1944 жылғы музыкалық оқиғалар

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1944.

January 18 – The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a jazz concert; the performers are Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, Lionel Hampton, Artie Shaw, Roy Eldridge and Jack Teagarden. February – The Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra loses its concert hall in an Allied air raid. February 19 – The Billboard modifies its "Most Played Juke Box Records" chart to rank records (previously it had ranked songs, listing multiple records for each). The year end "Top Disks" of 1944 will now be based on performance on the "Best Selling Retail Records" and "Most Played Juke Box Records" charts. July 28 – Sir Henry Wood, aged 75, conducts his last Promenade Concert, evacuated to Bedford. August 19 – Italian singers Lucia Mannucci and Virgilio Savona get married. September 20 – Yehudi Menuhin gives the first British performance of Béla Bartók's Second Violin Concerto in Bedford, in the opening concert of a tour with the B. B. C. Orchestra conducted by Sir Adrian Boult. Autumn – Peggy Guggenheim's The Art of This Century gallery on Manhattan releases a 78 rpm 3 record album containing Paul Bowles' Sonata for Flute and Piano and Two Mexican Dances with a cover by Max Ernst. October 25 – Notoriously bad amateur soprano Florence Foster Jenkins gives her only public recital, in Carnegie Hall, a month before her death. November 11 – AFM strike ends when Columbia, Victor and NBC "throw in the sponge" and agree to terms. December 15 – Glenn Miller is reported missing. The official explanation is that his plane went down somewhere over the English Channel, although many alternate theories have been suggested. Singer Billy Murray retires to Long Island. English contralto Kathleen Ferrier makes the first of her recordings of the aria "What is Life?" (Che farò) from Gluck's Orfeo ed Euridice which will rival sales by more popular singers over the next few years. Czech Jewish composer Hans Krása's children's opera Brundibár is performed many times in Theresienstadt concentration camp, where on October 17 the composer is killed. Flo Sandon's makes her stage debut, singing in a charity show. Jo Stafford launches her solo career. Frankie Laine cuts his first singles for the Beltone and Atlas labels.

On August 1, 1942, a strike by the American Federation of Musicians ended all recording sessions. Record companies kept business going by releasing recordings from their vaults, but by mid 1943, alternate sources were running dry, as the strike continued. Decca was the first company to settle in September 1943, but RCA Victor and Columbia held on until November 11, 1944. It comes as no surprise that fifteen of the top twenty records of 1944 were released by Decca, with two more by Capitol, the second company to settle. Beginning February 19, 1944, The Billboard modified its "Most Played Juke Box Records" chart to rank records (previously it had ranked songs, listing multiple records for each). The January 6, 1945 issue contained year end top ten charts for "Best Selling Retail Records", "Most Played Juke Box Records" and "Top 10 Disks for 1944", the latter combining the scores of the former two charts. The chart below was compiled using Billboard's formula, but includes each record's full chart period, with weeks from 1943 and 1945 as needed. Details from "Most Played Juke Box Folk