First Black Englishman Depicted
1507 First named reference to royal trumpeter John Blanke, the first black person whose image survives from Tudor England, in payment for services by Henry VII [1]
- 1786 The oldest performing musical organization in the United States is founded in Stoughton, Massachusetts, as the Stoughton Musical Society
Little Johnny Jones
1904 George M. Cohan's 1st full-length musical "Little Johnny Jones", featuring the songs "Yankee Doodle Dandy" and "Give My Regards To Broadway", opens at the Liberty Theatre, NYC; runs for 52 performances be before going on tour
Deutsche Opernhaus
1912 The Deutsche Opernhaus (now Deutsche Oper Berlin) opens in the Berlin neighborhood of Charlottenburg, with a production of Beethoven's Fidelio
- 1921 Ed Wynn's musical revue "The Perfect Fool" premieres in NYC
- 1946 Katherine Dunham's song and dance revue "Bal Nègre" opens at Belasco Theater, NYC; runs for 54 performances
Live at the Bon Soir
1962 Columbia Records completes a three-night live recording of Barbra Streisand at the Bon Soir nightclub in Greenwich Village, NYC, for her debut album; technical issues force them to shelve the release and bring her to a studio to record
- 1969 John Lennon and Yoko Ono release their second album "Wedding Album" in UK
- 1970 Gary Geld and Peter Udell's musical "Purlie", based on Ossie Davis' "Purlie Victorious", closes at the Broadway Theater, NYC, after 689 performances
Your Arms are Too Short to Box With God
1982 Revival of Alex Bradford, Vinnette Carroll, and Micki Grant's "Your Arms are Too Short to Box With God", based on the Bible's Book of Matthew, and featuring Al Green and Patti LaBelle, closes at the Alvin Theatre, NYC. after 69 performances
- 1990 English-Yiddish musical revue "Those Were The Days" opens at Edison Theater, NYC; runs for 126 performances
A Little Night Music
1990 New York City Opera's limited run production of Stephen Sondheim's musical "A Little Night Music" closes at New York State, NYC, after 11 performances
- 1991 "Park Your Car in Harvard Yard" opens at Music Box NYC
- 1996 "3 Sisters" opens at Lunt-Fontanne Theater NYC
TP-2.com
2000 "TP-2.com" 4th studio album by R. Kelly is released (American Music Awards Favorite Male Soul/R&B Artist, 2001; Billboard Album of the Year, 2001)
- 2017 Opera soprano Audrey Luna sings the highest-ever note at the Met Opera in New York: an A above high C
Rock & Roll Hall of Fame
2020 35th Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees: Depeche Mode; The Doobie Brothers; Whitney Houston; Nine Inch Nails; The Notorious B.I.G.; T-Rex; Jon Landau; and Irving Azoff
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