23 ΜΑΪΟΥ … ΑΥΤΗ ΤΗΝ ΜΕΡΑ ΣΤΗΝ ΜΟΥΣΙΚΗ !!!!! ON THIS DAY IN MUSIC for May 23

Events in Music

Event of Interest

1980 33rd Cannes Film Festival: “All That Jazz” directed by Bob Fosse and “Kagemusha” directed by Akira Kurosawa jointly awarded the Palme d’Or

Film Director and Screenwriter Akira Kurosawa — Film Director and Screenwriter
Akira Kurosawa

1997 “King David” closes at New Amsterdam Theater NYC

Album Release

2000 Eminem releases 3rd studio album ‘The Marshall Mathers LP’, is fastest ever selling studio album (Grammy – Best Rap Album 2001)

2006 41st Academy of Country Music Awards: Kenny Chesney, Sara Evans and Keith Urban win

Music Premiere

2014 “Pauline” a chamber opera by Margaret Atwood and Tobin Stokes premieres at the York Theatre in Vancouver

Author Margaret Atwood — Author
Margaret Atwood

2015 60th Eurovision Song Contest: Mans Zelmerlow for Sweden wins singing “Heroes” in Vienna

Birthdays in Music

1644 Thomas Eisenhut, German composer, born in Aursburg, Germany (d. 1702)
1696 Johann Caspar Vogler, German composer and organist, born in Hausen, Schwarzburg-Arnstadt (d. 1763)
1737 Louis Francois Chambray, composer
1741 Andrea Lucchesi, composer
1753 Giovanni Battista Viotti, violonist/composer
1756 Nicolas-Joseph Hullmandel, composer
1759 Antoinio da Silva Leite, composer
1794 Isaak-Ignaz Moscheles, Bohemian composer, born in Prague (d. 1870)
1799 Thomas Hood, English poet/composer (Song of the Shirt)
1843 Pedro Miguel Marques y Garcia, composer
1851 Antoni Stolpe, composer
1871 Sigurd Lie, Norwegian composer and conductor, born in Drammen (d. 1904)
1889 José Padilla, Almería, Spanish composer and pianist (La Violetera – City Lights, Ça c’est Paris – Moulin Rouge)
1901 Edmund Rubbra, Northampton England, composer (Morning Watch) [or 3/23]
1902 Mark Lothar, German composer (The Story of the Lazy Bear), born in Berlin (d. 1985)
1906 Hellmuth Christian Wolff, composer
1910 Artie Shaw, [Arthur Arshawsky], American bandleader (Come’on my House), born in NYC, New York
1910 Scatman Crothers [Benjamin], American actor, singer, dancer and musician (Chico and the Man, The Shining), born in Terre Haute, Indiana (d. 1986)
1911 Boris Kremenliev, composer
1914 Travis Kemp, dancer/teacher
1916 M Jean Francaix, composer
1918 Robert “Bumps” Blackwell, band leader and record producer, born in Seattle, Washington (d. 1985)
1919 Elizabeth “Betty” Garrett, American actress, comedian, singer and dancer (All in the Family), born in St Joseph, Missouri (d. 2011)
1919 Ruth Fernandez, Ponce, Puerto Rico, singer (When you Return), politician, (d. 2012)
1920 Helen O’Connell, Lima Ohio, singer (Green Eyes, Anapola)
1921 Humphrey Lyttelton, British jazz musician, actor and broadcaster (It’s Great to Be Young), born in Eton, Buckinghamshire (d. 2008)
1923 Alicia de Larrocha, Copenhagen Denmark, pianist (Orquesta Sinfonica)
1925 Mac Wiseman, American musician
1928 Rosemary Clooney, Kentucky, singer/paper towels spokeswoman (Coronet)
1928 Jeannie Carson [Shufflebottom], British-born comedian, actress, singer and dancer (As Long as They’re Happy, An Alligator Named Daisy), born in Yorkshire, England
1928 Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998)
1936 Ingeborg Hallstein, German opera singer
1939 Michel Colombier, French composer and songwriter (d. 2004)
1941 Jackson Hill, composer
1941 General George Norman Johnson, US singer (Down at the Beach Club)
1944 Ramon “Tiki” Fulwood, US drummer (Funkadelic, Knee Deep)
1945 Misty Morgan, country keyboardist (duo with Jack Blanchard)
1946 Danny Klein, American rock bassist (J Geils Band-Centerfold), born in NYC, New York
1951 Judy Rodman, country singer (Girls Ride Horses Too), born in Riverside, California
1952 James Mankey, rocker (Concrete Blonde)
1952 Anne-Marie David, French singer
1955 Dean Friedman, American singer-songwriter (Ariel), born in Paramus, New Jersey
1957 Thereza Bazar, British-Canadian singer (Dollar-Love’s Gotta Hold on Me), born in Toronto, Ontario
1957 Jimmy McShane, singer (Baltimora-Tarzan Boy), born in Derry, Northern Ireland (d. 1995)
1958 Shelly West, country singer (Red Hot, West by West), born in Cleveland, Ohio
1958 François Feldman, French singer

Jewel Kilcher

1974 Jewel Kilcher, American singer–songwriter (Pieces of You), born in Payson, Utah

1974 Mónica Naranjo, Spanish singer
1978 Scott Raynor, American drummer (formerly of blink-182)
1981 Gwenno Saunders, Former Welsh dancer, now singer with The Pipettes
1982 Malene Mortensen, Danish singer
1982 Tristan Prettyman, American musician
1983 Cristiano Bilanzola, Canadian musician and filmmaker
1983 Heidi Range, English singer (Sugababes)

Weddings in Music

2004 Singer-guitarist Michelle Branch (21) weds musician Teddy Landau at Isla Pardito, Mexico
2012 Grammy-winning Spanish pop star Alejandro Sanz (43) weds longtime girlfriend Raquel Perera (37) in Barcelona

Deaths in Music

1304 Jehan de Lescurel, French poet and composer
1834 Charles Wesley, composer, dies at 76
1875 Johann Wilhelm Mangold, composer, dies at 78
1887 Ludwig Mathias Lindeman, composer, dies at 74
1891 Ignace Xavier Joseph Leybach, composer, dies at 73
1926 Hans Koessler, composer, dies at 73
1941 Slavko Osterc, composer, dies at 45
1952 Georg Alfred Schumann, German composer, dies at 85
1968 Merle Kendrick, orchestra leader (Window on the World), dies at 72
1969 Jimmy McHugh, composer (Can’t Give You Anything But Love), dies at 74
1987 Karel Albert, Flemish composer (Marieken van Nymeghen), dies at 86
1991 William Sinnot, Scottish pop musician (Shamen), dies at 30
1991 Wilhelm Kempff, German pianist and composer (b. 1895)
1992 Atahualpa Yupanqui, Argentine singer, composer, and guitarist, dies at 84
1994 Joe Pass [Joseph Passalaqua], American virtuoso jazz guitarist (The Trio) and composer, dies from liver cancer at 65
2003 Csaba Szabo. Hungarian composer, dies at 67