Events in Music
- Mar 14 Xavier Cugat & orchestra record "Babalu"
Event of Interest
Mar 16 Russian composer and pianist Dmitri Shostakovich receives the Stalin Prize
Dmitri Shostakovich
- Mar 19 Jimmy Dorsey & orchestra record "Green Eyes" & "Maria Elena"
Event of Interest
Mar 24 Glenn Miller begins work on his 1st movie for 20th Century Fox
Glenn Miller
Music Premiere
Mar 29 1st performance of Benjamin Britten's "Requiem Symphony"
Benjamin Britten
- Mar 29 WPAT radio in NJ begins broadcasting (country music format)
Birthdays in Music
- Mar 8 Ivana Loudova, Czech composer (Vocal Symphony), born in Chlumec nad Cidlinou (d. 2017)
- Mar 8 Yvar Emilian Mikhashoff, American pianist & composer
- Mar 10 Daniel Kirkland Lentz, American composer, born in Latrobe, Pennsylvania
- Mar 10 Piotr Warzecha, composer
- Mar 15 Mike Love, American vocalist (Beach Boys - "Fun, Fun, Fun"), born in Los Angeles, California
- Mar 17 Paul Kantner, American rock singer and guitarist (Jefferson Airplane), born in San Francisco, California (d. 2016)
- Mar 17 Clarence Collins, American singer (Imperials-Tears on my pillow)
- Mar 17 Edward Harper, composer
Wilson Pickett
Mar 18 Wilson Pickett, American R&B singer (Funky Broadway), born in Prattville, Alabama (d. 2006)
Wilson Pickett
- Mar 22 Jeremy Clyde, English musician (Chad & Jeremy) and actor (The Iron Lady), born in Dorney, Buckinghamshire
- Mar 28 Alf Clausen, orchestra leader (Mary, Simpsons), born in Minneapolis, Minnesota
- Mar 28 Charles Ray "Charlie" McCoy, American Grammy-winning session musician and harmonica player (Hee Haw), born in Oak Hill, West Virginia
Deaths in Music
- Mar 4 Edoardo Mascheroni, Italian composer, dies at 81
- Mar 7 Arnold Schering, German musicologist (Humor, Heldentum, Tragik), dies at 63
- Mar 8 José Serrano Simeón, Spanish composer, dies at 67
- Mar 9 Carlos Pedrell, Uruguayan guitarist and composer, dies at 62
- Mar 11 Walford Davies, English composer, dies at 71
- Mar 12 Charles Sanford Skilton, composer, dies at 72
