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==Events== *[[January 18]] – The [[Metropolitan Opera|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]] – [[Henry Wood|Sir Henry Wood]], aged 75, conducts his last [[BBC Proms|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 [[Violin Concerto No. 2 (Bartók)|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]].<ref>{{cite book|first=Francine|last=Prose|author-link=Francine Prose|title=Peggy Guggenheim: the shock of the new|url=https://www.academia.edu/17789289|location=New Haven|publisher=Yale University Press|year=2015|isbn=978-0-300-20348-6|page=140]}}</ref> *[[October 25]] – Notoriously bad amateur soprano [[Florence Foster Jenkins]] gives her only public recital, in [[Carnegie Hall]], a month before her death. *[[November 11]] – [[American Federation of Musicians|AFM]] strike ends when [[Columbia Records|Columbia]], [[RCA Records|Victor]] and [[NBC]] "throw in the sponge" and agree to terms.<ref name=Billboard>{{Cite journal |date=March 3, 1945 |title=The Ban Ended Five Months Ago |journal=The Billboard |volume=57 |issue=9 |page=92}}</ref> *[[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 (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.<ref>{{cite book|last=Campion|first=Paul|title=Ferrier – A Career Recorded|publisher=Thames Publishing|location=London|year=2005|isbn=0-903413-71-X|pages=43–44}}</ref> *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 Records|Atlas]] labels.
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