- Dec 3 "Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 583 performances
Event of Interest
Dec 3 Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich' 5th String Quartet
Dmitri Shostakovich
- Dec 3 "In the Jailhouse Now" single recorded by Webb Pierce (Billboard Song of the Year 1955)
- Dec 10 "John Murray Anderson's Almanac" opens at Imperial NYC for 229 performances
- Dec 17 Dmitri Shostakovich's 10th Symphony premieres in Leningrad