Music Events:

• 1911 - Edward Elgar conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 2 in London


• 1918 - Béla Bartók's opera Duke Bluebeard's Castle (composed 1911) is premiered in Budapest.


• 1936 - Historic jazz concert at New York’s Imperial Theater - including clarinetist Artie Shaw’s new band that featured a string section


• 1956 - Tenor saxophonists John Coltrane and Sonny Rollins record Tenor Madness