Events in Music
Event of Interest
Jan 28 Pravda criticizes Dmitri Shostakovich's opera "Lady Macbeth"
Dmitri Shostakovich
Birthdays in Music
- Jan 1 Eve Queler, American conductor, born in NYC, New York
Roger Miller
Jan 2 Roger Miller, country singer (King of the Road, Dang Me), born in Fort Worth, Texas
Roger Miller
- Jan 3 Jos Kunst, Dutch composer, born in Roermond (d. 1996)
- Jan 7 Eldee Young, US bassist (Young Holt Unlimited-Hang on Sloopy)
- Jan 8 Zdeněk Mácal, Czech conductor, born in Bmo, Czech Republic
- Jan 9 Peter Fletcher, British orchestral conductor & music teacher
- Jan 11 Katie Webster [Kathyrne Jewel Thorne], American boogie pianist (The Swamp Boogie Queen), born in Houston, Texas (d. 1999)
- Jan 13 Ami Maayani, Israeli composer and conductor, born in Ramat Gan, Israel
- Jan 13 Renato Bruson, Italian operatic baritone
- Jan 14 Clarence Carter, American singer (Thread the Needle), born in Montgomery, Alabama
- Jan 19 Elliott Schwartz, composer, born in New York City
- Jan 24 Daniel Goode, composer
- Jan 24 Jack Scott, Canadian rocker (My True Love)
- Jan 28 Jack Scott, vocalist (My True Love)
- Jan 28 Robert Suderburg, composer
- Jan 29 Malcolm Binns, concert pianist
- Jan 29 James Jamerson, American bass guitarist for Motown Records, born in Edisto, South Carolina (d. 1983)
- Jan 31 Marvin Junior, singer (Dells-Oh What a Night)