1938 in music - 1938 in music See also: 1937 in music, other events of 1938, 1939 in music and the list of 'years in music'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Top hit recordings 3 Published popular songs 4 Musical theater 5 Musical films 6 Births 7 Deaths Events January 16 - Benny Goodman plays Carnegie Hall September 22 - Anton Webern's String Quartet is premiered in Pittsfield, Massachusetts Roy Acuff's musical career begins Sister Rosetta Tharpe's musical career begins Pete Seeger's musical career begins Robert Lockwood Jr's musical career begins Jelly Roll Morton speaks, sings, and plays piano for an eight-hour Library of Congress recorded sound documentary produced by Alan Lomax Top hit recordings "A-Tisket, A-Tasket" by Ella Fitzgerald with Chick Webb "Begin the Beguine" by Artie.
1938 - 1938 Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s Years: 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 - 1938 - 1939 1940 1941 1942 1943 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 1.1 Ongoing events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes Events January 3 - The March of Dimes is established by Franklin Delano Roosevelt. January 11 - Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank. January 28 - The first ski tow in America begins operation in Vermont. February 4 - Thornton Wilder's play Our Town opens (New York City). February 12 - World War II: German troops enter Austria February.
1937 in music - 1937 in music See also: 1936 in music, other events of 1937, 1938 in music and the list of 'years in music'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Published popular songs 3 Top hit recordings 4 Musical theater 5 Musical films 6 Births 7 Deaths Events Hank Williams' musical career begins Sonny Boy Williamson's musical career begins Published popular songs "Afraid To Dream" w. Mack Gordon m. Harry Revel "After You" w.m. Sam Coslow & Al Siegel "All God's Chillun Got Rhythm" w. Gus Kahn m. Bronislaw Kaper & Walter Jurmann "All You Want To Do Is Dance" w. Johnny Burke m. Arthur Johnston "Always And Always" w. Bob Wright & Chet Forrest m. Edward Ward "Am I In Love?" w. Al Dubin m. Harry Warren "Azure" [Duke Ellington "Beginner's Luck" w. Ira Gershwin.
1939 in music - 1939 in music See also: 1938 in music, other events of 1939, 1940 in music and the list of 'years in music'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Top hits on record 3 Published popular songs 4 Musical theater 5 Musical films 6 Births 7 Deaths Events Charlie Christian's musical career begins Top hits on record "And the Angels Sing" by Benny Goodman "Beer Barrel Polka" by Will Glahe "Deep Purple" by Larry Clinton "Jeepers Creepers" by Al Donohue "Moon Love" by Glenn Miller "Over the Rainbow" by Glenn Miller, also Judy Garland "Scatter-Brain" by Frankie Masters "South of the Border" by Shep Fields "Stairway to the Stars" by Glenn Miller "Wishing (Will Make It So)" by Glenn Miller Published popular songs "Address Unknown" w.m. Carmen Lombardo,.
Timeline of trends in music (1900-1949) - Timeline of trends in music (1900-1949) See also: List of years in music, Timeline of trends in music to 1899, Timeline of trends in music (1950-1959), Timeline of trends in music (1960-1969), Timeline of trends in music (1970-1979), Timeline of trends in music (1980-1989), Timeline of trends in music (1990-present) 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1900s 1900 in music Music of Argentina The bandoneón begins to become popular in Argentina; it will soon become one of the principal instruments in the tango Music of Colombia The accordion begins to become popular throughout the country Music of Cuba Romantic ballads called boleros are developed Music of Indonesia The developing form of kroncong is popular among the poor, urban people Music of Russia Vassily Andreyev and.
Kenny Rogers - Kenny Rogers (born August 21, 1938) is an American country music singer and actor. He collaborated with a developer of Kentucky Fried Chicken to start up the restaurant chain Kenny Rogers Roasters. Kenny Rogers (born November 10, 1964) is a left-handed American baseball pitcher who has played for the Texas Rangers, New York Yankees, Oakland Athletics, New York Mets, and most recently for the Minnesota Twins. Rogers became the fourteenth major leaguer to pitch a perfect game on July 28, 1994 with the Rangers against the California Angels. Rogers has also won several Gold Glove awards..
January 2 - to 55 MPH in order to conserve gasoline during an OPEC embargo. 1979 - Sid Vicious goes on trial for the murder of Nancy Spungen 1981 - Peter Sutcliffe, the Yorkshire Ripper, is arrested 1983 - The musical Annie is performed for the last time after after 2,377 shows (Uris Theatre on Broadway, New York City). 1991 - Sharon Pratt Dixon is sworn in as mayor of Washington, DC becoming the first African American woman to lead a city of that size and importance. 1993 - Leaders of the three warring factions in Bosnia meet to discuss peace plans. 1998 - Russia begins to circulate new rubless to stem inflation and promote confidence. Births 1777 - Christian Daniel Rauch, sculptor (†1857) 1822 - Rudolf Clausius, physicist, contributions to thermodynamics (†.
