Music year 1938
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 The National Socialist propaganda exhibition Degenerate Music is shown in Germany.
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Events
Reich Music Days in Nazi Germany
- May 22nd : Richard Strauss opens the Reichsmusiktage in Düsseldorf with a concert.
- May 24th : The National Socialist propaganda exhibition Degenerate Music , organized by Hans Severus Ziegler , opens as part of the Reichsmusiktage .
- May 26. bis 28. May : The Music Scientific Meeting 1938 is concerned among other things with the topic of music and race .
Jazz / swing
- January 8th : The Andrews Sisters perform their track " Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen " on the radio series Your Hitparade . By the end of January 1938, more than 350,000 records of the song had been sold in the United States, and the song stayed at number one on the Billboard charts for the next five weeks .
- January 16 : Benny Goodman gives his famous Carnegie Hall Concert in New York's Carnegie Hall , which includes musicians from Duke Ellington and Count Basie .
- January 29th : Bunny Berigan enters the top ten with “ I Can't Get Started ”; the Vernon Duke song, which from then on became Berigan's signature tune, later became a popular jazz standard .
- February 5 : With "Every Day's a Holiday" - the title track from the film musical of the same name with Mae West - Glen Miller can place his second hit in the national charts; if he is in 17th place for even a week, that will herald his breakthrough in the spring of 1938.
- February 19 : With Count Basie's “ One O'Clock Jump ” Harry James gets into the top ten, the first of his 73 hits by 1953. Members of the Goodman and Basie bands made up the studio orchestra. In the same week Ethel Waters had her last chart success with “You're a Sweetheart”. The song from the musical of the same name with Alice Faye is known .
- March 5 : Benny Goodman is the only one with the Stuff Smith comes -Titel "It's Wonderful" in the top ten, which is also of a tune, Louis Armstrong , Red Norvo / Mildred Bailey , Bob Crosby and Maxine Sullivan is interpreted .
- March 12th : Benny Goodman has one of his greatest hits with “Don't Be That Way”; The title stayed in the top 20 for 13 weeks, plus it was at position 1. Also in March, Mildred Bailey entered the charts with a vocal version.
- March 19 : The Duke Ellington Orchestra with the band vocalist Ivie Anderson reaches the top ten with "If You Were in My Place".
- March 26th : Larry Clinton has his first number 1 hit with the hit "Cry, Baby, Cry", with which he remains in the top 30 for 15 weeks. That same week, Duke Ellington hit the charts with Mitchell Parish's song "I Let a Song Go Out of My Heart", where he stayed for 19 weeks, including three at # 1. The band singer is again Ivie Anderson. Benny Goodman had a number 1 hit with the song in mid-May.
- April 2nd : Tommy Dorsey makes it into the top ten with “Yearning”, the following week with Jerome Kern's “You Couldn't Be Cuter”.
- April 8th : The "Flat Foot Boogie" is the first hit of the duo Slim & Slam , to which Slim Gaillard and Slam Stewart have merged; he reaches # 2 for two weeks.
- June 4th : “Says My Heart” is the last of the two number 1 hits that vibraphonist Red Norvo had with singer Mildred Bailey ; the Frank Loesser song held the top position for four weeks.
- June 18 : Teddy Wilson reaches number 20 in the American charts with “ You Go to My Head ”. Ella Fitzgerald reaches number one with “A Tisket, A-Tasket”: Chick Webb's only song about a lost yellow basket is Million hit; He dominated the charts for 19 weeks, ten of them in position 1.
- July 23 : Larry Clinton reaches position 3 on the US charts with his version of “You Go to My Head”. In the same week Wingy Manone made it into the top 20 as a vocalist with his version of the "Flat Foot Boogie"; meanwhile its creators Slim & Slam have another hit with the nonsense song "Tutti Frutti" - unrelated to Little Richard's later rock 'n' roll song.
- July 24th : Artie Shaw records his hit " Begin the Beguine ". His swing version of the 1935 musical song , published in August, tops the American charts for six weeks and becomes a million-dollar hit.
