Music History on September 14

Messiah

1741 George Frideric Handel finishes his "Messiah" oratorio after working on it non-stop for 23 days

1954 Benjamin Britten's opera "Turn of the Screw" premieres in Venice

1955 Little Richard records "Tutti Frutti" at J & M Studio in New Orleans, Louisiana

1960 Dmitri Shostakovich becomes member of Communist Party of USSR

1968 While on tour in England, a fire at singer Roy Orbison's Henderson, Tennessee home kills the two eldest of his three sons

1979 The film "Quadrophenia", loosely based on The Who's 1973 rock opera of the same name, is released.
1980 "Charlie & Algernon" opens at Helen Hayes Theater NYC for 17 performances

1984 1st MTV Video Music Awards: The Cars win with "You Might Think", and David Bowie wins with "China Girl"

2017 Selena Gomez reveals she had a kidney transplant, because of lupus, donated by her friend Francia Rais

2022 Musician R. Kelly found convicted of further sex crimes in Chicago, including producing child sexual abuse imagery [1]