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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1952.
Specific locations
1952 in British music
1952 in Scandinavian music
Specific genres
1952 in country music
1952 in jazz
Events
February 26 – Popular American singer Jo Stafford marries bandleader/arranger Paul Weston.TV Personalities: Biographical Sketch Book https://books.google.com/books?id=09gQAAAAIAAJ 1954 TV Personalities 13
March 1 – Sun Records records its first release in Memphis, Tennessee.Charles Reagan Wilson William R. Ferris Encyclopedia of Southern Culture: Literature-Recreation https://books.google.com/books?id=rlWPAopfSdAC 1991 Anchor Books 978-0-385-41547-7 428
March 7 – New Musical Express is launched as a weekly newspaper in the United Kingdom.
March 21 – First major rock and roll concert, Alan Freed's Moondog Coronation Ball in Cleveland, Ohio, United States.
May 31 – Sangeet Natak Akademi is set up by the government of India.https://www.sangeetnatak.gov.in/sections/drama Drama Sangeet Natak Akademi 2 March 2024
c. July – Finnish composer Aarre Merikanto wins the Olympic hymn competition.Ruth-Esther Hillila Barbara Blanchard Hong Historical Dictionary of the Music and Musicians of Finland https://books.google.com/books?id=iUQDFlj1ykkC&pg=PA226 1997 Greenwood Publishing Group 978-0-313-27728-3 226
August 29 – David Tudor gives the premiere of John Cage's 4′33″, during which the performer does not play, in Woodstock, New York.
September – Bill Haley and His Saddlemen change their image to become Bill Haley & His Comets.
October 7 – First edition of Bob Horn's Bandstand is broadcast as a local show from station WFIL-TV in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It is later renamed American Bandstand and syndicated.
November 14 – The first UK Singles Chart is published by the New Musical Express, with Al Martino's "Here in My Heart" as number one.
date unknown
Jazz singer Ernesto Bonino moves from Italy to the United States.
Accordionist John Serry Sr. first performs in Broadway theatre with Shirley Booth in The Time of the Cuckoo.
Publications
Pierre Schaeffer – A la recherche d'une musique concrète (The Search for a Concrete Music), an explanation of his experimental approach to composing.
John Serry Sr. – The Syncopated Accordionist.Library of Congress,The Syncopated Accordionist, Serrapica, John (aka Serry, John). Publisher/Editor Charles Colin, New York, 1952, http://lccn.loc.gov/unk84158102
Musical groups formed
76th Army Band
338th Army Band (reactivated)
The Duke's Men of Yale (a cappella singing group)
Steiner Brothers, tap-dancing trio and singing grouphttps://www.winnipegfreepress.com/arts-and-life/entertainment/music/tapping-into-fame-404555716.html Winnipeg's Steiner Brothers didn't seek celebrity but made it big In addition to dancing; Brothers danced alongside Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin Winnipeg Free Press John Einarson December 4, 2016
Albums released
Anthology of American Folk Music – Various Artists
As You Desire Me – Jo Stafford
Billie Holiday Sings – Billie Holiday
Bird and Diz – Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie
Christmas Day in the Morning – Burl Ives
Christmas with Eddie Fisher – Eddie Fisher
Eddie Fisher Sings – Eddie Fisher
Favorite Spirituals – Ames Brothers
Harmony Encores – The Chordettes
Home on the Range – Ames Brothers
Johnnie Ray – Johnnie Ray
I'm in the Mood for Love – Eddie Fisher
Mr. Rhythm Sings – Frankie Laine
Oscar Peterson Plays Duke Ellington – Oscar Peterson
Penthouse Serenade – Nat King Cole
Song Favorites By Frankie Laine – Frankie Laine
Tennessee Waltz – Patti Page
US No. 1 hit singles
These singles reached the top of US Billboard magazine's charts in 1952.
