Timeline of Music in The United States To 1819 - 1750

1750

• Though the ban may not have been strictly or effectively enforced, the city of Boston prohibits theater entertainment, due to a Puritan influence that treated theater as a negative institution that symbolized a "preference for idleness and pleasure over hard work and thrift".
• The first comic ballad opera, The Beggar's Opera by John Gay, is first performed in the colonial United States, in New York City; it goes on to become hugely successful, and among the most popular pieces of the period.
• Approximate: The African American 'Lection Day holiday, in which blacks paraded and elected an honorary ruler, is first celebrated, in Connecticut.
• An organ at Zion Lutheran Church in New Germantown, New Jersey, is the first documented organ in that state; the first organ in Pennsylvania also arrives in this year.