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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1950. ==Events== *January 3 – Sam Phillips launches Sun Records at 706 Union Avenue in Memphis, Tennessee. *March 14 – Pablo Casals terminates his recording contract with RCA Records and signs with their chief competitor, Columbia Records.〔Anon., "Columbia Records Acquires Casals", ''The New York Times'' (14 March): 21.〕 *August 29 – The first American Music Competition of the Sigma Alpha Iota music fraternity is won by Richard Winslow for ''Huswifery'', a choral composition for women's voices.〔Anon., "Composer Wins Music Contest", ''The New York Times'' (30 August): 27.〕 *August – Herbert Howells' ''Hymnus Paradisi'' is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival. *October 1 – Italian composer Luciano Berio marries American mezzo-soprano Cathy Berberian. *October 11 – On temporary release from Ellis Island pending a deportation decision from U. S. immigration authorities, 20-year-old Friedrich Gulda makes his Carnegie Hall debut.〔Howard Taubman, "Gulda Impresses in Piano Program: 20-Year-Old Austrian Artist Shows Great Musical Gifts in Recital at Carnegie Hall", ''The New York Times'' (12 October): 51.〕 *November – The Eleanor Steber Award is won by soprano Willabelle Underwood.〔Anon., "Soprano Winds Steber Award". ''The New York Times'' (4 November): 13.〕 *Johann Sebastian Bach is reburied in St. Thomas Church, Leipzig. *Malcolm Sargent becomes chief conductor of the BBC Symphony Orchestra.〔Ronald Crichton, "Sargent, Sir (Harold) Malcolm (Watts)", ''The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians'', second edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan Publishers, 2001).〕 *Isaak Dunayevsky is named People's Artist of the USSR. *Mitch Miller signs as A&R man with Columbia Records. *Patti Page becomes the first (and only) artist to have a Number One record on the Pop, R&B and Country charts concurrently. *Al Cernick is signed to Columbia by Mitch Miller, who changes the singer's name to Guy Mitchell. *Columbia Records lures Jo Stafford away from Capitol. *Georgia Gibbs leaves the Majestic label and scores her first charting single with Coral. *Bandleader Les Baxter founds the school of "Outer Space" exotica. *Sam Cooke replaces R. H. Harris as lead singer of The Soul Stirrers. 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「1950 in music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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