- August 9 : The Duke Ellington Orchestra with soloists Johnny Hodges and Wallace Jones plays Prelude to a Kiss for the Brunswick label into an instrumental version.
- August 13 : Larry Clinton hits the charts with the Debussy adaptation “My Reverie”; eight weeks the swing version of a classical piano piece is at # 1. Bea Wain was the band vocalist. Billie Holiday made it to second place with "I'm Gonna Lock My Heart (And Throw Away the Key)".
- September 24th : Larry Clinton reached position 1 in the US charts with Frank Loesser's song "Heart and Soul", the lyrics were by Hoagy Carmichael . In the same week, Artie Shaw's "Back bay Shuffle" reached the top ten.
- October 8th : With Irving Berlin's song “Change Partners”, Jimmy Dorsey reached position 1 in the charts. Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers sing the song in the musical Carefree .
- October 22nd : With the Pinetop Smith number "Boogie Woogie", Tommy Dorsey and his orchestra climbed to # 3 on the charts. In the same week he was also successful in the charts with Irving Berlin's “Marie”. Even Johnny Hodges has with singer Mary McHugh a hit with " Prelude to a Kiss " and reached # 17. Number 1 is Andy Kirk with "I Won't Tell a Soul (I Love You)".
- Oct. 29 : The " Basin Street Blues " by Spencer Williams comes Louis Armstrong in the top 20; Earl Hines is the singer here.
- November 5th : Martha Tilton as vocalist with Benny Goodman comes in the top 20 with “When I Go A-Dreamin '”. In the same week the Mills Brothers have a top 10 hit in the USA with “Sixty Seconds Got Together” .
- November 12th : "Two Sleepy People" is in the charts three times this week, in Hoagy Carmichael's original version with Ella Logan in a duet, as well as Bob Crosby and Fats Waller . In the same week Ella Fitzgerald followed up the success of A-Tisket, A-Tasket with I Found My Yellow Basket and reached # 3 on the charts.
- November 19 : Artie Shaw has a top 10 hit with the band singer Helen Forrest with the Robin Rainger number "I Have Eyes".
- November 26th : Chick Webb and Ella Fitzgerald come to # 8 on the charts with “FDR Jones”; the initials refer to the US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt . With the song, Cab Calloway also hit the charts on December 16.
- December 17th : With “Jumpin 'at the Wodside” the Count Basie Orchestra has a hit in the Top 20; the Woodside was a hotel on New York's 125th Street where the musicians often stayed. That same week, Benny Goodman hit # 2 on the charts with “This Can't Be Love”.
- December 24th : Benny Goodman (with band singer Martha Tilton) is in the charts again with “I Have Eyes”.
- December 30th : “ Jeepers Creepers ”, the declaration of love to a racehorse, hits the top 20 in Larry Clinton's version ; In 1939 Al Donahue reached the top of the charts. Artie Shaw's number 1 hit that week was "They Say", a track that Sammy Kaye's orchestra had in the top 20 earlier in 1938.
From classical music to operettas
- February 13 : The world premiere of the operetta Les Petites Cardinales by Arthur Honegger and Jacques Ibert takes place at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens in Paris.
- May 12 : The world premiere of the cheerful opera Schneider Wibbel by Mark Lothar with the libretto by Hans Müller-Schlösser based on his own comedy of the same name takes place at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin.
- May 12th : Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher ( Johanna on the stake ), a dramatic oratorio in 11 scenes by Paul Claudel (text) and Arthur Honegger (music), has its concert premiere in the music hall of the Stadtcasino Basel under the direction of Paul Sacher with Ida Rubinstein as Jeanne, the Basler Kammerorchester, the Basler Kammerchor and the Knabenkantorei Basel as a choir. The piece sweeps audiences and critics into storms of enthusiasm.
- May 28 : The world premiere of the opera Mathis der Maler by Paul Hindemith takes place at the Stadttheater Zürich after the National Socialists banned the work in Germany after the performance of the symphony of the same name in 1934 .
- November 24 : The premiere of the opera Peer Gynt by Werner Egk based on the play of the same name by Henrik Ibsen takes place at the State Opera Unter den Linden in Berlin .
