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