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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1949. ==Events== *January 12 - Maro Ajemian, to whom the work is dedicated, gives one of the first performances of the complete cycle of John Cage's ''Sonatas and Interludes'' at Carnegie Hall. *February 4 – Ljuba Welitsch makes her Metropolitan Opera début in ''Salome''. *February 11 – London Mozart Players makes debut concert at Wigmore Hall *April – Goree Carter records "Rock Awhile", which is considered to be the first rock and roll record. *September 5 – Wagnerian tenor Walter Widdop appears at The Proms, singing "Lohengrin's Farewell", the day before his sudden death at the age of 51.〔"Mr. Walter Widdop – A Fine English Tenor", ''The Times'', 7 September 1949, p. 7〕 *December 15 – Birdland jazz club opens in New York City. *December 24 – At the start of the Holy Year, Charles Gounod's ''Inno e Marcia Pontificale'' is adopted as the new papal anthem. *December 29 – Les Paul and Mary Ford marry. *The Boccherini Quintet is formed in Rome. *Ravi Shankar becomes music director of All India Radio. *Mitch Miller begins his career as one of the 20th century's most successful record producers at Mercury *Eddie Fisher is "discovered" by Eddie Cantor and signs with RCA. *Bob Hope suggests that Anthony Benedetto change his stage name from "Joe Bari" to "Tony Bennett" *Frankie Laine records "Mule Train", considered by some critics as marking the beginning of the rock era. *Teresa Brewer makes her first recording on the London label. *The Ames Brothers become the first artists to record for Coral Records, a subsidiary of Decca. *Johnnie Ray performs at the Flame Showbar in Detroit. *The legendary Al Jolson records the soundtrack to "Jolson Sings Again," the sequel to his hugely successful biopic "The Jolson Story" (1946) *45 rpm discs are introduced *Gorni Kramer starts working for musical impresarios Garinei and Giovannini. *Country singer Bill Haley enters into a partnership with musicians Johnny Grande and Billy Williamson to form Bill Haley and His Saddlemen; in 1952 the group is renamed Bill Haley & His Comets. *The International Rostrum of Composers is founded.〔http://www.imc-cim.org/about-imc-separator/who-we-are.html〕 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「1949 in music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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