First weekNumber of weeksTitleArtistMarch 15, 19529"Wheel of Fortune"Kay StarrMay 17, 19525"Blue Tango"Leroy AndersonJune 21, 19522"Here in My Heart"Al MartinoJuly 5, 19521"Delicado"Percy Faith & his OrchestraJuly 12, 19529"Auf Wiederseh'n, Sweetheart"Vera LynnSeptember 13, 19525"You Belong to Me"Jo StaffordOctober 18, 19525"I Went to Your Wedding"Patti PageNovember 22, 19521"It's in the Book"Johnny StandleyNovember 29, 19524"Why Don't You Believe Me?"Joni JamesDecember 27, 19522"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus"Jimmy Boyd
Biggest hit singles
The following singles achieved the highest chart positions in the limited set of charts available for 1952.http://tsort.info/music/yr1952.htm Songs from the Year 1952 Tsort.info 2016-01-20
# Artist Title Year Country Chart entries 1 Percy Faith Delicado 1952 Canada US 1940s 1 – Apr 1952, US 1 for 1 weeks Jul 1952, Peel list 1 of 1951, US BB 18 of 1952, POP 18 of 1952, Italy 26 of 1952, RYM 127 of 1952 2 Jo Stafford You Belong to Me 1952 US UK 1 – Nov 1952, US 1940s 1 – Aug 1952, US 1 for 5 weeks Sep 1952, US BB 4 of 1952, POP 4 of 1952, RYM 145 of 1952 3 Al Martino Here in My Heart 1952 US UK 1 – Nov 1952, US 1940s 1 – May 1952, US 1 for 2 weeks Jun 1952, US BB 20 of 1952, POP 20 of 1952, RYM 22 of 1952 4 Kay Starr Wheel of Fortune 1952 US US 1940s 1 – Feb 1952, US 1 for 9 weeks Mar 1952, Peel list 3 of 1952, US BB 8 of 1952, POP 8 of 1952, DDD 35 of 1952, Acclaimed 2343 5 Frankie Laine High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me) 1952 US Oscar in 1952, US BB 3 of 1952, POP 3 of 1952, US 1940s 5 – Jul 1952, UK 7 – Nov 1952, RYM 34 of 1952, Italy 48 of 1952
Top hits on record
30em "A-round the Corner" – Jo Stafford
"All of Me" – Johnnie Ray
"Anytime" – Eddie Fisher
"Auf Wiederseh'n Sweetheart" – Vera Lynn
"Be My Life's Companion" – The Mills Brothers
"Botch-A-Me (Ba-Ba-Baciami Piccina)" – Rosemary Clooney
"Comes A-Long A-Love" – Kay Starr
"Delicado" – Percy Faith & his Orchestra
"The Glow-Worm" – The Mills Brothers
"Goin' Home" - Fats Domino
"A Guy Is a Guy" – Doris Day
"Half As Much" – Rosemary Clooney
"Heart and Soul" – The Four Aces featuring Al Alberts
"Here in My Heart" – Al Martino
"High Noon (Do Not Forsake Me)" – Frankie Laine
"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" – Karen Chandler
"How Long" - Fats Domino
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" – Jimmy Boyd
"I Went To Your Wedding" – Patti Page
"I'll Walk Alone" – Don Cornell
"I'm Confessin'" – Les Paul and Mary Ford
"I'm Yours" – Eddie Fisher
"Kiss Of Fire" – Georgia Gibbs
"A Kiss to Build a Dream On" – Louis Armstrong
"Lady of Spain" – Eddie Fisher
"Lover" – Peggy Lee
"Maybe" – Perry Como & Eddie Fisher
"Meet Mister Callaghan", recorded by
Les Paul
Mitch Miller
Carmen Cavallaro and His Orchestra
"My Song" – Johnny Ace
"Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" – Guy Mitchell
"Please, Mr. Sun", recorded by:
Johnnie Ray & The Four Lads
Perry Como
Tommy Edwards
"Poor Poor Me" - Fats Domino
"Ramblin' Man" – Frankie Laine
"Rock of Gibraltar" – Frankie Laine
"Settin' the Woods on Fire" – Frankie Laine & Jo Stafford
"Slow Poke" – Arthur Godfrey
"So Madly in Love" – Georgia Gibbs
"Somewhere Along The Way" – Nat King Cole
"Sugarbush" – Doris Day & Frankie Laine
"Tell Me Why" – Eddie Fisher
"Temptation" – Mario Lanza
"Tenderly" – Rosemary Clooney
"Tiger Rag" – Les Paul and Mary Ford
"Till I Waltz Again With You" – Teresa Brewer
"Tonight You Belong to Me" – Frankie Laine
"Trying" – The Hilltoppers
"Unforgettable" – Nat King Cole
"Walkin' My Baby Back Home" – Johnnie Ray
"Wheel of Fortune" – Kay Starr
"When I Fall in Love" – Doris Day
"Why Don't You Believe Me" – Joni James
"Winter Wonderland" – Perry Como
"Wish You Were Here" – Eddie Fisher
"You Belong to Me" – Jo Stafford
Published popular music
"Blue Tango" words: Mitchell Parish, music: Leroy Anderson
"Comes A-Long A-Love" w.m. Al Sherman
"Delicado" w. Jack Lawrence m. Waldyr Azevedo
"(How Much Is) That Doggie in the Window?" w.m. Bob Merrill
"Don't Laugh at Me ('Cause I'm a Fool)" w.m. Norman Wisdom & June Tremayne
"Don't Let The Stars Get In Your Eyes" w.m. Barbara Trammel, Cactus Pryor & Slim Whitman
"Faith Can Move Mountains" w. Ben Raleigh m. Guy Wood
"Feet Up" w.m. Bob Merrill
"A Fool Such As I" w.m. Bill Trader
"Gonna Get Along Without Ya Now" w.m. Milton Kellem
"A Guy Is A Guy" w.m. Oscar Brand
"(Mama) He Treats Your Daughter Mean" w.m. Charles Singleton & J. H. Wallace
"Here in My Heart" w.m. Pat Genaro, Lou Levinson & Bill Borrelli
"High Noon" w. Ned Washington m. Dimitri Tiomkin
"Hi-Lili, Hi-Lo" w. Helen Deutsch m. Bronislau Kaper
"Hold Me, Thrill Me, Kiss Me" w.m. Harry Noble
"Hound Dog" w.m. Jerry Leiber & Mike Stoller
