9 January:WALTRAUD MEIER = German operatic soprano
17 January:PAUL YOUNG = English singer, songwriter and musician
18 January:
TOM BAILEY = English singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist, and record producer, member of the Thompson Twins
CHRISTOPH PRÉGARDIEN = German operatic tenor
25 January:ANDY COX = British guitarist, founding member of The Beat {1978-1983} and Fine Young Cannibals {1984–1992, 1996}
31 January:JOHN JOSEPH LYDON aka JOHNNY ROTTEN = English singer, songwriter, and musician, lead singer of The Sex Pistols {1975–1978, 1996–2001, 2002–2003, 2007–2008} and Public Image Ltd (abbreviated as PiL) {1978-1992, 2009-present}
3 February:LEE RANALDO = American musician, singer-songwriter, guitarist, writer, visual artist and record producer, best known as a co-founder of the alternative rock band Sonic Youth
13 February:PETER HOOK = English singer, songwriter, composer, multi-instrumentalist and record producer, member of Joy Division {1976–1980} and New Order {1980–1993, 1998–2007}
2 March:JOHN COWSILL = American musician, best known for his work as a singer and drummer with his siblings' band, The Cowsills
9 March:SERGEJ LARIN = Russian operatic tenor = [died: 2008]
12 March:STEVE HARRIS = English musician and songwriter, Iron Maiden
16 March:VLADIMÍR GODÁR = Slovak composer
14 April:BARBARA BONNEY = American operatic and concert soprano
6 December:PETER BUCK = American musician and songwriter, member of R.E.M.
8 December:WARREN CUCCURULLO = American musician, member of Missing Persons {1980-1986} and Duran Duran {1986-2001}
13 December:MAJIDA EL ROUMI = Lebanese soprano
19 December:WILLIAM ORBIT = English musician, composer and record producer
23 December:DAVE MURRAY = English guitarist and songwriter, member of Iron Maiden
28 December:NIGEL KENNEDY = English violinist
Timeline of Musical Events
26 January:
BUDDY HOLLY's first recording sessions for Decca Records take place in Nashville, Tennessee
ROY ORBISON signs with Sun Records
27 January:ELVIS PRESLEY's single "Heartbreak Hotel" / "I Was the One" is released. It goes on to be Elvis's first #1 hit.
28 January:ELVIS PRESLEY makes his national television debut on The Dorsey Brothers Stage Show.
3 February: 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.
11 February: 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.
10 March: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.
21 March: 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.
22 March: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.
24 March: 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.
31 March:ELVIS PRESLEY films a screen test for Paramount Pictures.
3 April:ELVIS PRESLEY makes his first appearance on The Milton Berle Show.
6 April: Paramount Pictures signs ELVIS PRESLEY to a three-picture deal.
10 April: 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.
2 May: 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.
6 May:
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.
8 May:
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.
6-28 May: 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.
24 May: 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".
3 June: Fred Diodati replaces Al Alberts as lead singer of The Four Aces.
5 June:ELVIS PRESLEY introduces his new single, "Hound Dog", on The Milton Berle Show, scandalizing the audience with his suggestive hip movements.
7-13 June: 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.
13 June: Herbert von Karajan is announced as the new artistic director of the Vienna State Opera, to succeed Karl Böhm starting in September.
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).
9 July: Dick Clark hosts American Bandstand for the first time
11-22 July: 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.
17 July: The Metropolitan Opera Association announces the cancellation of its 1956–57 season because of a labor dispute.
19 July: 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.
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.
5 September: The posthumous world première of Sergei Prokofiev's Fourth Piano Concerto (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.
9 September:ELVIS PRESLEY appears on The Ed Sullivan Show.
10-20 October: First Warsaw Autumn International Festival of Contemporary Music.
14 October: 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.
16 October: 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.
20-21 October: 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
22 October: Sigurd Rascher and the Chattanooga Symphony Orchestra open their 1956–57 season with a concert including the world premiere of Carl Anton Wirth's Concerto for Saxophone and Orchestra.
29 October: 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.
5 November:
Nat King Cole becomes the first major black performer to host a variety show on national television. The Nat King Cole Show was first broadcast on 1956
Royal Performance in the presence of Elizabeth II, by Liberace, in London.
13 November: The first of a series of Hoffnung Music Festival Concerts takes place at the Royal Festival Hall, in London.
28 November: Yoko Ono, recently divorced from Japanese composer Toshi Ichiyanagi, marries Anthony Cox.
4 December: 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"
19 December: 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.
Also in 1956:
Pierre Gabaye wins the Prix de Rome in the Musical Composition category.
