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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1959. ==Events== *January 5 – The first sessions for Ella Fitzgerald's ''George and Ira Gershwin Songbook'' are held. *January 12 – Tamla Records is founded by Berry Gordy Jr. in Detroit, Michigan. *January 22 – Buddy Holly records some acoustic demos in his New York City apartment, the last songs he recorded. Songs included "Peggy Sue Got Married", "Crying, Waiting, Hoping", "Learning the Game", "What to Do", "That's What They Say", and "That Makes It Tough." *February 3 – "The Day the Music Died": Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper are killed in a plane crash in Iowa. Future country star Waylon Jennings was scheduled to be on the plane, but instead gave his seat up to The Big Bopper. *March 2 & April 22 – The recording sessions for the extremely influential Miles Davis jazz album ''Kind of Blue'' take place at the CBS 30th Street Studio in New York City. The album is released on August 17 in the United States. *March 11 – The 4th Eurovision Song Contest is held in Cannes, France, and won by the Netherlands with the song "Een beetje" performed by Teddy Scholten. *April 3 – The BBC bans the Coasters song "Charlie Brown" because of the word "spitball", a decision it reverses later in the month. *April 24 – The ''Your Hit Parade'' television series airs its last episode *May 12 – Plácido Domingo makes his stage debut at the Teatro Degollado in Guadalajara as Pascual in ''Marina''. *May 30 – Helge Rosvaenge gives his farewell concert at Vienna's Great Musikvereinsaal. *June 11 – Violence erupts at the Seventh Festival of Neapolitan Song in a scandal that sparks a parliamentary inquiry amidst accusations of corruption and involvement of organized crime in a song competition that is seen to have become increasingly commercialised.〔Nicola Adelfi, "Per le dolci canzoni d'amore un pandemonio da codice penale", ''La Stampa'', no. 140 (13 June 1959).〕 *July–November – Alan Lomax and English singer Shirley Collins make a folksong collecting trip in the Southern United States during which they 'discover' Mississippi Fred McDowell. *August 25–September 5 – Darmstädter Ferienkurse held in Darmstadt, with lectures by Włodzimierz Kotoński, György Ligeti, Andrzej Markowski, Yoritsune Matsudaira, Werner Meyer-Eppler, Luigi Nono, Henri Pousseur, Karlheinz Stockhausen, and Bo Wallner, and world premieres of Claude Baillif's ''Mouvements pour deux'', Sylvano Bussotti's ''Piano Pieces for David Tudor'', Cornelius Cardew's ''Two Books of Study for Pianists'' and ''Piano Piece 1959'', Niccolo Castiglioni's ''Cangiati per pianoforte'', Roman Haubenstock-Ramati's ''Interpolation: Mobile pour flûte'', Mauricio Kagel's ''Transición II'', Angelo Paccagnini's ''Canti brevi: secondo libro'', and Stockhausen's ''Zyklus''. *September 13 – Bo Diddley's single "Say Man" enters the US R&B charts. * Fall – Bill Haley & His Comets end their groundbreaking association with Decca Records, for whom they had recorded since 1954. Their first recording for the label, "Rock Around the Clock", helped usher in the rock and roll era. Haley signs with Warner Bros. Records. * Joan Baez performs at the first Newport Folk Festival as a surprise guest and becomes an underground favorite * Otto Luening and Vladimir Ussachevsky co-found the Columbia-Princeton Electronic Music Center in New York City. * The National Academy of Recording Arts and Sciences sponsors the first Grammy Award ceremony for music recorded in 1958. * Dalida receives a Music Oscar for Best Song and a first foreign award (a "Golden Lion" in Berlin). * Jacques Loussier forms the Play Bach Trio with bassist Pierre Michelot and percussionist Christian Garros. * Ornette Coleman plays a legendary and controversial concert at New York's Five Spot. * Roy Orbison signs with Monument Records. * The Supremes are founded as a quartet ("The Primettes"). * Jimi Hendrix buys his first electric guitar: a White Single pickup Supro Ozark 1560 S. * Veteran sarodiya and multi-instrumentalist Allauddin Khan records for All India Radio. *Jilin opera is developed in China. *Approximate date – Ballads and Blues folk club founded by Ewan MacColl and others in a London pub in Soho as part of the second British folk revival. 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「1959 in music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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