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Events relating to music
George Balanchine creates Apollo for Ballets Russes, to music by Igor Stravinksy
Maurice Ravel writes Boléro as music for a ballet choreographed by Nijinska with designs by Benois
The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill, opens to great acclaim in Berlin
Eric Fenby devotes himself to Frederick Delius, taking dictation to write down the scores of the blind composer's new works
Karol Szymanowski's Stabat Mater is performed in Warsaw and brings him international fame
Vladimir Mayakovsky's play The Bedbug is directed in Moscow by Meyerhold with incidental music by Shostakovich
20-year-old French composer Olivier Messiaen publishes eight Preludes for piano
Jazz musician Fats Waller begins recording with his Buddies, one of the first racially integrated groups in the US music industry
George Formby makes the first records featuring what becomes his trademark, the ukulele
The opera Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny, by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, opens in Leipzig
Heitor Villa-Lobos composes the first of his Bachianas Brasileiras
The steel-band tradition begins to develop in Trinidad, with adapted metal objects taking the place of traditional skin drums
English composer John Ireland's Piano Concerto has its first performance
Australian-born composer Percy Grainger writes variations on Handel's tune The Harmonious Blacksmith
The British Broadcasting Corporation forms a Symphony Orchestra with Adrian Boult as the first music director
Frederick Ashton choreographs Façade for the Camargo Society, using Walton's score
The Star-Spangled Banner is made the official US national anthem
16-year-old Yehudi Menuhin records the Elgar violin concerto, conducted by the composer
English conductor Thomas Beecham founds another orchestra, calling it the London Philharmonic
Lloyd Bacon directs 42nd Street, a classic backstage movie about putting a musical comedy on Broadway
Unknown American blues singer Huddie Ledbetter, or Leadbelly, is first recorded singing in the Louisiana State Penitentiary
Arabella, by Richard Strauss and Hugo von Hofmannsthal, is first performed four years after von Hofmannsthal's death left it incomplete
Arnold Schoenberg leaves his teaching post in Germany, now under Nazi control, and in 1934 settles in Los Angeles
Dmitry Shostakovich's opera Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District has its premiere in Leningrad's Maly Theatre
The first opera festival at Glyndebourne, a country house in Sussex, opens with a performance of Mozart's Marriage of Figaro