"I Know a Place" w. Sammy Cahn m. Vernon Duke Introduced by Doris Day & Ray Bolger in the film April in Paris
"I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus" w.m. Tommie Connor
"I Went To Your Wedding" w.m. Jessie Mae Robinson
"I'll Never Get Out Of This World Alive" w.m. Hank Williams & Fred Rose
"I'm Hans Christian Andersen" w.m. Frank Loesser
"Inchworm" w.m. Frank Loesser
"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" w.m. J. D. Miller
"It's In The Book" w.m. Johnny Standley & Art Thorsen
"Jambalaya" w.m. Hank Williams
"Kaw-Liga" w.m. Hank Williams & Fred Rose
"Keep It A Secret" w.m. Jessie Mae Robinson
"The King's New Clothes" w.m. Frank Loesser
"Lawdy Miss Clawdy" w.m. Lloyd Price
"Lean Baby" w. Roy Alfred m. Billy May
"Lullaby of Birdland" w. B. Y. Forster (pseudonym for George David Weiss) m. George Shearing
"Luna Rossa" w. (Eng) Kermit Goell (Ital) V. de Crescenzo m. A. Vian
"Mister Taptoe" w.m. Terry Gilkyson, Richard Dehr & Frank Miller
"Never Smile at a Crocodile" F. Churchill, J. Lawrence
"Oh Happy Day" w.m. Donald Howard Koplow & Nancy Binns Reed
"The Ol' Spring Fever" w. Leo Robin m. Harry Warren from the film Just For You
"One Mint Julep" w.m. Rudy Toombs
"Outside of Heaven" w. Sammy Gallop m. Chester Conn
"Petite Fleur" m. Sidney Bechet
"Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania" w.m. Bob Merrill
"Pretend" w.m. Lew Douglas, Cliff Parman & Frank Levere
"Pretty Little Black-Eyed Susie" Kay Twomey, Fred Wise & Ben Weisman
"Raminay (The New Orleans Chimney Sweep)" w.m. J. Lawrence, Sammy Fain
"She Wears Red Feathers" w.m. Bob Merrill
"Sugar Bush" w.m. Josef Marais
"Take These Chains from My Heart" w.m. Fred Rose & Hy Heath
"Takes Two to Tango" w.m. Al Hoffman & Dick Manning
"That's All" w. Alan Brandt m. Bob Haymes
"That's Entertainment!" w. Howard Dietz m. Arthur Schwartz
"Till I Waltz Again With You" w.m. Sidney Prosen
"The Ugly Duckling" w.m. Frank Loesser
"To Know You (Is to Love You)" w. Allan Roberts m. Robert Allen
"Walkin' To Missouri" w.m. Bob Merrill
"Wheel Of Fortune" w.m. Bennie Benjamin & George David Weiss
"When I Fall in Love" w. Edward Heyman m. Victor Young
"Why Don't You Believe Me?" w.m. Lew Douglas, King Laney & Roy Rodde
"Wish You Were Here" w.m. Harold Rome
"You Belong to Me" w.m. Pee Wee King, Redd Stewart & Chilton Price
"Your Cheatin' Heart" w.m. Hank Williams
"Zing A Little Zong" w. Leo Robin m. Harry Warren
Top R&B and country hits on record
"5-10-15 Hours" – Ruth Brown
"Daddy Daddy" – Ruth Brown
"Hound Dog" – Big Mama Thornton
"Jambalaya (On the Bayou)" – Hank Williams
"Juke" – Little Walter
"Lawdy Miss Clawdy" – Lloyd Price
"Midnight Special" – The Weavers
"Night Train" – Jimmy Forrest
"Wimoweh" – The Weavers
"Worry, Worry, Worry" – Joe Houston
"It Wasn't God Who Made Honky Tonk Angels" – Kitty Wells
Classical music
Premieres
Composer Composition Date Location Performers Arnold, Malcolm English Dances, set 2, Op. 33 1952-08-05 London (Proms) BBC Symphony – Sargenthttps://books.google.com/books?id=HNCLqUq4F94C&q=arnold+14+april+1951+english+dances&pg=PA22 Malcolm Arnold: A Bio-bibliography Stewart R. Craggs 22 1951-04-14 Greenwood Publishing 2016-01-20 9780313292545 Beck, Conrad Hymne 1952-10-11 Donaueschingen Festival, Germany SWF Symphony – Rosbaudhttp://www.schott-music.com/shop/products/show,150364,,f.html?showOldPerformances=true Shop – Conrad Beck – Hymne Schott Music 1952-10-11 2016-01-20 Berio, Luciano Due pezzi for violin and piano 1952–?-? Lenox, Massachusetts (Tanglewood MF) Lorin Maazel (violin), Seymour Lipkin (piano) http://www.lucianoberio.org/node/1368?2120422682=1 Due pezzi (nota dell'autore) Centro Studi Luciano Berio – Luciano Berio's Official Website it Lucianoberio.org 2016-01-20 Cage, John 4′33″ 1952-08-29 Woodstock, New York Tudorhttps://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2010/10/04/searching-for-silence Searching for Silence The New Yorker 2010-10-04 Alex Ross 2016-01-20 Chávez, Carlos Violin Concerto 1952-02-29 Mexico City Viviane Bertolami (violin), OSN – ChávezRoberto García Morillo, Carlos Chávez: Vida y obra, Tierra Firme (México: Fondo de Cultura Económica): 135. 968-16-0222-6. Michel Ciry fr Ciry, Michel [chamber-music work] 1952-07-21 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany [faculty and students of the Ferienkurse]Imke Misch and Markus Bandur (eds.), Karlheinz Stockhausen bei den Internationalen Ferienkursen für Neue Musik in Darmstadt 1951–1996: Dokumente und Briefe (Kürten: Stockhausen Stiftung für Musik, 2001): 21. 