ELVIS PRESLEY emerges as one of the world's first rock stars.
ARETHA FRANKLIN gives birth to her first child, at the age of fourteen, interrupting her career as a gospel singer.
Gene Vincent signs a publishing contract with Bill Lowery.
The Coasters' recording career begins.
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 16? 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 33? rpm long playing (LP) record format.
Glenn Gould releases The Goldberg Variations (Gould album) (Goldberg Variations).
Cameo-Parkway Records is formed in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania by KAL MANN & BERNIE LOWE.
Foundation of the Korean piano brand Young Chang.
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
Cleveland television station WEWS-TV launches Polka Varieties, a regular Sunday-afternoon, hour-long program devoted to polka music; Frank Yankovic led the original band to perform on the show.
Published Popular Music
"11th Hour Melody" = lyrics by CARL SIGMAN; music by KING PALMER
"Abbondanza" = lyrics & music by FRANK LOESSER
"After The Lights Go Down Low" = lyrics & music by ALAN WHITE & LEROY LOVETT
"Ain't Got No Home" = lyrics & music by CLARENCE HENRY
"Allegheny Moon" = lyrics & music by AL HOFFMAN & DICK MANNING
"Anastasia" = lyrics by PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER; music by ALFRED NEWMAN
"Anyway You Want Me (That's How I Will Be)" = lyrics & music by AARON SCHROEDER & CLIFF OWENS
"Around the World" = lyrics by HAROLD ADAMSON; music by VICTOR YOUNG
"The Banana Boat Song" = traditional arranged by ALAN ARKIN, BOB CAREY & ERIK DARLING
"Be-Bop-A-Lula" = lyrics & music by TEX DAVIS & GENE VINCENT
"Bells Are Ringing" = lyrics by BETTY COMDEN & ADOLPH GREEN; music by JULE STYNE
"The Best of All Possible Worlds" = lyrics by RICHARD WILBUR; music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
"Big D" = lyrics & music by FRANK LOESSER
"The Birds And The Bees" = by MACK DAVID, HARRY WARREN
"Bloodnock's Rock And Roll Call" = by T. CARBONE
"Bluebottle Blues" = by SPIKE MILLIGAN, CARBONE
"Bo Weevil" = lyrics & music by DAVE BARTHOLOMEW & ANTOINE "FATS" DOMINO
"Boppin' The Blues" = lyrics & music by CARL PERKINS & HOWARD GRIFFIN
"Born To Be With You" = lyrics & music by DON ROBERTSON
"Brown Eyed Handsome Man" = by CHUCK BERRY
"The Bus Stop Song" (aka "A Paper Of Pins") = lyrics & music by KEN DARBY
"Can I Steal A Little Love" = lyrics & music by PHIL TUMINELLO
"Canadian Sunset" = lyrics by NORMAN GIMBEL; music by EDDIE HEYWOOD
"Chain Gang" = lyrics & music by SOL QUASHA & HERB YAKUS
"Cindy, Oh Cindy" = lyrics & music by BOB BARRON & BURT LONG
"Don't Be Cruel" = lyrics & music by OTIS BLACKWELL & ELVIS PRESLEY
"Don't Forbid Me" = lyrics & music by CHARLES SINGLETON
"Eddie My Love" = by A. COLLINS, M. DAVIS, S. LING
"Fever" = lyrics & music by EDDIE COOLEY & JOHN DAVENPORT
"Flying Saucer" = lyrics by BILL BUCHANAN & DICKIE GOODMAN
"Fools Fall In Love" = lyrics & music by JERRY LEIBER & MIKE STOLLER
"Friendly Persuasion" = lyrics by PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER; music by DIMITRI TIOMKIN
"The Garden of Eden" = lyrics & music by DENNISE HAAS NORWOOD
"Get Me to the Church on Time" = lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER; music by FREDERICK LOEWE. Introduced by STANLEY HOLLOWAY in the musical 'My Fair Lady' and also performed by HOLLOWAY in the 1964 film.
