Editing 1962 in music (section)

==Events==
*[[January 1]] – [[The Beatles]] and [[The Tremeloes|Brian Poole and the Tremeloes]] both audition at [[Decca Records]] in [[London]]. Decca has the option of signing one group only. The Beatles are rejected, perhaps because they come from [[Liverpool]] and the others are Dagenham-based, nearer London.<ref>{{cite web |last=James |first=Gary |title=Interview with Dave Munden of the Tremeloes |url=http://www.classicbands.com/TremeloesInterview.html |website=Classic Bands.com |access-date=11 June 2019}}</ref>
*[[January 5]] – The first [[album]] on which The Beatles play, ''[[My Bonnie]]'', as backing to [[Tony Sheridan]] (recorded the previous June in [[Hamburg]] and produced by [[Bert Kaempfert]]), is released by [[Polydor]].<ref>{{cite book|last=Everett|first=Walter|year=2001|title=The Beatles as Musicians: The Quarry Men through Rubber Soul|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0-19-514105-4|page=[https://archive.org/details/beatlesasmusicia00ever/page/100 100]|url=https://archive.org/details/beatlesasmusicia00ever/page/100}}</ref><ref name=Spitz>{{cite book|last=Spitz|first=Bob|year=2005|author-link=Bob Spitz|title=[[The Beatles: The Biography]]|publisher=Little, Brown|location=New York|isbn=978-0-316-80352-6}}</ref>
*[[January 24]] – [[Brian Epstein]] signs a contract to manage The Beatles.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.brianepstein.com/brian.html|title=Life of Brian: Brian Epstein Bio|website=brianepstein.com|access-date=16 August 2018}}</ref>
*[[February 16]] – Conductor [[Bruno Walter]], the day before his death, ends his last letter with: ''"Despite all the dark experiences of today I am still confident that ''[[Palestrina (opera)|Palestrina]]'' will remain. The work has all the elements of immortality"''.<ref>Liner notes to the Rafael Kubelik/Nicolai Gedda/Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau DG recording.</ref>
*[[March 18]] – The [[Eurovision Song Contest 1962|7th Eurovision Song Contest]], held at [[Villa Louvigny]] in [[Luxembourg City]], is won by [[France]] with the song "[[Un premier amour]]", performed by [[Isabelle Aubret]].<ref>{{cite web|title=Eurovision Song Contest 1962|url=https://www.eurovision.tv/page/history/by-year/contest?event=279|publisher=[[EBU]]|access-date=12 June 2012}}</ref>
*[[March 19]] – [[Bob Dylan]] releases his debut album, ''[[Bob Dylan (album)|Bob Dylan]]'', in the United States, featuring mostly folk standards.<ref name=bobdylanguardian>{{cite news|title=Dylan's debut album 50 years on: the birth of an enigma|url=https://www.theguardian.com/music/2012/mar/18/bob-dylan-debut-1962-anniversary|author=[[Ed Vulliamy]]|newspaper=[[The Guardian]]|access-date=6 April 2022|date=18 March 2012}}</ref>
*[[April 6]] – [[New York Philharmonic concert of April 6, 1962]]: [[Leonard Bernstein]] causes controversy with his remarks before a concert featuring [[Glenn Gould]] with the [[New York Philharmonic]], when he (Bernstein) announces that although he disagrees with Gould's slow tempi in [[Brahms]]' [[Piano Concerto No. 1 (Brahms)|Piano Concerto No. 1]], he finds Gould's ideas fascinating and will conduct the piece anyway. Bernstein's action receives a withering review from ''The New York Times'' music critic [[Harold C. Schonberg]].
*[[April 7]] – [[Mick Jagger]] and [[Keith Richards]] meet [[Brian Jones]] at [[Ealing Jazz Club|The Ealing Club]], a blues club in London.
*[[April 12]] – A recording is made of Bob Dylan's concert at the Town Hall, in New York City by [[Columbia Records]]. (Columbia eventually release the recording of "[[Tomorrow is a Long Time]]" from this concert.)
*[[April 24]] – Bob Dylan begins recording ''[[The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan]]'' in New York.