Records" (Hillbilly), "Harlem Hit Parade" (HHP) charts and the "American Folk Records" column late 1943 early 1944 were also considered. As always, numerical rankings are approximate. Rank Artist Title Label Recorded Released Chart positions 1 Bing Crosby "Swinging on a Star" Decca 18597 1944 2 7 US BB 1944 #1, US #1 for 9 weeks, 28 total weeks, 1,000,000 sales 2 Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters "Don't Fence Me In" Decca 23364 1944 7 25 US BB 1944 #2, US #1 for 8 weeks, 21 total weeks, 1,000,000 sales Columbia 36698 1941 4 7 US BB 1944 #3, US #1 for 6 weeks (Juke Box chart), 29 total weeks 4 The Mills Brothers "You Always Hurt The One You Love" Decca 18599 1944 2 27 US BB 1944 #4, US #1 for 5 weeks, 32 total weeks, US R&B 1944 #29, Harlem Hit Parade #5 for 3 weeks, 24 total weeks, 1,000,000 sales Decca 18574 1943 10 7 US BB 1944 #5, US #1 for 7 weeks, 25 total weeks, 1,000,000 sales 6 Dinah Shore "I'll Walk Alone" Victor 20 1586 1944 4 11 1944 5 19 US BB 1944 #6, US #1 for 4 weeks, 26 total weeks, US R&B 1944 #44, Harlem Hit Parade #10 for 2 weeks, 2 total weeks, CashBox #1, USPop #1 for 5 weeks, 14 total weeks 7 Bing Crosby "I'll Be Seeing You" Decca 18595 1944 2 17 US BB 1944 #7, US #1 for 4 weeks, 28 total weeks 8 Glen Gray and the Casa Loma Orchestra "My Heart Tells Me (Should I Believe My Heart?)" Decca 18567 1943 10 1 US BB 1944 #8, US #1 for 5 weeks, 24 total weeks 9 Red Foley "Smoke on the Water" Decca 6102 1944 5 4 1944 6 13 US BB 1944 #57, US #7 for 1 week, 11 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1944 #2, MPJBFR #1 for 13 weeks, 27 total weeks 10 Bing Crosby "I Love You" Decca 18595 1944 2 11 US BB 1944 #9, US #1 for 5 weeks, 19 total weeks 11 Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots "I'm Making Believe" Decca 23356 1944 8 30 US 1944 #10, US #1 for 2 weeks, 18 total weeks, CashBox #4, USPop #1 for 1 week, 24 total weeks, US R&B 1944 #18, Harlem Hit Parade #2 for 1 week, 14 total weeks 12 King Cole Trio "Straighten Up and Fly Right" Capitol 154 1943 11 30 1944 4 14 US BB 1944 #67, US #9 for 1 week, 12 total weeks, US R&B 1944 #2, Harlem Hit Parade #1 for 10 weeks, 24 total weeks, US Hillbilly 1944 #3, MPJBFR #1 for 5 weeks, 16 total weeks 13 Bing Crosby "San Fernando Valley" Decca 18586 1943 12 29 US BB 1944 #11, US #1 for 5 weeks (Juke Box chart), 24 total weeks 14 Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" Decca 23356 1944 8 30 US BB 1944 #16, US #1 for 2 weeks (Juke Box chart), 19 total weeks, US R&B 1944 #1, Harlem Hit Parade #1 for 11 weeks, 21 total weeks, CashBox #14, USPop #9 for 1 week, 19 total weeks, 1,000,000 sales Decca 18572 1943 10 5 US BB 1944 #12, US #1 for 5 weeks (Juke Box chart), 22 total weeks 16 Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five "G. I. Jive" Decca 8659 1944 3 15 US BB 1944 #13, US #1 for 2 weeks (Juke Box chart), 22 total weeks, US R&B 1944 #4, Harlem Hit Parade #1 for 6 weeks, 26 total weeks 17 Merry Macs "Mairzy Doats" Decca 18588 1943 12 13 US BB 1944 #14, US #1 for 5 weeks (Juke Box chart), 14 total weeks, Decca Records' best selling release of 1944 18 Helen Forrest and Dick Haymes "Long Ago (and Far Away)" Decca 23317 1944 1 27 US BB 1944 #15, US #2 for 1 week, 20 total weeks 19 The Pied Pipers "The Trolley Song" Capitol 168 1944 5 19 US BB 1944 #17, US #2 for 2 weeks, 15 total weeks 20 Bing Crosby and the Andrews Sisters "Hot Time in the Town of Berlin" Decca 23350 1944 6 30 1944 8 24 US BB 1944 #20, US #1 for 6 weeks (Juke Box chart), 15 total weeks