"Glendora" = lyrics & music by RAY STANLEY
"Glitter and Be Gay" = lyrics by RICHARD WILBUT; music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
"The Gnu" = by MICHAEL FLANDERS & DONALD SWANN
"Good Golly, Miss Molly" = lyrics & music by JOHN MARASCALCO & ROBERT BLACKWELL
"Goodnight My Love" = by G. MOTOLA, J. MARASCALCO
"The Green Door" = lyrics by MARVIN MOORE; music by BOB DAVIE
"Happy To Make Your Acquaintance" = lyrics & music by FRANK LOESSER
"The Happy Whistler" = music by DON ROBERTSON
"Heartbreak Hotel" = lyrics & music by MAE BOREN AXTON, TOMMY DURDEN & ELVIS PRESLEY
"Hey! Jealous Lover" = lyrics & music by SAMMY CAHN, KAY TWOMEY & BEE WALKER
"High Society Calypso" = lyrics & music by COLE PORTER
"The Hippopotamus" = by MICHAEL FLANDERS & DONALD SWANN
"Honky Tonk" = lyrics by HENRY GLOVER; music by BILL DOGGETT, BILLY BUTLER, SHEP SHEPHARD & CLIFFORD SCOTT
"Hot Diggity" = lyrics & music adapted by AL HOFFMAN & DICK MANNING
"A House With Love In It" = lyrics by SYLVIA DEE; music by SID LIPPMAN
"(How Little It Matters) How Little We Know(1)" = lyrics by CAROLYN LEIGH; music by PHILIP SPRINGER
"I Could Have Danced All Night" = lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER; music by FREDERICK LOEWE. Introduced by JULIE ANDREWS in the musical 'My Fair Lady'. Performed in the 1964 film by MARNI NIXON dubbing for AUDREY HEPBURN
"I Dreamed" = lyrics by MARVIN MOORE; music by CHARLES GREAN
"I Love You, Samantha" = lyrics & music by COLE PORTER Introduced by BING CROSBY in the film 'High Society'
"I Walk the Line" = lyrics & music by JOHNNY CASH
"I Want You, I Need You, I Love You" = lyrics by GEORGE MYSELS; music by IRA KOSLOFF
"I Was The One" = lyrics & music by CLAUDE DEMETRIUS, BILL PEPPERS, HAL BLAIR, AARON SCHROEDER
"If I Had My Druthers" = lyrics by JOHNNY MERCER; music by GENE DE PAUL
"I'm An Ordinary Man" = lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER; music by FREDERICK LOEWE Introduced by REX HARRISON in the musical 'My Fair Lady'
"I'm Walkin'" = lyrics & music by ANTOINE "FATS" DOMINO & DAVE BARTHOLOMEW
"I'm Walking Backwards For Christmas" = by SPIKE MILLIGAN, T. CARBONE
"In the Still of the Nite" = lyrics & music by FRED PARRIS
"It Only Hurts For A Little While" = lyrics by MACK DAVID; music by FRED SPIELMAN
"It's Not For Me To Say" = lyrics by AL STILLMAN; music by ROBERT ALLEN
"I've Grown Accustomed To Her Face" = lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER; music by FREDERICK LOEWE. Introduced by REX HARRISON in the musical 'My Fair Lady'
"Ivory Tower" = lyrics & music by JACK FULTON & LOIS STEELE
"Joey, Joey, Joey" = lyrics & music by FRANK LOESSER
"Jubilation T. Cornpone" = lyrics by JOHNNY MERCER; music by GENE DE PAUL. Introduced by STUBBY KAYE in the musical 'Li'l Abner'
"Juke Box Baby" = lyrics by NOEL SHERMAN; music by JOE SHERMAN
"Just In Time" = lyrics by BETTY COMDEN & ADOLPH GREEN; music by JULE STYNE. Introduced by JUDY HOLLIDAY and SYDNEY CHAPLIN in the musical 'Bells Are Ringing'
"Knee Deep In The Blues" = lyrics & music by MELVIN ENDSLEY
"Lay Down Your Arms" = English lyrics by PADDY ROBERTS, Swedish lyrics by AKE GERHARD; music by AKE GERHARD & LEON LAND
"Let The Good Times Roll" = lyrics & music by LEONARD LEE
"Long Before I Knew You" = lyrics by BETTY COMDEN & ADOLPH GREEN; music by JULE STYNE. Introduced by JUDY HOLLIDAY and SYDNEY CHAPLIN in the musical 'Bells Are Ringing'
"Long Tall Sally" = lyrics & music by ENOTRIS JOHNSON, RICHARD PENNIMAN & ROBERT A. BLACKWELL
"Look Homeward Angel" = lyrics & music by WALLY GOLD
"Love Me" = lyrics & music by JERRY LEIBER & MIKE STOLLER
"Love Me Tender" = lyrics by ELVIS PRESLEY & VERA MATSON; music by GEORGE R. POULTON
