This exploration was created by Kate Duffus Stein for Smithsonian Music in celebration of the New Year 2018.
For additional reading, consider the following materials:
For 1968
“1968: A Year in the Collections.” Smithsonian Institution. https://www.si.edu/spotlight/1968.
Arbuckle, Alex. “1968: Photos of Johnny Cash’s Legendary Folsom Prison Performance.” Mashable. http://mashable.com/2016/01/13/johnny-cash-folsom-prison/.
Cave, Damien, and Darcy Eveleigh. “In 1968, a ‘Resurrection City’ of Tents, Erected to Fight Poverty.” The New York Times, February 18, 2017, sec. U.S. https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/us/martin-luther-king-resurrection-city.html.
Coates, James. “Riots Follow Killing of Martin Luther King Jr.” Chicago Tribune. http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/chi-chicagodays-kingriots-story-story.html.
Davies, David Martin. “Johnny Cash And The Story Behind ‘Folsom Prison Blues.’” Texas Public Radio. http://tpr.org/post/johnny-cash-and-story-behind-folsom-prison-blues.
“Elvis Presley - NBC TV Special 1968.” Dailymotion. https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2q7x2s.
“Hair Premieres on Broadway - Apr 29, 1968.” HISTORY.com. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/hair-premieres-on-broadway.
“James Brown Calms Boston Following the King Assassination - Apr 05, 1968.” HISTORY.com. http://www.history.com/this-day-in-history/james-brown-calms-boston-following-the-king-assassination.
Kelly, John. “Before Occupy D.C., There Was Resurrection City.” Washington Post, December 2, 2011, sec. Local. https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/before-occupy-dc-there-was-resurrection-city/2011/12/01/gIQAoNqcPO_story.html.
Kory Grow. “Inside Elvis Presley’s Legendary 1968 Comeback Special.” Rolling Stone, August 16, 2017. https://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/inside-elvis-presleys-legendary-1968-comeback-special-w477303.
nancymunhoz. Aquarius and Let the Sunshine in - Hair Musical on Broadway - David Letterman TV Show, n.d. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xPLg5gA-9ck.
“Scandal of the 60s: The Raft of the Medusa - Elbphilharmonie Worldwide.” https://www.elbphilharmonie.de/en/worldwide/scandal-of-the-60s-the-raft-of-the-medusa/93.
“The Beatles.” The Beatles. https://www.thebeatles.com/album/beatles-0.
Wright, Jennifer. “The Smithsonian and the Poor People’s Campaign.” Smithsonian Institution Archives, January 17, 2017. https://siarchives.si.edu/blog/smithsonian-poor-peoples-campaign.
For 1918
Betsy Schwarm. “The Planets, Op. 32.” Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/topic/The-Planets.
David Montgomery. Igor Stravinsky: L’Histoire Du Soldat, n.d. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDVlsm8MY-U.
“Force of Destiny: The Rosa Ponselle Collection at Peabody.” Arthur Friedheim Library, Peabody Institute of The Johns Hopkins University. http://exhibits.library.jhu.edu/exhibits/show/rosa-ponselle/introduction.
“Holst: ‘The Planets.’” UC Davis Arts. http://arts.ucdavis.edu/post/holst-planets.
Hughes, Allen. “Rosa Ponselle, Dramatic Soprano Dies.” The New York Times, May 26, 1981. http://www.nytimes.com/1981/05/26/obituaries/rosa-ponselle-dramatic-soprano-dies.html.
IlaryRhineKlange. Gustav Holst - The Planets, Op. 32, n.d. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AHVsszW7Nds.
John Hasse. “The First Jazz Recording Was Made by a Group of White Guys?” Smithsonian Magazine, February 24, 2016. https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smithsonian-institution/was-first-jazz-recording-made-group-white-guys-180962246/.
“Metropolitan Opera History: Rosa Ponselle.” http://archives.metoperafamily.org/Imgs/Ponselle.htm.
“Program Notes, The Planets: Gustav Holst.” New York Philharmonic, May 2016. https://nyphil.org/~/media/pdfs/program-notes/1516/Holst-The-Planets.pdf.
Wakin, Daniel J. “Stravinsky’s ‘Histoire Du Soldat’ Updated.” The New York Times, June 3, 2011, sec. Music. https://www.nytimes.com/2011/06/05/arts/music/stravinskys-histoire-du-soldat-updated.html.
For 1868
“A German Requiem.” https://www.laphil.com/philpedia/music/german-requiem-johannes-brahms.
Alexander Poznansky. “Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky (Russian Composer).” Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Pyotr-Ilyich-Tchaikovsky.
“Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg.” Royal Opera House. http://www.roh.org.uk/productions/die-meistersinger-von-nurnberg-by-graham-vick.
“Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg (Program Notes).” The Metropolitan Opera, 2014. https://www.metopera.org/PageFiles/41061/Dec 2 Meistersinger.pdf.
Ed Berlin. “Scott Joplin - The Man and His Music.” Scott Joplin International Ragtime Foundation. http://www.scottjoplin.org/joplin-biography.html.
“Ein Deutsches Requiem, Op. 45 [A German Requiem].” http://www.kennedy-center.org/artist/composition/4184.
“Gaiety Girls (Past Display Archive).” National Portrait Gallery, London, 2004. https://www.npg.org.uk/whatson/display/2004/gaiety-girls/.
“LONDON LANDMARK WILL BE TORN DOWN: Gaiety Theatre, Birthplace of Musical Comedy in Britain, Was Opened in 1868.” New York Times. 1950.
“Origin of the Song.” Stille Nacht Gesellschaft. http://www.stillenacht.at/en/origin_song.asp.
“Scott Joplin.” Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Scott-Joplin.
“Symphony No. 1 in G Minor, Op. 13 ‘Winter Dreams.’” http://www.kennedy-center.org/artist/composition/4352.
“Symphony No. 1, ‘Winter Daydreams.’” https://www.laphil.com/philpedia/music/symphony-no-1-winter-daydreams-peter-ilyich-tchaikovsky.
“Wagner’s Ring Cycle: Where to Start.” Classic FM. http://www.classicfm.com/composers/wagner/guides/wagner-ring-cycle-where-start/.
For 1818
“Beethoven.” Beethoven-Haus Bonn. https://www.beethoven.de/page/Erfahren#beethoven.
“Beethoven & the Broadwood Fortepiano.” Beethoven Center, San Jose State University. http://www.sjsu.edu/beethoven/research/beethoven_the_broadwood_fortepiano/.
“Origin of the Song.” Stille Nacht Gesellschaft. http://www.stillenacht.at/en/origin_song.asp.
For 1768
“Eszterháza.” Esterházy-castle Fertőd. http://www.esterhazy-palace.com/en/home.html.
“John Dickinson | United States Statesman.” Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Dickinson.
“Joseph Haydn.” Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Joseph-Haydn.
“Joseph Haydn (1732 – 1809).” /en/history/joseph-haydn.
Stanley Sadie. “Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.” Encyclopedia Britannica. https://www.britannica.com/biography/Wolfgang-Amadeus-Mozart.
“‘The Liberty Song’ (1768).” Dickinson College Archives and Special Collections, 2005. http://archives.dickinson.edu/sundries/liberty-song-1768.
“Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.” Mozart. http://www.mozart.com/en/home/.