- December 25th : World premiere of the operetta The Ship of the Beautiful Women by Walter Kollo in the Apollo Theater, Cologne
- December 30th : The ballet Romeo and Juliet based on the Shakespeare play of the same name , composed by Sergei Sergejewitsch Prokofjew in 1935 on behalf of the Bolshoi Theater , is premiered in Brno.
- December 31 : The operetta season in Salzburg by Fred Raymond is at the Municipal Theater premiered in Kiel. The libretto is by Max Wallner and Kurt Feltz .
- Hans Krása composes the children's opera Brundibár .
musical
- October 19 : The world premiere of the musical Knickerbocker Holiday by Kurt Weill with the libretto by Maxwell Anderson takes place at the Ethel Barrymore Theater in New York. The piece then experienced 168 performances and a nine-week tour.
- November 9th : The musical Leave It to Me! by Cole Porter has its world premiere at the Imperial Theater in New York, produced by Vinton Freedley . The book is by Samuel and Bella Spewack based on their play Clear All Wires . Gene Kelly got his first Broadway engagement with a supporting role .
- November 23 : The musical The Boys from Syracuse with music by Richard Rodgers and lyrics by Lorenz Hart premieres at the Alvin Theater on New York's Broadway. The book based on William Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors comes from George Abbott , who also produced and directed the show. The choreography was done by George Balanchine . This first musical adaptation of a Shakespeare play reached 235 performances.
Film musical
- The feature film Carefree ( Carefree by Dr. Flagg - Carefree ) with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers premieres in the United States. The director is Mark Sandrich , the music is from Irving Berlin .
Born
January February
- January 6th : Adriano Celentano , Italian singer and actor
- January 7th : Rory Storm , British rock musician, singer († 1972 )
- January 13 : Daevid Allen , Australian rock musician
- January 13 : Richard Anthony , French singer
- January 13th : Shiv Kumar Sharma , Indian santur virtuoso
- January 14th : Jack Jones , American singer
- January 21 : Wolfman Jack , American disc jockey († 1995 )
- January 23 : Bill Duniven , American rock 'n' roll musician († 1999 )
- January 24 : Julius Arthur Hemphill , American jazz musician († 1995 )
- January 25 : Etta James , American R&B, blues and gospel singer
- January 25 : Vladimir Vysotsky , Russian singer, poet and actor († 1980 )
- January 29th : Henry Ely , Dominican opera tenor
- January 31 : Eike Reuter , German church musician, regional church music director of Thuringia († 2005 )
- February 1 : Jimmy Carl Black , American drummer and singer († 2008 )
- February 2nd : Bobby Cruz , Puerto Rican singer and composer
- February 2 : Sergio Ortega , Chilean composer and pianist († 2003 )
- February 3rd : Tony Marshall , German pop singer
- February 5 : Ed Doemland , American composer, organist, jazz pianist and percussionist († 2012 )
- February 6 : Ellsworth Milburn , American composer, music teacher and pianist († 2007 )
- February 7th : Friedrich Karl Barth , pastor and songwriter
- February 11th : Edith Mathis , Swiss soprano
- February 11 : Willy Oliveira , Brazilian composer
- February 13 : Carmela Corren , Israeli pop singer
- February 16 : John Corigliano , American composer
- February 21 : Dany Mann , German pop singer and actress († 2010 )
- February 23 : Wilson Simonal , Brazilian singer
March April
- March 1st : Adi Rinner , Austrian composer and conductor
- March 4 : Werner Jacob , German organist and composer († 2006 )
- March 5th : Wulf Arlt , German musicologist
- March 5 : Hayden Thompson , American rockabilly and country musician
- March 8 : Tom Nicholas , American jazz drummer
- March 9th : Lill-Babs , Swedish pop singer
- March 13 : Hans-Joachim Hespos , German composer and publisher
- March 14 : Angus MacLise , American drummer, composer, poet and visual artist († 1979 )
