August:
- 28th August, 2006: London's annual Notting Hill Carnival has taken place, with a wide variety of music played on different instruments such as the steel drum. The event regularly attracts up to and over a million people every year. [1]
- 24th August, 2006: James Tenney, an American composer and influential music theorist has died at the age of 72. He was one of the four performers of the rarely performed Steve Reich piece Pendulum Music on May 27th 1969 at the Whitney Museum of American Art. [2]