"Lucky Lips" = lyrics & music by JERRY LEIBER & MIKE STOLLER
"The Magic Touch" = lyrics & music by BUCK RAM
"Mama From The Train" = lyrics & music by IRVING GORDON
"Mama, Teach Me To Dance" = lyrics & music by AL HOFFMAN & DICK MANNING
"Mangos" = lyrics & music by SID WAYNE & DEE LIBBEY
"Maria" = lyrics by STEPHEN SONDHEIM; music by LEONARD BERNSTEIN
"Marianne" = lyrics & music by TERRY GILKYSON, FRANK MILLER & RICHARD DEHR
"Married I Can Always Get" = lyrics & music by GORDON JENKINS
"Mary's Boy Child" = lyrics & music by JESTER HAIRSTON
"Mind If I Make Love to You?" = lyrics & music by COLE PORTER. Introduced by FRANK SINATRA in the film 'High Society'
"The Money Tree" = lyrics by CLIFF FERRE; music by MARK McINTYRE
"Moonlight Gambler" = lyrics by BOB HILLIARD; music by PHILIP SPRINGER
"More" = lyrics by TOM GLAZER; music by ALEX ALSTONE
"The Most Happy Fella" = lyrics & music by FRANK LOESSER
"Mutual Admiration Society" = lyrics by MATT DUBEY; music by HAROLD KARR. Introduced by ETHEL MERMAN and VIRGINIA GIBSON in the musical 'Happy Hunting'
"My Heart Is So Full Of You" = lyrics & music by FRANK LOESSER
"My Lucky Charm" = by SAMMY CAHN & NICHOLAS BRODSZKY
"Namely You" = lyrics by JOHNNY MERCER; music by GENE DE PAUL
"Now You Has Jazz" = lyrics & music by COLE PORTER. Introduced by BING CROSBY and LOUIS ARMSTRONG in the film 'High Society'
"Oh What A Nite" = lyrics & music by MARVIN JUNIOR & JOHN FUNCHES
"On The Street Where You Live" = lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER; music by FREDERICK LOEWE. Introduced by MICHAEL KING in the musical 'My Fair Lady'
"Our Language Of Love" = lyrics & music by MONTE NORMAN, DAVID HENEKER, JULIAN MORE, ALEXANDER BREFFORT & MARGUERITE MONNOT
"Pardners" = lyrics by SAMMY CAHN; music by JIMMY VAN HEUSEN. Introduced by DEAN MARTIN and JERRY LEWIS in the film of the same name
"The Party's Over" = lyrics by BETTY COMDEN & ADOLPH GREEN; music by JULE STYNE. Introduced by JUDY HOLLIDAY in the musical 'Bells Are Ringing'
"The Portuguese Washerwomen" (Original title "Las Lavanderas De Portugal") = music by ANDRÉ POPP & ROGER LUCCHESI
"Whatever Will Be, Will Be (Que Sera, Sera)" = lyrics & music by JAY LIVINGSTON & RAY EVANS
"The Rain in Spain" = lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER; music by FREDERICK LOEWE. Introduced by JULIE ANDREWS, REX HARRISON and ROBERT COOTE in the musical 'My Fair Lady'
"Rock With The Caveman" = by STEELE, PRATT, LIONEL BART, FRANK CHACKSFIELD
"Roll Over Beethoven" = lyrics & music by CHUCK BERRY
"A Rose and a Baby Ruth" = lyrics & music by JOHN D. LOUDERMILK
"Round and Round" = lyrics & music by LOU STALLMAN & JOE SHAPIRO
"St. Therese Of The Roses" = lyrics & music by REMUS HARRIS and ARTHUR STRAUSS
"Shape of Things" = lyrics & music by SHELDON HARNICK
"Show Me" = lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER; music by FREDERICK LOEWE. Introduced by JULIE ANDREWS in the musical 'My Fair Lady'
"Singing the Blues" = lyrics & music by MELVIN ENDSLEY
"(A Little Boy Called) Smiley" = by CLYDE COLLINS
"Soft Summer Breeze" = lyrics by JUDY SPENCER; music by EDDIE HEYWOOD
"Somebody Up There Likes Me" = lyrics by SAMMY CAHN; music by BRONISLAU KAPER
"Somebody Somewhere" = lyrics & music by FRANK LOESSER
"Song For A Summer Night" = lyrics & music by ROBERT ALLEN
"Standing on the Corner" = lyrics & music by FRANK LOESSER. Introduced by SHORTY LONG, ALAN GILBERT, JOHN HENSON and ROY LAZARUS in the musical 'The Most Happy Fella'
"Sweet Heartaches" = lyrics & music by NAT SIMON & JIMMY KENNEDY
"A Sweet Old Fashioned Girl" = lyrics & music by BOB MERRILL
