In music on October 22: • 1811 - Composer Franz Liszt was born; • 1883 - The Metropolitan Opera House held its grand opening in New York; • 1917 - Leopold Stokowski led the Philadelphia Orchestra in its first recording session; • 1961 - Chubby Checker performed The Twist on the Ed Sullivan Show; • 1964 - The Who, known as High Numbers at the time, failed an audition with EMI; • 1965 - Get Off My Cloud was released in the U.K. by the Rolling Stones; • 1969 - Led Zeppelins album Led Zeppelin II was released; • 1974 - Hotter Than Hell was released by KISS; • 1978 - Earth, Wind & Fire began a sold-out tour in the U.S. that consisted of 75 dates; • 1982 - Mayor Sara Robertson in Worcester, MA, declared Van Halen Day in response to local fans collecting 25,000 signatures requesting the band add a second show to their tour; • 1983 - New Yorks Metropolitan Opera celebrated its 100th anniversary; and • 1997 - MTV Italy launched its first domestically planned and produced Italian-language show, Sonic and Italys antitrust agency, the Guarantor for Competition fined the Italian divisions of BMG, EMI, PolyGram, Sony Music and Warner Music a total of 7.7 billion lire ($4.5 million), with the claim that they had formed a cartel to drown out competition. Todays song is Franz Liszt’s “Hungarian Rhapsody” performed by Valentina Lisista. (Watch the fingers. https://youtube/watch?v=LdH1hSWGFGU
Posted on: Wed, 22 Oct 2014 16:12:03 +0000
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