23 February:ASHLEY COOPER = New Zealand pop singer
27 February:JD NATASHA = American Latin music artist
28 February:MILLY EDWARDS = Australian Idol contestant
2 March:NADINE SAMONTE = German pop singer
6 March:AGNES CARLSSON = Swedish pop singer
10 March:PATRICK HENRY HUGHES = American tenor and trumpeter
6 April:RAYMOND DAVID HENRIKSEN = Norwegian singer
24 April:NATALIE ZAHRA = Australian Idol contestant
25 April:SARA PAXTON = American singer/actress
29 April:YOUNHA = Japanese & Korean pop singer
2 May:GUILHERME RODRIGUES = Portuguese jazz musician
5 May::
ADELE = English singer
BROOKE HOGAN = American pop singer
SKYE SWEETNAM = Canadian pop singer
13 May:CASEY DONOVAN = Australian Idol winner
24 May:BILLY GILMAN = American country singer
1 June:NAMI TAMAKI = Japanese singer
6 June:NEHA KAKKAR = Indian pop singer
12 June:DAVE MELILLO = American singer-songwriter
16 June:KESHIA CHANTE = Canadian urban singer
20 June:MAY J. = Japanese R&B singer
22 June:MILIYAH KATO = Japanese R&B singer
28 June:JULIAN WATERFALL POLLACK = American jazz pianist and composer
29 June:MARTINA ŠINDLEROVÁ = Slovak pop singer
2 July:AMALI WARD = Australian Idol contestant
7 July:KACI BROWN = American pop/R&B singer
12 July:MELISSA O'NEIL = Canadian Idol winner
25 July:SARAH GERONIMO = Fillipina pop singer
2 August:BRITTANY HARGEST = American pop singer
14 August:SHAHD BARMADA = Arabian Idol contestant
27 August:ALEXA VEGA = American pop singer
31 August:MEGAN McCAULEY = American pop singer
6 September:GUSTAV SCHÄFER = German musician, drummer of German band Tokio Hotel
16 September:TEDDY GEIGER = American singer-songwriter
22 September:BETHANY DILLON = American Christian-music artist
30 September:JYONGRI = Japanese pop singer
4 October:JESSICA BENSON = American R&B singer
11 October:KNUT EIRIK KOKKIN = Norwegian singer
20 October:RISA NIIGAKI = Japanese pop singer
23 October:CALEIGH PETERS = American pop singer
10 November:CHISAKI HAMA = Japanese singer
28 November:SCARLETT POMERS = American singer/actress
19 December:PAULINA GRETZKY = American pop singer
23 December:ERI KAMEI = Japanese pop singer
26 December:VERONIKA EBERLE = German violinist
27 December:HAYLEY WILLIAMS = American singer, member of Paramore
30 December:JAMES HALL = British singer-songwriter
31 December:HOLLY HOLYOAKE = Welsh soprano
Timeline of Musical Events
1 January: André Rieu's Johann Strauss Orchestra plays its first concert.
3 January: The Cinemax television special Roy Orbison and Friends, A Black and White Night, recorded on September 30, 1987 at the Coconut Grove in Los Angeles, USA, is broadcast.
13 February: Michael Jackson purchases a ranch in Santa Ynez, California, USA. He called his new home "Neverland".
16 February: Billy Vera receives a star on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame.
24 February: Alice Cooper announces that he is going to run for Governor of Arizona, USA.
12 March: Record producer Jimmy Iovine presents the Special Olympics with a donation of US$5 million, which is raised with the release of the A Very Special Christmas album.
19 April: Former rock and roll singer Sonny Bono is inaugurated as the Mayor of Palm Springs, California, USA.
30 April: The Eurovision Song Contest, held in the RDS Simmonscourt Pavilion, Dublin, is won by French-Canadian singer Celine Dion, representing Switzerland with the song "Ne partez pas sans moi".
18 June: Depeche Mode's final concert of their world tour takes place in the Rose Bowl stadium near Los Angeles with 80,000 spectators which is the significant moment in the bands career.
1 July: Quartetto Cetra play their last concert.
20 August: Two people are crushed to death at the annual Monsters of Rock festival at Castle Donington, UK. during the Guns N' Roses set.
28 August: While travelling down the Ventura Freeway in southern California, USA, the motorhome carrying the Charlie Daniels band bursts into flames. Daniels and his band members escape without injury.
10 September: Billboard magazine publishes its Hot Modern Rock Tracks chart for the first time.
10 October: Genesis'88 stage their first illegal Acid House Party in the UK.
November The "Guess The Eddies" contest begins, inviting people to guess the identities of the six members of the rock band The Swirling Eddies.
4 December: Singer Roy Orbison gives his last concert in Akron, Ohio, USA, before his death from a massive heart attack.
28 December: A few days before the release of her new album Like A Prayer, Madonna files assault charges against her husband, Sean Penn. Though she later drops the charges, the couple separate three days later and are divorced in the following year.
Also in 1988
Peter Ruzicka becomes director of the Hamburg State Opera and State Philharmonic Orchestra.
Andrew Davis begins a term as chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra, and is appointed musical director of Glyndebourne Festival Opera, effective with the 1989 season.
Acid house music sweeps the UK. The year would later be known as the "Second Summer of Love".
Compact discs outsell vinyl records for the first time.
"I Heard It Through the Grapevine" experiences a surge in popularity in the USA sparked by television commercials featuring claymation raisin figures dancing to the song. The California Raisins version of the song peaks at number 84 on Billboard's Hot 100.
Fish leaves British neo-progressive rock group Marillion.
Classical Music
GERALD BARRY
Cheveux-de-frise
LUCIANO BERIO
Sequenza XI
GEORGE CRUMB
Zeitgeist (Tableaux Vivants) for two amplified pianos
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Oboe concerto, trumpet concerto no. 1 (from the Strathclyde Concertos)
MARIO DAVIDOVSKY
Synchronisms No. 9 for violin and tape
JOËL-FRANÇOIS DURAND
Die innere Grenze for string sextet
LORENZO FERRERO
La cena delle beffe (incidental music)
MICHAEL FINNISSY
Red Earth for orchestra
HENRYK GÓRECKI
String Quartet No. 1, "Already it is Dusk"
STEPHEN HARTKE
Pacific Rim Overture
VAGN HOLMBOE
Symphony No. 12, M. 338
ANTÓNIO CHAGAS ROSA
Piano Sonata
BOGUSLAW SCHAEFFER
Concerto for Piano Duet and Orchestra
ALFRED SCHNITTKE
Piano Quartet
Symphony No. 5
Concerto Grosso No. 4
Concerto for Piano four hands and Orchestra
Klingende Buchstaben
PETER SCULTHORPE
Kakadu
PHILIP SPARKE
Concerto Grosso
TORU TAKEMITSU
Tree Line for chamber orchestra
JOHN TAVENER
The Akathist of Thanksgiving
TAKASHI YOSHIMATSU
Concerto for Bassoon "Unicorn Circuit"
Opera
PHILIP GLASS
1000 Airplanes on the Roof
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Montag aus Licht
(La Scala, Milan, May 7)
Musical Theatre
BITTER SWEET
(Noel Coward)
London revival
CHESS
(Tim Rice, Benny Andersson & Björn Ulvaeus)
Broadway production
THE PHANTOM OF THE OPERA
(Andrew Lloyd Webber)
Broadway production
SARAFINA!
(Mbongeni Ngema)
premiered on Broadway on 28 January 1988, at the Cort Theatre, and closed on 2 July 1989, after 597 performances and 11 previews
Please address any comments concerning this page to The Music Maestro
Mark Chard BSc, PLY
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