3-00-007290-X. Cowell, Henry Symphony No. 7, for chamber orchestra 1952-11-25 Baltimore Baltimore Little Orchestra – Stewarthttp://www.henrycowell.org/hc/sf002/catalogNp246.cfm?CFID=151960247&CFTOKEN=70519153 https://wayback.archive-it.org/all/20170914214134/http://www.henrycowell.org/hc/sf002/catalogNp246.cfm?CFID=226663596&CFTOKEN=37026095&jsessionid=8430a7891751ecddfd13227031d1114387e6 dead September 14, 2017 Henry Cowell Web Site Henrycowell.org 2016-01-20 Dallapiccola, Luigi Tartiniana 1952-03-04 Bern, Switzerlandhttp://repository.up.ac.za/bitstream/handle/2263/26294/04chapter4.pdf 'N Oorsig oor Dallapiccola se Werke Repository.up.ac.za 2016-01-20 dall'Oglio, Renzo Espressioni (5) for orchestra 1952-07-20 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany Landestheaterorchester Darmstadt – Maderna Engelmann, Hans Ulrich Orchester-Phantasie 1952-07-20 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany Landestheaterorchester Darmstadt – Maderna Wolfgang Fortner Isaacs Opferung, oratory scene 1952-10-12 Donaueschingen Festival, Germany Sudock, Krebs, Rehfuss / SWF Symphony – Rosbaudhttp://www.schott-music.com/shop/show,34482,cmss,3230.html https://web.archive.org/web/20160207032139/http://www.schott-music.com/shop/show,34482,cmss,3230.html dead 2016-02-07 Shop – Wolfgang Fortner – Isaaks Opferung Schott Music 2016-01-20 Fricker, Peter Racine Concerto for Cor Anglais and Orchestra 1952-07-20 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany Hartung / Landestheaterorchester Darmstadt – Maderna Ginastera, Alberto Piano Sonata No. 1 1952-11-29 Pittsburgh (ICMF) Harrishttp://global.britannica.com/EBchecked/topic/1944936/Piano-Sonata-No-1 Piano Sonata No. 1, Op. 22 work by Ginastera Britannica.com Global.britannica.com 2016-01-20 Goeyvaerts, Karel Violin Concerto No. 2 1952-07-20 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany Gertler / Landestheaterorchester Darmstadt – Maderna Hindemith, Paul Die Harmonie der Welt Symphony 1952-01-25 Basel, Switzerland Basel Chamber Orchestra – Sacherhttp://www.schott-music.co.uk/shop/1/1001142/2660684/show,34189,s.html The Schott Music Shop – Shop – Paul Hindemith – Symphony "Die Harmonie der Welt" Schott-music.co.uk 2016-01-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20150530162927/http://www.schott-music.co.uk/shop/1/1001142/2660684/show,34189,s.html 2015-05-30 dead Hummel, Bertold Missa brevis 1951 1952-10-12 Donaueschingen Festiva, Germany Domchor Freiburg – Stemmerhttp://www.swr.de/swr2/festivals/donaueschingen/programme/1921-1997/1952/-/id=2136956/did=3459890/nid=2136956/1oiqexg/index.html 1952 1921–1997 Programme seit 1921 Donaueschinger Musiktage Festivals SWR.de 2016-01-20 Husa, Karel [chamber-music work] 1952-07-21 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany [faculty and students of the Ferienkurse] Jolivet, André Harp Concerto 1952-10-12 Donaueschingen Festival, Germany Laskine / SWF Symphony – Rosbaud Klebe, Giselher Nocturnes (2) for orchestra 1952-07-20 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany Landestheaterorchester Darmstadt – Maderna Kubik, Gail Symphony Concertante [1952 Pulitzer]http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Music The Pulitzer Prizes Pulitzer.org 2016-01-20 2015-12-24 https://web.archive.org/web/20151224112012/http://www.pulitzer.org/bycat/Music dead 1952-01-07 New York City The Little Orchestra – Schermanhttps://books.google.com/books?id=dKuT49sbJUwC&q=kubik+symphony+concertante+scherman&pg=PA47 The Pulitzer Prize Winners for Music: Composer Biographies, Premiere ... 47 2016-01-20 9783631596081 Fischer Heinz Dietrich 2010 Peter Lang Lokshin, Aleksandr Hungarian Fantasy for violin and orchestra 1952–?-? Moscow Sitkovetsky / USSR Radio Symphony – Sanderlinghttp://lokshin.org/en.htm Alexander L Lokshin Lokshin.org 2016-01-20 Maderna, Bruno Musica su due dimensioni for flute, cymbals and tape 1952-07-21 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany Gazzelloni, Grano Malipiero, G. Francesco Sinfonia dello Zodiaco 1952-01-23 Lausanne, Switzerland Orchestre de la Suisse Romande – Sanzognohttp://www.rodoni.ch/malipiero/catalogo1gfm.html G. F. Malipiero – Musica Sinfonica Rodoni.ch 1923-10-25 2016-01-20 Martin, Frank Violin Concerto 1952-01-24 Basel, Switzerland Schneeberger / Basel Chamber Orchestra – Sacherhttp://www.musikmph.de/musical_scores/vorworte/327.html Repertoire Explorer Sheet Music Musikproduktion Höflich Musikmph.de 2016-01-20 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150530164224/http://www.musikmph.de/musical_scores/vorworte/327.html 2015-05-30 Martinů, Bohuslav Piano Trio No. 3 1952-02-25 New York City Mannes Triohttps://books.google.com/books?id=kLmuAwAAQBAJ&q=martinu+piano+trio+3+new+york+1951&pg=PA24 Bohuslav Martinů: A Research and Information Guide Robert Simon 24 2014-05-30 Routledge 2016-01-20 9781317806103 Martinů, Bohuslav Serenade for Two Clarinets and String Trio 1952-01-04 New York City McGinnis, Cerminara, J. Fuchs, L. Fuchs, Greenhouse