Music History Monday

We mark the London premiere on August 26, 1952 72 years ago today of the film An American in Paris. With music by George Gershwin (1898-1937), directed by Vincente Minnelli, starring Gene Kelly,

We mark the death on August 19, 1929 95 years ago today of the Russian impresario, patron, art critic, and founder of the Ballets Russes Serge (or Sergei) Pavlovich Diaghilev, in Venice. Born i

Giovanni Gabrieli (circa 1555-1612)We mark the death on August 12, 1612 – 412 years ago today – of the composer Giovanni Gabrieli.  Born in Venice circa 1555, he grew up and spent his professional life in that glorious city, and died

Easy Times! Weve been having a good time, an easy time here at Music History Monday these last few weeks. Five of our last six MHM posts have featured fairly recent musical events from the popular

We mark the death of Cass Elliot on July 29, 1974 50 years ago today in an apartment at No. 9 Curzon Street in Londons Mayfair District. Born on September 19, 1941, she was just 32 years old at

Only July 22, 2023 one year ago today Taylor Swift (born 1989; she has, according toForbes, a present net worth of $1.3billion) literally shook up Seattle: her concerts in that city shook the

Indispensability The title of this blog An Indispensable Person might be considered controversial. Thats because any number of very smart people would argue that there is, in fact, so such thin

We mark the birth on July 8, 1935 89 years ago today of the American Grammy and Emmy Award-winning singer, actor, and comedian Steve Lawrence, in Brooklyn, New York. He died just four months ago,

We mark the introduction on July 1, 1979 45 years ago today of the Sony Walkman. The Walkman was the first entirely portable, high-fidelity (or at leastfairlyhigh-fidelity) audio cassette playe

On June 24, 1374 650 years ago today the men, women, and children of the Rhineland city of Aachen began to dash out of their houses and into the streets, where inexplicably, compulsively, and un