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It Happened This Month - events in music history and music personalities Byline: CHRIS KELSEY May On 5/1/1786 Mozart's opera The Marriage of Figaro debuted in Vienna... On the same day in 1967, the great tenor Elvis Presley ......(Continue Reading) New Center for American Music - Items of Interest - established by the University of Texas at Austin School of music - Brief Article The New Center for American Music was established by The University of Texas at Austin (UTA) School of Music to advance the teaching, scholarship and ......(Continue Reading)Texas Music - new magazine launched - Brief Article Title/URL: Texas Music; www.texasmusiconline.com Launch date: January 2000 Mission: To entertain, to showcase up-and-coming artists, and to discover ......(Continue Reading)The lord's songs in a strange land; two histories dig down to the roots of gospel music and the culture of sound in African American life People Get Ready! A New History of Black Gospel Music by Robert Darden Continuum International Publishing Group October 2004, $24.95, ISBN 0-826-41436-2 ......(Continue Reading)The 25 Most Important Events In Black Music History FOR four centuries, from the arrival of the first Blacks in English America in 1619 to the hip-hops of the Millennium, African-Americans have dominated ......(Continue Reading)
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