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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1956. ==Events== *January 26 * * The North American premiere of Carlos Chávez's Third Symphony is given by the New York Philharmonic conducted by the composer. * * Buddy Holly's first recording sessions for Decca Records take place in Nashville, Tennessee *Roy Orbison signs with Sun Records *January 27 – Elvis Presley's single "Heartbreak Hotel" / "I Was the One" is released. It goes on to be Elvis's first #1 hit. *January 28 – Elvis Presley makes his national television debut on ''The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show''. *February 3 – The Symphony of the Air, conducted by Leonard Bernstein, gives the world première of Robert Moevs's ''Fourteen Variations for Orchestra'' (composed in 1952) in New York. *February 11 – Henry Barraud's ''Concertino for Piano and Winds'' receives its world-première performance by Eugene List and members of the New York Chamber Ensemble in New York City. *March – The Coasters' recording career begins, with "Turtle Dovin'". *March 10 – Carl Perkins' single "Blue Suede Shoes" enters the R&B charts, the first time a country music artist has made it on the R&B charts. *March 21 – World première of Heitor Villa-Lobos's Eleventh Symphony, by the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Münch, at Carnegie Hall in New York City. *March 22 – Carl Perkins is injured in a car accident near Wilmington, Delaware, on his way to New York City to make an appearance on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. He spends several months in hospital. *March 24 – The first regularly scheduled nationally broadcast rock & roll show, ''Rock 'n Roll Dance Party'', with Alan Freed as host, premières on the CBS Radio Network. *March 26 – Colonel Tom Parker formally becomes Elvis Presley's manager. *March 31 – Elvis Presley films a screen test for Paramount Pictures. *April 3 – Elvis Presley makes his first appearance on ''The Milton Berle Show''. *April 6 – Paramount Pictures signs Elvis Presley to a three-picture deal. *April 10 – A group of racial segregationists (followers of Asa Earl Carter) rush the stage at a Nat King Cole concert in Birmingham, Alabama, but are quickly captured. *May – ''Gene Autry's Melody Ranch'', a CBS Radio Sunday evening program on the air since 1940 (except for a hiatus from 1942–45), ends its run. *May 2 – For the first time in ''Billboard magazine'' history, five singles appear in both the pop and R&B Top Ten charts. They are Elvis Presley's "Heartbreak Hotel" (#1 pop, #6 R&B), Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes" (#4 pop, #3 R&B), Little Richard's "Long Tall Sally" (#9 pop, #1 R&B), the Platters' "Magic Touch" (#10 pop, #7 R&B) and Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers' "Why Do Fools Fall in Love" (#7 pop, #4 R&B). Presley's and Perkins' singles also appeared on the country and western Top Ten chart at #1 and #2 respectively. *May 6 * *Elvis Presley appears on the ''Milton Berle show''. * *In Paris, Heitor Villa-Lobos records his ''Bachiana Brasileira No. 9'' with the strings of the Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, for EMI. *May 6 – May 28 – In Paris, Heitor Villa-Lobos supervises the recording of his ''Bachiana Brasileira No. 6'' by Fernand Dufrene (flute) and René Plessier (bassoon) and his ''Bachiana Brasileira No. 2'' with the Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, the four suites of his ''Descobrimento do Brasil'', his ''Chôros No. 10'' and his ''Invocação em defesa da patria'', with Maria Kareska (soprano), the Chorale des Jeunesses Musicales de France, and the Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Françaisefor EMI. *May 8 * *Ernst Toch's Third Symphony is awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Music. * *Benjamin Britten's opera ''Gloriana'' is given its US premiere in Cincinnati, in concert form conducted by Josef Krips. *May 24 – First-ever Eurovision Song Contest from the Kursaal Theatre, Lugano, Switzerland. Seven countries participate, each with two songs. Switzerland is declared the winner, with Lys Assia singing "Refrain". *June - The winners of the Queen Elisabeth International Music Competition, held in Brussels and devoted this year to the piano, are: * *First Prize: Vladimir Ashkenazy * *Second Prize: John Browning * *Third Prize: Andrzej Czajkowski * *Fourth Prize: Cécile Ousset * *Fifth Prize: Lazar Berman *June 3 – Fred Diodati replaces Al Alberts as lead singer of The Four Aces. *June 5 – Elvis Presley introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on ''The Milton Berle Show'', scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements. *June 7–13 – In Paris, Heitor Villa-Lobos records his ''Bachiana Brasileira No. 5'' with Victoria de los Ángeles (soprano) and a cello ensemble from the Orchestre National de la Radiodiffusion Française, for EMI. *July – At the Berkshire Festival, Benny Goodman recorded both the Clarinet Concerto (with the Boston Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Charles Münch) and the Quintet for Clarinet and Strings (with the Boston Symphony String Quartet) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, for RCA Victor. The recordings were made in stereo, though were first released in 1957 only in a monaural mixdown (the first stereo issue was in 1968). *July 9 – Dick Clark hosts ''American Bandstand'' for the first time *July 11–22 – The Darmstädter Ferienkurse are held in Darmstadt with a series of lectures by Theodor W. Adorno, two public discussions of the new medium of electronic music, and world premieres of works by (amongst others) Richard Rodney Bennett, Pierre Boulez, Jacques Calonne, Aldo Clementi, Luc Ferrari, Alexander Goehr, Bengt Hambraeus, Hans Werner Henze, Bruno Maderna, Henri Pousseur, and Karlheinz Stockhausen. *June 13 – Herbert von Karajan is announced as the new artistic director of the Vienna State Opera, to succeed Karl Böhm starting in September. *July 17 – The Metropolitan Opera Association announces the cancellation of its 1956–57 season because of a labor dispute. *July 19 – The American Guild of Musical Artists and the Metropolitan Opera Association announce a resolution of their dispute, so that the season will begin on October 29 as originally planned. *Summer – John Lennon forms a skiffle group, The Quarrymen, with friends from Quarry Bank High School in Liverpool, England, originally Eric Griffiths and Pete Shotton. *August–September – Maria Callas makes studio recordings of Giuseppe Verdi's, ''Il trovatore'', conducted by Herbert von Karajan, Giacomo Puccini's, ''La bohème'', conducted by Antonino Votto, and Giuseppe Verdi's, ''Un ballo in maschera'', also conducted by Votto, for EMI. *September 5 – The posthumous world première of Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 4 (for the left hand), composed in 1931, takes place in Berlin, performed by Siegfried Rapp and the West Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Martin Rich. *September 9 – Elvis Presley appears on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. *October 10 – October 20 – First Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music. *October 14 – Leopold Stokowski conducts the Symphony of the Air in three world premièees at Carnegie Hall: Charles Ives's ''Browning Overture'', Alan Hovhaness's Symphony No. 3, and Kurt Leimer's Piano Concerto No. 4. *October 16 – The New York Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra announces that, at the request of their music director, Dimitri Mitropoulos, they have engaged Leonard Bernstein to share the direction of the orchestra with Mitropoulos for the 1957–58 season. *October 20 – October 21 – The Donaueschinger Musiktage new-music festival takes place with a memorial concert featuring the music of Arthur Honegger, and also concerts with compositions of (amongst others) Luciano Berio, Pierre Boulez, Claude Debussy, Gottfried von Einem, Hans Werner Henze, Roman Haubenstock-Ramati, Maurice Jarre, Olivier Messiaen, and Igor Stravinsky *October 22 – Sigurd Rascher and the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra open their 1956–57 season with a concert including the world première of Carl Anton Wirth's ''Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra''. *October 29 – In New York, the Metropolitan Opera's seventy-second season opens with a revival of Bellini's ''Norma'', made especially for Maria Callas's Metropolitan debut in the title role. *November 5 * *Nat King Cole becomes the first major black performer to host a variety show on national television, when ''The Nat King Cole Show'' is broadcast. * *Royal Performance in the presence of Queen Elizabeth II of the United Kingdom, by Liberace, in London. *November 13 – The first of a series of Hoffnung Music Festival Concerts takes place at the Royal Festival Hall, in London. *November 28 – Yoko Ono, recently divorced from Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, marries Anthony Cox. *December 4 – Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash record together at Sun Studios in Memphis, Tennessee. The sessions are later released under the name "the Million Dollar Quartet" *December 19 – Breaking the record for the highest number of concurrent singles by a single artist, Elvis Presley holds 9 positions on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. Presley would hold the record until 1964 when the Beatles hold 14 positions on the chart. *Pierre Gabaye wins the Prix de Rome in the Musical Composition category. *Gene Vincent signs a publishing contract with Bill Lowery. *Dalida's musical career begins on Barclay Records in Europe as (one of) the first biggest "world pop star" and sex symbol and she is the first artist to have her photo on a single in France. 175 000 copies of her big hits "Bambino" are sold in a few weeks. *Chrysler Corporation provides an in-car turntable 16⅔ rpm record player with 7-inch ultramicrogroove records in its luxury make, the Imperial. The machine was developed by Peter Carl Goldmark – the man who invented the 33⅓ rpm long playing (LP) record format. *Cameo-Parkway Records is formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by Kal Mann and Bernie Lowe. *Foundation of the Korean piano brand Young Chang. *Cleveland television station WEWS-TV launches ''Polka Varieties'', a regular Sunday-afternoon, hour-long program devoted to polka music; Frank Yankovic leads the original band to perform on the show. 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「1956 in music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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