"A Tear Fell" = lyrics & music by EUGENE RANDOLPH & DORIAN BURTON
"Teen Age Crush" = lyrics & music by AUDREY ALLISON & JOE ALLISON
"Theme from Picnic" = lyrics by STEVE ALLEN; music by GEORGE DUNING
"There's Never Been Anyone Else But You" = lyrics by PAUL FRANCIS WEBSTER; music by DIMITRI TIOMKIN
"This Could Be The Start Of Something" = lyrics & music by STEVE ALLEN
"This Is What I Call Love" = lyrics by MATT DUBEY; music by HAROLD KARR
"A Thousand Miles Away" = by J. SHEPHARD, N. H. MILLER
"Too Close For Comfort" = lyrics by LARRY HOLOFCENER & GEORGE DAVID WEISS; music by JERRY BOCK
"Too Much" = lyrics & music by LEE ROSENBERG & BERNARD WEINMAN
"A Town Like Alice" = lyrics & music by LETTY KATTS
"Transfusion" = lyrics & music by JIMMY DRAKE
"True Love" = lyrics & music by COLE PORTER. Introduced by BING CROSBY and GRACE KELLY in the film 'High Society'
"Two Different Worlds" = lyrics by SID WAYNE; music by AL FRISCH
"Walk Hand In Hand" = lyrics & music by JOHNNY COWELL
"Warm All Over" = lyrics & music by FRANK LOESSER
"The Wayward Wind" = lyrics & music by STANLEY LEBOWSKY & HERB NEWMAN
"When Sunny Gets Blue" = lyrics by JACK SEGAL; music by MARVIN FISHER
"Who Needs You" = lyrics by AL STILLMAN; music by ROBERT ALLEN
"Who Wants To Be A Millionaire?" = lyrics & music by COLE PORTER. Introduced by CELESTE HOLM and FRANK SINATRA in the film 'High Society'
"With a Little Bit of Luck" = lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER; music by FREDERICK LOEWE. Introduced by STANLEY HOLLOWAY in the musical 'My Fair Lady'
"Without You" = lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER; music by FREDERICK LOEWE. Introduced by JULIE ANDREWS in the musical 'My Fair Lady'
"Wouldn't It Be Loverly" = lyrics by ALAN JAY LERNER; music by FREDERICK LOEWE. Introduced by JULIE ANDREWS in the musical 'My Fair Lady'. Performed in the 1964 film by MARNI NIXON dubbing for AUDREY HEPBURN
"Wringle, Wrangle" = lyrics & music by STAN JONES. Introduced by FESS PARKER in the film 'Westward Ho, the Wagons!'
"Written on the Wind" = lyrics & music by SAMMY CAHN & VICTOR YOUNG
"Ying Tong Song" = lyrics & music by SPIKE MILLIGAN
"Young Love" = lyrics & music by CAROLE JOYNER & RIC CARTEY
Classical Music
HANS ERICH APOSTEL
String Quartet No. 2
Variationen über drei Volkslieder, for orchestra
MALCOLM ARNOLD
Concerto No. 2 for Horn and String Orchestra, Op. 58
A Grand Grand Overture, Op. 57, for organ, three vacuum cleaners, electric floor polisher in E-flat, four rifles, and orchestra
Song of Praise, Op. 55 (text: J. Clare), for unison voices and piano
Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano, Op. 54
MILTON BABBITT
Semi-Simple Variations for piano
JAN BACH
String Trio
SAMUEL BARBER
Summer Music for wind quintet
WILLIAM BERGSMA
The Fortunate Islands, for string orchestra (revised version)
March with Trumpets, for band
LUCIANO BERIO
String Quartet
Variazioni "Ein Mädchen oder Weibchen", for two basset horns and strings
ARTHUR BLISS
Edinburgh Overture, for orchestra
Seek the Lord (anthem), SATB choir and organ
REGINALD SMITH BRINDLE
El Polifemo de Oro
BENJAMIN BRITTEN
Antiphon, Op. 56b, for SATB choir and organ
The Prince of the Pagodas, Op. 57 (ballet in three acts)
JOHN CAGE
27' 10.554? for a percussionist
Music for Piano 53–68
Music for Piano 69–84
Radio Music, for 1–8 radios
CARLOS CHÁVEZ
Prometheus Bound, cantata (text: Aeschylus, trans. R. Trevelyan), for alto, tenor, baritone, bass, SATB chorus and orchestra
AARON COPLAND
Variations on a Shaker Melody for symphonic band (from Appalachian Spring)
HENRY COWELL
Ballad, for wind quintet
Bounce Dance, for piano
Fifteenth Anniversary, for two unspecified treble instruments
