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Today in Music History - April 25 Today in Music History for April 25: In 1800, English poet and hymn writer William Cowper died. He wrote such enduring hymns as God Moves in Mysterious Ways (1774) and There is a Fountain Filled With Blood (1771). In 1915, Canadian conductor and pianist John Avison was born in Vancouver. In 1938, he became the first conductor of the CBC Vancouver Chamber Orchestra, a position he held until his retirement in 1980. In 1971, Avison conducted the first orchestral concerts given in the Canadian Arctic. He died in 1983. In 1917, jazz singer Ella Fitzgerald was born in Newport News, Va. She first came to prominence in the 30s with Chick Webb s orchestra, with whom she recorded the million-seller A Tisket, A Tasket. She managed the band after Webb s death, then embarked on a solo career in 1942. Fitzgerald was noted for her sophisticated renderings of songs by George Gershwin and Cole Porter. During her career that spanned ....
A Year in Five Minutes: Vancouver 1971 Pender Street in Chinatown in 1972, which was now part of a designated historic area. Item # CVA 780-447. Photo courtesy of Vancouver Archives. In 1971, Greenpeace was making waves, there was a riot in Gastown and the CBC started filming a very popular series on the Sunshine Coast. By Chuck Davis, 1971 census figures for Metropolitan Vancouver The 1971 census showed the metropolitan Vancouver population had topped the million mark for the first time. One remarkable finding of that census was that Delta’s population had more than tripled in 10 years. Bowen Island 350 Delta 45,860 (1961 pop. 14,597) Langley City 4,680 Maple Ridge 24,480 ....