*[[May 29]] – The [[4th Annual Grammy Awards]] are held in [[Chicago]], [[Los Angeles]] and [[New York City|New York]]. [[Henry Mancini]] wins the most awards with five, including [[Grammy Award for Record of the Year|Record of the Year]] and [[Grammy Award for Song of the Year|Song of the Year]] for his song "[[Moon River]]". [[Judy Garland]]'s ''[[Judy at Carnegie Hall]]'' wins [[Grammy Award for Album of the Year|Album of the Year]], while [[Peter Nero]] wins [[Grammy Award for Best New Artist|Best New Artist]].
*[[June 6]] – The Beatles play their first session at EMI's [[Abbey Road Studios]] in London, having signed with the [[Parlophone]] label on May 9.<ref name=Spitz />
*[[June 19]] – The film version of the musical ''[[The Music Man (1962 film)|The Music Man]]'' is released in the United States by Warner Bros.
*[[August 2]] – Robert Allen Zimmerman legally changes his name to [[Bob Dylan]] in the [[New York Supreme Court]].
*[[August 16]] – The Beatles fire drummer [[Pete Best]] and replace him with [[Ringo Starr]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Epstein |first=Brian |author-link=Brian Epstein |title=A Cellarful of Noise |publisher=[[Jove Books|Pyramid Books]] |year=1964 |isbn=978-0-671-01196-3 |page=63}}</ref>
*[[August 17]] – Instrumental single "[[Telstar (instrumental)|Telstar]]", written and produced by [[Joe Meek]] for English band [[The Tornados]], is released in the UK. On December 22 it will be the first recording by a British group ever to reach the top spot on the Billboard Top 100 in the United States, proving to be a precursor to the British Invasion.
*[[August 18]] – The Beatles play their first live engagement with the line-up of [[John Lennon|John]], [[Paul McCartney|Paul]], [[George Harrison|George]] and [[Ringo Starr|Ringo]], at [[Hulme Hall, Port Sunlight]], UK.<ref name=Spitz />
*[[August 20]] – [[Albert Grossman]] becomes [[Bob Dylan]]'s manager.<ref name=DTH>{{cite book|first=Howard|last=Sounes|title=Down The Highway: The Life Of Bob Dylan|publisher=Grove Press|year=2001|isbn=0-8021-1686-8|url=https://archive.org/details/downhighwaylifeo0000soun}}</ref>
*[[August 23]] – [[John Lennon]] marries [[Cynthia Powell]] in an unpublicised [[register office]] ceremony at [[Mount Pleasant, Liverpool]], with Paul McCartney as best man.<ref>{{cite book|first=Nigel|last=Gross|display-authors=etal|title=Collins Gem 1960s|publisher=HarperCollins|location=London|year=1999|isbn=0-00-472310-4}}</ref>
*[[September 21]] – ''[[New Musical Express]]'', the British music magazine, publishes a story about two 13-year-old schoolgirls, Sue and Mary, releasing a disc on Decca and adds "A Liverpool group, [[The Beatles]], have recorded 'Love Me Do' for Parlophone Records, set for October 5 release."
*[[September 22]] – [[Bob Dylan]] appears for the first time at [[Carnegie Hall]] in [[New York City]] as part of a [[hootenanny]] including the first public performance of "[[A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall]]".<ref>{{cite book|first=Mike|last=Marqusee|author-link=Mike Marqusee|title=Wicked Messenger: Bob Dylan and the 1960s|publisher=Seven Stories Press|year=2005|pages=64ff|isbn=1-58322-686-9}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|first=Robert|last=Shelton|title=No Direction Home: The Life and Music of Bob Dylan|publisher=Da Capo Press|year=2003|page=152|isbn=0-306-81287-8}}</ref>
*[[September 23]] – Opening concert at the [[New York Philharmonic]]'s new home, [[David Geffen Hall|Philharmonic Hall]] at [[Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts]], conducted by [[Leonard Bernstein]] and broadcast live on television across the United States by [[NBC]]. The opening work, [[Aaron Copland]]'s specially commissioned ''[[Connotations (Copland)|Connotations]]'', sends "shock waves through the world of music".<ref>{{cite book|last=Morin|first=Alexander J.|title=Classical Music: The Listener's Companion|year=2002 |publisher=Backbeat Books|location=San Francisco|isbn=0-87930-638-6|page=[https://archive.org/details/classicalmusicli00mori/page/237 237]|url=https://archive.org/details/classicalmusicli00mori/page/237}}</ref> Other commissions featured include [[Darius Milhaud]]'s ''Overture Philharmonique'' and [[Samuel Barber]]'s ''Andromache's Farewell'' for soprano and orchestra. The following day, [[John Browning (pianist)|John Browning]] premières Barber's [[Piano Concerto (Barber)|Piano Concerto]] at the venue and on October 4 [[William Schuman]]'s Symphony No. 8 is premièred here.
