Music Stories
Concerts, albums, premieres and composers, told through dates and records, with the sources left in plain sight.
1948
1948 · Music
Stravinsky’s Orpheus premieres in New York
April 28, 19481940
1940 · Music
Cecil Leeson premieres Paul Creston’s Saxophone Sonata
February 15, 19401939
1939 · Music
Marian Anderson sings at the Lincoln Memorial
April 9, 19391935
1935 · Music
Porgy and Bess Arrives on Broadway
October 10, 19351926
1926 · Music
Szymanowski’s King Roger premieres in Warsaw
June 19, 19261925
1925 · Music
Busoni’s Doktor Faust premieres in Dresden
May 21, 19251910
1910 · Music
Mahler’s Eighth Symphony premieres in Munich
September 12, 19101885
1885 · Music
Gilbert and Sullivan’s Mikado opens in London
March 14, 18851882
1882 · Music
Tchaikovsky’s 1812 Overture is first performed
August 20, 18821880
1880 · Music
O Canada is first performed in Quebec City
June 24, 18801878
1878 · Music
H.M.S. Pinafore opens in London
May 25, 18781876
1876 · Music