Martinů, Bohuslav Stowe Pastorals 1952-05-07 Basel, Switzerland Trapp Family Ensemble Mennin, Peter String Quartet No. 2 1952-02-24 New York City Juilliard Quartethttp://2012choral.carlfischer.com/fischer/composers/menninworks.html Peter Mennin – Works List 2015-05-31 dead https://web.archive.org/web/20150530161104/http://2012choral.carlfischer.com/fischer/composers/menninworks.html 2015-05-30 Messiaen, Olivier Le merle noir 1952-06-? Paris Contestants of the Conservatory's flute competition + Leehttp://www.giraud-badin.com/fr/auction/product/95/32280/diapo/288 https://web.archive.org/web/20150530210516/http://www.giraud-badin.com/fr/auction/product/95/32280/diapo/288 dead May 30, 2015 Ventes Giraud-badin.com 2016-01-20 Montsalvatge, Xavier Cuarteto indiano 1952-05-04 Madrid National Chamber Music Association Nono, Luigi España en el corazón 1952-07-21 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany Dumaine, Hildebrandt / Ferienkurse, Landestheater Orchestra – Maderna1 Panufnik, Andrzej Heroic Overture (2nd version) 1952-05-16 Warsaw, Poland Warsaw Philharmonic – Rowickihttp://www.panufnik.polmic.pl/index.php/en/tworczosc/omowienia-utworow/35-heroic-overture Heroic Overture Panufnik.polmic.pl 1952-05-16 2016-01-20 Pettersson, Allan Concerto for Strings No. 1 1952-04-06 Stockholm Swedish Radio Symphony – Mannhttp://www.allanpettersson.org/Allan%20Pettersson/AllanPetterssonhemsidan/Allan%20Petterssons%20hemsida/huvud/verkfrteckning/verkf.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20080908075423/http://www.allanpettersson.org/Allan%20Pettersson/AllanPetterssonhemsidan/Allan%20Petterssons%20hemsida/huvud/verkfrteckning/verkf.htm usurped September 8, 2008 Styrelsen Allanpettersson.org 2016-01-20 Prokofiev, Sergei Symphony-Concerto for cello and orchestra 1952-02-18 Moscow Rostropovich / Moscow Youth Orchestra – Richterhttp://bso.http.internapcdn.net/bso/images/program_notes/prokofievSympohnyConcertoforcelloandOrcestra.pdf Sergei Prokofiev Symphony-Concerto for cello and orchestra, Opus 125 Bso.http.internapcdn.net 2016-01-20 Prokofiev, Sergei Symphony No. 7 1952-10-11 Moscow USSR Radio Symphony – SamosudAugust 2016 Rubbra, Edmund String Quartet No. 2 in E-flat, Op. 73 1952-05-11Edmund Rubbra, "String Quartet No. 2 in E flat, Op. 73: An Analytical Note by the Composer", The Music Review 14 (1953): 36–44. Citation on 36. London (Victoria and Albert Museum) Griller Quartethttp://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/17th-may-1952/15/music-of-the-month Music of the Month – from the Tablet Archive Archive.thetablet.co.uk 2016-01-20 https://web.archive.org/web/20160305092137/http://archive.thetablet.co.uk/article/17th-may-1952/15/music-of-the-month 2016-03-05 dead Shostakovich, Dmitri Preludes and Fugues (24) for piano 1952-12-23 Leningrad Nikolayevahttp://home.online.nl/ovar/shosopus/shosfina.htm https://web.archive.org/web/20150530162736/http://home.online.nl/ovar/shosopus/shosfina.htm dead May 30, 2015 Opus by Shostakovich Home.online.nl 2016-01-20 Stockhausen, Karlheinz Kreuzspiel 1952-07-21 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany Grano, Wildgans, Sandt, Rosmann, Maderna, Trumpfheller, Geppert – StockhausenUniversal Edition; 50 Jahre neue Musik in Darmstadt, Vol. 1. CD recording. Col Legno WWE 1CD 31894. Munich: Col Legno, 1996. Also issued as part of 4-CD set, 50 Jahre neue Musik in Darmstadt. Col Legno WWE 4CD 31893 (box); vol. 1: WWE 1 CD 31894; vol. 2: WWE 1 CD 31895; vol. 3: WWE 1 CD 31896; vol. 4: WWE 1 CD 31897. Munich: Col Legno, 1996. Stockhausen, Karlheinz Spiel 1952-10-11 Donaueschingen Festival, Germany2 SWF Radio Symphony – Rosbaudhttps://books.google.com/books?id=uUazwZH_zMwC&q=stockhausen+spiel+rosbaud+1953+orchestra&pg=PA21 Stockhausen: Life and Work Karl Heinrich Wörner Bill Hopkins 21 1973 University of California Press 2016-01-20 9780520032729 Stravinsky, Igor Cantata 1952-11-11 Los Angeles Los Angeles Symphony Society – Igor Stravinskyhttp://www.flaminioonline.it/Guide/Stravinskij/Stravinskij-Cantata89.html Stravinskij – Cantata Flaminioonline.it 2016-01-20 Togni, Camillo Omaggio a Bach for two pianos 1952-07-21 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany Gerd Kämper, TogniIddon 2013 xvi, 68 Jacques Wildberger Quartet for flute, clarinet, violin, and cello 1952-07-21 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany Mertens, Rosokowsky, Stier, Huth Zimmermann, Bernd Alois Oboe Concerto 1952-10-11 Donaueschingen Festival, Germany Schneider / SWF Symphony – Rosbaud12955 Konzert für Oboe und kleines Orchester, Bernd Alois Zimmermann
1 The ensemble Bruno Maderna conducted comprised both faculty and students of the Ferienkurse and members of the Landestheater Orchestra Darmstadt.
