1 January:MIGUEL GALLEGO ARÁMBULA = the first son of the Latin superstar Luis Miguel
15 September:NATHAN GLENN and ALEX JACOB ROBERTSON = twin sons of Orli Shaham and David Robertson
Timeline of Musical Events
1 January:
The first son of the Latin superstar Luis Miguel was born under the name of Miguel Gallego Arámbula.
George Shearing is knighted for services to music in the Queen's New Year Honours List. Evelyn Glennie becomes a Dame. Imogen Cooper, John Rutter and Rod Stewart are awarded the CBE.
Rumours circulate that The Police will reunite for a tour after 23 years to mark the 30th anniversary of the release of "Roxanne". However, there are no plans for an album featuring new material. On January 30, the band announce that they would perform at the opening of the 49th annual Grammy Awards on February 11 and subsequently announce The Police Reunion Tour.
2007 Timbaland plagiarism controversy: Rumours circulate that Timbaland may have appropriated his ringtone Block Party and the related beat to Nelly Furtado's "Do It."
Lebanese-born UK popstar Mika's music career begins after signing to Universal Records UK.
11 February: The 49th Grammy Awards are presented at the Staples Center in Los Angeles. Christina Aguilera performs "It's Man's Man's Man's World" a tribute to the Godfather of Soul James Brown. Dixie Chicks became the biggest winners of the night with five award, including big three: Record of the Year, Album of the Year and Song of the Year. Red Hot Chili Peppers won four awards for their 2006 rock hit Dani California and the album Stadium Arcadium. Shakira performed for the first time ever at the Grammys with the biggest hit of 2006 Hips Don't Lie featuring Wyclef Jean. The Police reunited and performed for the first time in the 21st century.
16 February: Chris Cornell leaves Audioslave because of "Musical differences".
20 February: Christina Aguilera began her second leg of her Back to Basics Tour in the US. The tour would go on to become the highest grossing tour for a female artist in 2007.
27 February: American rock parody band Tenacious D release their movie, Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny on DVD.
28 February: It is announced that the American early 1980s punk band Circle Jerks have released a new song, titled "I'm Gonna Live", which can also be heard on their Myspace page. Rumors are swirling that the band is also supposedly gearing up to release their follow-up to 1995's Oddities, Abnormalities and Curiosities.
1 March: Angela Hacker is voted by viewers the 2007 champion of the televised singing competition Nashville Star. Her prize is a record deal with Warner Bros. Records.
12 March:
Matchbook Romance announce that they are taking an indefinite hiatus after ten years, as all members decided to go their separate ways.
Grandmaster Flash and The Furious Five, R.E.M., The Ronettes, Patti Smith and Van Halen inducted in Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
16 March: Bad Religion reveal that their new album will be called New Maps of Hell.
21 March: Toshimitsu Deyama announces that he has been recording with Yoshiki after a gap of ten years.
25 March: Elton John plays Madison Square Garden for the 60th time to celebrate his 60th birthday. The concert sets the record for most performances by an artist at the venue. Longtime songwriting partner Bernie Taupin made an appearance, as well as celebrities Whoopi Goldberg and Robin Williams and former President Bill Clinton. John performed songs from his back catalogue, including "Ballad of a Well-Known Gun" and "Roy Rogers", some of which, the band hadn't played in nearly 30 years.
3 April: Hilary Duff releases her first album in 3 years , Dignity. The album explored electronic and dance , and was praised by critics for its lyrics, musical style, and it's time of release, noting that the "electronic" genre wasn't "popular" at the time. Since then, "electronic" music has taken large part in mainstream music, leaving Dignity as a big influence in "electronic" music movement.
7 April: Joss Stone's third studio album Introducing Joss Stone debuts at number two on the U.S. Billboard 200, becoming the highest debut entry by a British female solo artist on the U.S. chart; the record was previously held by Amy Winehouse's Back to Black, which had debuted at number seven the previous week.
10 April: Beyoncé launches The Beyoncé Experience in Tokyo, Japan.
15 April: Cluster reunite for first concert since 1996. A tour of Europe followed.
17 April: Arcturus officially announce that they will be splitting up because they are too busy with other matters to focus on the band.
19 April: Joey Jordison of Slipknot becomes a session member of Ko?n.
22 April: Patrick Wolf announces his retirement from the music business. However, he later revoked this, saying that he will merely be on hiatus
23 April:
Cryptopsy fires Lord Worm.
Bevan Davies replaces Will Hunt & Vince Neil as the other replacement drummer for Nick Oshiro of Static-X.
27-29 April: Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, California.
11 May: Guitarist Chickn creates a post via MySpace confirming that D.I. will finally release the long-awaited first reunion album On the Western Front on August 7. This would be their first official album featuring new material since 1994's State of Shock.
12 May: The Eurovision Song Contest 2007 is held in Helsinki, Finland, and is won by Serbia.
15 May: Minutes to Midnight by Linkin Park sells more than 600,000 copies in the USA and more than 1,000,000 worldwide and is the third best selling album in the first week.
