Events in Music
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Apr 8 Dmitri Shostakovich's ballet "The Arrow" premieres
Birthdays in Music
- Apr 2 Imre Olsvik, Hungarian composer and ethnomusicologist, born in Budapest (d. 2014)
- Apr 6 Joan Carlyle, British soprano
- Apr 11 Frank Vicari, American jazz, session, and touring saxophonist (Maynard Ferguson; Woody Herman; Tom Waits; Saturday Night Live), born in New Jersey (d. 2006)
- Apr 11 Koichi Sugiyama, Japanese video game composer (Dragon Quest), born in Tokyo
- Apr 12 Leonid Derbenyov, Russian poet-songwriter, born in Moscow (d. 1995)
- Apr 12 Martin Boykan, American composer, born in NYC, New York
- Apr 16 John Littlejohn [Funchess], American electric blues slide guitarist ("So-Called Friends"), born in Lake, Mississippi (d. 1994)
- Apr 17 Roberta Stephen, Canadian classical composer (The Eye Of The Seasons), born in Alberta
- Apr 27 Igor Oistrakh, Soviet-Russian concert violinist (Wieniawski Competition, 1952), and educator (Moscow Conservatory, Brussels Royal Conservatory), born in Odessa, Ukraine, Soviet Union (now Ukraine) (d. 2021)
- Apr 27 Krzysztof Komeda, Polish jazz pianist and film composer (Rosemary's Baby), born in Poznań, Poland (d. 1969)
- Apr 27 Maxine Brown, American country music singer (Browns), born in Campti, Louisiana (d. 2019)
- Apr 29 Lonnie Donegan, Scottish singer-songwriter and the King of Skiffle, born in Glasgow (d. 2002)
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