2 Only the first half of Spiel was performed at Donaueschingen in 1952. The complete score was only first performed in a radio recording made in July 1973 with the SWR Symphony Orchestra, Baden-Baden, conducted by the composer. The first public performance of the complete composition was given by the Berlin Philharmonic on 14 September 1975, also under the composer's baton.Karlheinz Stockhausen, "Spiel für Orchester (1952)", in his Texte zur Musik 1970–1977 4, selected and compiled by Christoph von Blumröder, 52–54, DuMont Dokumente (Cologne: DuMont Buchverlag, 1978): 54. 3-7701-1078-1.
Compositions
Jean Barraqué
Piano Sonata
Benjamin Britten – Canticle II: Abraham and Isaac, Op. 51
John Cage
4′33″
Carlos Chávez
Sinfonía romántica (Symphony No. 4)
George Crumb
String Trio
Three Pastoral Pieces
Luigi Dallapiccola
Quaderno musicale di Annalibera, solo piano
Alberto Ginastera
Piano Sonata No. 1
Carlos Guastavino
Suite argentina, ballet
Dmitry Kabalevsky
Piano Concerto No. 3
Wojciech Kilar
Conjured for baritone and seven instruments
Quintet for woodwind instruments
Suite No. 2 for piano
Sonata No. 1 for piano
Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Symphony
Otto Luening
Fantasy in Space for flute and tape
Invention in Twelve Notes for flute and tape
Low Speed for flute and tape
Frank Martin
Harpsichord Concerto
Bohuslav Martinů
Rhapsody-Concerto for Viola and Orchestra
Olivier Messiaen
Le Merle noir
Wilhelm Peterson-Berger
Canzone for Violin and Piano
Prokofiev, Sergei
Symphony No. 7
Joaquín Rodrigo
Concierto Serenata for Harp and Orchestra
Edmund Rubbra
Viola Concerto
Dmitri Shostakovich
String Quartet No. 5
Karlheinz Stockhausen
Klavierstücke I–IV
Punkte [withdrawn, revised in 1962]
Schlagquartett
Spiel
Igor Stravinsky
Cantata
Vaughan Williams, Ralph
Sinfonia antartica (Symphony No. 7)
Heitor Villa-Lobos
Piano Concerto No. 4
Symphony No. 9
Dag Wirén – Symphony No. 4http://dagwiren.se/english/list-of-works-and-discography/ List of works and discography Åhlén Carl-Gunnar n.d. dagwiren.se (The Dag Wirén Foundation) 4 April 2020
Opera
Franco Alfano – Sakùntala (revision of his 1921 opera La leggenda di Sakùntala)
Leonard Bernstein – Trouble in Tahiti
Raymond Chevreuille – Atta Troll
Mozart Camargo Guarnieri – Pedro Malazarte (comic opera in one act, libretto by Mario de Andrade, premiered in May at the Theatro Municipal in Rio de Janeiro)
Film
Georges Auric - Moulin Rouge
Charlie Chaplin - Limelight
Bernard Herrmann - The Snows of Kilimanjaro
Alfred Newman - The Prizoner of Zenda
Alex North - Viva Zapata!
Miklós Rózsa - Ivanhoe
Dimitri Tiomkin - High Noon
Victor Young - The Quiet Man
Jazz
1952 in jazz
Musical theatre
Bet Your Life London production opened at the Hippodrome on February 18 and ran for 362 performances
Curtain Going Up Broadway production
The Globe Revue London revue opened on July 10 at the Globe Theatre
Love from Judy London production opened at the Saville Theatre on September 25 and ran for 594 performances
New Faces of 1952 Broadway production
Pal Joey (Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart) – Broadway revival of original 1940 production
Ring Out the Bells London revue opened at the Victoria Palace Theatre on November 12
Three Wishes for Jamie Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on March 21 and moved to the Plymouth Theatre on May 27 for a total run of 92 performances
Two's Company Broadway production
Wish You Were Here Broadway production
Musical films
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Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick starring Alan Young, Dinah Shore, Robert Merrill and Adele Jergens. Directed by Claude Binyon.
