1938 in Music

• Jan 10 Eduard van Beinum becomes world's 1st conductor at Concert Hall
• Jan 16 1st jazz concert held at Carnegie Hall (Benny Goodman)

• Feb 4 "Our Town" by Thornton Wilder opens on Broadway
• Mar 16 Noel Coward's musical "Operette" premieres in London

• May 28 Hindemiths opera "Mathis der Maler" premieres in Zurich
• Jun 25 "A Tisket A Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb hits #1

• Oct 10 Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st String Quartet
• Oct 25 The Archbishop of Dubuque, Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".

Birthdays 1 - 100 of 158

• Jan 6 Adriano Celentano, Italian singer and actor, born in Greco
• Jan 7 Paul Revere, American pianist (Paul Revere & Raiders), born in Harvard Nebraska, (d. 2014)
• Jan 13 Paavo Johannes Heininen, composer
• Jan 14 Allen Toussaint [Naomi Neville], American R&B musician & songwriter (Mother-in-Law), born in Gert Town, Louisiana (d. 2015)
• Jan 14 Jack Jones, American singer (Love Boat Theme), born in Los Angeles, California
• Jan 16 Jô Soares, Brazilian author, musician and TV personality
• Jan 19 Eskil Hemberg, composer
• Jan 24 Julius Arthur Hemphill, saxophonist
• Jan 25 Etta James [Jamesetta Hawkins], American singer (Roll with Me, At Last), born in Los Angeles, California (d. 2012)
• Jan 31 Daevid Allen [Christopher David], Australian musician and performance artist (Soft Machine, Gong), born in Melbourne (d. 2015)
• Feb 1 Jimmy Carl Black, rocker (Mothers Of Invention)
• Feb 4 Joe Beard, American blues guitarist (No More Cherry Rose), born in Ashland, Mississippi
• Feb 5 Dick van Niehoff, Dutch vocalist (Fouryo)
• Feb 6 Ellsworth Milburn, American composer & educator (Menil Antiphons), born in Greensburg, Pennsylvania (d. 2007)
• Feb 7 Robert Frank Baksa, composer
• Feb 8 Ray Sharpe, singer-songwriter, (Linda Lu), born in Forth Worth, Texas
• Feb 11 Willy Correa de Oliveira, composer
• Feb 11 Bobby "Boris" Pickett, American singer-songwriter (Monster Mash), born in Somerville, Massachusetts (d. 2007)
• Feb 16 John Corigliano, American composer (Fern Hill, Ghosts of Versailles), born in NYC, New York
• Feb 22 Bobby Hendricks, American R&B singer (Itchy Twitchy Feeling), born in Columbus, Ohio
• Feb 25 Ed Cobb, American musician, song-writer and producer (Tainted Love), (d. 1999)
• Mar 2 Simon Estes, Centerville Iowa, bass/baritone (Wonton, Don Carlos)
• Mar 3 Douglas Leedy, composer
• Mar 3 Willie Chambers, guitarist/vocalist (Chambers Brothers)
• Mar 5 Paul Evans, singer/pedal guitarist (Damascus Road)
• Mar 6 Lovelace Watkins, American singer known as "The Black Sinatra" (The Big, Big Voice of Lovelace Watkins), born in New Brunswick, New Jersey (d. 1995)
• Mar 8 Lew DeWitt, Va, country singer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall)
• Mar 9 Lill-Babs [Barbro Margareta Svensson], Swedish singer and actress, born in Järvsö, Gävleborg County, Sweden
• Mar 10 Norman Blake, American traditional stringed instrument artist and songwriter, born in Chattanooga, Tennessee
• Mar 12 Lew De Witt, American country singer and composer (Statler Brothers-Flowers on the Wall)
• Mar 12 Dimitri Terzakis, Greek composer (Die Farben des Ozeans), born in Athens
• Mar 12 Tona Scherchen-Hsiao, composer
• Mar 13 Hans-Joachim Hespos, German composer, born in Emden, Germany
• Mar 13 Jean-Claude Risset, French composer, born in Le Puy-en-Velay, France (d. 2016)
• Mar 13 Erma Franklin, American gospel and R&B singer (Piece Of My Heart), born in Shelby, Mississippi (d. 2002)
• Mar 15 Dick Higgins, American composer, born in Cambridge, England (d. 1998)
• Mar 17 Rudolf Nureyev, Russian ballet dancer/choreographer (Kirov), born on a train near Irkutsk, Soviet Union (d. 1993)
• Mar 18 Charley Pride, American country singer (Sweet Country), born in Sledge, Mississippi
• Mar 23 Dave Pike, jazz vibraphone and marimba player, born in Detroit, Michigan (d. 2015)
• Mar 24 Holger Czukay [Holger Schüring], German musician (Can), born in Danzig, Poland (d. 2017)
• Mar 31 Arthur B. Rubinstein, American composer
• Apr 3 Jeff Barry, American rock writer (Tell Laura I Love Her), born in Brooklyn, New York
• Apr 7 Freddie Hubbard, jazz trumpeter (Art Blakey), born in Indianapolis, Indiana
• Apr 7 Spencer Dryden, American drummer (Jefferson Airplane), born in NYC, New York
• Apr 8 Barton Keith McLean, composer
• Apr 11 Kurt Moll, German bass opera singer, born near Colonge (d. 2017)
• Apr 13 Frederic Rzewski, American composer (Spacecraft), born in Westfield, Massachusetts
• Apr 19 Jonathan Tunick, American composer (one of 15 people to have won all four major American show business awards: the Tony Awards, Academy Awards, Emmy Awards and Grammy Awards), born in NYC, New York