- March 15 : Charles Lloyd , American jazz saxophonist and flautist
- March 16 : Gus Anton , German conductor and composer
- March 17th : Rudolf Chametowitsch Nurejew , Russian-Austrian ballet dancer († 1993 )
- March 18 : Charley Pride , American country singer
- March 24th : Holger Czukay , German musician
- March 24th : Steve Kuhn , American jazz pianist
- March 24 : Jimmy Voytek , American country and rockabilly musician († 1980 )
- March 25 : Hoyt Axton , American country musician († 1999 )
- April 2nd : Ralf Petersen , German composer
- April 7th : Spencer Dryden , American drummer († 2005 )
- April 7 : Freddie Hubbard , American jazz trumpeter († 2008 )
- April 7th : Alexander von Schlippenbach , German jazz pianist and composer
- April 10 : Denny Zeitlin , American jazz pianist and psychiatrist
- April 10 : Günther Kaunzinger , German organist and university professor
- April 11th : Kurt Moll , German opera singer
- April 13 : Heinz Holecek , Austrian singer, actor, parodist and entertainer († 2012 )
- April 15 : Walter Scholz , German trumpeter (folk music)
- April 17th : Teddy Parker , German singer and radio presenter
- April 26th : Duane Eddy , American guitarist
- April 29th : Alfredo del Mónaco , Venezuelan composer
- April 29 : Klaus Voormann , German musician and graphic artist
May to July
- May 3 : Arístides Incháustegui , Dominican singer († 2017 )
- May 22 : Alain Gagnon , Canadian composer and music teacher († 2017 )
- May 23 : Daniel Humair , Swiss jazz drummer
- May 24 : Prince Buster , Jamaican ska musician († 2016 )
- May 24th : Tommy Chong , actor and musician
- May 26 : William Bolcom , American composer
- May 26th : Jaki Liebezeit , German drummer
- May 26th : Teresa Stratas , Canadian soprano of Greek descent
- June 7th : Joel Blahnik , American composer and teacher
- June 9 : Charles Wuorinen , American composer († 2020 )
- June 11 : Stu Martin , American jazz drummer († 1980 )
- June 14 : Ewald Kooiman , Dutch musician († 2009 )
- June 15th : Tony Oxley , British drummer
- June 20 : Dennis Budimir , American jazz guitarist
- June 28 : Gerhard Dickel , church music director, cantor, organist and music professor († 2003 )
- June 30th : Chris Hinze , Dutch jazz musician
- July 3 : John Heard , American jazz bassist and visual artist
- July 4th : Bill Withers , American singer and songwriter († 2020 )
- July 13 : Myroslaw Skoryk , Ukrainian composer († 2020 )
- July 18 : Buschi Niebergall , German musician († 1990 )
- July 18 : Ian Stewart , British pianist († 1985 )
- July 23 : Ronny Cox , American actor and singer
- July 26th : Joanne Brackeen , American jazz pianist and university professor
August September
- August 3rd : Ingrid Caven , German chanson singer and actress
- August 4th : Simon Preston , English organist, conductor and composer
- August 4th : Bernd Wiesemann , German composer, pianist, music teacher and conceptual artist († 2015 )
- August 8 : Jacques Hétu , Canadian composer († 2010 )
- August 9 : Micheline Coulombe Saint-Marcoux , Canadian composer († 1985 )
- August 13 : Dave Cortez , American R&B musician and organ player
- August 13 : Oscar Ghiglia , Italian guitarist
- August 16 : Rocco Granata , Italian entertainer and pop singer
- August 21 : Kenny Rogers , American country singer and actor († 2020 )
- August 24th : Mason Williams , American guitarist and composer
- August 31 : "Spider" John Koerner , American singer, guitarist and songwriter
- August 31 : Wieland Kuijken , Belgian viola da gamba player and cellist
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- September 4th : Michel Rateau , French composer
- September 5 : Piotr Lachert , Polish composer, pianist and poet († 2018 )
- September 9 : Henri-Claude Fantapié , French conductor
- September 21 : Yūji Takahashi , Japanese composer and pianist
- September 22 : Dean Reed , American actor, rock 'n' roll and country singer († 1986 )
