Editing 1953 in music (section)

==Events==
*[[February 6]] – Contralto [[Kathleen Ferrier]], already terminally ill with cancer, leaves Covent Garden Opera House in London on a stretcher after being taken ill on the second night of her run in Gluck's ''Orfeo ed Euridice''.<ref>{{cite book|editor-link=Christopher Fifield|editor-last=Fifield|editor-first=Christopher|title=Letters and Diaries of Kathleen Ferrier|publisher=Boydell Press|location=Woodbridge, Suffolk|year=2003|isbn=1-84383-012-4|pages=183–4}}</ref>
*[[March 12]] – [[Heinrich Sutermeister]]'s opera ''[[Romeo und Julia (Sutermeister opera)|Romeo und Julia]]'' receives its English première at [[Sadler's Wells Theatre]] in London, conducted by [[James Robertson (conductor)|James Robertson]].<ref>{{cite journal|title=Sadler's Wells|date=25 March 1953|journal=The Tatler
|page=17}}</ref>
*April – [[Pat Boone]] begins his recording career at Republic Records.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2010-09-02 |title=AmericanHeritage.com / More Mr. Nice Guy |url=http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/1/2006_1_28.shtml |access-date=2022-03-11 |website= |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100902150344/http://www.americanheritage.com/articles/magazine/ah/2006/1/2006_1_28.shtml |archive-date=2 September 2010 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
*[[May 26]] – [[Werner Meyer-Eppler]], Fritz Enkel, [[Herbert Eimert]] and Robert Beyer open a pioneering electronic music studio at the Cologne studios of the [[Westdeutscher Rundfunk|NWDR]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Morawska-Büngeler|first=Marietta|year=1988|title=Schwingende Elektronen: Eine Dokumentation über das Studio für Elektronische Musik des Westdeutschen Rundfunks in Köln 1951–1986|location=Cologne-Rodenkirchen|publisher=P. J. Tonger Verlag|pages=11–12}}</ref>
*[[May 30]] - [[Shirley Booth]], [[Dino Di Luca]] and [[John Serry Sr.]] collaborate for the last time in the final performance of ''[[The Time of the Cuckoo]]'' at the closing of the [[Empire Theatre (41st Street)|Empire Theatre]] in New York City.<ref name="article12">''New York Journal-American'' (see the photograph of Serry's signature inscribed with signatures of other members of the cast on the stage door of the Empire Theatre at the closing of the play ''[[The Time of the Cuckoo]]''), May 25, 1953, p. 15</ref><ref name="OxErAAAAIBAJ 2350, p. 12">[https://books.google.com/books?id=OxErAAAAIBAJ&dq=%22John+Serry&pg=PA12&article_id=2350,124787 "Celebrating National Music Week - Accordion Concert" : John Serry - p. 12...appearing with award winner Shirly Booth in "Time of the Cuckoo" See photograph and caption of John Serry in the "Reading Eagle" April 19, 1953 p. 12 on Google Books]</ref><ref>[https://www.esm.rochester.edu/sibley/files/John-J-Serry-Sr-Collection.pdf Eastman School of Music - University of Rochester - Sibley Music Library: John J. Serry Sr. Collection - Series 3: Scrapbook - contains a clipping with a photograph from the "New York Journal American" May 25, 1953 p. 15 showing the stage cast door from the Empire Theater with Shirley Booth pointing to signatures of the cast of "The Time of the Cuckoo" which includes John Serry's signature. The John J. Serry Sr. Collection p. 17 Series  3 Scrapbook  Box 3 Item 1 archived at the University of Rochester Eastman School of Music on esm.rochester.edu]</ref>
*[[July 16]]–[[July 29|29]] – The [[Darmstädter Ferienkurse|Internationale Ferienkurse für Neue Musik]] are held at [[Darmstadt]].
*[[July 18]] – [[Elvis Presley's Sun recordings]]: [[Elvis Presley]] makes his first recordings (a copy of which is owned by [[Jack White]] when he wins an auction on eBay in January 2015).
*[[September 27]] – [[Helen Traubel]] ends her long association with the [[Metropolitan Opera]] in New York City after having appeared in Chicago as a night-club singer.<ref>{{cite news|title=Soprano Leaves New York Opera: Night Club Engagement|work=The Times|issue=52738|date=1953-09-27|page=6}}</ref>
*October – Sir [[Arthur Bliss]] replaces Sir [[Arnold Bax]] as [[Master of the Queen's Music]] in the United Kingdom.
* [[October 5]] – [[Wilhelm Furtwängler]] and the soloists in the [[Vienna State Opera]]'s production of ''[[Don Giovanni]]'' publicly protest against the suspension of [[Egon Hilbert]] as administrator of the Burg Theater and State Opera.
* [[October 19]] – Opening of the Covent Garden opera season in London, with a production of [[Richard Wagner|Wagner]]'s ''[[Die Walküre]]''.
* [[October 30]] – [[Ernst Marboe]] is announced as the new administrator of the Vienna State Opera and Burg Theater, replacing Egon Hilbert.
* [[November 2]] – the [[Metropolitan Opera]] announces that a new two-year contract has been agreed with the musicians' union, averting a threatened strike by the orchestra.
* [[November 17]] – [[Carl Ebert]] is announced as the new Intendant of the Städtische Oper, (West) Berlin.
* [[December 7]] – the [[La Scala]] opera season opens with a production of [[Alfredo Catalani]]'s ''[[La Wally]]'', to mark the hundredth anniversary of the composer's birth.
*[[Alfred Schnittke]] becomes a student of [[Evgeny Golubev]].
*[[Frank Sinatra]] begins recording at Capitol.
*"[[Crazy Man, Crazy]]", recorded by [[Bill Haley & His Comets]], becomes the first [[rock and roll]] single to make the ''[[Billboard magazine|Billboard]]'' national American musical charts.
*American singer [[Frankie Laine]] sets the all-time [[United Kingdom]] record for weeks at [[List of Number 1 singles from the 1950s (UK)|Number One]] in a given year on the [[UK Singles Chart]], when his hit singles "Answer Me," "Hey Joe!" and "I Believe" hold the top slot for 27 weeks: a little over half a year. "I Believe", Number One for 18 weeks, also holds the all-time record for a single. Over 50 years later, both records will still hold.
*[[Eddie Fisher]] becomes "The Coca-Cola Kid" on the television show ''[[Coke Time]]'' at a salary of one million dollars a year.
*The [[Allegri Quartet]] is formed in the United Kingdom.
*[[The Platters]] form in Los Angeles.
*The [[Erato Records]] label is founded to promote French classical music.