Editing 1938 in music (section)

==Events==
*[[January 16]]
**<!--January 16-->[[Benny Goodman]] plays the first [[jazz]] concert at [[Carnegie Hall]] in New York City, considered a legitimisation of the genre. It is recorded live and issued in [[1950 in music|1950]] as ''[[The Famous 1938 Carnegie Hall Jazz Concert]]''.
**<!--January 16-->[[Béla Bartók]]'s ''[[Sonata for two pianos and percussion]]'' is premièred in [[Basel]].
**<!--January 16-->First recording of [[Mahler]]'s [[Symphony No. 9 (Mahler)|Symphony No. 9]], a live performance by the [[Vienna Philharmonic]] conducted by [[Bruno Walter]] at the [[Musikverein]], the same location, conductor and orchestra that had presented the première 26 years earlier, but now in the face of the [[Anschluss]].<ref>{{cite news|title=Colorful Fetes Mark Royal Wedding that will Link Egypt and Persian |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=id9IAAAAIBAJ&sjid=IgINAAAAIBAJ&pg=3855,4689544|access-date=13 August 2020|newspaper=The Meriden Daily Journal|date=13 March 1939}}</ref>
*[[May 12]] – [[Arthur Honegger]]'s oratorio ''[[Jeanne d'Arc au Bûcher]]'' is premièred in [[Basel]], with [[Ida Rubinstein]] as Jeanne.
*[[June 5]] – [[Glenn Gould]] plays in public for the first time at a church service held at the Business Men's Bible Class in Uxbridge, Ontario to a congregation of about two thousand people.
*[[September 22]]
** [[Anton Webern]]'s ''[[String Quartet (Webern)|String Quartet]]'' is premièred in [[Pittsfield, Massachusetts]].
** [[Olsen and Johnson]]'s musical comedy revue ''[[Hellzapoppin (musical)|Hellzapoppin]]'' begins its 3-year run on Broadway.
*[[October 5]] – [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]]' ''[[Serenade to Music]]'' is premièred at the [[Royal Albert Hall]] in London to mark the 50th anniversary of conductor [[Henry Wood]]'s first concert.
*[[October 31]] – [[Sister Rosetta Tharpe]] makes her first recording.
* [[December 17]] – [[Consolidated Film Industries|Consolidated Film Industries, Inc.]] consummates the sale of its subsidiary [[American Record Corporation|American Record Corp.]] to [[Sony Music|Columbia Broadcasting]] on December 17, 1938, for a reported price of $700,000. American Record embraces the [[Brunswick Records|Brunswick]], [[Vocalion Records|Vocalion]] and [[Columbia Records|Columbia]] labels.<ref>{{Cite news |date=December 21, 1938 |title=Frank Walker |pages=24 |work=Variety |url=https://archive.org/details/variety132-1938-12/page/n3/mode/2up?q=Denies+Joining+CBS+Subsidiary |access-date=June 18, 2022}}</ref>
*[[December 30]] – The [[ballet]] ''[[Romeo and Juliet (Prokofiev)|Romeo and Juliet]]'' (with music by [[Sergei Prokofiev|Prokofiev]]) receives its first full performance, at the [[Mahen Theatre]] in [[Brno]], [[Czechoslovakia]].
* In [[West Java]], Daeng Soetigna tunes the traditional [[pentatonic]] [[angklung]] to play the [[diatonic]] [[Scale (music)|scale]].
* English composer [[Ralph Vaughan Williams]] begins an affair with writer [[Ursula Vaughan Williams|Ursula Wood]]; they will marry in 1953.
* [[Roy Acuff]] and the Crazy Tennesseans win a contract with the [[Grand Ole Opry]].
* [[Pete Seeger]] drops out of college to begin his career as a folk singer.
* [[Jelly Roll Morton]] speaks, sings and plays piano for an eight-hour [[Library of Congress]] recorded sound documentary produced by [[Alan Lomax]].
* Italian performer [[Fred Buscaglione]] and songwriter [[Leo Chiosso]] meet.
* [[The Andrews Sisters]] enjoy their first major hit with "[[Bei Mir Bist Du Schoen]]".
* [[John Serry Sr.]] appears with [[Shep Fields]] in [[Paramount Pictures]] film extravaganza ''[[The Big Broadcast of 1938]]''.
* Roman Catholic [[hymnal]] ''[[Kirchenlied]]'' first published in Germany.