1928 in music

1 Events
2 Published popular music
3 Top hits on record
4 Other important recordings
5 Classical music
6 Opera
7 Musical theater
8 Musical film
9 Births
10 Deaths

Events

April 27 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet Apollon musagète is premiered in Washington
September 11 – Leos Janacek's String Quartet No. 2, Intimate Letters, is premiered in Brno
September 12 – Anton Webern's String Trio is premiered in Siena
September 14 – Carl Nielsen's Clarinet Concerto is given its first performance
November 22 – Maurice Ravel's Bolero is premiered in Paris
November 27 – Igor Stravinsky's ballet La Baiser de la Fée is premiered in Paris
December 2 – Arnold Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra is premiered in Berlin
Edward German is knighted for services to music.
Eric Fenby begins work as amanuensis for Frederick Delius.
Sammy Davis Jr.'s musical career begins
Tampa Red's musical career begins
Scrapper Blackwell's musical career begins
Leroy Carr's musical career begins
Howlin' Wolf's musical career begins
The first commercial recordings of Cajun music are released
Armad Ardoin makes the first recordings of zydeco in Louisiana

Published popular music

"After My Laughter Came Tears" w.m. Charles Tobias & Roy Turk
"Alabama Song" w. Bertolt Brecht m. Kurt Weill
"All By Yourself In The Moonlight" w.m. Jay Wallis
"Anything You Say" w.m. Walter Donaldson
"Back In Your Own Backyard" w.m. Dave Dreyer, Al Jolson & Billy Rose
"Basin Street Blues" w.m. Spencer Williams
"Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now" w.m. Walter Donaldson
"Bill" w. P.G. Wodehouse & Oscar Hammerstein II
"Button Up Your Overcoat" w. B.G. DeSylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
"Can't Help Loving Dat Man" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
"Carolina Moon" w. Benny Davis m. Joe Burke
"Cherry" w.m. Don Redman
"Chiquita" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Mabel Wayne
"C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-I-N-O-P-L-E" w.m. Harry Carlton
"Coquette" w. Gus Kahn m. Carmen Lombardo & John Green
"Cow Cow Blues" m. Charles Davenport
"Crazy Rhythm" w. Irving Caesar m. Joseph Mayer & Roger Wolfe Kahn
"Dance, Little Lady" w.m Noel Coward
"Diga Diga Doo" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
"Doin' The New Low-Down" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
"Doin' The Raccoon" w. Raymond Klages m. J. Fred Coots
"Don't Look At Me That Way" w.m. Cole Porter
"Dusky Stevedore" w. Andy Razaf m. J.C Johnson
"Empty Bed Blues" w.m. J. C. Johnson
"Fancy Our Meeting" w. Douglas Furber m. Joseph Meyer & Philip Charig
"Forgetting You" w. B.G. DeSylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
"From Monday On" w. Bing Crosby m. Harry Barris
"A Garden In The Rain" w. James Dyrenforth m. Carroll Gibbons
"A Gay Caballero" w.m. Frank Crumit & Lou Klein
"Get Out And Get Under The Moon" w. Charles Tobias & William Jerome m. Larry Shay
"De Glory Road" w. Clement Wood m. Jacques Wolfe
"Golden Gate" by Rose & Dreyer
"Henry's Made A Lady Out Of Lizzie" w.m. Walter O'Keefe
"Honey" w. Seymour Simons & Haven Gillespie m. Richard A. Whiting
"Hooray For Captain Spaulding" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby
"How About Me?" w.m. Irving Berlin
"How Long Has This Been Going On?" w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
"I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby" w. Dorothy Fields m. Jimmy McHugh
"I Kiss Your Hand, Madame" w. (Eng) Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young (Ger) Fritz Rotter m. Ralph Erwin
"I Wanna Be Loved By You" w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby & Herbert Stothart
"I'd Rather Be Blue Over You" w. Billy Rose m. Fred Fisher
"If I Had You" w.m. Ted Shapiro, Jimmy Campbell & Reg Connelly
"If You Want The Rainbow" w. Mort Dixon & Billy Rose m. Oscar Levant
"I'll Get By" w. Roy Turk m. Fred E. Ahlert
"I'm a Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas" w.m. Phil Baxter
"I'm On The Crest Of A Wave" w. B.G. DeSylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
"Is There Anything Wrong In That?" w.m. Michael H. Cleary & Herb Magidson
"It Goes Like This (That Funny Melody)" w. Irving Caesar m. Cliff Friend
"It's Tight Like That" Thomas A. Dorsey, Hudson "Tampa Red" Whittaker
"Jeannine, I Dream Of Lilac Time" w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Nathaniel Shilkret
"Jimmy, The Well-Dressed Man" w.m. Jimmy Durante
"Let's Do It" w.m. Cole Porter
"Let's Misbehave" w.m. Cole Porter
"Life Upon The Wicked Stage" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
"Louisiana" w. Andy Razaf & Bob Schafer m. J. C. Johnson
"Lovable" Holmes, Simons, Whiting
"Love Me Or Leave Me" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
"Lover, Come Back To Me" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romburg
"Ma Belle" w. Clifford Grey m. Rudolf Friml
"Mack The Knife" w. (Eng) Marc Blitzstein (Ger) Bertolt Brecht m. Kurt Weill
"Make Believe" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
"Makin' Whoopee" w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson
"Malaguena" m. Ernesto Lecuona
"March Of The Musketeers" w. P. G. Wodehouse & Clifford Grey m. Rudolf Friml
"Marie" w.m. Irving Berlin
"Memories of France" by Al Dubin
"My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" w. Irving Caesar m. Cliff Friend
"My Lucky Star" w. B.G. DeSylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
"Nagasaki" w. Mort Dixon m. Harry Warren
"One Kiss" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg
"Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" m. Clarence "Pine Top" Smith
"A Precious Little Thing Called Love" w.m. Lou Davis & J. Fred Coots
" 'Round Evening" w. Herb Steiner & J. Fred Coots m. George Whiting
"She's Funny That Way" w. Richard A. Whiting m. Neil Moret
"Short'nin' Bread" adapt. w.m. Jacques Wolfe
"Softly, As In A Morning Sunrise" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romberg
"The Song Of The Prune" Frank Crumit, De Costa
"Sonny Boy" w.m. Al Jolsen, B.G. DeSylva, Lew Brown & Ray Henderson
"St James Infirmary" w.m. Joe Primrose
"Stack O'Lee" trad arr. Cliff Edwards
"Stouthearted Men" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Sigmund Romburg
"Sugar (That Sugar Baby Of Mine)" w.m. Marceo Pinkard & Sidney D. Mitchell
"Sweet Lorraine" w. Mitchell Parish m. Cliff Burwell
"Sweet Sue" w. Will J. Harris m. Victor Young
"Sweetheart Of All My Dreams" w.m. Art Fitch, Kay Fitch & Bert Lowe
"Sweethearts On Parade" w. Charles Newman m. Carmen Lombardo
"'Tain't So, Honey, 'Tain't So" w.m. Willard Robison
"That's My Weakness Now" w.m. Bud Green & Sam H. Stept
"There Ain't No Sweet Man (That's Worth The Salt Of My Tears)" w.m. Fred Fisher
"There's A Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" w.m. Dave Dreyer, Billy Rose & Al Jolson
"Together" w. B.G. DeSylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
"West End Blues" w.m. Joseph Oliver & Clarence Williams
"When You're Smiling" w.m. Mark Fisher, Joe Goodwin & Larry Shay
"Willow Tree" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas Waller from the musical Keep Shufflin'
"World Weary" w.m. Noel Coward
"You Are Love" w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern
"You Took Advantage Of Me" w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers
"You Wouldn't Fool Me" w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson
"You're The Cream In My Coffee" w. B.G. DeSylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson

