* United States: 26 November 1873, Academy of Music in New York City, with Ostava Torriani in the title role, Annie Louise Cary as Amneris, Italo Campanini as Radamès, Victor Maurel as Amonasro, and Evasio Scolara as the King

Inspired by contemporary dance music like Italo house and acts such as Technotronic ( Sumner even did a remix of Technotronic's " Rockin ' Over the Beat " in 1990 ), their initial concept was to release white label records on Factory and remain an anonymous entity, in contrast to their considerable reputations with The Smiths and New Order.

On December 13, 1903, a New Yorker named Italo Marchiony received U. S. patent No. 746971 for a mold for making pastry cups to hold ice cream ; he claimed that he has been selling ice cream in edible pastry holders since 1896.

Para Para is said to have existed since the early ' 80s when European countries started selling Italo disco and Euro disco, and in the mid-to late-1970s New Wave and synthpop music in Japan, but did not achieve much popularity outside of Japan until the late ' 90s.

pl: New Italo Disco

After its world premiere in 1846 at La Fenice in Venice, the opera was first produced in London at Her Majesty's Theatre in 1848, with Sophie Cruvelli, Italo Gardoni, Velletti, Cruzzoni and in New York City in 1850.

In what is considered a forerunner to disco style clubs, New York City DJ David Mancuso opened The Loft, a members-only private dance club set in his own home, in February 1970.

In 1974 New York City's WPIX-FM premiered the first disco radio show.

New Jersey rock critic Jim Testa wrote " Put a Bullet Through the Jukebox ", a vitriolic screed attacking disco that was considered a punk call to arms.

The World's Largest Disco, an annual celebration held over Thanksgiving weekend in Buffalo, New York, draws thousands of disco fans in 1970s-era attire.

After the release of their minimalist punk debut, " Rien à dire ", Marie et les Garçons became involved in New York's mutant disco scene.

The New York Times compared the " grunging of America " to the mass-marketing of punk rock, disco, and hip hop in previous years.

But as disco, punk rock, corporate rock and New Wave styles began to alter the musical landscape, ELP could no longer generate the same excitement.

Prince's music has been influenced by rock, R & B, soul, funk, rap, blues, New Wave, electronica, disco, psychedelia, folk, jazz, and pop.

Electroclash, also known as synthcore, retro electro, tech pop, nouveau disco, the new new wave, and electropunk, is a style of music that fuses 1980s electro and New Wave synthpop with 1990s techno and electronic dance music.

* April 26 – New York's disco Studio 54 opens.

Several artists who were not regarded as dance / disco acts, scored major successes by releasing disco singles, including New Wave band Blondie with their first US number one single " Heart of Glass ", Rod Stewart with " Do Ya Think I'm Sexy " and rock band Electric Light Orchestra go disco this year with their UK # 1 LP Discovery.

They were later joined by guitarist Rob Dean, and signed a recording contract with the German disco label Hansa-Ariola in 1977, becoming an alternative glam rock outfit in the mould of David Bowie, T. Rex, and The New York Dolls.

This decline coincided with the rise of New Wave in Europe around this time, and it was also stated by Russell Thompkins Jr. ( in the re-issue sleevenotes for the 1976 album Fabulous ) that the group began to feel that the music they were recording was becoming increasingly dated, and not in keeping with the popular disco sound of the late 1970s.

Soca reached its modern form by the early 1970s under the influence of American soul, disco and funk music, which reached Trinidadian artists when they began recording in New York City ; by this time, most of the Indian-derived elements had been removed from the genre.

The media repeated rumors of coarse and even criminal behavior by Jordan, including supposed cocaine usage and anonymous sex at the infamous Studio 54 disco in New York City, by the club's owner Steve Rubell.

Notable British acid jazz bands of the 1990s included Brand New Heavies, Galliano, Incognito, James Taylor Quartet, Jamiroquai ( also classified as funk and disco ) and Urban Species, US3 ( also classified as jazz rap ), as well as dozens of less commercially successful artists.

Electric Six is a six-piece Detroit-based band that plays what has been described as a brand of rock music infused with elements of " Garage, disco, punk rock, New wave, and metal.

It is the birthplace of hip hop, Latin freestyle, disco, and punk rock as well as the birthplace of Salsa music, born from a fusion of Cuban, Puerto Rican and Dominican influences that came together in New York's Latino neighborhoods in the 1960s.

