Months in 1928: January February March April May June July August September October November December
Events in Music
Events 1 - 10 of 10
Jan 10th - G/I Gershwin/Romberg/Wodehouse's musical "Rosalie," premieres in NYC
Mar 13th - Rudolph Friml's musical "Three Musketeers," premieres in NYC
Mar 22nd - Noel Coward's musical "This Year of Grace," premieres in London
Sep 15th - Stothard, Kalmar & Ruby's musical "Good Boy," premieres in NYC
Sep 24th - Cohan/Lardner's musical "Elmer the Great," premieres in NYC
Oct 8th - Cole Porter & E Ray Goetz' musical "Paris," premieres in NYC
Nov 8th - George & Ira Gershwin's musical "Treasure Girl," premieres in NYC
Dec 4th - Walter Donaldson & Gus Kahn's musical "Whoopee," premieres in NYC
Dec 28th - Last recording of Ma Rainey, "Mother of the Blues," made
Dec 28th - Louis Armstrong makes 78 recording of "West End blues"
Birthdays in Music
Birthdays 1 - 100 of 147
Jan 9th - Domenico Modugno,
Italy, rocker (Polignano A Mare)
Jan 12th - Ruth Brown,
American singer (d. 2006)
Jan 16th - Pilar Lorengar, Spanish soprano (d. 1996)
Jan 17th - Jean Barraqué,
French composer (d. 1973)
Jan 19th - Edward Gerard Schurmann,
composer
Jan 31st - Chuck Willis,
rock vocalist (C C Rider)
Feb 2nd - Alan Fluck,
musical educationalist
Feb 17th - Marta Romero,
Puerto Rican actress & singer
Feb 26th - Antione "Fats" Domino, NO LA, rhythm & blues pianist (Blueberry Hill)
Feb 26th - Monique Leyrac, French Canadian singer and actress
Feb 29th - Alan Loveday,
British(?) violinist
Mar 3rd - Dave Dudley,
singer (Six Days on the Road)
Mar 6th - Ronald Stevenson,
composer
Mar 8th - Frank Michael Beyer,
composer
Mar 8th - Judy Johnson, Norfolk Va, singer (Your Show of Shows)
Mar 10th - Sara Montiel,
Spanish actress and singer
Mar 12th - Phil Jones,
principal (Trinity College of Music)
Mar 12th - Aldemaro Romero, Venezuelan musician (d. 2007)
Mar 16th - Christa Ludwig,
Berlin Germany, soprano (Vienna State Opera)
Mar 16th - Ramon Barce, composer
Mar 21st - Evelyn Ruth Anderson,
composer
Mar 24th - Byron "Yanks" Janis,
McKeesport Pa, pianist (NBC Symphony Orch)
Mar 26th - Carole Carr,
singer/actress (Down Among the Z Men)
Mar 30th - Diether de la Motte,
composer
Apr 1st - Jane Powell,
Portland Oregon, singer/actress (7 Brides for 7 Brothers)
Apr 2nd - Serge Gainsbourg,
[Ginsburg], Russian/French singer (Ford Mustang)
Apr 3rd - Don Gibson,
American country musician (d. 2003)
Apr 4th - Monty Norman,
composer/writer
Apr 5th - David Farquhar Andress,
composer
Apr 5th - Tony Williams, Elizabeth NJ, singer (Platters-Only You, Harbor Lights)
Apr 5th - Will Gaines, jazz dancer
Apr 8th - Monty Sunshine,
jazz bandleader (Gotta Travel On)
Apr 8th - Fred Ebb, Manhattan NY, American composer, (d. 2004)
Apr 9th - Tom Lehrer,
parody/folk singer (That Was The Week That Was)
Apr 18th - Jean-Francois Pailliard,
Vitry-le-Francois France, conductor
Apr 19th - Alexis Korner,
Paris, musician (Blues Inc-Bootleg Him)
Apr 29th - Carl Gardner, Tyler Tx, rock vocalist (Coasters-Searchin)
May 4th - Maynard Ferguson,
Verdun Quebec, jazz trumpeter (Roulette)
May 8th - William Jay Sydeman,
composer
May 9th - Pall Pampichier Palsson,
composer
May 12th - Burt Bacharach,
