10 January:KAITLYN ASHLEY MAHER = American child singer and actress
Timeline of Musical Events in 2004
1 January:
The Vienna New Year's Concert is conducted by RICCARDO MUTI
KURT NILSEN wins World Idol
3 January: Britney Spears marries Jason Allen Alexander, a childhood friend, in Las Vegas. The marriage is annulled 55 hours later
15 January: Rapper Mystikal is sentenced to six years in prison for sexual battery
1 February:
Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake perform onstage at Super Bowl XXXVIII. The performance concludes with Jackson's right breast being exposed to the audience. The phrase "wardrobe malfunction" is coined during the ensuing controversy
Daron Hagen is appointed President of the Lotte Lehmann Foundation in New York City
8 February: The 46th Annual Grammy Awards are held at the Staples Center in Los Angeles, California. Outkast's Speakerboxxx/The Love Below becomes the first rap album to win Album of the Year. Beyoncé won five awards.
9 February: Blink-182 release single "I Miss You" from the album Blink-182. The song reached number one on the Billboard Modern Rock chart
10 February: Paulina Rubio releases her seventh studio "Pau-Latina" under Universal Music Mexico. The album charted at #1 on the Billboard Latin Pop Albums and at #105 on the Billboard 200. The album also got certified 2× Platinum (Latin) by the RIAA
13 February: Elton John begins The Red Piano concert residency at The Colosseum at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas. Originally scheduled for 75 performances, it would run for 248 shows over five years, including twenty-four tour dates in Europe
17 February:
BRIT Awards held in London. The Darkness, Dido, Busted, Justin Timberlake and KRS-One are among the winners
Smashing Pumpkins frontman Billy Corgan posts a bitter message on his personal blog calling D'arcy Wretzky a "mean spirited drug addict" and blaming James Iha for the breakup of the band
2 March: Britney Spears embarked The Onyx Hotel Tour, her first tour in 2 years to support her fourth studio album, In The Zone
9 March: Westlife member Brian McFadden leaves the band
10 March: George Michael announces that Patience will be his last commercially released record. Future releases will be available from his web site in return for donations to his favourite charities
13 March: Luciano Pavarotti gives his last performance in an opera, in Tosca at the New York Metropolitan Opera
23 March: Usher releases his Confessions album selling 1.1 million copies its first week, making him the first R&B artist to ever accomplish that. The album would be the top seller of the year with four number one singles
6 April:
A previously unreleased Johnny Cash album called My Mother's Hymn Book is released less than a year after his death on September 12, 2003
Modest Mouse, an American indie rock band releases Good News for People Who Love Bad News
20 April: Fear Factory returns after their 2002 breakup with the new album Archetype
26 April:
Deborah Voigt, sacked by Covent Garden for being too fat for an opera role, makes her recital debut to a rapturous reception at Carnegie Hall
Dream Theater performs at the Nippon Budokan Hall in Tokyo, Japan
10 May:
Blender magazine's May issue includes a "50 Worst Songs Ever!" list. "We Built This City," by Starship, is rated worst
Peter Tägtgren replaces Mikael Åkerfeldt In Bloodbath
Keane release Hopes and Fears which becomes the 16th best selling album of the millennium in the UK. It went 8x platinum and was nominated for the Mercury Prize and the BRIT award for best album
18-23 May: The European Festival of Youth Choirs (EJCF) is held in Basel
24 May: Madonna starts The Re-Invention Tour in 20 cities with a total of 56 shows and making it the most successful concert tour of the year with a gross of $124.5 million
25 May:
Phish announces that after 21 years they will break up following the Summer 2004 Tour
Skinny Puppy releases their first studio album since disbanding in 1996, called The Greater Wrong of the Right
26 May: Fantasia Barrino wins the third season of American Idol, defeating Diana DeGarmo
28 May-6 June: The Rock in Rio concert festival is staged in Lisbon, Portugal under the name Rock in Rio Lisboa. Paul McCartney, Peter Gabriel, Foo Fighters, Metallica, Britney Spears and Sting headline each of the six days
