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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1953. ==Events== *February 6 – Contralto Kathleen Ferrier, already terminally ill with cancer, leaves Covent Garden Opera House on a stretcher after being taken ill on the second night of her run in Gluck's ''Orfeo ed Euridice''. *February 11 – The Louisville Orchestra, conducted by the composer, premieres Carlos Chávez's Fourth Symphony (''Sinfonía romántica''). *March 12 – Heinrich Sutermeister's opera ''Romeo and Juliet'' receives its first UK performance at Sadler's Wells Theatre in London, conducted by James Robertson. *May 26 – Werner Meyer-Eppler, Fritz Enkel, Herbert Eimert, and Robert Beyer open a pioneering electronic music studio at the Cologne studios of the NWDR (Morawska-Büngeler 1988, 11–12). *July 16–July 29 – The Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik are held at Darmstadt. *July 18 – Elvis Presley makes his first recordings. *September 27 – Helen Traubel ends her long association with the Metropolitan Opera, after having appeared in Chicago as a night-club singer (Anon. 1953). *October – Sir Arthur Bliss replaces Sir Arnold Bax as Master of the Queen's Music. * October 5 – Wilhelm Furtwängler and the soloist's in the Vienna State Opera's production of ''Don Giovanni'' publicly protest the suspension of Egon Hilbert as administrator of the Burg Theater and State Opera. * October 19 – Opening of the Covent Garden opera season, with a production of Wagner's ''Die Walküre''. * October 30 – Ernst Marboe is announced as the new administrator of the Vienna State Opera and Burg Theater, replacing Egon Hilbert. * November 2 – the Metropolitan Opera announces that a new two-year contract has been agreed with the musicians' union, averting a threatened strike by the orchestra. * November 17 – Carl Ebert is announced as the new Intendant of the Städtische Oper, (West) Berlin. * December 7 – the La Scala opera season opens with a production of Alfredo Catalani's ''La Wally'', to mark the hundredth anniversary of the composer's birth. *Alfred Schnittke becomes a student of Evgeny Golubev. *Frank Sinatra begins recording at Capitol. *Frankie Laine sets the all-time United Kingdom record for weeks at Number One in a given year on the UK Singles Chart, when his hit singles "Answer Me," "Hey Joe!" and "I Believe" held the top slot for 27 weeks: a little over half a year. "I Believe," which was Number One for 18 weeks also holds the all-time record for a single. Over 50 years later, both records still hold. *Eddie Fisher becomes "The Coca-Cola Kid" on the television show, ''Coke Time'' at a salary of one million dollars a year. *The Platters form in Los Angeles. *"Crazy Man, Crazy", recorded by Bill Haley & His Comets, becomes the first rock and roll single to make the ''Billboard'' national American musical charts. *The Erato Records label is founded to promote French classical music. 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「1953 in music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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