1950 in music

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Clarinetist George Lewis in 1950 was prominent in the revived popularity of traditional jazz.

This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1950.

Specific locations

Specific genres

Events

Albums released

No. 1 hit singles

These singles reached the top of Billboard magazine's charts in 1950.

First week Number of weeks Title Artist
January 7, 1950 1 "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" Gene Autry, 7,000,000 sold by 1969[7]
January 14, 1950 4 "I Can Dream, Can't I?" The Andrews Sisters
February 11, 1950 1 "Rag Mop" The Ames Brothers
February 18, 1950 4 "Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy" Red Foley
March 18, 1950 4 "Music! Music! Music!" Teresa Brewer
April 15, 1950 2 "If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake" Eileen Barton
April 29, 1950 11 "The Third Man Theme" Anton Karas, 4,000,000 sold[7]
July 15, 1950 5 "Mona Lisa" Nat King Cole
August 19, 1950 13 "Goodnight, Irene" Gordon Jenkins & The Weavers, 2,000,000 sold[7]
November 18, 1950 2 "Harbor Lights" Sammy Kaye
December 2, 1950 4 "The Thing" Phil Harris
December 30, 1950 9 "The Tennessee Waltz" Patti Page

Biggest hit singles

The following songs achieved the highest chart positions in the limited set of charts available for 1950.

# Artist Title Year Country Chart entries
1 Nat King Cole Mona Lisa 1950 US US 1940s 1 – Jun 1950, US 1 for 5 weeks Jul 1950, Oscar in 1950, US BB 2 of 1950, POP 2 of 1950, DDD 4 of 1950, Italy 48 of 1951, RIAA 109, Acclaimed 1292
2 Patti Page Tennessee Waltz 1950 US US 1940s 1 – Nov 1950, US 1 for 9 weeks Dec 1950, US BB 4 of 1950, 6,000,000 sold by 1967[7]
3 Phil Harris The Thing 1950 US US 1940s 1 – Nov 1950, US 1 for 4 weeks Dec 1950, Peel list 1 of 1950, US BB 12 of 1950, POP 12 of 1950
4 Red Foley Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy 1950 US US 1940s 1 – Jan 1950, US 1 for 4 weeks Feb 1950, DDD 17 of 1950, US BB 18 of 1950, POP 25 of 1950
5 Teresa Brewer Music! Music! Music! 1950 US US 1940s 1 – Feb 1950, US 1 for 4 weeks Mar 1950, US BB 3 of 1950, POP 3 of 1950

Top hit records

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Top R&B hits on record

Published popular music

Classical music

Premieres

Composer Composition Date Location Performers
Andriessen, Hendrik Organ Concerto 1950-11-01 Amsterdam Concertgebouw Orchestra – Monteux[8]
Boulez, Pierre Le Soleil des eaux (2nd version, subsequently withdrawn) 1950-07-18 Paris Joachim, Mollet, Peyron / RTF National Orchestra – Désormière[9]
Boulez, Pierre Piano Sonata No. 2 (1948) 1950-04-29 Paris Grimaud[10]
Benjamin Britten Five Flower Songs 1950-07-23 Darlington Hall, England Imogen Holst conducting a student choir[11]
Cage, John String Quartet in Four Parts 1950-08-12 Black Mountain, North Carolina Summer Session Quartet[12]
Foss, Lukas Song of Anguish 1950-03-10 Boston Boston Symphony – Foss[13]
Guridi, Jesús String Quartet No. 2 1950-05-14 Madrid National Chamber Music Association[14]
Hartmann, Karl Amadeus Adagio (Symphony No. 2) 1950-09-10 Donaueschingen Festival, Germany SWF Symphony – Rosbaud[15]
Howells, Herbert Hymnus Paradisi (1938) 1950-09-07 Gloucester, UK (Three Choirs Festival) Baillie, William Herbert / London Symphony – Howells[16][17]
Jolivet, André Concerto for Flute and Strings 1950-01-24 Paris Rampla / [unknown orchestra and conductor][18]
Khachaturian, Aram Triumphal Poem 1950-12-09 Moscow USSR Radio Symphony – Gauk[19]
Martinu, Bohuslav Intermezzo for Large Orchestra 1950-12-29 New York City Louisville Orchestra – Whitney[20][21]
Martinu, Bohuslav Piano Trio No. 2 1950-05-19 Cambridge, Massachusetts Liepmann, Finckel, Tucker[22]
Martinu, Bohuslav Sinfonietta La Jolla 1950-08-13 San Diego, California Orchestra of the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla – Sokoloff[23]
Nono, Luigi Variazioni canoniche sulla serie dell'op. 41 di Schoenberg 1950-08-27 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany Darmstadt Landestheater Orchestra – Scherchen[24]
Prokofiev, Sergei Cello Sonata (1949) 1950-03-01 Moscow Rostropovich, Richter[25]
Searle, Humphrey Poem for 22 Strings 1950-08-27 Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany Darmstadt Landestheater Orchestra – Scherchen[26]
Strauss, Richard (d. 1949) Four Last Songs (1948) 1950-05-22 Royal Albert Hall, London Flagstad / Philharmonia Orchestra – Furtwängler[27]
Villa-Lobos, Heitor Montanhas de Brasil (Symphony No. 6) (1944) 1950-04-29 Rio de Janeiro Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre Symphony – Villa-Lobos [28]
Villa-Lobos, Heitor Piano Concerto No. 2 (1948) 1950-04-21 Rio de Janeiro Template:Ill / Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre Symphony – Villa-Lobos[29]

Compositions

Opera

Film

Jazz

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Musical theatre

Musical films

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Dorothy Kirsten and Bing Crosby in "Mr. Music".

Births

January – February

March – April

May – June

July – August

September – October

November – December

Deaths

Notes

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  25. ↑ Classical Connect
  26. ↑ Darmstädter Ferienkurse, 1946–1966
  27. ↑ Musicweb International
  28. ↑ Historia de la sinfonía
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