Events in Music
Music Premiere
Apr 14 George Gershwin and Ira Gershwin's 1st collaborative musical "Lady, Be Good!", featuring siblings Fred Astaire and Adelle Astaire as a brother and sister dance team, opens at Empire Theatre, London's West End; runs for 326 performances
Music Premiere
Apr 25 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" premieres in Milan
Birthdays in Music
- Apr 1 Charles Bressler, American tenor
- Apr 2 David Mason, British orchestral, solo and session trumpet player (The Beatles - "Penny Lane"), born in London, England (d. 2011)
- Apr 10 Jacques Castérède, French composer and pianist (Pandora's Box), born in Paris (d. 2014)
- Apr 10 Junior Samples, American comedian and country singer (Hee Haw), born in Cumming, Georgia (d. 1983)
- Apr 11 Gervase de Peyer, British clarinetist, born in London (d. 2017)
- Apr 11 Robert Hall Lewis, American composer, born in Portland, Oregon (d. 1996)
- Apr 11 Victor Bouchard, Canadian pianist and composer, born in Quebec City, Canada (d. 2011)
- Apr 14 Gloria Jean, American actress and singer (Never Give a Sucker an Even Break), born in Buffalo, New York
- Apr 14 Jan Maegaard, Danish composer and musicologist (Triptykon), born in Copenhagen, Denmark (d. 2012)
- Apr 17 Ronald Senator, British composer (Holocaust Requiem), and educator (Musicolor), born In London (d. 2015)
- Apr 18 Jimmy Rowser, American jazz double-bassist (Dinah Washington; Ray Bryant; Les McCann), and teacher, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 2004)
- Apr 22 Charlotte Rae, American character actress, (Facts Of Life - "Edna"), comedian, singer and dancer, born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 2018)
- Apr 25 Paul Walter Fürst, Austrian musician and composer, born in Vienna, Austria (d. 2013)
- Apr 26 Oldřich František Korte, Czech composer, born in Šaľa, Slovakia (d. 2014)
- Apr 28 Francis Burt, British composer, born in London (d. 2012)
