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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1944. ==Events== *January 18 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden. *January 20 - Paul Hindemith's ''Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes of Weber'' is premiered in New York City. *February - The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra loses its concert hall in an Allied air raid. *July 2 – The Zorian Quartet gives the first public performance of Priaulx Rainier's String Quartet in C (composed in 1939), at the Wigmore Hall in London. *July 28 - Sir Henry Wood, aged 75, conducts his last Promenade Concert in London. *July–August - Sergei Prokofiev composes his Symphony No. 5 at a Soviet composers' retreat. *August 19 - Italian singers Lucia Mannucci and Virgilio Savona get married. *September 20 – Yehudi Menuhin gives the first British performance of Béla Bartók's Second Violin Concerto in Bedford, in the opening concert of a tour with the B.B.C. Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. *October 18 - Orville "Hoppy" Jones, bass singer of the Ink Spots, dies in New York City. *October 25 - Florence Foster Jenkins gives a recital in Carnegie Hall. *December 1 - Béla Bartók's ''Concerto for Orchestra'' is premiered in Boston, Massachusetts, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra conducted by Serge Koussevitzky *December 15 - Glenn Miller is reported missing. The official explanation is that his plane went down somewhere over the English Channel, although many alternate theories have been suggested. *Flo Sandon's makes her stage debut, singing in a charity show. *Jo Stafford launches her solo career. *Frankie Laine cuts his first singles for the Beltone and Atlas labels. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「1944 in music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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