Events in Music History in December 1931

  • Dec 25 NY's Metropolitan Opera broadcasts an entire opera over radio

"Of Thee I Sing"

Dec 26 George Gershwin, Ira Gershwin, George S. Kaufman and Morrie Ryskind's musical political satire "Of Thee I Sing" opens at the Music Box Theatre, NYC; runs for 441 performances, and becomes first musical to win Pulitzer Prize for Drama