4 June:
Karl Jenkins signs a 10-year recording deal with EMI
Creed dissolved. Guitarist Mark Tremonti, Drummer Scott Phillips and Brian Marshall (ex Bassist of Creed) were working on side project Alter Bridge along with Myles Kennedy of The Mayfield Four Their first album is One Day Remains, which was scheduled to be released on August 10
10 June: Ray Charles dies at the age of 73 from acute liver disease
11 June: The Van Halen Summer Tour 2004 kicks off in Greensboro, North Carolina, marking the return of Sammy Hagar on vocals for the first time since his acrimonious departure from the band in 1996
12 June: The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ-FM airs the 12th Annual KROQ Weenie Roast show with Bad Religion, Beastie Boys, Cypress Hill, The Hives, Hoobastank, The Killers, Modest Mouse, New Found Glory, Story of the Year, The Strokes, The Velvet Revolver, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Yellowcard
22 June: 14th annual Lollapalooza festival, scheduled for July 17, is cancelled. Organizers cite "poor ticket sales"
23 June: UK DJ Tony Blackburn is suspended by radio station Classic Gold Digital for playing songs by Cliff Richard, against station policy
25 June: Eric Clapton sells his famous guitar "Blackie" at a Christie's auction, raising $959,000 to benefit the Crossroads drug rehabilitation center that he founded in 1998
10 July:
Ex-S Club star Rachel Stevens sets a world record for completing the fastest promotional circuit in just 24 hours- including a run for the charity Sport Relief
American Idol winner Fantasia becomes the first artist in history to debut at number-one on the Hot 100 with a first record
11 July: McFly debut at #1 on the UK album charts with Room On The 3rd Floor. They break the record set by The Beatles as the youngest group ever to debut at #1 on the album charts
20 July: Van Halen releases The Best of Both Worlds, a 36-song compilation album featuring three new recordings with Sammy Hagar on vocals
24 July: The Robert Smith organized Curiosa Festival kicks off with a concert in West Palm Beach, Florida. Performing along with The Cure are Interpol, The Rapture, Mogwai, Cursive, Muse, Head Automatica, Thursday, Scarling., The Cooper Temple Clause, and Melissa Auf der Maur
25 July: The Doobie Brothers record and perform Live at Wolf Trap at Wolf Trap National Park for the Performing Arts in Vienna, Virginia. The live album was released two months later, on October 26
31 July:
Simon & Garfunkel perform a free concert in front of the Colosseum in Rome for an audience of 600,000 people
Dispatch performs their last live show at the DCR Hatchshell in Boston, Massachusetts
8 August: Dave Matthews Band's tour bus dumps 800 lb (360 kg) of human feces from a Chicago bridge, intending to unload it in the river, but it lands on an architecture tour boat. The bus driver and the band are sued by the state of Illinois
15 August: Phish performs their final concert at a two-day festival in Coventry, Vermont
23 August: The Prodigy release their much anticipated and postponed first full-length album Always Outnumbered Never Outgunned in 7 years since 1997's The Fat Of The Land
18 September: Britney Spears marries Kevin Federline
26 September:AVRIL LAVIGNE begins her Bonez Tour
28 September: Brian Wilson releases Brian Wilson Presents Smile, an interpretation of the Smile sessions which were shelved in 1967
October: Jazz at Lincoln Center performance venue opens in New York City
2 October: Billy Joel marries for the third time, to the food critic and chef Katie Lee
11 October:
The original lineup of Duran Duran release their new album Astronaut, which is preceded by the single "(Reach Up For The) Sunrise"
Melissa Etheridge undergoes surgery for breast cancer
23 October: Ashlee Simpson is accused of lip synching after an abortive live performance on the television show Saturday Night Live
25 October: Indian singer Hariharan is awarded the Swaralaya Kairali Yesudas Award for his outstanding contribution to Indian film music
4 November: Three members of the band RAM, who all lived in a neighborhood known for its support of the recently deposed former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide, are detained by Haitian police during a concert performance in Port-au-Prince; no charges are ever filed or official explanation for the detentions given