- September 24 : Steve Douglas , American rock saxophonist († 1993 )
- September 28 : Ben E. King , American soul singer († 2015 )
- September 30th : Kees Vlak , Dutch composer and musician († 2014 )
October to December
- October 3 : Eddie Cochran , American rock 'n' roll musician († 1960 )
- October 4 : Mark Levine , American jazz pianist and trombonist
- October 14th : Melba Montgomery , American country musician
- October 15 : Rafael Aponte-Ledée , Puerto Rican composer
- October 16 : Nico , German model and singer († 1988 )
- October 24th : Odean Pope , American jazz musician
- October 27 : Elliot del Borgo , American composer and professor († 2013 )
- October 27th : Edda Moser , German singer
- October 28 : Jan-Jürgen Wasmuth , German composer and church musician
- November 5 : Joe Dassin , French singer († 1980 )
- November 11th : Narvel Felts , American country and rockabilly musician
- November 12 : Mort Shuman , American songwriter and singer († 1991 )
- November 11 : Lloyd Miller , American musician and ethnomusicologist
- November 17th : Gordon Lightfoot , Canadian folk musician
- November 29th : Eberhard Hertel , German singer
- December 1st : Carlos Garnett , American jazz saxophonist
- December 9 : William Thomas McKinley , American composer, jazz pianist and music teacher († 2015 )
- December 11th : McCoy Tyner , American jazz pianist
- December 13 : Joachim Dorfmüller , German musicologist and organist
- December 13th : Heino , German pop singer and singer
- December 18 : Chas Chandler , British musician, record producer and manager († 1996 )
- December 21 : Felix Huby , German journalist, screenwriter and writer
- December 22nd : Brian Locking , British musician (The Shadows)
- December 24th : Mesías Maiguashca , Ecuadorian composer
- December 25th : Ivonne Haza , Dominican soprano
- December 29th : Bart Berman , Dutch pianist
Exact date of birth unknown
- Alain Abbott , French accordion player and composer
- Bobby Brown , American rockabilly and rock 'n' roll musician
- Martin Fay , Irish musician († 2012 )
- Jere Hutcheson , American composer and music educator
- Siegfried Schoenbohm , German opera director († 2006 )
Died
- January 3 : Arturo Berutti , Argentine composer (* 1858 )
- January 22nd : Richard Franck , German composer and pianist (* 1858 )
- February 9 : Hermann Kutzschbach , German conductor and music teacher (* 1875 )
- February 22nd : Miguel Llobet , Spanish guitarist and composer (* 1878 )
- March 7th : Juan Bautista Massa , Argentine composer (* 1885 )
- March 18 : Cyril Rootham , English composer (* 1875 )
- March 21 : Omer Letorey , French composer and organist (* 1873 )
- April 10 : Joe King Oliver , American cornet player (* 1885 )
- April 12 : Fyodor Chalyapin , Russian opera singer (* 1873 )
- July 4th : Jean-Baptiste Dubois , Canadian cellist, conductor and music teacher (* 1870 )
- August 14 : Landon Ronald , English conductor, music teacher and composer (* 1873 )
- August 16 : Robert Johnson , American musician (King of the Delta-Blues) (* 1911 )
- August 17th : Wage Rudolf Soepratman , composer of the Indonesian national anthem (* 1903 )
- September 18 : Ole Hjellemo , Norwegian composer (* 1873 )
- October 15 : Adolf Hamm , German organist (* 1882 )
Leopold Godowsky in his final years (Photo by Carl Van Vechten , 1935)
- November 19 : Remigio Renzi , Italian organist, composer and music teacher (* 1857 )
- November 21 : Leopold Godowsky , Polish-American pianist and composer (* 1870 )
- December 14th : Maurice Emmanuel , French composer (* 1862 )
- December 26th : Irene von Chavanne , Austrian alto singer (* 1868 )
- December 26th : Max Eckert-Greifendorff , German geographer (* 1868 )
- Papa Charlie Jackson , American blues musician (* 1890 )
- Esteban Peña Morell , Dominican composer (* 1894 )
See also
Web links
Commons : Music 1938 - collection of pictures, videos and audio files
Commons : Opera Libretti 1938 - Collection of images, videos and audio files