- Jan 2 Melody Maker, British popular music magazine, publishes 1st issue
- Feb 2 3 men dance Charleston for 22 hours
- Feb 8 Sean O'Casey's "Plough & Stars" opens at Abbey Theater Dublin
Music Premiere
Mar 17 Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart's musical "Girl Friend" premieres in NYC
Music Premiere
Apr 25 Giacomo Puccini's opera "Turandot" premieres in Milan
Music Premiere
May 12 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Symphony premieres in Leningrad
- May 22 "Five Foot Two, Eyes of Blue" by Gene Austin hits #1
Talking Revolution that Silenced Hollywood Stars
Nov 8 George Gershwin's musical "Oh, Kay" premieres in NYC
Music History
Nov 23 Noël Coward's "This Was a Man" premieres in NYC
Music Premiere
Nov 27 Béla Bartók's ballet "Miraculous Mandarin" premieres at the Cologne Opera, Germany, conducted by Eugen Szenkar
- Dec 12 Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st Piano concert premieres in Leningrad
Music Premiere
Dec 16 Darius Milhaud's opera "Le Pauvre Matelot" premieres in Paris
