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Stevie Wonder – fingertips-aged only 13, arguably making Motown music commercially popular for the first time even though its birth was in 1959; Elvis Presley – Today, Tomorrow and Forever; 1962 in music, 1962 in British music, 1962 in Norwegian music. Notable events: Deaths of: Marilyn Monroe; Fritz Kreisler; Harry Barris; Notable releases:
February 27 – Eliška Kleinová, pianist and music teacher (died 1999) March 11 – Xavier Montsalvatge, composer and music critic (died 2002) March 14 – Les Brown, US bandleader (died 2001) March 15 – Lightnin' Hopkins, blues musician (died 1982) March 24 – Sari Biro, pianist (died 1990) March 27 – Robert Hughes, composer (died 2007)
The table of years in music is a tabular display of all years in music, to provide an overview and quick navigation to any year. Contents: 1300s – 1400s – 1500s – 1600s – 1700s – 1800s – 1900s – 2000s – Other
Timeline of music in the United States; To 1819; 1820–1849; 1850–1879; 1880–1919; 1920–1949; 1950–1969; 1970–present; Music history of the United States; Colonial era – to the Civil War – During the Civil War – Late 19th century – 1900–1940 – 1950s – 1960s – 1970s – 1980s
1920–2021: 100: German classical oboist, conductor and academic teacher [162] Izabella Yurieva: 1899–2000: 100: Russian singer [163] Hilde Zadek: 1917–2019: 101: German operatic soprano [164] [165] Renato Zanettovich: 1921–2021: 100: Italian violinist and teacher [166] Julien-François Zbinden: 1917–2021: 103: Swiss composer and jazz ...
Music Hall, Britain's first form of commercial mass entertainment, emerged, broadly speaking, in the mid-19th century, and ended (arguably) after the First World War, when the halls rebranded their entertainment as Variety. [1]
W.C. Handy wrote "The Memphis Blues", and it became a great hit, making the publishing start of the Blues. [1]The singer Bessie Smith starts working as a vaudeville dancer. [1]
The Birmingham Triennial Music Festival is held for the last time, and runs at a loss. [1] Edward German declines Sir Herbert Beerbohm Tree's proposal that he provide the music for a production based on the life of Sir Francis Drake, saying that its setting necessitate covering ground already explored in his 1902 opera Merrie England. He writes ...