Top hits on record

"Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now" by Ruth Etting
"Diga Diga Doo" by Duke Ellington & His Cotton Club Orchestra
"Is There Anything Wrong In That?" by Helen Kane
"I Wanna Be Loved By You" by Helen Kane
"Jazz Holiday" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
"(Goodbye, Broadway) Hello, Montreal!" by Ted Lewis & His Jazz Band
"Let's Misbehave" by Irving Aaronson & His Commanders
"Let's Misbehave" by Helen Kane
"Little Orphan Annie" by the Coon Sanders Nighhawks
"Mississippi Mud" by Paul Whiteman's Orchestra
"Makin' Whoopie" by Eddie Cantor
"My Man" by Fanny Brice
"That's My Weakness Now" by Paul Whiteman & His Orchestra featuring Bing Crosby

Other important recordings

"The Mooche" by Duke Ellington
"Muggles" by Louis Armstrong
"Pinetop's Boogie Woogie" by Pinetop Smith
"West End Blues" by Louis Armstrong

Classical music

Aaron Avshalomov – Four Biblical Tableaux
Granville Bantock – Pagan Symphony
Roberto Gerhard – Wind Quintet
Karl Amadeus Hartmann – Jazz Toccata and Fugue
Dmitri Kabalevsky – Piano Concerto No. 1; String Quartet No. 1
Wilhelm Kienzl – Quartet for Strings no 3 in E major
Uuno Klami – Karelian Rhapsody
Roger Sessions – The Black Maskers Orchestral Suite
Leo Sowerby – Symphony No. 2

Opera

Cyril Scott – The Alchemist

Musical theater

Angela Broadway production
Casanova Berlin production
Die Dreigroschenoper (The Threepenny Opera) Berlin production
Funny Face London production
Here's Howe Broadway production
Hold Everything Broadway production
Keep Shufflin' Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on February 27 and ran for 104 performances
The New Moon (Sigmund Romberg) – Broadway production
Oh, Lady! Lady!! Broadway production
Show Boat (Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II) – London production
Sunny Days Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre on February 8 and ran for 101 performances. It re-opened at the Century Theatre on October 1 for a further run of 32 performances.
Whoopee Broadway production