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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1962. ==Events== *January 1 – The Beatles and Brian Poole and the Tremeloes both audition at Decca Records in London which has the option of signing one group only. The Beatles are rejected, mainly as they come from Liverpool and the others are Dagenham-based, nearer London. *January 5 – The first album on which The Beatles play, ''My Bonnie'', credited to "Tony Sheridan and the Beat Brothers" (recorded last June in Hamburg and produced by Bert Kaempfert), is released by Polydor. *January 24 – Brian Epstein signs on to manage The Beatles. *February 16 – Conductor Bruno Walter, the day before his death, ends his last letter with: ''"Despite all the dark experiences of today I am still confident that ''Palestrina'' will remain. The work has all the elements of immortality"''.〔Liner notes to the Rafael Kubelik/Nicolai Gedda/Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau DG recording.〕 *March 19 – Bob Dylan releases his debut album, ''Bob Dylan'', in the United States. *April 6 – Glenn Gould's performance of Brahms's first piano concerto with Leonard Bernstein conducting the New York Philharmonic for which Gould uses unusually slow tempi, which Bernstein does not favour. *April 7 – Mick Jagger and Keith Richards meet Brian Jones at The Ealing Club, a blues club in London. *April 10 – Former Beatle Stuart Sutcliffe dies from cerebral paralysis caused by a brain hemorrhage in Hamburg, Germany. *April 12 – A recording is made of Bob Dylan's concert at the Town Hall, in New York City by Columbia Records. (Columbia eventually release the recording of "Tomorrow is a Long Time" from this concert.) *April 24 – Bob Dylan begins recording ''The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'' in New York. *June 6 – The Beatles played their first session at EMI's Abbey Road Studios in London.〔 *June 19 – The film version of the musical ''The Music Man'' is released to theaters by Warner Bros. *August 16 – The Beatles fire Pete Best and replace him as drummer with Ringo Starr. *August 17 – ''Telstar'' is released in the UK. The song will eventually be the first song by a British group ever to reach the top spot on the Billboard Top 100 in the United States, proving to be a precursor to the British Invasion. *August 18 – The Beatles play their first live engagement with the line-up of John, Paul, George and Ringo, at Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight on the Wirral Peninsula.〔 *August 23 – John Lennon marries Cynthia Powell in an unpublicised register office ceremony at Mount Pleasant, Liverpool. *September 23 – Opening concert at the New York Philharmonic's new home, Philharmonic Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts, conducted by Leonard Bernstein and broadcast live on television across the United States by NBC. The opening work, Aaron Copland's specially commissioned ''Connotations'', sends "shock waves through the world of music". Other commissions featured include Darius Milhaud's ''Overture Philharmonique'' and Samuel Barber's ''Andromache's Farewell'' for soprano and orchestra. The following day, John Browning premières Barber's Piano Concerto at the venue and on October 4 William Schuman's Symphony No. 8 is premièred here. *October 5 – The Beatles' first single in their own right, "Love Me Do"/"P.S. I Love You", is released in the UK on EMI's Parlophone label.〔''New Musical Express'' 21 September 1962.〕 *October 14 – Italian tenor Sergio Franchi makes his American TV debut on ''The Ed Sullivan Show''. *October 17 – The Beatles make their first televised appearance, on ''People and Places''. *October 20 – Peter, Paul and Mary's self-titled debut album reaches No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart. *October 21 – Sergio Franchi makes his American concert debut at Carnegie Hall (sans microphone), promoted by Sol Hurok. *Joan Baez has all of her first three albums on the Billboard charts, on their way to Gold status. *Two Pete Seeger classic songs reach the Billboard pop charts: * *"Where Have All the Flowers Gone" recorded by The Kingston Trio reaches No. 21. * *"If I Had a Hammer", recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary, reaches No. 10. *Georges Auric becomes director of the Opéra National de Paris. *André Hodeir's book, ''Since Debussy'', makes controversial claims about the importance of Jean Barraqué as a composer. *José Manuel Calderón becomes the first Dominican musician to record bachata, at the Radiotelevisión Dominicana studios. *The Spokane Philharmonic orchestra becomes the Spokane Symphony. *Dalida is named Calabrian Citizen of Honour and receives the Radio Monte Carlo Oscar with Johnny Hallyday. *Paul & Paula make their first appearance together while attending Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas. *The Mashed Potato is a popular dance craze, with several songs based around the style. *Lou Harrison visits Taiwan; on his return he forms, with William Colvig, Richard Dee and Lily Chin, the first American ensemble to play traditional Chinese music. *Sergio Franchi is signed to an RCA Red Seal recording contract in London by Norman Luboff. 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「1962 in music」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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