Events in Music in December 1953

  • Dec 3 "Kismet" opens at Ziegfeld Theater NYC for 583 performances

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Dec 3 Premier of Dmitri Shostakovich' 5th String Quartet

Composer Dmitri Shostakovich
Composer
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