Editing 1948 in music (section)

==Events==
*[[January 10]] – The [[Amadeus Quartet]] gives its first recital under this name, at the [[Wigmore Hall]] in London.
*[[February 25]] – First [[Nice Jazz Festival]] with [[Louis Armstrong]], [[Stéphane Grappelli]], [[Claude Luter]], [[Mezz Mezzrow]] and [[Django Reinhardt]]. It is during this first edition that [[Suzy Delair]] sings for the first time the song "[[C'est si bon]]" to a cabaret where [[Louis Armstrong]] ended his evening.
*[[March 20]] – Renowned Italian conductor [[Arturo Toscanini]] makes his television debut, conducting the [[NBC Symphony Orchestra]] in the United States in a program featuring the works of [[Richard Wagner]].
*[[April 3]] – [[Symphony No. 9 (Beethoven)|Beethoven's Symphony No. 9]] is played on television in its entirety for the first time in a concert featuring Toscanini conducting the NBC Symphony Orchestra. The chorus was prepared by [[Robert Shaw (conductor)|Robert Shaw]].
*[[April 21]] – [[National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain]] gives its first concert.<ref>{{cite news|title=Dame Ruth King|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1324382/Dame-Ruth-King.html|work=[[The Daily Telegraph]]|location=London|date=2001-02-28|accessdate=2019-04-07}}</ref>
*[[May 20]] – [[The Second International Congress of Composers and Music Critics 1948]] opens in Prague.
*[[June 5]] – Opening of the first [[Aldeburgh Festival]], founded by [[Benjamin Britten]], [[Eric Crozier]] and [[Peter Pears]].
*Summer – [[John Cage]] begins teaching at [[Black Mountain College]] in North Carolina.
*[[June 21]] &ndash; [[Columbia Records]] introduces the [[LP record|long-playing record album]] in a public demonstration<ref name="LoC">[https://blogs.loc.gov/now-see-hear/2019/04/inside-the-archival-box-the-first-long-playing-disc/ ''The First Long-Playing Disc''] Library of Congress (Congress.gov) (accessdate 21 June 2021)</ref> at the [[Waldorf-Astoria Hotel]] in New York City.
*[[November 29]] – First live telecast of a complete opera by the [[Metropolitan Opera]], of the opening-night performance of [[Giuseppe Verdi]]'s ''[[Otello]]'', starring [[Ramón Vinay]], [[Licia Albanese]], and [[Leonard Warren]], on [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC-TV]]
*December – [[Perry Como]] has his first television Christmas Special.
*[[Hans Werner Henze]] becomes musical assistant at the Deutscher Theater in Konstanz.
*[[Al Jolson]] is voted the "Most Popular Male Vocalist" of the year by a ''Variety'' poll.
*[[Patti Page]] becomes the first artist to use the technique of multi-track overdubbing (later popularized by [[Les Paul]] & [[Mary Ford]]).
*[[Columbia Records]] introduces the {{frac|33|1|3}}&nbsp;rpm [[vinyl record|LP]] ("long playing") record at New York's [[Waldorf-Astoria Hotel]], featuring 25 minutes of music per side, compared to the four minutes per side of the 78&nbsp;rpm record, the previous standard for [[gramophone record]]s.
*[[Otis Rush]] moves to Chicago and begins his musical career.
*[[Igor Stravinsky]] and [[Robert Craft]] meet for the first time.
*[[Quartetto Cetra]] dubs the choruses for the Italian release of Disney's ''[[Dumbo]]''.
*[[Gabriel von Wayditch]] begins work on his last opera ''The Heretics'', which is still not completed when he dies in 1969. However, he completed the piano score of the massive 8.5 hour work, which is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records as the world's longest opera.
*[[Bruno Maderna]] meets [[Hermann Scherchen]] for the first time: a fundamental encounter.
*[[John Serry Sr.]] meets his mentor, the composer [[Robert Strassburg]] for the first time.