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A JOURNEY THROUGH TIME1600 — 2020
A singer in pastoral costume performs with period string and keyboard accompaniment before a Florentine court audience.1500–17991500–1799Euridice’s Florentine Wedding Performance of 1600Published Musicians play period strings and wind instruments on a Thames barge beside a royal boat at dusk.1500–1799Handel's Water Music and the royal Thames concert of 1717Published Handel directs a small orchestra and a choir of men and boys in an eighteenth-century concert hall.1500–1799Handel’s Messiah premieres at a Dublin charity concertPublished Benjamin Franklin examines nested glass bowls mounted on a horizontal spindle with a wooden foot treadle.1500–1799Franklin describes his glass armonica to BeccariaPublished Mozart watches a starling beside a wicker cage and a closed account book in an eighteenth-century room.1500–1799Mozart buys a starling and records its songPublished Haydn directs an eighteenth-century orchestra from a fortepiano before a candlelit London audience.1500–1799Haydn’s Surprise Symphony Premieres in LondonPublished A young Austrian priest hands a folded sheet to a teacher-organist inside a candlelit church, with a guitar beside them.The 19th centuryThe 19th centuryThe first performance of Silent Night on 24 December 1818Published An imagined 1913 theatre performance with angular ballet poses and an orchestra pit.1900–19451900–1945The Rite of Spring premiere: May 29, 1913Published A young pianist looks toward a moustached bandleader during a pause on a 1920s concert stage.1900–1945Rhapsody in Blue’s 1924 Premiere and Gershwin’s Cue to WhitemanPublished A pianist sits with his hands away from the keyboard as an audience waits in an open-sided timber concert hall.1946–19991946–1999Premiere of John Cage’s 4′33″ at WoodstockPublished Three musicians play acoustic guitar, electric guitar and upright bass in a small 1950s recording studio.1946–1999Elvis records That’s All Right with a drummerless trioPublished A solo singer, small orchestra and television camera in a warmly lit 1950s theatre.1946–1999The first Eurovision Song Contest in Lugano, 1956Published Illustration of the Beatles performing in a theatre before a formally dressed audience and spectators in boxes.1946–1999The Beatles' 1963 Royal Variety Performance and Lennon's audience jokePublished Two astronauts in a cramped Gemini cockpit hold a small harmonica and a strap of sleigh bells, with Earth outside a window.1946–1999Gemini VI-A’s Jingle Bells performance in orbitPublished Four glam-pop performers sing on a 1970s television stage while a conductor in a dark coat and bicorne faces them.1946–1999ABBA wins Eurovision with Waterloo in BrightonPublished Drumsticks, a microphone and a flight bag rest beside a crowded 1980s concert stage.1946–1999Phil Collins performs at both Live Aid concerts, 13 July 1985Published A string quartet faces potted plants occupying the red velvet seats of an ornate opera house.Since 2000Since 2000Barcelona’s Concert for the Biocene at the LiceuPublished
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