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| 1952 |
| | | Gene Kelly dances a famous routine with an umbrella in the film Singin' in the Rain | |
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| 1952 |
| | | In his first book of Structures, for two pianos, Pierre Boulez provides a classic of serial music | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Grace Kelly has her first starring role in High Noon, with Gary Cooper | |
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| 1952 |
| | | Vaughan Williams bases his seventh symphony, Sinfonia Antartica, on his score for the film Scott of the Antarctic | |
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| 1952 |
| | | US composer John Cage's 4'33" consists of precisely that number of minutes and seconds of silence | |
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| 1952 |
| | | The Modern Jazz Quartet, led by pianist John Lewis, plays in the sophisticated style that becomes known as 'cool jazz' | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Samuel Beckett's play Waiting for Godot ('En attendant Godot') is first performed in French in Paris | |
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| 1953 |
| | | British choreographer Kenneth MacMillan creates his first ballet, Somnambulism, to music by Stan Kenton | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Elia Kazan directs Marlon Brando in the film On the Waterfront | |
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| 1953 |
| | | Fred Zinneman directs Burt Lancaster, Deborah Kerr and Frank Sinatra in From Here to Eternity | |
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