1928 in Music

• Jan 10 George Gershwin, Sigmund Romberg and P. G. Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie" premieres in New York

• Mar 13 Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers" premieres in NYC
• Mar 22 Noel Coward's musical "This Year of Grace" premieres in London

• Aug 31 Brecht & Weil's play " The Threepenny Opera " premieres
• Sep 15 Stothard, Kalmar & Ruby's musical "Good Boy" premieres in NYC
• Sep 24 Cohan/Lardner's musical "Elmer the Great" premieres in NYC
• Oct 8 Cole Porter and E Ray Goetz' musical "Paris" premieres in NYC
• Oct 8 Joseph Szigeti debuted Alfredo Casella's Violin Concerto.

• Nov 8 George & Ira Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl" premieres in NYC
• Dec 4 Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn's musical "Whoopee" premieres in NYC
• Dec 28 Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 165

• Jan 2 Tiberiu Olah, composer
• Jan 9 Domenico Modugno, Italian singer-songwriter, born in Polignano A Mare, Apulia (d. 1994)
• Jan 10 Wallace Berry, Canadian-American composer (d. 1991)
• Jan 12 Ruth Brown, American actress & singer sometimes known as the "Queen of R&B" (So Long, Teardrops from My Eyes), born in Portsmouth, Virginia (d. 2006)
• Jan 16 Ezra Sims, American composer of microtonal music, born in Birmingham, Alabama (d. 2015)
• Jan 16 Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996)
• Jan 17 Jean Barraqué, French composer (d. 1973)
• Jan 19 Edward Gerard Schurmann, composer
• Jan 27 Jean-Michel Damase, composer
• Jan 29 Bengt Hambraeus, composer
• Jan 30 Harold Prince, US producer/director (West Side Story, Evita)
• Jan 30 Mitch Leigh, American musical composer (Man of La Mancha), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2014)
• Jan 31 Chuck Willis, American rock vocalist (C C Rider), born in Atlanta, Georgia (d. 1958)
• Feb 1 Ursula Mamlok, German American avant-garde composer, born in Berlin (d. 2016)
• Feb 2 Alan Fluck, musical educationalist
• Feb 11 Conrad Janis, American jazz trombonist and actor (Mork & Mindy, Quark, Bonino), born in NYC, New York
• Feb 11 Raoul Cita, R&B pianist and songwriter (Harptones), born in NYC, New York (d. 2014)
• Feb 17 Marta Romero, Puerto Rican actress & singer (La Divina Infiel, The Shadow of the Bat), born in Ponce, Puerto Rico (d. 2013)
• Feb 26 Aldonis Kalnins, composer

