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| 1971 |
| | | 95-year-old Spanish cellist Pablo Casals conducts in New York his Hymn to the United Nations | |
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| 1971 |
| | | Peter Maxwell Davies moves to the Orkneys, where he founds (in 1977) the St Magnus Festival | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Ultimos Ritos ('Last Rites'), an oratorio by John Tavener, has its first performance in Haarlem in the Netherlands | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Peter Maxwell Davies's opera Taverneris performed at Covent Garden | |
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| 1972 |
| | | Russian composer Alfred Schnittke's First Symphony alarms the Soviet authorities and is denied a Moscow premiere | |
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| 1973 |
| | | Elvis Presley performs in Honolulu in the Aloha Concert, the first programme to be broadcast live round the world by satellite | |
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| 1973 |
| | | A Little Night Music, with lyrics and music by Stephen Sondheim, has its premiere in New York | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The score of the film The Sting revives interest in Scott Joplin and ragtime | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The career of virtuoso cellist Jacqueline du Pré's is cut short by multiple sclerosis | |
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| 1973 |
| | | The Sydney Opera House opens with a performance by Australian Opera of Prokofiev's War and Peace | |
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