Музыкальные события 1939 года

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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1939.

January 4 – New band to be headed by Harry James, first trumpet with Benny Goodman formed; goes into rehearsal January 6. It has already been dated for a short stay at the Statler Hotel, Boston, opening February 1. James has taken Buddy Rich from Bunny Berigan's orchestra to handle the drums and secures Frank Sinatra as vocalist. February – Recording of 'A Tisket, A Tasket' turned out by Ella Fitzgerald and Chick Webb for Decca has established a new eight year high in sales for the industry. The sales on this 35c have already gone over 250,000. The company's previous record had been the 160,000 copies achieved by Bing Crosby's version of 'Sweet Leilani.' February 24 – Symphony No. 3 by Roy Harris, receives its world premiere in Boston, as Serge Koussevitzky conducts the Boston Symphony Orchestra
April 9 – African American contralto Marian Anderson performs before 75,000 people at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, D. C., after having been denied the use both of Constitution Hall by the Daughters of the American Revolution, and of a public high school by the federally controlled District of Columbia. First Lady of the United States Eleanor Roosevelt resigns from the DAR because of their decision. May 17 – Sergei Prokofiev's Alexander Nevsky (Op. 78) cantata debuts in Moscow. It is an adaptation from the 1938 film score to Alexander Nevsky. May 22 – Columbia Recording Corporation incorporated in Delaware. June 10 – Première of Arthur Bliss's Piano Concerto in B flat with soloist Solomon; Arnold Bax's 7th Symphony; and Ralph Vaughan Williams' Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus, with the New York Philharmonic under Sir Adrian Boult at Carnegie Hall. August 22 – "You Are My Sunshine" first recorded. June 21 – Francis Poulenc's Organ Concerto is premièred in Paris. November 1 – Bruno Walter leaves Germany for the United States. December – Ali Akbar Khan accompanies Ravi Shankar on the sarod during the latter's debut performance at the annual music conference in Allahabad. December 31 – A special concert of music by Johann Strauss II is performed by the Vienna Philharmonic conducted by Clemens Krauss in the great hall of the Musikverein in Vienna, predecessor of a continuing series of Vienna New Year's Concerts. The Nordstrom Sisters are the resident act at The Ritz Hotel, London. Jo Stafford and The Pied Pipers join the Tommy Dorsey orchestra. The Squadronaires form. Dorothy Kirsten makes her professional concert debut at the New York World's Fair. Manuel de Falla leaves Granada for exile in Argentina.

Rank Artist Title Label Recorded Released Chart positions 1 The Ink Spots ""If I Didn't Care" Decca 2286 1939 1 12 1939 2 9 US Billboard 1939 #38, US #2 for 1 week, 9 total weeks, Grammy Hall of Fame 1987, National Recording Registry 2017 2 Cab Calloway and His Orchestra "(Hep Hep) The Jumpin' Jive" Bluebird 10129 1939 1 19 1939 2 18 US Billboard 1939 #102, US #7 for 1 week, 6 total weeks 6 Chick Webb Orchestra (vocal Ella Fitzgerald) "'F. D. R. Jones" Decca 2105 1938 10 6 US Billboard 1939 #116, US #8 for 1 week, 6 total weeks 7 Chick Webb Orchestra (vocal Ella Fitzgerald) "Undecided" Decca 2323 1939 2 17 US Billboard 1939 #120, US #8 for 1 week, 4 total weeks 8 Ella Fitzgerald And Her Famous Orchestra "I Want the Waiter (With the Water)" Decca 2628 1939 6 29 US Billboard 1939 #138, US #9 for 1 week, 3 total weeks 9 Lionel Hampton and His Orchestra "Wizzin' the Wiz" Victor 26233 1939 4 5 1939 5 3 US Billboard 1939 #153, US #10 for 1 week, 5 total weeks 10 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra "When the Saints Go Marching In" Decca 2230 1938 5 13 US Billboard 1939 #155, US #15 for 1 week, 3 total weeks 11 The Mills Brothers "Sweet Adeline (You're the Flower of My Heart)" Decca 2285 1939 1 24 1939 2 9 US Billboard 1939 #160, US #10 for 1 week, 2 total weeks 12 Count Basie and His Orchestra "Jumpin' At The Woodside" Decca 2212 1938 8 22 US Billboard 1939 #174, US #11 for 1 week, 4 total weeks 13 Fats Waller "Hold Tight" Bluebird 10116 1939 1 19 1939 2 18 US Billboard 1939 #176, US #11 for 1 week, 4 total weeks 14 Louis Armstrong and His Orchestra "West End Blues" Decca 2480 1939 2 1 US Billboard 1939 #218, US #13 for 1 week, 1 total weeks 15 Mildred Bailey "Blame it on My Last Affair" Vocalion 04632 1938 12 8 US Billboard 1939 #219, US #13 for 1 week, 1 total weeks 16 Billie Holiday "Strange Fruit" Commodore 526 1937 6 20 1939 2 9 US Billboard 1939 #287, US #16 for 1 week, 2 total weeks, Grammy Hall of Fame 1978, National Recording Registry 2002 18 Blind Boy Fuller "Big Leg Woman Gets My Pay" Vocalion 05030 1939 7 12 19 Robert Johnson "Love in Vain Blues" Vocalion 04630 1937 6 20 1939 2 9 20 Robert Johnson "Preachin' Blues (Up Jumped the Devil)" Vocalion 04630 1936 11 27 1939 2 9 21 Lead Belly (Huddie Ledbetter) "The Gallis Pole" Musicraft 227 1939 6 14 22 Lead Belly "The Bourgeois Blues" Musicraft 227 1939 4 1 23 Lead Belly "The Boll Weevil" Musicraft 226 1939 4 1