• Apr 20 Johnny Tillotson, American singer (Gidget, Poetry in Motion), born in Jacksonville, Florida
• Apr 26 Duane Eddy, American guitarist (Peter Gunn, Cannonball), born in Phoenix, Arizona
• Apr 26 Maurice Williams, American rocker (Maurice Williams and the Zodiacs), born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania
• Apr 29 Klaus Voormann, German rock bassist (Manfred Mann-Mighty Quinn), born in Berlin, Germany
• May 4 Tyrone Davis, American R&B singer (Can I Change My Mind, Turn Back The Hands Of Time), born in Greenville, Mississippi (d. 2005)
• May 5 Johnnie Taylor, American R&B and multi-genre singer (Disco Lady, I Believe in You), born in Crawfordsville, Arkansas (d. 2000)
• May 10 Maxim Shostakovich, Russian conductor (Atlanta Symphony), born in Saint Petersburg, Russia, Soviet Union
• May 10 Philip Gordon Winsor, American composer, Born in Morris, Illinois (d. 2012)
• May 11 Harvey Sollberger, flutist/composer (2 Oboes Troping), born in Cedar Rapids, Iowa
• May 17 Pervis Jackson, American R&B singer (Spinners), born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 2008)
• May 20 Marinella, Greek singer and actress
• May 26 Jaki Liebesit, German rocker (Can), born in Dresden, Germany (d. 2017)
• May 26 Teresa Stratas [Anastasia Stratakis], Canadian operatic soprano (Salome), born in Toronto, Ontario
• May 26 William Bolcom, American composer (Oracles), born in Seattle, Washington
• May 28 Prince Buster [Cecil Bustamente Campbell], Jamaican-born reggae musician and producer (Madness), born in Kingston, Jamaica (d. 2016)
• Jun 9 Charles Wuorinen, American composer (Pulitzer 1980), born in NYC, New York
• Jun 13 Gwynne Howell, British operatic bass, born in Gorseinon, Wales
• Jun 16 Mickie Finn, Hugo Oklahoma, TV hostess/banjo player (Mickie Finn's)
• Jun 18 Don "Sugarcane" Harris, rocker/actor (Soup for 1, Greeased Lightning)
• Jun 20 Nikolay Avksentevich Martinov, composer
• Jun 24 Lowell Cross, composer
• Jun 27 Tommy Cannon [Tommy Derbyshire], English comedian and singer (Cannon and Ball), born in Oldham, Lancashire, England
• Jun 29 Billy Storm, American singer (Valiants-This is the Night), born in Dayton, Ohio
• Jun 29 Edmund Falkiner, jazz saxophinist and probation officer (d. 1997)
• Jun 30 Chris Hinze, Dutch flutist (Vivat Vivaldi), born in Hilversum, North Holland, Netherlands
• Jun 30 Apostolos Nikolaidis, Greek singer (first Greek artist to record or re-record the authentic, "prohibited" rebetika songs in the early 1970s with their original lyrics), born in Drama, Greece(d. 1999)
• Jul 4 Bill Withers, American rhythm & blues singer (Lean on Me), born in Slab Fork, West Virginia
• Jul 5 Stanley Silverman, American composer, born in NYC, New York
• Jul 6 Franco Luambo, Congolese composer, guitarist and bandleader (Masumbuku), born in Sona Bata, Belgian Congo (d. 1989)
• Jul 9 Paul Seiko Chihara, American-Japanese composer, born in Seattle, Washington
• Jul 10 Lee Morgan, American hard-bop trumpeter, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania (d. 1972)
• Jul 11 Terry Garthwaite, US guitarist/singer (Joy of Cooking)
• Jul 14 Bob Scholl, rocker (Mellow Kings)
• Jul 16 Thorkell Sigurbjörnsson, Icelandic composer, born in Reykjavik (d. 2013)
• Jul 17 Stan Bronstein, rocker
• Jul 18 Dudu Pukwana [Mtutuzel], South African saxophonist and composer, born in Walmer Township, Port Elizabeth, South Africa (d. 1990)
• Jul 18 Ian Stewart, Scottish keyboardist, road manager, and co-founder of the Rolling Stones, born in Pittenweem, Fife, Scotland (d. 1985)
• Jul 20 Natalie Wood [Natasha Gurdin], American actress (Gypsy, Rebel Without a Cause, West Side Story), born in San Francisco, California (d. 1981)
• Jul 21 Anton Emil Kuerti, composer
• Jul 24 Mike Mainieri, American vibraphonist (Steps Ahead), born in the Bronx, New York
• Jul 26 Bobby Hebb, American country singer and songwriter (Sunny), born in Nashville, Tennessee (d. 2010)
• Jul 27 Isabelle Aubret [Thérèse Coquerelle], French singer (Un premier amour), born in Lille, France
• Jul 28 George Cummings, rocker (Dr Hook & Medicine Show)
• Aug 1 Paddy Moloney, Irish musician, composer and producer (The Chieftains), born in Donnycarney, Dublin
• Aug 8 Connie Stevens [Concetta Ingoglia], singer/actress (Hawaiian Eye, Back to Beach), born in Brooklyn, New York
• Aug 8 Jacques Hetu, composer
• Aug 11 Allegra Kent, ballerina, born in Santa Monica, California
• Aug 11 Rainer Boesch, composer
• Aug 13 Dave "Baby" Cortez [Clowney], American pop keyboardist (The Happy Organ), born in Detroit, Michigan