*[[October 5]] – The Beatles' first [[Single (music)|single]] in their own right, "[[Love Me Do]]"/"P.S. I Love You", is released in the UK on EMI's [[Parlophone]] label.
*[[October 14]] – Italian tenor [[Sergio Franchi]] makes his American TV debut on ''[[The Ed Sullivan Show]]''.
*[[October 17]] – The Beatles make their first televised appearance, on [[Granada television]]'s local news programme ''People and Places'' in the north of England.<ref name="Pocket On This Day">{{cite book|title=Penguin Pocket On This Day|publisher=Penguin Reference Library|isbn=0-14-102715-0|year=2006}}</ref>
*[[October 20]] – [[Peter, Paul and Mary]]'s self-titled debut album reaches No. 1 on the Billboard 200 album chart.
*[[October 21]] – [[Sergio Franchi]] makes his American concert debut at [[Carnegie Hall]] (sans microphone), promoted by [[Sol Hurok]].
*[[November 11]]
**[[Ken Russell]]'s film ''[[Elgar (film)|Elgar]]'' is shown in [[BBC Television]]'s ''[[Monitor (UK TV series)|Monitor]]'' series in the United Kingdom.<ref>{{cite magazine|url=https://www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/ken-russell-the-rare-director-who-understood-musical-greatness|magazine=The New Yorker| title=Ken Russell: The Rare Director Who Understood Musical Greatness|first=Russell|last= Platt|date=29 November 2011}}</ref>
**[[Joan Baez]] has all of her first three albums on the Billboard charts, on their way to Gold status.
*Two [[Pete Seeger]] classic songs reach the Billboard pop charts:
**"[[Where Have All the Flowers Gone?]]" recorded by [[The Kingston Trio]] reaches No. 21.
**"[[If I Had a Hammer]]", recorded by Peter, Paul and Mary, reaches No. 10.
*The first [[American Folk Blues Festival]], initiated by German promoters, tours Europe; artists include [[Sonny Terry]], [[Brownie McGhee]] and [[T-Bone Walker]]. Its only UK date, 21 October at the [[Free Trade Hall]], [[Manchester]], is influential on the British [[Rhythm and blues|R&B]] scene, with the audience including [[Mick Jagger]], [[Keith Richards]] and [[Brian Jones]] of [[The Rolling Stones]] with [[Jimmy Page]], [[Paul Jones (singer)|Paul Jones]], [[John Mayall]] and other musicians, and with a second show filmed and shown on Independent Television.<ref>{{cite web|title=American Folk Blues Festival Live In Manchester 1962|url=https://www.piccadillyrecords.com/counter/product.php?pid=132849|publisher=Piccadilly Records|location=Manchester|year=2020|access-date=2020-09-09}}</ref>
*[[Georges Auric]] becomes director of the [[Opéra National de Paris]].
*[[André Hodeir]]'s book, ''Since Debussy'', makes controversial claims about the importance of [[Jean Barraqué]] as a composer.
*[[José Manuel Calderón (musician)|José Manuel Calderón]] becomes the first Dominican musician to record [[Bachata (music)|bachata]], at the Radiotelevisión Dominicana studios.
*The Spokane Philharmonic orchestra becomes the [[Spokane Symphony]].
*[[Dalida]] is named Calabrian Citizen of Honour and receives the Radio Monte Carlo Oscar with [[Johnny Hallyday]].
*[[Paul & Paula]] make their first appearance together while attending Howard Payne College in Brownwood, Texas.
*The [[Mashed Potato (dance)|Mashed Potato]] is a popular dance craze, with several songs based around the style.
*[[Lou Harrison]] visits Taiwan; on his return he forms, with [[William Colvig]], Richard Dee and [[Lily Chin]], the first American ensemble to play traditional Chinese music.
*[[Sergio Franchi]] is signed to an RCA Red Seal recording contract in London by Norman Luboff.