Music History
Oct 10 Premiere performance of Dmitri Shostakovich's 1st String Quartet
Music History
Oct 16 Aaron Copland's & Eugene Loring's ballet "Billy the Kid" premieres in Chicago
- Oct 25 American Archbishop of Dubuque (Iowa), Francis J. L. Beckman, denounces Swing music as "a degenerated musical system... turned loose to gnaw away at the moral fiber of young people", warning that it leads down a "primrose path to hell".
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