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1926
 
     
23-year-old US crooner Bing Crosby makes his first record, singing I''ve Got the Girl with the Paul Whiteman band        
1926
 
    
Jean Sibelius's tone-poemTapiola has its premiere in New York       
1926
 
     
Leos Janacek's opera The Makropoulos Affair, based on the play by Karel Capek, has its first performance in Brno        
1927
 
    
Ernst Krenek's jazz opera Jonny Strikes Up has its premiere in Leipzig       
1927
 
     
Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill write Mahagonny Songspiel for the Baden-Baden music festival        
1927
 
    
11-year-old Yehudi Menuhin gives a sensational performance of the Beethoven Violin Concerto in the Carnegie Hall, conducted by Fritz Busch       
1927
 
    
Leos Janacek's Glagolitic Mass has its first performance in his home town, Brno       
1928
 
    
'Pine Top' Smith records Pinetop's Boogie-Woogie, the first recording to be labelled boogie-woogie       
1928
 
    
Gershwin's orchestral work An American in Paris (with parts for four taxi-horns) has its first performance in New York       
1928
 
     
George Balanchine creates Apollo for Ballets Russes, to music by Igor Stravinksy