January 11 - becomes Mexican president again. 1879 - Anglo-Zulu War begins. 1908 - Grand Canyon National Monument is created. 1919 - Romania annexes Transylvania. 1922 - First successful treatment with insulin against diabetes. 1923 - Troops from France and Belgium occupy the Ruhr area to force Germany to pay its reparation payments. 1935 - Amelia Earhart is the first woman to fly solo from Hawaii to California. 1938 - Frances Moulton is the first woman to become president of a US national bank. 1942 - Japan declares war on the Netherlands and invades the Netherlands East Indies. 1942 - The Japanese capture Kuala Lumpur. 1943 - The United States and United Kingdom give up territorial rights in China. 1946 - Enver Hoxha declares the people's republic of Albania with himself as dictator. 1949.
January 5 - Ayyash is killed by an Israeli-planted booby-trapped cell phone. 2000 - The 1st day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit 2002 - Charles Bishop, a 15-year-old student pilot, crashes a light aircraft into a Tampa, Florida building, evoking fear of a copycat 9/11 terrorist attack. Births 1596 - Henry Lawes, composer (†1662) 1717 - William Wildman Shute Barrington, British statesman (†1793) 1779 - Stephen Decatur, American naval officer (†1820) 1855 - King Camp Gillette, inventor (†1932) 1876 - Konrad Adenauer, German chancellor 1949-1963 (†1967) 1880 - Nikolay Medtner, composer (†1951) 1893 - Paramahansa Yogananda, Indian guru (†1952) 1904 - Jeane Dixon, astrologer (†1997) 1909 - Stephen Kleene, mathematician (†1994) 1913 - Jean-Pierre Aumont, actor (†2001) 1914 - George Reeves, actor (†.
January 23 - Lewis and Elvis Presley) 1997 - Mir Aimal Kasi receives the death sentence for a 1993 assault rifle attack outside CIA headquarters that killed two and wounded three others. 1997 - Madeleine Albright becomes the first woman to serve as United States Secretary of State. 2002 - "American Taliban" John Walker Lindh returns to the United States under FBI custody. Births 1737 - John Hancock, statesman and U.S. revolutionary (†1793) 1783 - Stendhal, writer (†1842) 1786 - Auguste de Montferrand, architect (†1858) 1832 - Edouard Manet, impressionist artist (†1883) 1862 - David Hilbert, Mathematician (†1943) 1872 - Jo?e Plečnik, architect (†1957) 1897 - Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, architect (†2000) 1898 - Sergei Eisenstein, director (†1948) 1903 - Randolph Scott, actor (†1987) 1907 - Dan.
January 9 - Jackson, composer 1820 - Pavel Krizkovsky, composer 1829 - Thomas William Robertson, English playwright 1829 - Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer 1839 - John Knowles Paine, composer 1843 - Christiaan A Ulder, composer 1851 - Giuseppi Gallignani, composer 1851 - Luis Coloma, Spanish Jesuit writer, theologian 1854 - Jennie Jerome, American society beauty (†1921) 1856 - Anton Askerc, priest, poet 1856 - Lizette Woodworth Reese, poet 1856 - Stevan Mokranjac, composer 1857 - Henry B. Fuller, writer 1859 - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, women's rights leader, founder of the League of Women Voters 1859 - Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar, church historian 1864 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (†1926) 1866 - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter, etcher 1867 - Jacques Urlus, Dutch opera singer 1868 - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish.
January 14 - television talk show from NBC to CBS. 1994 - President of the United States Bill Clinton and Russian President Boris Yeltsin sign the Kremlin accords which stop the preprogrammed aiming of nuclear missiles to targets and also provide for the dismantling of the nuclear arsenal in the Ukraine. 1996 - Jorge Sampaio is elected president of Portugal. 1998 - Researchers in Dallas, Texas present findings about an enzyme that slows aging and cell death (apoptosis). 1998 - An Afghan cargo plane crashes into a mountain in southwest Pakistan killing more than 50 people 2000 - A United Nations tribunal sentences five Bosnian Croats to up to 25 years for the 1993 killing of over 100 Muslims in a Bosnian village. 2004 - Amartya Sen steps down as Master of Trinity College,.
Jackson Pollock - art, and developed techniques of splashing and dripping his paint onto canvas (action painting). Pollock was dubbed "Jack the Dripper" due to his painting style. From 1938 to 1942 he worked for the Federal Art Project, in the 1950s and 1960s Pollock was supported by the CIA via the Congress for Cultural Freedom (CCF). Pollock's career was cut short when he died in a car crash in 1956. He was the subject of the documentaries Jackson Pollock (1987) and Jackson Pollock - Love & Death on Long Island (1999) as well as a movie drama called Pollock starring Ed Harris. The earlier ten-minute documentary Jackson Pollock (1951) was directed by Hans Namuth and had music by Morton Feldman. External Links Jackson Pollock on Museum Web Paris Pollock exhibition on MOMA Site.
