National Music Week
National Music Week is celebrated each year during the first full week in May (the first Sunday through the second Sunday.)
Music is the language of all people, and no matter the race or creed, music is enjoyed across the whole of the planet, and has been used to express moods, war, peace, harmony, understanding, celebration and so much more since the beginning of time.
You can perhaps relate to this yourself... Have you ever just drifted off magically, to another world, where your cares and troubles no longer exist, simply from closing your eyes and listening to some music? I know I have.
Still today, I have songs in my memory that I never even realized related to a specific memory, and yet when they crackle over the radio, I'm transported right back to that moment in time.
In the early 1900s, folks had already begun to celebrate music, with sporadic observances, including a Music Day in Dallas in 1919, followed shortly afterwards by a Music Week in St Louis, and then another Music Week in New York in 1920 - with Otto Kahn as Chairman,
But it wasn't until 1924, when a man named Charles M Tremaine dreamed of a National Music Week, and he made that dream into reality with the first celebration of music happening that year, with 452 cities and towns participating. From 1924 to 1947 he formulated the program, carried on the executive work, and made Music Week internationally famous.
There are several old time radio shows dedicated to National Music Week which you may want to listen to. The first is from the series The Magic Key and is dedicated to the official opening of the countrywide celebration of National Music Week. Included in the show, is a greeting from David Sarnoff, and address from C M Tremaine, the founder of National Music Week.
Others include:-
Happy listening my friends,
