1932 in Music

1932 In Music

record The Clouds Will Soon Roll By for Columbia records.

  • August 15 – First successful electrical re-recording, directed by Nathaniel Shilkret, of an orchestral accompaniment of a Victor recording by Enrico Caruso
  • October 7 - The London Philharmonic Orchestra, recently founded by Thomas Beecham, gives its first public concert.
  • October 13 - Isham Jones and the Three X Sisters record at New York Studio No.1. Several songs utilized for RCA Victor were labeled "experimental"

as this blues era band-leader was fusing new arraingment's, and an idea that would later influence part of the Swing era.

  • October 19 – Frankie Laine and Ruthie Smith set the all-time dance marathon record of 3,501 hours (145 days) at the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey
  • October 31 – Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 5 is premiered in Berlin
  • November - Radio Digest Magazine Boswell Sisters, Pickens Sisters, and Three X Sisters.
  • Henry Hall becomes Director of the BBC Dance Orchestra.
  • Ruth Porter Crawford marries Charles Seeger.
  • Sydney Symphony comes into existence

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