16-20 May: The European Festival of Youth Choirs is currently being held in Basel, Switzerland.
19 May: The Los Angeles radio station KROQ airs the fifteenth annual Weenie Roast. Bands that played there were: Linkin Park, 30 Seconds to Mars, Incubus, Rise Against, Korn, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, Interpol, Queens of the Stone Age, The Bravery, Silversun Pickups, Tim Armstrong, Peter Bjorn and John, Tiger Army, and the Plain White T's.
23 May: Jordin Sparks of Arizona wins Season 6 of American Idol.
25-28 May: Salzburg Festival
26-27 May: Sasquatch! Music Festival
30 May-5 June: The Peel Bay Festival (Isle of Man)
June: Mikael Åkerfeldt Returns to Bloodbath and the Band also Hires Per Eriksson.
4 June: Yoshiki announces that X Japan will reunite for a new tour and a single.
8-10 June: Download Festival with headliners LINKIN PARK, MY CHEMICAL ROMANCE, and IRON MAIDEN
14 June: Daft Punk came back in Paris for a show, ten years after their last performance in the French capital.
22-23 June: Radio Expres Festival – the first music festival of Slovak radio station Rádio Expres
22-25 June: Glastonbury Festival with headliners ARCTIC MONKEYS, SHIRLEY BASSEY and THE WHO
28 June: Spice Girls announce their reunion at the O2 in London in a press conference televised worldwide.
29 June-1 July: Heineken Open'er Festival takes place in Babie Doly military airport, Gdynia, Poland. Confirmed bands that will play there are: Beastie Boys, Björk, Muse, The Roots, Sonic Youth, Bloc Party, LCD Soundsystem, Groove Armada, Dizzee Rascal, Laurent Garnier, Crazy P, The Strike Boys, Freeform Five.
1 July: The Concert for Diana takes place at Wembley Stadium in London. Performers include Duran Duran, Elton John, Fergie, Joss Stone, Kanye West, Nelly Furtado, Rod Stewart, and Tom Jones.
7 July: Live Earth, worldwide series of concerts to initiate action against global warming. Acts include: Sarah Brightman,Linkin Park, Kelly Clarkson, Alicia Keys, Kanye West, Bon Jovi, Fall Out Boy, Shakira, John Mayer, Rihanna, Beastie Boys, Duran Duran, Madonna, Foo Fighters, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Black Eyed Peas, Spinal Tap, Jack Johnson, Lenny Kravitz, Metallica as well as the reunited bands The Police, Genesis, The Smashing Pumpkins and Crowded House.
7-8 July: T In The Park, Oxegen 2007
17 July: Joe Payne joins Divine Heresy.
27 July: Adam Willard leaves The Offspring and is replaced by former Face to Face and Saves the Day drummer Pete Parada.
4-11 August: The Three Choirs Festival is held at Gloucester.
5 August: 2007 Karaj Rock Concert incident: 230 Iranian musicians and fans are arrested by the government at an illegal rock concert.
11-12 August: The eighth annual Summer Sonic Festival is held. Bands that play include: Arctic Monkeys, Avenged Sevenfold, Bloc Party, The Horrors, Interpol, The Offspring, Sum 41, Metallica and We Are Scientists.
13 August: Andreas Sydow, Quits, Darkane.
24-26 August: Carling Weekend—Reading and Leeds Festivals
25-27 August: August Bank Holiday - Bryn Terfel's Faenol Festival
31 August to 2 September: Electric Picnic 2007
3 September: My Chemical Romance lead singer, Gerard Way, marries Mindless Self Indulgence bassist, Lyn-Z, backstage at Projekt Revolution in Denver, Colorado
4 September: Small Faces and Don Arden plaque unveiled at 52–55 Carnaby Street, London, England
8 September: "Weird Al" Yankovic performs his 1,000th live show at Idaho Falls, Idaho.
9 September:
Sonata Arctica play for the first time in Guadalajara, Mexico.
Britney Spears opens the 2007 MTV Video Music Awards held in the Palms Resort & Casino in Las Vegas, Nevada.
12 September to 1 October: Prague Autumn International Music Festival
22-29 September: 35th North Wales International Music Festival is held at St Asaph.
24 September:
Patrick Watson's album Close to Paradise wins the Canadian Polaris Music Prize for 2007.
Delta Goodrem releases her single "In This Life", which goes to #1, becoming her eighth #1 in Australia.
"Gimme More", Britney Spears' comeback single off the upcoming album, Blackout is released. Less than twenty-four hours after its official radio debut on August 30, 2007, it became one of the most requested songs on air. The single was certified Platinum by the Recording Industry Association of America, selling 1,000,000 copies shortly after its release.
October: Placebo's drummer Steve Hewitt leaves the band, citing "personal and musical differences" as the cause of the split.