Lines from the Dead Sea Scrolls, for six-part male choir and orchestra
Septet, for five madrigal singers, clarinet, and keyboard
String Quartet No. 5
Sidney Xmas ’56, for violin and piano
Sway Dance, for piano
Two Part Invention, for soprano and alto recorders
Variations for Orchestra
LUIGI DALLAPICCOLA
Cinque canti (Greek texts, trans. Salvatore Quasimodo), for baritone and eight instruments
MARIO DAVIDOVSKY
Three Pieces for Woodwind Quartet
Noneti for Nine Instruments
PETER MAXWELL DAVIES
Sonata for Clarinet and Piano
HENRI DUTILLEUX
Serenade for La couronne de Marguerite Long
HERBERT EIMERT
Fünf Stücke, electronic music
HANNS EISLER
Horatios Monolog (text: William Shakespeare), for voice and piano
Legende von der Entstehung des Buches Taote King (text: Bertolt Brecht), for voice and piano
Vier Szenen auf dem Lande (text: E. Strittmatter), children's or female voices and small orchestra
Von Wolkenstreifen leicht befangen (text: Johann Wolfgang von Goethe), for voice and piano
Zu Brechts Tod "Die Wälder atmen noch", for voice and four horns
MORTON FELDMAN
Piano Piece A
Piano Piece B
Pieces (2), for flute, alto flute, horn, trumpet, violin, and cello
Pieces (3), for string quartet
KENNETH GABURO
"Ad te domine", for SATB choir
"Ave Maria", for SATB choir
Elegy for a Small Orchestra
"Laetentur caeli", for SATB choir
String Quartet
"Terra tremuit", for SATB choir
BLAS GALINDO
Sinfonia breve, for string orchestra
ROBERT GERHARD
Lamparilla Overture for orchestra
Sonata for Cello and Piano
Songs (7), for soprano or tenor and guitar
CECIL ARMSTRONG GIBBS
Threnody
ALBERTO GINASTERA
Suite de danzas criollas, for piano (revised version)
CAMARGO GUARNIERI
Chôro, for clarinet and orchestra
Chôro, for piano and orchestra
Sonata No. 4 for violin and piano
Sonata No. 5 for violin and piano
CARLOS GUASTAVINO
La primera pregunta (El adolescente muerto), for voice and piano (text: N. Cortese)
Ombú, for voice and piano (text: N. Mileo, revised in 1989)
Mi canto, for voice and piano (text:Mileo)
ERNESTO HALFFTER
Fantasía galaica (ballet)
IAIN HAMILTON
The Bermudas, Op. 33 (text: Hamilton, Jourdain, A. Marvell), for baritone, chorus, and orchestra
KARL AMADEUS HARTMANN
Symphony No. 1 Versuch eines Requiems
ROBERT HELPS
Études (3), for piano
HANS WERNER HENZE
Concerto per il Marigny, for piano, clarinet, bass clarinet, horn, trumpet, trombone, viola, and cello
Fünf neapolitanische Lieder (texts: anon. 17th-century), for baritone and chamber orchestra
Maratona (dance drama in one act), also a suite for two jazz bands and orchestra
Sinfonische Etüden, for orchestra
ALFRED HILL
Symphony No. 6 "Celic"
Symphony No. 7, in E minor
PAUL HINDEMITH
"Othmar Sch Sch Sch Schoeck", canon for four voices
"40, 40, 40, 40, es lebe hoch das Konzerthausleben", canon for three voices
ALAN HOVHANESS
God Who Is in the Fire, Op. 146, for tenor solo, men's choir, and percussion (revised in 1965)
Greek Folk Dances (7), Op. 150, for harmonica and piano
Hercules, Op. 56, no. 4, for soprano and violin
Nocturne, Op. 20, no. 2, for flute and harp
Piano Sonata, Op. 145
Symphony No. 3, Op. 148
ANDREW IMBRIE
Introit, Gradual and Alleluia for All Saints’ Day, chorus and organ
Little Concerto, for piano four-hands and orchestra
GORDON JACOB
Concerto No. 2 for Oboe and Orchestra
Sextet for Piano and Wind Quintet
Trio for Violin, Cello, and Piano
Variations on "Annie Laurie", for two piccolos, two contrabass clarinets, hecklephone, two contrabassoons, serpent, contrabass serpent, subcontrabass tuba, harmonium, and hurdy gurdy
DMITRI KABALEVSKY
Romeo and Juliet, suite from the incidental music, op.56
Symphony No. 4, Op. 54
GOTTFRIED MICHAEL KOENIG
Klangfiguren II, electronic music
