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==Events== *February 25 - First Nice Jazz Festival with Louis Armstrong, Stéphane Grappelli, Claude Luter, Mezz Mezzrow and Django Reinhardt. It is during this first edition that Suzy Delair sings for the first time the song "C'est si bon" to a cabaret where Louis Armstrong ended his evening. *March 20 - Renowned Italian conductor Arturo Toscanini makes his television debut, conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra in the United States in a program featuring the works of Richard Wagner. *April 3 - Beethoven's Symphony No. 9 is played on television in its entirety for the first time in a concert featuring Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The chorus is conducted by Robert Shaw. *May 20 - The Second International Congress of Composers and Music Critics 1948 opens in Prague. *June 5 - Opening of the first Aldeburgh Festival, founded by Benjamin Britten, Eric Crozier and Peter Pears. *December - Perry Como has his first television Christmas Special. *Al Jolson is voted the "Most Popular Male Vocalist" of the year by a ''Variety'' poll. *Patti Page becomes the first artist to use the technique of multi-track overdubbing (later popularized by Les Paul & Mary Ford). *Columbia Records introduces the 33⅓ rpm LP (“long playing”) record at New York's Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, featuring 25 minutes of music per side, compared to the four minutes per side of the 78 rpm record, the previous standard for gramophone records. *Otis Rush moves to Chicago and begins his musical career. *Igor Stravinsky and Robert Craft meet for the first time. *Quartetto Cetra dubs the choruses for the Italian release of Disney's ''Dumbo''. *Gabriel von Wayditch begins work on his last opera ''The Heretics'', which is still not completed when he dies in 1969. However, he completed the piano score of the massive 8.5 hour work, which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's longest opera. 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「1948 in music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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