KC Mo, composer (I'll Never Fall in Love Again)
May 12th - Henry Cosby, African-American songwriter (d. 2002)
May 14th - Will "Dub Jones,
American singer (The Coasters) (d. 2000)
May 22nd - Roscoe Robinson,
US gospel singer
May 23rd - Rosemary Clooney,
Kentucky, singer/paper towels spokeswoman (Coronet)
May 23rd - Pauline Julien, French Canadian singer (d. 1998)
May 27th - Thea Musgrave,
Barnton Midlothian Scot, composer (Mary Queen of Scots)
May 30th - Gustav Leonhardt,
Master Dutch Harpsichordist, organist and conductor
May 31st - Jacob Lateiner,
Havana Cuba, pianist/professor (Juiliard)
Jun 7th - Charles Louis Strouse,
composer
Jun 12th - Richard Sherman,
composer/lyricist (Mary Poppins)
Jun 12th - Vic Damone, [Vito Farinola], Bkln, singer (Street Where You Live)
Jun 16th - Sergiu Comissiona,
Buch Romania, conductor (Haifa Symph 1959-64)
Jun 20th - Eric Dolphy, Los Angeles California, jazz musician, (d. 1964)
Jun 21st - Judith Raskin,
NYC, soprano (Susanna-Le Nozze di Figaro)
Jun 25th - William Joseph Russo,
composer
Jun 26th - Jacob Druckman,
Philadelphia, composer (Animus I Auerole)
Jun 28th - Andrew Gordon Speedie-Pask,
cybernetician stage producer/lyricist
Jul 1st - Volker Wangenheim,
composer
Jul 4th - Cathy Berberian,
Armenia, US singer
Jul 4th - Lloyd Lambert, bassist
Jul 8th - Norma Donaldson,
singer/actress (Poetic Justice, 5 Heartbeats)
Jul 13th - Leroy Vinnegar, American jazz bassist
Jul 14th - Pierre Olaf, Cauderan France, actor (Kraft Music Hall)
Jul 16th - Bella Davidovich,
Baku Russia, pianist (Chopin, Beethoven, Ravel)
Jul 17th - Vince Guaraldi,
American musician and composer (d. 1976)
Jul 23rd - Leon Fleisher,
SF California, pianist/conductor (Annapolis Symph 1973-77)
Jul 25th - Keter Betts,
American jazz bassist (d. 2005)
Jul 26th - Tadeusz Baird, Polish composer (Giocosa)
Jul 29th - Bidzina Alexandrovich Kvernadze,
composer
Aug 8th - Don Burrows,
Australian musician
Aug 10th - Eddie Fisher,
Phila Pa, singer (Oh My Papa, Lady of Spain)
Deaths in Music
Deaths 1 - 21 of 21
Jan 8th - Dumitru Kiriac-Georgescu,
composer, dies at 61
Feb 16th - Eddie Foy,
American singer and dancer (b. 1856)
Mar 1st - Albert Herbert Brewer,
composer, dies at 62
Mar 1st - Jacob Adolf Hagg, composer, dies at 77
Mar 27th - Leslie Stuart,
composer, dies at 64
Mar 28th - Giuseppe Ferrata,
composer, dies at 63
Apr 13th - Luis Iruarrizaga Aguirre,
composer, dies at 36
Apr 18th - Henryk Melcer-Szczawinski,
composer, dies at 58
Apr 24th - Ferdinand B Hummel,
composer, dies at 72
May 7th - Alexander Afanasii Spendiaryan,
composer, dies at 56
May 9th - Constantin Dimitrescu,
composer, dies at 81
May 19th - Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert,
composer, dies at 59
Jun 6th - Heinrich Gottlieb Noren,
composer, dies at 67
Jun 13th - Damaso Ledesma,
composer, dies at 60
Jun 23rd - Thomas H Rollinson,
composer, dies at 84
Aug 6th - William Henry Grattan Flood,
composer, dies at 68
Aug 12th - Leoš Janáček,
Czech composer (b. 1854)
Aug 13th - Fernand de La Tombelle,
composer, dies at 74
Oct 30th - Oscar George Theodore Sonneck,
composer, dies at 55
Nov 19th - Achille Simonetti,
composer, dies at 71
Dec 18th - Lucien Capet,
composer, dies at 55
