s trand s ix m usic through the years 1900 - 1910 1904 - london symphony orchestra established
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STRAND SIX MUSIC THROUGH THE YEARS
1900 - 1910
1904 -London Symphony Orchestra established
http://www.musiciansgallery.com/start/orchestras/london/symphony_orchestra.htm
1904 – Frankie and Johnnyhttp://www.tcm.com/thismonth/article/?cid=36824&rss=mrqe
1905 - Julliard establishedhttp://www.musiciansgallery.com/start/youth/schools/juilliard/school.htm
1904 –George Cohans -Yankee Doodle Dandy, Give my Regards to Broadway –pop http://www.musicals101.com/cohan.htm
1906 - The first radio transmission of voice and music
Fessenden, Massachusetts – http://www.wfn.org/story.html
http://oak.cats.ohiou.edu/~postr/MRT/Cmas1906.htm
1910 - 1920
1911- Al Jolson first recording http://www.jolson.org/
1910 – Blues - fairly common in America as musical form crystallizes
http://www.history-of-rock.com/blues.htm
1911 -Irving Berlin composes Alexander’s Ragtime Band, his first great success, prospers until the rise of rock in the Fifties
http://parlorsongs.com/thismonth/feature.php
1913 -First musical instruction street urchin, Louis Armstrong, 11 –arrested-shooting blanks on New Year’s Eve -sent to the Colored Waif’s Home -two years
http://www.pbs.org/wnet/americanmasters/database/armstrong_l.html
1913 -Billboard publishes first list of the top ten songs- #l Malinda’s Wedding Day
http://www.brainyhistory.com/topics/b/billboard.html
1920 - 1930
1924 -George Gershwin- Rhapsody in Blue premieres, New York
http://www.fanfaire.com/gershwin/timelinez.html
1923 – Besse Smith – “empress of the blues”
http://www.tqnyc.org/2006/NYC063369//music.htm
1921 – Louis Armstrong – “king of jazz”http://www.redhotjazz.com/louie.html
1924-Duke Ellington – “king of the big jazz band”
http://www.angelfire.com/co/pscst/music.html
1930 - 1940
1932-Duke Ellington- Jazz “It Don't Mean a Thing, If It Ain't Got That Swing,” a song that presaged the swing era.
1933- Paul Tutmarc invents first electric guitar
http://tutmarc.tripod.com/paultutmarc.html
1932-Radio City Music Hall opens
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?action=VideoArticle&id=7124
1940 - 1950
1942- Irving Berlin writes,"White Christmas," Bing Crosby
http://popular-culture.families.com/blog/bing-crosbys-white-christmas
http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0001078/
1948-Columbia Records introduces 33 1/3 LP record,
New York Waldorf-Astoria Hotelhttp://britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk/archival_sounds/2008/06/the-longest-day.html
http://www.softskull.com/detailedbook.php?isbn=978-1-59376-237-7
Frank Sinatra joins Tommy Dorsey Band
http://www.last.fm/listen/artist/Frank%2BSinatra%2B%2526%2BTommy%2BDorsey/similarartists
1950-1960
1956-Elvis Presley -many hit singles –King of Rock and Roll
http://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/elvis_presley_1956.html
1958- Elvis Presley is inducted into the U.S. Army http://www.elvispresleymusic.com.au/elvis_presley_army_1958_1960.html
1957 -Leonard Bernstein completes West Side Story.
http://ezinearticles.com/?Leonard-Bernstein-and-the-Story-of-the-West-Side-Story&id=1792761
1959-Grammy Award ceremony, the National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences sponsors, music,1958 Ella Fitzgerald, Perry Como
http://www.funtrivia.com/askft/Question16860.html
1960 - 1970
1960 -John Coltrane forms his own quartet, voice of jazz's New Wave
http://www.johncoltrane.com/
1961-Patsy Cline releases “I Fall to Pieces” and “Crazy.”
http://www.patsified.com/ http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzq5X-p2C0Y
1963-Beatlemania, A wave hits U.S.
http://classicrock.about.com/od/beatles/a/beatles_history_3.htm
http://www.ask.com/questions-about/Beatlemania
1964- Bob Dylan increasingly popular, social protest expressing objection to condition of American society.
http://protest-roots-music.suite101.com/article.cfm/bob_dylans_1964_tv_quest
1969-Woodstock music festival in Bethel, N.Y. http://www.woodstock.com/1969-festival/
1970 - 1980 1970-Beatles break up-end of the year, each member released solo
album.
http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/29723450/why_the_beatles_broke_upbr_the_story_behind_our_cover
1973-Jimmy Cliff, Jamaican film The Harder They Come,, launches reggae
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1474004
http://www.imagesjournal.com/issue10/reviews/hardertheycome/text.htm
1974 -Patti Smith first punk rock single, “Hey Joe.”
http://www.rockhall.com/inductee/patti-smith/
1977-Disco inferno -Saturday Night Fever ,.
http://www.oocl.com/eng/aboutoocl/ooclandcommunity/saturdaynightfever.html 1977 -Elvis Presley dies at Graceland, 42
http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history.do?id=6991&action=tdihArticleCategory
1978-Walkman,Sony introduces first portable stereo. http://inventors.about.com/od/wstartinventions/a/Walkman.htm
1979- Sugar Hill Gang releases first commercial rap hit, “Rapper's Delight,”
1980 - 1990
1980-John Lennon shot dead in New York City.
http://www.john-lennon.com/whokilledjohnlennon.htm
1981-MTV, running around the clock music videos debuting Video Killed the Radio Star.”
Http://www.eightyeightynine.com/musicvideo/mtvfirstsong.html
1982-Michael Jackson - Thriller, sells more than 25 million biggest-selling album
http://www.allmichaeljackson.com/biography.html1 King of Pop 1983-compact discs introduced vinyl record
declines http://cedmagic.com/history/sony-cdp-101.html
1985-Madonna first road show, Virgin Tour. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIVU2snA-yU&feature=fvw
1985 - Live Aid concerts, vincent scarza Dozens top-name musicians and bands perform, Philadelphia,, London- benefit African famine victims
http://www.herald.co.uk/local_info/live_aid.htmll http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=stNGHiscETo
1990-2000
1991-Nirvana “Smells Like Teen Spirit” national success-grunge movement
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smells_Like_Teen_Spirit
1992-Compact discs surpass cassette tapes as the preferred medium for recorded music.
1996-Janet Jackson, highest-paid musician in history $80-million-Virgin Records.
http://www.8notes.com/biographies/janet_jackson.asp
Frank Sinatra dies, heart attack 82
http://www.cnn.com/SHOWBIZ/9805/15/sinatra.obit/
1998-First MP3 player introduced-Saehan/Eiger Labs F10/F20.
http://news.cnet.com/Bragging-rights-to-the-worlds-first-MP3-player/2010-1041_3-5548180.html
http://www.mahalo.com/saehan-information-systems
2000-2010
2001-Apple- iPod, revolutionizes music industry and way music sold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kN0SVBCJqLs
http://lowendmac.com/orchard/05/origin-of-the-ipod.html
2002-Bruce Springsteen, The Rising tour, visiting 46 arenas in 46 cities http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZN_cDlAddbM
http://www.brucespringsteen.net/live/index_risingtour.html
2006-James Brown, Godfather of Soul” dies heart failure 73
2007-Universal, Sony BMG, EMI, and Warner, after years of consolidation, 70% of the world’s music is sold by one of four companies http://www.forbes.com/feeds/afx/2007/02/26/afx3462520.html
http://www.oligopolywatch.com/2003/06/28.html