Graceland covered with snow. Memphis, Tennessee.
Music themed gate showing guitarist and musical notes. It is often worth going to a home to photograph it, even if you don't have the time and money to visit, or the location is closed. You might be impressed by the location, read and photograph a plaque outside about the famous person who lived there, or talk to other tourists about your mutual hero, or other places to visit in the vicinity connected with the famous person.
If you do get inside, however much you know about your favourite famous person, there is always more to learn.
The Jungle Room, Graceland, USA. Photo from Wik'pedia.
Here's a list of music museums for you and your family to visit. I have made it alphabetical and by country ro help you compile a bucket list for your travels.
The list is compiled by categories, including composers, singers, country, auditoriums and statues of singers and musicians. Some singers and songs are associated with landmarks (Blue skies over the white cliffs of Dover), or statues or graves or monuments of people best known as film stars or other categories. For example, Marilyn Monroe was known for much else besides singing Happy Birthday to President Kennedy in New York, and may be featured in waxworks museums, at Niagara and the Hollywood Heritage Museum.
The long, obscure word auditorium comes from the root words for ear and listening. Aural - related to the ear. (Oral is speaking as in oratory.) Audible means can be heard.
MUSIC CATEGORIES
1 Country and Western
2 Blues
3 Opera
4 Classical music
5 Folk
6 National
7 Ethnic
ETHNIC
National anthem and patriotic and classic composers.
National anthem lyricists.
Jewish
Amy Winehouse, Gershwin, Marilyn Monroe (converted for husband playwright Miller). See videos on Youtube of: Amy Winehouse and Yiddish songs such as Roumania.
Greece
Composer of the national anthem on a Greek island.
Sydney Opera House, Australia
AUSTRALIA
Sydney Opera House
FRANCE
Opera House, Paris
ITALY
Venona, open air opera
La Scala Opera House
Torre Del Lago, home of Puccini, statue outside.
Torre Del Lago, Italy, former home of Puccini, now a museum.
POLAND
Huge Chopin statue, landmark shown on tours of Warsaw.
Chopin House museum.
ROMANIA
See Youtube video of Yiddish drinking song Roumania by Aaron Lebedeff.
SWITZERLAND
Statue of Freddie Mercury in Montreux, and Museum devoted to him and his band, Queen.
Freddie Mercury Statue in Montreux, Switzerland.
Amy Winehouse waxwork in Madame Tussaud's, London, England.
UK
Amy Winehouse in Madame Tussauds, Baker Street, London.
Amy Winehouse statue and trail and Jewish museum in Camden, London.
Handel museum in London.
Hendrix museum beside Handel Museum in London.
Handel's organ in Whitchurch Lane, Edgware, NW London, England.
Elgar Museum.
Handel and Hendrix museums on the upper floors of these two adjacent houses in London.
USA
Elvis, Graceland. Cars and guitars in many museums in the USA.
Hollywood Heritage Museum, Los Angeles.
Nashville (country music).
Dollywood.
Opryland.
FESTIVALS & MUSIC VENUES
UK
Royal Opera House Covent Garden
Sadlers Well
Festival Hall, South Bank Centre, London, England
Royal Albert Hall
Elgar Birthplace Museum
Elgar Birthplace Museum.
Elgar composed the music for Land of Hope and Glory which is played at Last night of the proms, in the Albert Hall in London, England.
EVENTS
New Year's Day concert broadcast from Vienna, Austria, on TV and radio in the UK.
Useful Websites
https://www.facebook.com/ScottishOpera
https://www.viennaconcerts.com/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giacomo_Puccini
https://handelhendrix.org/
https://www.dollywood.com/
Roumania Music only:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0agi_Gj2IEc
About the Author
Angela Lansbury is a travel writer and photographer, author and speaker, trainer specialising in public speaking and business English..
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