• Aug 22 Dale Hawkins, American rock singer and songwriter (Susie Q), born in St. Mary Parish, Louisiana (d. 2010)
• Aug 23 Roger Greenaway, English composer and record producer (I'd Like To Teach The World To Sing), born in Fishponds, England

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• Feb 21 Albert Huybrechts, composer, dies at 39
• Mar 2 Ben Harney, American composer and "Father of Ragtime Piano" (You've Been a Good Old Wagon, But You Done Broke Down), dies of a heart attack at 66
• Mar 9 Sydney Baynes, composer, dies at 59
• Mar 18 Cyril Rootham, English composer, dies at 62
• Apr 10 Joe "King" Oliver, American musician (b. 1885)
• Apr 18 Richard Runciman Terry, musicologist, dies
• Aug 2 Bjarni Thorsteinsson, Icelandic composer, dies at 76
• Aug 4 Rudolf Georg Binding, German songwriter and writer (Legenden Der Zeit), dies at 70
• Aug 10 Joseph Moorat, composer, dies at 73
• Aug 14 Landon Ronald, British composer, pianist and teacher (Guildhall School of Music), dies at 65

• Sep 28 Con Conrad, American songwriter and producer, dies at 48
• Oct 22 May Irwin, Canadian comedienne and singer (Hot Time in the Old Town), dies at 76
• Nov 21 Leopold Godowsky, Polish pianist and composer (Java Suite, 53 Studies on Chopin's Études) dies of stomach cancer at 68
• Dec 4 Dina Appeldoorn, Dutch pianist and composer, dies at 54
• Dec 10 Mario Pilati, composer, dies at 35
• Dec 14 Maurice Emmanuel, French composer and musicologist (Salamine), dies at 76

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