Editing 1949 in music (section)

==Events==
*[[January 12]] – [[Maro Ajemian]], to whom the work is dedicated, gives one of the first performances of the complete cycle of [[John Cage]]'s ''[[Sonatas and Interludes]]'' at [[Carnegie Hall]].<ref>{{cite magazine
|magazine=[[Time (magazine)|Time]]
|date=January 24, 1949
|title=Sonata for Bolt & Screw
|url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,799692,00.html
|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090527041743/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,799692,00.html
|url-status=dead
|archive-date=May 27, 2009
|access-date=2007-12-15}}</ref>
*[[February 4]] – [[Ljuba Welitsch]] makes her [[Metropolitan Opera]] début in ''[[Salome (opera)|Salome]]''.
*[[February 11]] – [[London Mozart Players]] give their first concert, at the [[Wigmore Hall]].
*[[April]] – [[Goree Carter]] records "Rock Awhile", which is considered to be the [[first rock and roll record]].<ref>{{Citation |title=The Church of the Sonic Guitar |date=2020-12-31 |url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1515/9780822382225-003 |work=Present Tense |pages=13–38 |publisher=Duke University Press |doi=10.1515/9780822382225-003 |isbn=9780822382225 |access-date=2022-03-11}}</ref>
*[[June 25]] – The [[Philharmonic Piano Quartet]] make their New York City debut at [[Lewisohn Stadium]]<ref name = "NYT1">''[[The New York Times]]'' (27 June 1949). [https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1949/06/27/84571308.pdf "Piano Unit Makes Debut at Stadium"], p. 19.</ref>
*[[September 5]] – English Wagnerian tenor [[Walter Widdop]] appears at [[The Proms]], singing "Lohengrin's Farewell", the day before his sudden death at the age of 51.<ref>"Mr. Walter Widdop – A Fine English Tenor", ''[[The Times]]'', 7 September 1949, p. 7</ref>
*[[December 15]] – [[Birdland (New York jazz club)|Birdland jazz club]] opens in New York City.
*[[December 24]] – At the start of the Holy Year, [[Charles Gounod]]'s ''[[Inno e Marcia Pontificale]]'' is adopted as the new papal anthem.
*[[December 29]] – [[Les Paul]] and [[Mary Ford]] marry.
*The [[Boccherini Quintet]] is formed in Rome.
*[[Ravi Shankar]] becomes music director of [[All India Radio]].
*[[Mitch Miller]] begins his career as one of the 20th century's most successful record producers at Mercury
*[[Eddie Fisher]] is "discovered" by [[Eddie Cantor]] and signs with RCA.<ref>{{cite book|last=Kanfer|first=Stefan|title=A summer world : the attempt to build a Jewish Eden in the Catskills from the days of the ghetto to the rise and decline of the Borscht Belt|year=1989|publisher=Farrar, Straus & Giroux|location=New York|isbn=978-0374271800|pages=205–209|edition=1st}}</ref>
*[[Bob Hope]] suggests that Anthony Benedetto change his stage name from "Joe Bari" to "[[Tony Bennett]]"
*[[Frankie Laine]] records "[[Mule Train]]", considered by some critics as marking the beginning of the rock era.
*[[Teresa Brewer]] makes her first recording on the London label.
*The [[Ames Brothers]] become the first artists to record for [[Coral Records]], a subsidiary of Decca.
*[[Johnnie Ray]] performs at the Flame Showbar in Detroit.
*The legendary [[Al Jolson]] records the soundtrack to "Jolson Sings Again," the sequel to his hugely successful biopic "The Jolson Story" (1946)
*45 rpm discs are introduced
*[[Gorni Kramer]] starts working for musical impresarios [[Garinei and Giovannini]].
*Country singer [[Bill Haley]] enters into a partnership with musicians [[Johnny Grande]] and [[Billy Williamson (guitarist)|Billy Williamson]] to form Bill Haley and His Saddlemen; in 1952 the group is renamed [[Bill Haley & His Comets]].
*The [[International Rostrum of Composers]] is founded.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.imc-cim.org/about-imc-separator/who-we-are.html|title=Who we are – International Music Council|first=IMC|last=Silja|website=www.imc-cim.org}}</ref>