The New York club scene is an important part of the city's music scene, birthplace to many styles of music from disco to punk rock ; some of these clubs, such as Studio 54, Max's Kansas City, Mercer Arts Center, ABC No Rio, and CBGB's, reached an iconic statuses in the United States and the world.

In the early 1980s, house music, a direct descendent of disco, was forged in the underground clubs of Chicago, Detroit, and New York.

Located on Avenue of the Americas, at West 20th Street, the New York Limelight originally started as a disco and rock club.

While never receiving any airplay ( obviously for rights / use and clearance issues ), the master was purchased by a New York disco label.

Mating these experimental, usually DJ-oriented, sounds with the prevalence of the multi-ethnic New York City disco sound from the 1970s and 1980s created a brand of music that was most appreciated in the huge discothèques that are located in cities like Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, Detroit, Boston, etc.

I worked for my Uncle ( an Uncle by marriage so you will not think this has a mild undercurrent of incest ) who ran one of those antique shops in New Orleans' Vieux Carre, the old French Quarter.

No Southern novelist has done for Atlanta or Birmingham what Herrick, Dreiser, and Farrell did for Chicago or Dos Passos did for New York.

Well, after everybody has followed the New England pattern of segregating one's children into private schools, only the poor folks are left.

A dear, respected friend of mine, who like myself grew up in the South and has spent many years in New England, said to me not long ago: `` I can't forgive New England for rejecting all complicity ''.

New England, as everyone knows, has long been schoolmaster to the Nation.

The young William Faulkner in New Orleans in the 1920's impressed the novelist Hamilton Basso as obviously conscious of being a Southerner, and there is no evidence that since then he has ever considered himself any less so.

Perhaps the most powerful and most frequently recurring literary influence on the Western world has been that of the Old and New Testament.

Since the great flood of these dystopias has appeared only in the last twelve years, it seems fairly reasonable to assume that the chief impetus was the 1949 publication of Nineteen Eighty-Four, an assumption which is supported by the frequent echoes of such details as Room 101, along with education by conditioning from Brave New World, a book to which science-fiction writers may well have returned with new interest after reading the more powerful Orwell dystopia.

The responsibility for scores of deaths, including the abduction and murder of Jesus Maria Galindez, a professor at Columbia University in New York, has been laid at his door.

New Jersey folk need not be told of the builder's march to the sea, for in a single generation he has parceled and populated miles of our shoreline and presses on to develop the few open spaces that remain.

Also under consideration is an increased investment in Cunard Eagle Airways which has applied to serve New York.

Now, a close look at the schools in and around the ten largest cities, including New York, has shattered this optimism.

A quarter of a century has gone by since this bevy of walking dreams sashayed up and down the staircases of the old New Amsterdam Theater, N.Y..

They enlisted the help of the New Jersey congressman, who has been able to trace the letters to the national archives, where they are available on microfilm.

The New English Bible ( the Old Testament and Apocrypha will be published at a future date ) has not been planned to rival or replace the King James Version, but, as its cover states, it is offered `` simply as the Bible to all those who will use it in reading, teaching, or worship ''.

Nowhere has this decline been more painfully evident than in the New York City area.

Here the New York Central Railroad, one of the Nation's most important carriers, has alone lost 47.6 percent of its passengers since 1949.

At this time of crisis in our Nation's commuter railroads, a new threat to the continued operations of the New York Central has appeared in the form of the Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad's proposal for control of the Baltimore & Ohio railroads.

The New York Central has pointed out that this control, if approved by the Interstate Commerce Commission, would give the combined C. & O. - B. & O. Railroad a total of 185 points served in common with the New York Central.

Mr. Sulzberger's successor as publisher is Mr. Orvil E. Dryfoos, who is president of the New York Times Co., and who has been with the Times since 1942.

Information is hereby given that Mr. Timothy Palmer of Newburyport, Mass. has agreed to take charge of the concerns of the Patentees of the Chain Bridge, in the states of Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Vermont, Rhode Island, and Connecticut, so far as relates to the sale of Patent rights and the construction of Chain Bridges.

This has been the aim of the director of the shooting development program, the New York staff of the Sportsmen's Service Bureau, and the SAAMI shooting preserve field consultants since the start of the program in 1954.

Mr. John Magee, whose work has been discussed in this chapter, was quoted in a New Yorker Magazine profile as saying: `` Of course, you have to remember it's a good thing for us chartists that there aren't more of us.