1 October: Jonny Greenwood, guitarist of Radiohead, announces on the band's site that they will release the new album In Rainbows in ten days, which consumers could pay whatever price they wanted for.
4 October: Fred Mascherino announces his departure from Taking Back Sunday, to pursue his solo career called The Color Fred.
15 October: Reggae musician Burning Spear is awarded the Jamaican Order of Distinction in the Officer class.
20 October: Brett Anderson Live at Queen Elizabeth Hall concert is recorded.
22 October: X Japan performs for the first time in ten years and announces a concert in Tokyo in spring, followed by a world tour.
25 October: Darkane, Hires, Jens Broman.
27 October:
Interpol, Yo La Tengo, The Whitest Boy Alive, The Horrors, TeddyBears and other bands will appear on the Manifest Festival, at Mexico City.
10th Annual electronic dance music festival Monster massive, held at Los Angeles Memorial Sports Arena.
1 November: The MTV Europe Music Awards 2007 take place at the Olympiahalle in Munich, Germany
2 November: Drummer of death metal band Decapitated, Witold "Vitek" Kieltyka, dies at 23 due to complications after automobile accident in Russia.
7 November: Sevendust announce they begin work this month on their 7th studio album titled The 7th Chapter, with a scheduled release date of March 4, 2008.
12 November: OneRepublic breaks the Top 40 Radio airplay record in the USA with "Apologize".
24 November: Casey Calvert, guitarist of american post-hardcore band Hawthorne Heights, dies of an accidental drug overdose at age 26.
25 November: Natalie Gauci becomes the winner of Australian Idol 2007 at the Sydney Opera House, beating Matt Corby to the title. Gauci's winning single "Here I Am" will debut at Number 2 – the first Australian Idol single not to reach Number 1.
27 November: Harmonia reunite for their first concert since 1976 in Berlin.
2 December: Spice Girls open their reunion tour in Vancouver, Canada.
8-9 December: The Los Angeles radio station KROQ airs the eighteenth annual Acoustic Christmas. Bands that played are: Linkin Park, Bad Religion, Angels & Airwaves, Rise Against, Avenged Sevenfold, Serj Tankian, Paramore, Modest Mouse, Jimmy Eat World, Spoon, Feist, The Shins, Silversun Pickups and Muse.
9 December: Evanescence finish touring for The Open Door, and part ways with hired musicians, Will Hunt and Troy McLawhorn.
10 December:
Led Zeppelin reunite in London for their first show in 25 years.
Celine Dion makes the final performance of her 5-year engagement at Caesars Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Classical Music
Instrumental works
LERA AUERBACH
Symphony No. 1 "Chimera"
LORENZO FERRERO
Concerto for Piano and Orchestra No. 2
Fantasy Suite
NIGEL HESS
Piano Concerto
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Balance, for flute, English horn, and bass clarinet
Glück (Bliss), for oboe, English horn, and bassoon
Hoffnung (Hope), for violin, viola, and cello
Glanz (Brilliance), for oboe, clarinet, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, tuba, and viola
Treue (Fidelity), for E-flat clarinet, basset horn, and bass clarinet
Erwachen (Awakening), for soprano saxophone, trumpet, and cello
Uversa, for basset-horn and electronic music
Nebadon, for horn and electronic music
Edentia, for soprano saxophone and electronic music
Paradies (Paradise), for flute and electronic music
Vocal music
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Havona, for bass voice and electronic music
Orvonton, for baritone and electronic music
Jerusem, for tenor and electronic music
Urantia, for soprano and electronic music
Electronic music
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Cosmic Pulses, electronic music
Havona, for bass voice and electronic music
Orvonton, for baritone and electronic music
Uversa, for basset-horn and electronic music
Nebadon, for horn and electronic music
Jerusem, for tenor and electronic music
Urantia, for soprano and electronic music
Edentia, for soprano saxophone and electronic music
Paradies (Paradise), for flute and electronic music
Opera
UNSUK CHIN
Alice in Wonderland
RYAN CONARRO, WILLIAM TODD HUNT
Arctic Magic Flute
VICTOR DAVIES
Transit of Venus
ANTHONY DAVIS
Wakonda's Dream
JONATHAN DOVE
The Adventures of Pinocchio
LORENZO FERRERO
Le piccole storie – ai margini delle guerre
PHILIP GLASS
Appomattox
RICKY IAN GORDON
The Grapes of Wrath
HANS WERNER HENZE
Phaedra
JAMES MacMILLAN
The Sacrifice
RICHARD MILLS
The Love of the Nightingale
FABIO VACCHI
Teneke
Ballet
LORENZO FERRERO
Franca Florio, regina di Palermo
Musical Theatre
CURTAINS
(Music: John Kander Lyrics: Fred Ebb Book: Rupert Holmes)
Broadway production opened at the Al Hirschfeld Theatre on March 22
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Mark Chard BSc, PLY
Page created: 6th August 2006
Last edited: 24th June 2017
