing Crosby & Ingrid Bergman win
- 1945 Billboard publishes its 1st album chart (King Cole Trio is #1)
- 1956 "My Fair Lady" opens at Mark Hellinger Theater NYC for 2,715 performances
March 15
March 16
- 1969 Peter Stone & Sherman Edward's "1776" premieres at 46th St Theater NYC for 1217 performances
- 1971 13th Grammy Awards: Bridge over Troubled Water, Carpenters win
- 1974 1st performance at new Grand Ole Opry House at Opryland in Nashville