Jack Teagarden - started young Jack on baritone horn; by age 10 he had switched to trombone. He first heard jazz music played by the Louisiana Five and decided to play in the new style. Teagarden's trombone style was largely self taught, and he developed many unusual alternative positions and novel special effects on the instrument. He is usually considered the most innovative jazz trombone stylist of the pre-Bebop era, and did much to expand the role of the instrument beyond the old tailgate style role of the early New Orleans brass bands. By 1920 Jack Teagarden was playing professionally in San Antonio, Texas, including with the band of Peck Kelly. In the mid 1920s he started traveling widely aroud the United States in a quick succession of different bands, staying longest with the.
James Scott - (February 12, 1885 - August 30, 1938) was a noted USA composer of ragtime music. He is usually regarded as one of the three most important composers of classic ragtime, along with Scott Joplin and Joseph Lamb. James Scott was born in Neosho, Missouri. In 1901 his family moved to Carthage, Missouri. His first published composition, "A Summer Breeze: March and Two-Step" was printed in 1903. In 1906 he moved to Saint Louis, Missouri and studied with Scott Joplin. In 1914 Scott moved to Kansas City, Missouri, where he taught music, directed a theater orchestra and continued to compose music. Scott's best known compositions include "Climax Rag", "Frog Legs Rag", "Grace and Beauty", "Ophelia Rag" and "The Ragtime Oriole". Scott died in Kansas City and was buried there in the Westlawn.
James Weldon Johnson - (June 17, 1871-June 26, 1938) was a leading African American author, poet, early civil rights activist, and prominent figure in the Harlem Renaissance. Born in Jacksonville, Florida, he was the first African American accepted to the Florida bar. He served in several public capacities, including as consul to Venezuela and Nicaragua, but he is best remembered today for his writing, which included novels, poems, and collections of folklore. His first major literary sensation was The Autobiography of an Ex-Colored Man (1912), in which he describes his success in overcoming the color barrier in America at the turn of the century. Written while he was still serving in the diplomatic corps, he resigned shortly after, realizing that he had slim chances for further promotion. It was while serving as executive secretary of.
John Steinbeck - evil in human psychology. Steinbeck received the Nobel prize for literature in 1962 for his “realistic and imaginative writings, combining as they do sympathetic humour and keen social perception.” He died in New York. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Selected Bibliography 2 Reference 3 External Links Selected Bibliography Cup of Gold: A Life of Sir Henry Morgan, Buccaneer, With Occasional Reference to History 1929 ISBN 014018743X The Pastures of Heaven 1932 The Red Pony 1933 To A God Unknown 1933 Tortilla Flat 1935 In Dubious Battle 1936 The title is a reference to John Milton's "Paradise Lost". Of Mice and Men 1937 The title is a reference to the Robert Burns poem "To a Mouse". The Long Valley 1938 The Grapes of Wrath 1939 Forgotten Village 1941 Sea of Cortez: A.
Joe King Oliver - in Abend, Louisiana near Donaldsonville, died 1938 in Savannah, Georgia) bandleader and jazz musician. Oliver moved to New Orleans in his youth. Oliver played cornet in the New Orleans brass bands and dance bands and also in the city's red-light district, Storyville. The band he co-led with trombonist Kid Ory was considered New Orleans' hottest and best in the 1910s. Oliver achieved great popularity in New Orleans across economic and racial lines, and was in demand for playing jobs from rough working classs black dance halls to white society debutante parties. According to an interview at the Tulane Jazz Archive with Oliver's widow Stella Oliver, in 1919 a fight broke out at a dance where Oliver was playing, and the police arrested Oliver and the band along with the fighters. This.
Johnny Mercer - 1909 - June 25, 1976) was a pop music composer. Born in Savannah, Georgia, he is regarded as one of America's greatest songwriters. In the early 1940s, Mercer was one of the co-founders of Capitol Records. Mercer was also a well-regarded singer, with a folksy singing quality. This made him a natural to his own songs like Ac-Cent-Tchu-Ate The Positive, On The Atchison, Topeka And The Santa Fe, and Lazybones. Mercer often was asked to write lyrics to already popular songs. The lyrics to Laura, Midnight Sun, and Satin Doll were all written after the songs were already hits. Mercer was also asked to write english lyrics to foreign songs. The most famous example of this is Autumn Leaves. In 1969 he helped publishers Abe Olman and Howie Richmond found the.
John Corigliano - John Corigliano (born February 16, 1938) is a American composer of classical music. Most of Corigliano's work has been for full symphony orchestra. He employs a wide variety of styles, sometimes even within the same work, but aims to make his work accessible to a relatively large audience. He has written several symphonies, concertoes for clarinet and oboe, film scores, and various chamber works. In 2001 he received the Pulitzer Prize for his Symphony No. 2 for String Orchestra. His score for the motion picture The Red Violin won an Academy Award for best score. Corigliano comes from a musical family. His father was concertmaster of the New York Philharmonic for 23 years, and his mother played piano. He studied composition at Columbia University and at the Manhattan School of Music..