9 November: Britney Spears releases her first compilation album titled Greatest Hits: My Prerogative
11 November: Eric Clapton receives a CBE at Buckingham Palace
12 November: Eminem's fourth major studio album, Encore is released four days before schedule to combat Internet bootleggers. The album sells 710,000 copies in only three days and becomes Eminem's third consecutive album to debut at #1 on the Billboard charts
16 November: Destiny's Child released their fourth and final studio album Destiny Fulfilled by Columbia Records in North America
17 November: Within Temptation release the single "Stand My Ground"
24 November: Brian & Eric Hoffman leave Deicide after a royalties dispute
30 November: Jay-Z and Linkin Park's album "Collision Course" debuts at number #01 in the Billboard 200, later becoming the best-selling CD/DVD of that year
7 December:LINDAY LOHAN releases her début album, Speak
8 December:DIMEBAG DARRELL is murdered on stage while performing in Columbus, Ohio, by a deranged fan, who shoots the guitarist three times in the head with a 9mm Beretta handgun. The gunman kills three other people and wounds a further seven before being shot dead by police
11-12 December: The Los Angeles, California radio station KROQ-FM airs the 15th Annual of the Acoustic Christmas with Chevelle, Franz Ferdinand, Good Charlotte, Green Day, Hoobastank, Incubus, Interpol, Jimmy Eat World, Keane, The Killers, Modest Mouse, Muse, The Music, My Chemical Romance, Papa Roach, Snow Patrol, Social Distortion, Sum 41, Taking Back Sunday, The Shins, The Used, and Velvet Revolver
14 December: Clint Lowery leaves Sevendust due to fights with band about gaining control of the band and doubts of the band's future after being released from their label TVT Records
Also in 2004:
Jack Owen leaves Cannibal Corpse to Focus on Adrift
New classic rock and New Wave-influenced bands such as The Killers begin to oust nu metal bands
Classical Music completed in 2004
MICHEL VAN DER AA
Second self
LOUIS ANDRIESSEN
Racconto dall'Inferno
CORNELIS DE BONDT
Madame Daufine
ELLIOTT CARTER
Réflexions
GEORGE CRUMB
Winds of Destiny for soprano, percussion quartet and piano
MARIO DAVIDOVSKY
Sefarad: Four Spanish-Ladino Folkscenes, baritone voice, flute (piccolo, alto flute), clarinet (bass clarinet), percussion, violin and cello
JOËL-FRANÇOIS DURAND
Ombre/Miroir for flute and 14 instruments
ROSS EDWARDS
Concerto for Guitar and Strings
IVAN FEDELE
Odos
LORENZO FERRERO
Guarini, the Master for violin and strings
PHILIP GLASS
Symphony No. 7 Toltec
GEORG FRIEDRICH HAAS
Haiku
HANS WERNER HENZE
Sebastian im Traum
ALUN HODDINOTT
Trombone Concerto
YORK HÖLLER
Ex Tempore
GUUS JANSSEN
Memory Protect Extended
Wankeling
KARL JENKINS
In These Stones Horizons Sing
JAN KLUSÁK
Axis Temporum
ROLANDS KRONLAKS
Paion
HANNA KULENTY
Run
THEO LOEVENDIE
De 5 Driften
FREDERIK MAGLE
Souffle le vent, 1st symphonic poem from the suite Cantabile
RODERIK DE MAN
Mensa Sa
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Naxos Quartet No. 4 Children's Games
Naxos Quartet No. 5
MARTIJN PADDING
And Trees Would Sing
MARIJN SIMONS
Symphony No 1, opus 26
Streichquartett no 3: opus 27
DOBRINKA TABAKOVA
Concerto for Viola and Strings
Schubert Arpeggione, arrangement for string orchestra
Suite in Old Style for viola, strings and harpsichord
Whispered Lullaby for viola and piano
Operas completed in 2004
THOMAS ADÈS
The Tempest
HARRISON BIRTWISTLE
The Io Passion
WILLIAM BOLCOM
A Wedding
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Licht
Musical Theatre in 2004
ASSASSINS
Broadway production opened at Studio 54 and ran for 101 performances
BOMBAY DREAMS
Broadway production opened at The Broadway Theatre and ran for 284 performances
FIDDLER ON THE ROOF
Broadway revival
THE WOMAN IN WHITE
(music by Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyrics by David Zippel and book by Charlotte Jones, freely adapted from the novel by Wilkie Collins)
London production opened on September 15 at the Palace Theatre, London
PEOPLE ARE WRONG!
Off-Broadway production
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Page created: 5th September 2011
Last edited: 27th August 2023