Composer Composition Date Location Performers Bartók, Béla Violin Concerto No. 2 1939 03 23 Amsterdam Székely / Concertgebouw Orchestra – Mengelberg Bax, Arnold Symphony No. 7 1939 06 09 New York City (EXPO) New York Philharmonic – Boult Bliss, Arthur Piano Concerto 1939 06 10 New York City (EXPO) Solomon / New York Philharmonic – Boult Boughton, Rutland Symphony No. 3 (1937) 1939 01 01 London [unknown ensemble] – Pougnet Britten, Benjamin Young Apollo 1939 08 02 Toronto Britten / Toronto Melodic Strings – Chuhaldin Enescu, George Orchestral Suite No. 3, "Villageoise" (1938) 1939 02 02 New York City Carnegie Hall New York Philharmonic Symphony – Enescu Ginastera, Alberto Harp Sonatina 1939 06 26 Buenos Aires Sebastiani Harris, Roy Symphony No. 3 1939 02 24 Boston Boston Symphony – Koussevitzky Hovhaness, Alan Exile (Symphony No. 1) (1936) 1939 05 26 London BBC Symphony – Heward Lutosławski, Witold Symphonic Variations 1939 06 17 Cracow, Poland Polish Radio Symphony – Fitelberg Messiaen, Olivier Chants de Terre et de Ciel 1939 01 23 Paris Bunlet, Messiaen Prokofiev, Sergei Alexander Nevsky, cantata 1939 05 17 Moscow Gagarina / Moscow Philharmonic – Prokofiev Prokofiev, Sergei Zdravitsa, cantata 1939 12 21 Moscow USSR Radio Symphony – Golovanov Rosenberg, Hilding Symphony No. 3 1939 12 11 Stockholm Swedish Radio Symphony – Rosenberg Shostakovich, Dmitri Symphony No. 6 1939 11 21 Leningrad Leningrad Philharmonic – Mravinsky Stravinsky, Igor Le roi des étoiles, cantata 1939 04 19 Brussels Brussels Radio Symphony – André Vaughan Williams, Ralph Five Variants of Dives and Lazarus 1939 06 10 New York City (EXPO) New York Philharmonic – Boult Walton, William Violin Concerto 1939 12 07 Cleveland Heifetz / Cleveland Orchestra – Rodziński Weinberger, Jaromír Under the Spreading Chestnut Tree 1939 10 12 New York City New York Philharmonic – Barbirolli Xian Xinghai Yellow River Cantata 1939 04 13 Yan'an, Vhina [unknown ensemble] – Wu Xiling