This week in Music History: April 25 - May 1

Listening to: Barenaked Ladies new album “All In Good Time” 

Here's the first post for the weekly trivia bit that should help you out the next time you’re on Jeopardy….

Part One of “This Week in Music History”

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April 25

1918 - Ella Fitzgerald, jazz singer, born in Newport News VA
1926 - Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot," premieres in Milan
1995 - Ginger Rogers, actress/dancer, dies at 83

April 26
1904 - William "Count" Basie, jazz pianist,  born
1984 - William "Count" Basie, jazz pianist, dies on 80th birthday

April 27
1981 - Ringo Starr and Barbara Bach were married in London
1992 - Olivier Messiaen, French composer, dies at 83

April 30
1885 - Boston Pops Orchestra forms
1939 - Ellen Taafe Zwilich, Miami Florida, (1st woman composer Pulitzer 1982) born
1983 - Muddy Waters, US blues singer/guitarist, dies at 68

May 1
1786 - Mozart's opera "Marriage of Figaro" premieres in Vienna
1904 - Antonin Dvorak, Czech composer, dies at 62

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“Consider the past and you shall know the future”-Chinese Proverb