ERNST KRENEK
Guten Morgen, Amerika, Op. 159, for chorus (text: Carl Sandburg)
Spiritus Intelligentiae, Sanctus, Whitsun oratorio for soprano and tenor with electronic music
LARS-ERIK LARSSON
Concertino for Violin
BRUNO MADERNA
Notturno, electronic music
GIAN-FRANCESCO MALIPIERO
Dialoghi VII for two pianos and orchestra
FRANK MARTIN
Études, for string orchestra
Ouverture en hommage à Mozart, for orchestra
BOHUSLAV MARTINU
Impromptu for Two Pianos
Legenda z dýmu bramborové [Legend of the Smoke from Potato Tops] (text: Bureš), solo voices, chorus, flute, clarinet, hornn, accordion, and piano
Piano Concerto no. 4, Incantation
Sonatina for Clarinet and Piano
Sonatina for Trumpet and Piano
YORITSUNE MATSUDAIRA
Figure sonores for orchestra
TOSHIRO MAYUZUMI and MAKOTO MOROI
Seven Variations, electronic music
PETER MENNIN
Concerto for Cello and Orchestra, Sonata Concertante for Violin and Piano
GIAN CARLO MENOTTI
The Unicorn, the Gorgon, and the Manticore, or The Three Sundays of a Poet (madrigal ballet/fable)
OLIVIER MESSIAEN
Oiseaux exotiques, for piano, eleven winds, and seven percussionists
ROBERT MOEVS
The Past Revisited, three pieces for unaccompanied violin
FREDERIC MOMPOU and XAVIER MONTSALVATGE
Perimplinada (ballet, after F.G. Lorca)
BO NILSSON
Zwei Stücke, for flute, bass clarinet, piano, and percussion
LUIGI NONO
Il canto sospeso (text: letters of Resistance fighters), for soprano mezzo-soprano, tenor, chorus, and orchestra
HARRY PARTCH
The Bewitched (dance satire in one act), soprano, chorus, dancers, large instrumental ensemble
JUAN CARLOS PAZ
Música para fagot, cuerdas y batería
VINCENT PERSICHETTI
Little Recorder Book, Op. 70, 1956
Serenade no. 9, Op.71, for two recorders
Symphony No. 6, Op. 69, for Band
ALLAN PETTERSSON
Concerto No. 2 for Strings
DANIEL PINKHAM
Concerto for Violin and Orchestra
Wedding Cantata, for optional solo voices, chorus, and instrumental ensemble
WALTER PISTON
Quintet for Winds
Serenata for Orchestra
QUINCY PORTER
Nocturne, for piano
Songs (2), (text: A. Porter)
FRANCIS POULENC
Dernier poème
FRANZ REIZENSTEIN
Concerto populare
Fantasia concertante, op.33, for violin and piano
GEORGE ROCHBERG
Dialogues, for clarinet and piano
Sonata-Fantasia, for piano
NED ROREM
Symphony No. 2
MIKLÓS RÓZSA
Concerto for Violin
EDMUND RUBBRA
Piano Concerto in G, Op. 85, Improvisation for Violin and Orchestra Op. 89
R. MURRAY SCHAFER
Minnelieder (Minnesinger texts), for mezzo-soprano and wind quintet
HERMANN SCHROEDER
Concerto No. 1 for Violin and Orchestra
WILLIAM SCHUMAN
Chester Overture, for concert band
The Lord Has a Child, for SATB choir, or female choir, or solo voice, with piano (text: Langston Hughes)
New England Triptych, for orchestra
Rounds on Famous Words (4), for SATB choir (a fifth round was added in 1969)
ROGER SESSIONS
Piano Concerto
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Ispanskiye pesni [Spanish Songs], op. 100 (texts: anon., translated by Bolotin, Sikorskaya), mezzo-soprano and piano
String Quartet No. 6 in G major Op. 101
KAIKHOSRU SHAPURJI SORABJI
Passeggiata veneziana, for piano
Rosario d'arabeschi, for piano
KARLHEINZ STOCKHAUSEN
Gesang der Jünglinge, electronic and concrete music
Klavierstück XI
Zeitmaße, for five woodwinds
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Choral-Variationen über das Weihnachtslied "Vom Himmel hoch da komm’ ich her", arr. from Johann Sebastian Bach, for chorus and orchestra
SÁNDOR SZOKOLAY
Violin Concerto, Op. 13
VIRGIL THOMSON
Homage to Marya Freund and to the Harp, musical portrait for piano
MICHAEL TIPPETT
Bonny at Morn (arr. of Northumbrian folksong), unison choir and three recorders