• Feb 26 Monique Leyrac, French Canadian singer and actress (Lights of My City, Act of the Heart), born in Montreal, Quebec
• Feb 29 Alan Loveday, New Zealand and British violinist, born in Palmerston North, New Zealand (d. 2016)
• Mar 4 Samuel Adler, composer
• Mar 6 Ronald Stevenson, composer
• Mar 8 Frank Michael Beyer, composer
• Mar 8 Judy Johnson, singer (Your Show of Shows), born in Norfolk, Virginia
• Mar 9 Keely Smith [Dorothy Keely], American jazz and popular music singer (Mrs Louie Prima), born in Norfolk, Virginia (d. 2017)
• Mar 10 Sara Montiel, Spanish actress and singer (The Last Torch Song, The Violet Seller), born in Campo de Criptana, Ciudad Real, Spain (d. 2013)
• Mar 12 Phil Jones, principal (Trinity College of Music)
• Mar 12 Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d. 2007)
• Mar 15 Nicolas Flagello, composer
• Mar 16 Christa Ludwig, soprano (Vienna State Opera), born in Berlin, Germany
• Mar 16 Ramon Barce, Spanish composer, born in Madrid (d. 2008)
• Mar 17 Edino Krieger, composer
• Mar 19 Alam Thomas "Tom" Paley, American folk musician (New Lost City Ramblers), born in NYC, New York (d. 2017)
• Mar 21 Evelyn Ruth Anderson, composer
• Mar 24 Byron "Yanks" Janis, McKeesport Pa, pianist (NBC Symphony Orchestra)
• Mar 26 Carole Carr [Carless], British singer and actress (Down Among the Z Men), born in London, England (d. 1997)
• Mar 28 Jose Luis de Delas, Spanish composer, born in Barcelona
• Mar 29 Vaclav Felix, composer, born in Prague (d. 2008)
• Mar 30 John Heddle Nash, English operatic singer, born in London (d. 1994)
• Mar 30 Diether de la Motte, composer
• Apr 2 Serge Gainsbourg, Russian-French singer (Ford Mustang), born in Paris (d. 1991)
• Apr 3 Don Gibson, American country musician (Sweet Dreams), born in Shelby, North Carolina (d. 2003)
• Apr 4 Monty Norman, English singer and film composer (James Bond Theme), born in London
• Apr 5 David Farquhar Andress, New Zealand composer, born in Cambridge, New Zealand (d. 2007)
• Apr 5 Tony Williams, American singer (Platters-Only You, Harbor Lights), born in Elizabeth, New Jersey (d. 1992)
• Apr 6 Will Gaines, American-British tap dancer, born in Baltimore, Maryland (d. 2014)
• Apr 8 Monty Sunshine, jazz bandleader (Gotta Travel On)
• Apr 8 Fred Ebb, American composer, born in Manhattan, NYC (d. 2004)
• Apr 9 Tom Lehrer, American musician, satirist and mathematician (That Was The Week That Was), born in NYC, New York
• Apr 18 Jean-Francois Pailliard, Vitry-le-Francois France, conductor
• Apr 19 Alexis Korner, musician (Blues Inc-Bootleg Him), born in Paris, France
• Apr 24 Gustav Krivinka, Czech composer, born in Doubravice nad Svitavou, Czech Republic (d. 1990)
• Apr 24 Johnny Griffin III, American jazz saxophonist (A Blowin' Session), born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2008)
• Apr 29 Big Jay McNeely, R&B saxophonist, born in Los Angeles, California
• Apr 29 Carl Gardner, rock vocalist (Coasters-Searchin), born in Tyler, Texas
• May 3 Dave Dudley, American country singer (Six Days on the Road), born in Spencer, Wisconsin (d. 2003)
• May 4 Maynard Ferguson, Canadian jazz trumpeter (Roulette), born in Verdun, Quebec (d. 2006)
• May 5 Marshall Grant, American bassist (Johnny Cash's Tennessee Two), born in Bryson City, North Carolina (d. 2011)
• May 8 William Jay Sydeman, composer
• May 9 Páll Pampichier Pálsson, Austrian-Icelandic composer, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1966)
• May 12 Burt Bacharach, composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again), born in Kansas City, Missouri
• May 12 Henry Cosby, African-American songwriter (d. 2002)
• May 14 Will "Dub Jones, American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
• May 22 Roscoe Robinson, US gospel singer
• May 23 Rosemary Clooney, American singer (Come On-a My House) and actress (White Christmas), born in Maysville, Kentucky (d. 2002)
• May 23 Jeannie Carson [Shufflebottom], British-born comedian, actress, singer and dancer (As Long as They're Happy, An Alligator Named Daisy), born in Yorkshire, England
• May 23 Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998)
• May 25 Frigyes Hidas, composer
• May 27 Thea Musgrave, Scottish composer (Mary Queen of Scots, Pontalba), born in Barnton, Edinburgh
• May 30 Gustav Leonhardt, Master Dutch Harpsichordist, organist and conductor
• May 31 Jacob Lateiner, pianist/professor (Juiliard), born in Havana, Cuba
• Jun 4 Lloyd Lambert, American bassist (Guitar Slim), born in Thilbodaux, Louisiana (d. 1995)
• Jun 7 Charles Louis Strouse, American composer, born in NYC, New York
• Jun 12 Richard Sherman, American composer and lyricist (The Sherman Brothers - Mary Poppins), born in NYC, New York
• Jun 12 Vic Damone [Vito Farinola], American singer (On the Street Where You Live), entertainer, actor and TV presenter (Vic Damone Show), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 2018)
• Jun 16 Sergiu Comissiona, Buch Romania, conductor (Haifa Symph 1959-64)
• Jun 20 Robert Satanowski, composer
• Jun 20 Eric Dolphy, jazz musician, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1964)
• Jun 21 Judith Raskin, American soprano (Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro), born in NYC, New York
• Jun 25 William Joseph Russo, American composer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2003)
• Jun 25 Jacob Druckman, American composer (Animus I Auerole), born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1996)
• Jun 28 Andrew Gordon Speedie-Pask, English cybernetician stage producer and lyricist, born in Derby (d. 1996)
• Jul 1 Volker Wangenheim, German conductor and composer (Sinfonia Notturna), born in Berlin (d. 2014)
• Jul 4 Cathy Berberian, American mezzo-soprano and composer (Stripsody), born in Attleboro, Massachusetts (d. 1983)
• Jul 8 Norma Donaldson, American singer and actress (Poetic Justice, 5 Heartbeats), born in Harlem, New York (d. 1994)
• Jul 9 Vince Edwards, American actor, director, and singer (Ben Casey, The Devil's Brigade, Matt Lincoln, Firehouse), born in Brooklyn, New York (d. 1996)
• Jul 11 Robert Washburn, American composer and teacher, born in Bouckville, New York (d. 2013)
• Jul 12 Barbara Cowsill, singer and mother of The Cowsills, born in Cranston, Rhode Island (d. 1985)
• Jul 13 Donal Michalsky, composer
• Jul 13 Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz bassist
• Jul 14 Ole Schmidt, Danish composer and conductor, born in Copenhagen (d. 2010)
• Jul 16 Bella Davidovich, Jewish Soviet-American pianist (Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel), born in Baku, Azerbaijan
• Jul 16 Ticho Parly, Danish tenor, born in Copenhagen (d. 1993)
• Jul 17 Vince Guaraldi, American jazz musician and composer (peanuts TV specials), born in San Francisco (d. 1976)
• Jul 17 Joseph Albert Morello, American jazz drummer, born in Irvington, New Jersey (d. 2011)
• Jul 20 Peter Ind, jazz musician
• Jul 22 Georg Dreyfus, German-born Australian composer, born in Elberfeld
• Jul 22 Keter Betts, American jazz bassist (d. 2005)

