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8/27 This week in MH
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This Week in
Music History
August 26
- 1846 Felix Mendelssohn's oratorio "Elijah" premieres at the Birmingham Festival in England
- 1968 "Hey Jude" single released by the Beatles (Billboard Song of the Year 1968, Billboard 10th biggest song of all time 2013)
- 1978 Grease movie soundtrack earns its second #1 hit
- 1992 "Anna Karenina" opens at Circle in Sq Theater NYC for 46 performances
August 26
August 27
- 1892 NYC Metropolitan Opera House catches fire
- 1900 Gabriel Fauré's opera/cantata "Prométhée" premieres in Beziers
- 1934 Harold Arlen, Ira Gershwin and Yips Harburg's musical 'Life Begins at 8:40' premieres in NYC
- 1965 The Beatles spend an evening with Elvis Presley
- 1977 "Chicago" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 947 performances
August 27
August 28
August 28
- 1850 Richard Wagner's opera "Lohengrin" premieres at Weimar, Germany
- 1922 Albert von Tilzer & Neville Fleesons musical premieres in NYC
- 1939 Sammy Fain and Jack Yellen's musical "George White's Scandals" premieres
- 1953 "Me & Juliet" opens at Majestic Theater NYC for 358 performances
- 1970 "I'll Be There" single by The Jackson 5 is released (Billboard Song of the Year 1970)
August 29
August 29
- 1964 Walt Disney's "Mary Poppins" directed by Robert Stevenson and starring Julie Andrews and Dick van Dyke is released
- 1966 The Beatles' last public concert (Candlestick Park, San Francisco)
- 1958 Michael Jackson, recording artist and King of Pop (Thriller, Bad), born in Gary, Indiana (d. 2009)
August 30
- 1751 George Frideric Handel completes oratorio "Jephtha"
- 1945 Dmitri Shostakovitch completes his 9th Symphony
- 1968 1st record under Apple label (Beatle's Hey Jude)
August 30
August 31
- 1928 Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill’s The Threepenny Opera premieres in Berlin
- 1980 "Oklahoma!" closes at Palace Theater NYC after 301 performances
- 1987 Michael Jackson's "Bad" video premieres on CBS TV
August 31
September 1
- 1653 Johann Pachelbel, German composer (Canon in D), born in Nuremberg, Germany (d. 1706)
- 1785 Mozart publishes 6th string quartet opus 10 in Vienna
- 1850 P.T. Barnum brings Jenny Lind to New York
- 1989 "Anything Goes" closes at Beaumont Theater NYC after 804 performances
- 1990 "Heidi Chronicles" closes at Plymouth Theater NYC after 621 performances
- 1990 "Jerome Robbins' Broadway" closes at Imperial NYC after 634 performances
September 1
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