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| 1953 |
| | | Dmitry Shostakovich's Tenth Symphony has its first performance in Leningrad nine months after the death of Stalin | |
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| 1953 |
| | | French composer Olivier Messiaen uses birdsong with piano and orchestra in his Waking of the Birds | |
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| 1954 |
| | | Bill Haley & His Comets record Rock Around the Clock, providing an early classic of US rock and roll | |
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| 1954 |
| | | US truck driver Elvis Presley makes his first commercial recordings, for Sun Records in Memphis, Tennessee | |
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| 1954 |
| | | William Walton's opera Troilus and Cressida has its premiere at Covent Garden | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Michael Tippett's first opera, A Midsummer Marriage, has its premiere at Covent Garden | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Canadian pianist Glenn Gould wins international fame with his recording of Bach's Goldberg Variations | |
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| 1955 |
| | | Jazz trumpeter Miles Davis forms his own quintet, extending it in 1958 to a sextet | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Heartbreak Hotel, Presley's first recording for RCA, goes to the top of all three US charts | |
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| 1956 |
| | | Jerome Robbins creates the ballet The Concert, to music by Chopin | |
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