Rank Artist Title Label Recorded Released Chart positions 1 Ella Fitzgerald & The Ink Spots "Into Each Life Some Rain Must Fall" Decca 23356 1944 8 30 US BB 1944 #16, US #1 for 2 weeks (Juke Box chart), 19 total weeks, US R&B 1944 #1, Harlem Hit Parade #1 for 11 weeks, 21 total weeks, CashBox #14, USPop #9 for 1 week, 19 total weeks 2 King Cole Trio "Straighten Up and Fly Right" Barber, Samuel Capricorn Concerto 1944 10 08 New York City Saidenberg Little Symphony – Saidenberg Barber, Samuel Symphony No. 2 1944 03 03 Symphony Hall, Boston Boston Symphony Orchestra – Koussevitzky Bartók, Béla Concerto for Orchestra 1944 12 01 Boston Boston Symphony – Koussevitzky Bartók, Béla Sonata for Solo Violin 1944 11 26 New York City Menuhin Bernstein, Leonard Jeremiah (Symphony No. 1) 1944 01 28 Pittsburgh Tourel / Pittsburgh Symphony – Bernstein Carter, Elliott Symphony No. 1 1944 04 27 Rochester, New York Eastman Rochester Symphony – Hanson Copland, Aaron Letter from Home 1944 10 17 New York City Philco Radio Hour Orchestra – Whiteman Copland, Aaron Violin Sonata 1944 01 17 New York City Posselt, Copland Dallapiccola, Luigi Liriche Greche III – Sex Carmina Alcaei 1944 11 10 Rome Danco / RAI Symphony in Rome – Previtali Ginastera, Alberto Canciones populares argentinas 1944 07 17 Buenos Aires Frías de López, Luzzatti Ginastera, Alberto Obertura para el Fausto criollo 1944 05 12 Santiago de Chile Chile Symphony – Castro Ginastera, Alberto Preludios americanos 1944 08 07 Buenos Aires Spivak Hindemith, Paul Symphonic Metamorphosis of Themes by Carl Maria von Weber 1944 01 20 New York City New York Philharmonic – Rodzinski Jolivet, André Danses rituelles 1944 12 05 Paris Paris Conservatory Concert Society Orchestra – Cluytens Jolivet, André Poèmes intimes 1944 04 04 Paris Bernac / Paris Conservatory Concert Society Orchestra – Cluytens Jongen, Joseph Piano Concerto 1944 01 06 Brussels Del Pueyo / Brussels Philharmonic – André Khachaturian, Aram Suite from Masquerade 1944 08 06 Moscow USSR Radio Symphony Orchestra – Gorchakov Moore, Douglas In memoriam 1944 04 27 Rochester, New York Eastman Rochester Symphony – Hanson Piston, Walter Symphony No. 2 1944 03 05 Washington DC USA National Symphony – Kindler Prokofiev, Sergei Piano Sonata No. 8 1944 12 30 Moscow Gilels Rainier, Priaulx String Quartet 1944 07 03 London Zorian Quartet Schoenberg, Arnold Ode to Napoleon Buonaparte 1944 11 23 New York City Harrel, Steuermann / New York Philharmonic – Rodzinski Schoenberg, Arnold Piano Concerto 1944 02 06 New York City Steuermann / NBC Symphony – Stokowski Schoenberg, Arnold Theme and Variations for Orchestra 1944 10 20 Boston Boston Symphony – Koussevitzky Schoenberg, Arnold Variations on a Recitative (1941) 1944 04 10 New York City Weinrich Shostakovich, Dmitri Piano Trio No. 2 1944 11 14 Leningrad Tsiganov, Chirinsky, Shostakovich Shostakovich, Dmitri String Quartet No. 2 1944 11 14 Leningrad Beethoven Quartet Stravinsky, Igor Norwegian Moods 1944 01 13 Cambridge, Massachusetts Boston Symphony – Stravinsky Stravinsky, Igor Scherzo à la russe (band version) 1944 09 05 New York City Whiteman Band Stravinsky, Igor Sonata for Two Pianos 1944 08 02 Madison, Wisconsin Boulanger, Johnston Tippett, Michael A Child of Our Time, oratorio 1944 03 19 London Cross, MacArthur, Pears, Lloyd / Morley College Choir / London Philharmonic – Goehr