• the Slovak National Theatre hosted its first performance, the Czech opera Hubička by Bedřich Smetana, at its opening on March 1, 1920?

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Classical music

• Air and Simple Gifts, performed at the inauguration of Barack Obama on 20 January 2009, was the first classical music quartet ever performed at a United States presidential inauguration?
• parlour music is a term used to describe the unified style common to popular and semi-popular European lite-classical and popular, and folk-like music from 1790 until 1900?
• Private Passions, a weekly classical music programme on BBC Radio 3, has occasionally featured interviews with hoax characters played by comedian John Sessions?
• both members of Duo Crommelynck, a noted classical piano duo, committed suicide in 1994, the only known such case in classical music history?
• the classical "boy band" Blake formed via the social networking website Facebook and replaced a member by using Twitter?
• the Russian musical group Terem Quartet performs classical works on folk instruments in a humorous, virtuosic style?
• the Grant Park Music Festival, a Chicago tradition since its 1931 introduction by Anton Cermak, is America's only remaining free, outdoor concert series featuring classical music?
• the expensive and ornate Royal Aquarium, which opened in London in 1876 to present art exhibits and classical music, soon turned to circus acts and music hall instead?

Folk song

• Alfred Sinding-Larsen, who wrote folk songs with the Vika dialect, was one of the first writers to use a dialect from Norway's capital?
• the Johnny Lee—Lane Brody duet "The Yellow Rose" uses the same melody as the folk song "The Yellow Rose of Texas"?
• the Russian folk song "Kupala and Kostroma" was later renamed and the lyrics altered because of pagan references?
• the inspiration for the character Judy Ann Santos played in the film Ploning was based on a Cuyonon folk song from the Palawan town of Cuyo?
• the traditional Scottish folk song Ye Jacobites by Name was re-written by Robert Burns around 1791?