Songs from the British Isles (4), SATB choir
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
A Choral Flourish (text from the Psalms), for SATB choir, two trumpets, and organ
God Bless the Master of This House, for SATB choir
Preludes on Welsh Folksongs (2), for organ
Symphony No. 8
A Vision of Aeroplanes (text: N. Ezekiel), motet for SATB choir and organ
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Emperor Jones (ballet, after Eugene O'Neill)
WILLIAM WALTON
Cello Concerto
MIECZYSLAW WEINBERG
Piano Sonata No. 5 in A minor, Op. 58
EGON WELLESZ
Suite for solo clarinet, Op. 74
Suite for solo oboe, Op. 76
Symphony No. 5, Op. 75
CHARLES WUORINEN
Music for Orchestra
IANNIS XENAKIS
Pithoprakta, for orchestra
Opera
MALCOLM ARNOLD
The Open Window, Op. 56 (opera in one act, libretto by S. Gilliat, after Saki)
premiered on December 14, 1956 on BBC TV
LEONARD BERNSTEIN
Candide (comic operetta in two acts, libretto by Lillian Hellman, R. Wilbur, J. La Touche, D. Parker, and Bernstein, after Voltaire)
WILLIAM BERGSMA
The Wife of Martin Guerre (opera in three acts, libretto by J. Lewis)
WOLFGANG FORTNER
Bluthochzeit (opera in two acts, after Federico García Lorca)
ARNOLD FRANCHETTI
The Game of Cards (opera in one act, libretto by the composer)
KENNETH GABURO
Blur (opera in one act, libretto by the composer)
HANS WERNER HENZE
König Hirsch (opera in three acts, libretto by H. von Cramer, after Carlo Gozzi)
BEN JOHNSTON
Gertrude, or Would She Be Pleased to Receive It? (chamber opera in two acts, libretto by W. Leach)
LEONARD KASTLE
The Swing (thirteen-minute television opera)
broadcast at noon on Sunday, June 10, 1956 on NBC television)
FRANK MARTIN
Der Sturm (opera in three acts, libretto after William Shakespeare, in a German translation by A.W. von Schlege)
DOUGLAS MOORE
The Ballad of Baby Doe
GINO NEGRI
Vieni qui, Carla (opera in one act, after Alberto Moravia's Gli indifferenti)
ELIE SIEGMEISTER
Miranda and the Dark Young Man (opera in one act, libretto by Edward Eager)
ROBERT WARD
He Who Gets Slapped (libretto by Bernard Stambler), staged under the title Pantaloon
Musical Theatre
AT THE DROP OF A HAT starring Michael Flanders and Donald Swann
London revue opened at the New Lindsey Theatre on December 31 and transferred to the Fortune Theatre on January 24, 1957 for a total run of 808 performances
BELLS ARE RINGING
Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on November 29 and ran for 924 performances
CANDIDE
(Leonard Bernstein)
Broadway production opened at the Martin Beck Theatre on December 1 and ran for 73 performances
FANNY
London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on November 15 and ran for 347 performances
GRAB ME A GONDOLA
London production opened at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith on November 27 and ran for 673 performances
HAPPY HUNTING
Broadway production opened at the Majestic Theatre on December 6 and ran for 412 performances
IRMA LA DOUCE
Paris production opened at the Théâtre Gramont on November 12
LI'L ABNER
(Gene De Paul and Johnny Mercer)
Broadway production opened at the St. James Theatre on November 15 and ran for 693 performances
THE MOST HAPPY FELLA
Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre on May 3 and ran for 676 performances
MR. WONDERFUL
Broadway production opened at the Broadway Theatre on March 22 and ran for 383 performances
MY FAIR LADY
(Alan Jay Lerner and Frederick Loewe)
Broadway production opened at the Mark Hellinger Theatre on March 15 and ran for 2717 performances
PLAIN AND FANCY
London production opened at the Drury Lane Theatre on January 25 and ran for 217 performances
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