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1973
 
    
A Little Night Music, with lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim, has its premiere in New York       
1973
 
     
US choreographer Twyla Tharp creates Deuce Coupe, set to songs by the Beach Boys        
1973
 
     
Paul Newman and Robert Redford star in the film The Sting        
1973
 
     
The score of the film The Sting revives interest in Scott Joplin and ragtime        
1973
 
    
The career of virtuoso cellist Jacqueline du Pré's is cut short by multiple sclerosis       
1973
 
     
William Friedkin directs a horror movie, The Exorcist, from a novel by William Peter Blatty        
1973
 
     
The Sydney Opera House opens with a performance by Australian Opera of Prokofiev's War and Peace        
1974
 
     
Antoinette Sibley and Anthony Dowell dance together in the premiere of Kenneth MacMillan's Manon        
1974
 
    
Soviet dancer Mikhail Baryshnikov defects from the Kirov company while on tour in Canada       
1974
 
     
Kenneth MacMillan uses Scott Joplin as his score for a ragtime ballet, Elite Syncopations