Affair in Trinidad starring Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford
April in Paris starring Doris Day and Ray Bolger
Because You're Mine starring Mario Lanza and Doretta Morrow
Bloodhounds of Broadway starring Mitzi Gaynor, Scott Brady and Mitzi Green
Everything I Have Is Yours starring Marge Champion, Gower Champion and Monica Lewis
Hans Christian Andersen starring Danny Kaye and Jane Wyman
Just for You starring Bing Crosby and Jane Wyman
The Las Vegas Story starring Jane Russell, Victor Mature and Hoagy Carmichael
Lovely to Look At starring Kathryn Grayson, Red Skelton, Howard Keel, Marge Champion, Gower Champion and Ann Miller
Meet Danny Wilson starring Frank Sinatra and Shelley Winters
The Merry Widow starring Lana Turner, Fernando Lamas and Una Merkel
Road to Bali starring Bing Crosby, Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour
She's Working Her Way Through College starring Virginia Mayo and Ronald Reagan
Sing Along with Me starring Donald Peers, Dodo Watts & Dennis Vance directed by Peter Graham Scott
Singin' in the Rain starring Gene Kelly, Donald O'Connor and Debbie Reynolds
Skirts Ahoy! starring Esther Williams, Joan Evans, Vivian Blaine and Keefe Brasselle, and featuring Billy Eckstine, The DeMarco Sisters, Debbie Reynolds and Bobby Van.
Son of Paleface starring Bob Hope, Jane Russell, Roy Rogers and Trigger
Where's Charley? starring Ray Bolger and Allyn Ann McLerie
With a Song in My Heart starring Susan Hayward and Rory Calhoun
Births
January 2 – Graeme Strachan, Australian singer-songwriter (died 2001)
January 10 – Scott Thurston, American guitarist and songwriter
January 15
Skay Beilinson, Argentinian guitar player
Boris Blank, Swiss musician
Melvyn Gale, cellist (Electric Light Orchestra)
January 17 – Ryuichi Sakamoto, Japanese electronic musician and composer (died 2023)
January 20 – Paul Stanley, rock guitarist and singer (Kiss)
January 21 – Cyril and Libbye Hellier, American operatic sopranos
January 22 – Teddy Gentry, country bass player (Alabama)
January 25 – Timothy White, American rock journalist (died 2002)
January 29 – Tommy Ramone, punk rock drummer, producer (The Ramones)
January 30 – Steve Bartek, new wave rock guitarist (Oingo Boingo)
February 1 – Jenő Jandó, Hungarian pianist
February 4 – Jerry Shirley, English rock drummer (Humble Pie)
February 12 – Michael McDonald, American rock singer-songwriter (The Doobie Brothers)
February 13 – Ed Gagliardi, American rock bass guitarist (Foreigner)
February 16 – James Ingram, American R&B singer-songwriter and producer (died 2019)
February 18 – Juice Newton, American pop and country singer-songwriter and guitarist
February 20
Halvor Haug, Norwegian composer
Matti Rantanen, Finnish accordionist
February 21 – Jean-Jacques Burnel, English rock bass guitarist and vocalist (The Stranglers)
February 23 – Brad Whitford, American hard rock rhythm guitarist (Aerosmith)
February 24 – Jadwiga Rappé, Polish contralto (died 2025)
March 11 – Vince Giordano, American bass saxophonist and band leader for the Nighthawks Orchestra
March 13 – Wolfgang Rihm, German composer (died 2024)
March 15 – Howard Devoto, English punk rock singer-songwriter (Buzzcocks, Magazine, Luxuria, ShelleyDevoto)
March 22 – Jay Dee Daugherty, American rock drummer and songwriter (Patti Smith Group)
April 2 – Leon Wilkeson, American bassist (Lynyrd Skynyrd)
April 4 – Gary Moore, Northern Irish blues guitarist and singer (died 2011)
April 13 – Rosa Passos, Brazilian Bossa Nova singer
April 17 – Jerry Knight, American vocalist, bassist, songwriter and producer (died 1996)
April 23 – Narada Michael Walden, American drummer, singer, composer and record producer (Mahavishnu Orchestra)
April 26 – Ewa Podleś, Polish opera singer (died 2024)
May 11 – Renaud, composer
May 14 – David Byrne, singer-songwriter (Talking Heads)
May 18 – George Strait, country singer, actor and music producer
May 19 – Barbara Joyce Lomas, funk/disco singer (B. T. Express)
May 23 – Dillie Keane, cabaret performer
May 30 – Zoltán Kocsis, composer and pianist (died 2016)
June 5 – Nicko McBrain, heavy metal drummer (Iron Maiden, Trust, etc.)