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• Jan 8 Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu, composer, dies at 61
• Feb 16 Eddie Foy Sr. [Edwin Fitzgerald], Irish-American actor, singer and dancer (A Favorite Fool), dies at 71
• Mar 1 Herbert Brewer, English composer, dies at 62
• Mar 1 Jacob Adolf Hägg, Swedish composer, dies at 77
• Mar 27 Leslie Stuart, composer, dies at 64
• Mar 28 Giuseppe Ferrata, composer, dies at 63
• Apr 13 Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre, composer, dies at 36
• Apr 18 Henryk Melcer-Szczawiński, Polish composer, dies at 58
• Apr 24 Ferdinand Hummel, German composer, dies at 72
• May 7 Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan, composer, dies at 56
• May 9 Constantin Dimitrescu, composer, dies at 81
• May 19 Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, American composer, dies at 59
• Jun 6 Heinrich Gottlieb Noren, composer, dies at 67
• Jun 13 Damaso Ledesma, composer, dies at 60
• Jun 23 Thomas H. Rollinson, American composer, dies at 84
• Aug 6 William Henry Grattan Flood, composer, dies at 68
• Aug 12 Leoš Janáček, Czech composer, dies at 74
• Aug 13 Fernand de La Tombelle, French organist and composer, dies at 74
• Oct 30 Oscar George Theodore Sonneck, American musicologist, dies at 55
• Nov 19 Achille Simonetti, Italian violinist and composer, dies at 71
• Dec 18 Lucien Capet, French composer and violinist, dies at 55

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