November 1928 in Music History

Events in Music

Music Premiere

Nov 2 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Symphony premieres in US with Leopold Stokowski leading the Philadelphia Orchestra at The Academy of Music, Philadelpha

Music Premiere

Nov 8 George and Ira Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl" premieres in NYC

Music History

Nov 22 "Bolero" by Maurice Ravel first performed publicly (Paris)

Birthdays in Music

Nov 6 Peter Matz, American musician and orchestra leader (Hullabaloo; The Carol Burnett Show), born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania (d. 2002)
Nov 10 Ennio Morricone, Italian trumpeter, and composer of classical music and film scores ("The Mission"; "Cinema Paradiso"; "The Hateful Eight"), born in Rome, Italy (d. 2020) [1]
Nov 11 Arthur Cunningham, American composer, born in Piermont, New York (d. 1997)
Nov 11 Ernestine Anderson, American jazz vocalist and blues singer, born in Houston, Texas (d. 2016)
Nov 13 Hampton Hawes, American jazz pianist, born in Los Angeles, California (d. 1977)
Nov 14 Leopoldine "Leonie" Rysanek, Austrian dramatic soprano (Vienna State Opera 1954-96; Metropolitan Opera, 1959-96), born in Vienna, Austria (d. 1998)
Nov 15 C. W. McCall [William Dale Fries, Jr.], American country singer (Convoy), born in Audubon, Iowa (d. 2022)
Nov 15 Seldon Powell, American jazz tenor saxophonist and flautist, born in Lawrenceville, Virginia (d. 1997)
Nov 17 John Sangster, Australian jazz composer (The Hobbit Suite), born in Sandringham, Australia (d. 1995)
Nov 18 Otar Gordeli, Georgian composer, born in Tbilisi, Georgia (d. 1994)
Nov 19 Don Hunstein, American photographer of musicians, born in St. Louis, Missouri (d. 2017)
Nov 23 Jakob Jez, Slovenian composer, born in Boštanj, Slovenia
Nov 23 Jerry Bock, American Broadway composer (Fiddler on the Roof), born in New Haven, Connecticut (d. 2010)
Nov 25 Etta Jones, American jazz singer (Don't Go to Strangers), born in Aiken, South Carolina (d. 2001)
Nov 25 James "Jimmy" Johnson, American gospel and blues singer and guitarist, born in Holly Springs, Mississippi
Nov 27 Walter Klien, Austrian pianist, born in Graz (d. 1991)
Nov 28 Jan Fotek, Polish composer (Musica Cromatica), born in Czerwińsk on the Vistula, Poland (d. 2015)