June or July 6 – Jamie Spears, father of singer-songwriters and actresses Jamie Lynne Spears and Britney Spears (estranged)
June 7 – Royce Campbell, American guitarist, composer and producer
June 11 – Donnie Van Zant rock guitarist and vocalist (38 Special)
June 12
Junior Brown, country guitarist and singer
Oliver Knussen, composer (died 2018)
June 16 – Gino Vannelli, Canadian singer-songwriter, musician and composer
June 19 – Jim Johnston, American composer and musician
June 25
Tim Finn, New Zealand singer-songwriter
Radka Toneff, Norwegian jazz singer (died 1982)http://snl.no/.nbl_biografi/Radka_Toneff/utdypning Radka Toneff Tore Halvorsen Norwegian 14 November 2012 Norsk Biografisk Leksikon Kunnskapsforlaget
July 1
Dan Aykroyd, actor (The Blues Brothers)
Leon "Ndugu" Chancler, drummer, composer and record producer (died 2018)
Timothy J. Tobias, American pianist and composer (died 2006)
July 2 – Johnny Colla (Huey Lewis and the News)
July 3 – Laura Branigan, American singer (Gloria) and actress (died 2004)
July 4 - John Waite, English musician
July 12 – Philip Taylor Kramer, American bass player (Iron Butterfly) (died 1995)
July 14 – Bob Casale, American guitarist, keyboard player and producer (Devo) (died 2014)
July 15 – David Pack, frontman, vocalist and guitarist with rock group Ambrosia
July 16 – Stewart Copeland, drummer (The Police)
July 17
Nicolette Larson, singer (died 1997)
Phoebe Snow, singer-songwriter (died 2011)
July 19 – Allen Collins, American guitarist and songwriter (Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rossington Collins Band and Allen Collins Band) (died 1990)
July 22
John Rutsey, Canadian drummer (Rush) (died 2008)
Janis Siegel, American singer (The Manhattan Transfer)
July 28 – Glenn A. Baker, Australian music journalist (died 2026)
July 31 – Reinhard Goebel, German early music conductor and violinist
August 4 – Moya Brennan, Irish folk harpist and singer (Clannad) (died 2026)
August 6 – Pat MacDonald, American new wave musician (Timbuk 3)
August 16 – Gianna Rolandi, American soprano (died 2021)
August 20 – John Hiatt, guitarist, pianist and singer
August 21 – Joe Strummer, singer-songwriter (The Clash) (died 2002)
August 26 – Billy Rush, guitarist (Asbury Jukes)
August 27 – Laurie Wisefield, English guitarist and vocalist (Wishbone Ash)
September 4 – Martin Chambers, The Pretenders
September 9 – Dave Stewart, English musician, songwriter and record producer (Eurythmics)
September 12
Gerry Beckley, rock singer-songwriter (America)
Neil Peart, rock drummer & songwriter (Rush) (died 2020)
September 13 – Randy Jones, singer (Village People)
September 18 – Dee Dee Ramone, bassist (The Ramones) (died 2002)
September 19 – Nile Rodgers, American record producer, songwriter, musician, composer, arranger and guitarist (The Honeydrippers, Chic)
September 22 – Oliver Mtukudzi ("Tuku"), Zimbabwean Afro jazz singer-guitarist (died 2019)
September 30 – John Lombardo, American musician (10,000 Maniacs, John & Mary)
October 2 – Janusz Olejniczak, Polish pianist (died 2024)
October 9 – Sharon Osbourne, English-American television personality, music manager and author wife of Ozzy Osbourne
October 21 – Miroslav Žbirka, Slovak singer-songwriter
November 2
Maxine Nightingale, singer
Alan Winstanley, producer
November 14 – Johnny A., guitarist and songwriter
November 17 – Runa Laila, Bangladeshi playback singer and composer
November 18 - John Parr, English musician and singer-songwriter
November 20 – Semyon Bychkov, conductor
November 27 – Bappi Lahiri, Indian film composer
December 3 – Don Barnes (38 Special)
December 23 – Hans Abrahamsen, Danish composerAnders Beyer Abrahamsen, Hans The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians 2 Stanley Sadie John Tyrrell Macmillan Publishers 2001
December 27 – David Knopfler (Dire Straits)
Deaths
January 9 – Midge Williams, singer
January 14 – Artur Kapp, Estonian composer (d. 1878)
January 16 – René Voisin, trumpeter
January 20 – Arthur Farwell, composer and conductor
February 13 – Alfred Einstein, musicologist
March 17 – Percy Wenrich, ragtime composer
March 22 – Uncle Dave Macon, musician
April 19 – Steve Conway, British singer (born 1920)Steve Conway Biography, Songs, & Albums https://www.allmusic.com/artist/steve-conway-mn0000032317/biography 2021-09-23 AllMusic en
April 23 – Elisabeth Schumann, operatic soprano
May 23 – Georg Schumann, German composer (born 1866)
May 15 – Italo Montemezzi, composer
June 9 – Adolf Busch, violinist and composer
June 13 – Emma Eames, operatic soprano
June 14 – John Kirby, jazz musician
June 25 – Luke Jordan, blues musician
July 2 – Henriëtte Hilda Bosmans, Dutch composer and pianist (born 1895)
July 10 – Rued Langgaard, Danish composer and organist (born 1893)David Mason Greene Greene's biographical encyclopedia of composers Doubleday 1985 9780385142786 1220
September 2 - Nicholas Laucella, concert flautist and composer
September 6 – Gertrude Lawrence, English actress, singer, dancer
September 16 – Vesta Tilley, music hall entertainer
September 18 – Frances Alda, operatic soprano
September 19 – Nat Ayer, composer
October 25 – Sergei Bortkiewicz, pianist and composer
October 26 – Hattie McDaniel
November 1 – Dixie Lee, singer, dancer and actress, wife of Bing Crosby
November 4 – Max Adler, violinist
November 17 – Charles Penrose, music hall performer
December 25 – Bernardino Molinari, arranger and conductor (born 1880)
December 26 – Paul Breisach, conductor
December 28 – Fletcher Henderson, jazz musician
December 30
Willie Brown, blues musician
Nakayama Shimpei, songwriter
date unknown
Tryphosa Bates-Batcheller, singer
Georgette Harvey, actress and singer
References
Sources
Iddon Martin New Music at Darmstadt: Nono. Stockhausen, Cage, and Boulez Music since 1900 Cambridge and New York Cambridge University Press 2013 9781107033290
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