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| 1948 |
| | | French composer Pierre Schaeffer writes the first pieces of musique concrète, and coins the term | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Olivier Messiaen completes Turangaîlila-symphonie, a symphony in ten movements for an orchestra including ondes martenot | |
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| 1948 |
| | | Frederick Ashton's Cinderella, to music by Prokofiev, is the first full-length ballet by an English choreographer | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Roland Petit's ballet Carmen, starring himself and his wife Zizi Jeanmaire, is a sensation at its London premiere | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Death of a Salesman, by US playwright Arthur Miller, has its first performance in New York | |
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| 1949 |
| | | The musical South Pacific, by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, opens on Broadway | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Ealing Studios produce a film of Compton Mackenzie's 1947 novel Whisky Galore, about an alcoholic windfall on the island of Barra | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Gene Kelly, Frank Sinatra and Jules Munchin star as three US sailors on shore leave in the screen version of On the Town | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Bertolt Brecht establishes a new theatrical company, the Berliner Ensemble, in East Germany | |
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| 1949 |
| | | Carol Reed directs The Third Man, starring Orson Welles and written by Graham Greene | |
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