01-16 - Béla Bartók's Sonata for two pianos and percussion is premiered in Basel
06-02 - Amy Beach begins work on her Piano Trio based on her earlier works at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, NH.
06-06 - Pianist/bandleader Count Basie records Doggin’ Around
06-08 - The Carter Family recorded "You Are My Flower"
06-12 - First performance by Leonard Bernstein as composer-pianist playing his Music for the Dance Nos. 1 and 2 and Music for Two Pianos with Mildred Spiegel in Brookline, MA.
06-23 - Gene Autry recorded "I'm Beginning to Care"
07-16 - Music Maestro Please recorded by Tommy Dorsey begins a run of 6 weeks at #1 on the US charts.
07-21 - Benny Carter arranges and plays on an all-star session for Lionel Hampton including trumpeter Harry James and drummer Jo Jones.
07-21 - First performance of Paul Hindemith's ballet St. Francis composer conducting at Covent Garden in London. Note the suite titled Nobilissima Visone is taken from this work.
07-24 - First performance of Richard Strauss' opera Friedenstag 'The Day of Peace' in Munich.
07-31 - First performance of Morton Gould's Second American Sinfonietta conducted by Gould at a New York Philharmonic concert at Lewisohn Stadium in NYC.
