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1950 in music

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Anon., "Columbia Records Acquires Casals", The New York Times (14 March): 21.

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"Composer Wins Music Contest". The New York Times. August 30, 1950. p. 27.

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"Hymnus Paradisi". The Musical Times. 91 (1291). Musical Times Publications Ltd: 352–353. September 1950. doi:10.2307/935574. JSTOR 935574.

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Howard Taubman (October 12, 1950). "Gulda Impresses in Piano Program: 20-Year-Old Austrian Artist Shows Great Musical Gifts in Recital at Carnegie Hall". The New York Times. p. 51.

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"Soprano Winds Steber Award". The New York Times. November 4, 1950. p. 13.

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Ronald Crichton, "Sargent, Sir (Harold) Malcolm (Watts)", The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 2nd edition, edited by Stanley Sadie and John Tyrrell (London: Macmillan, 2001).

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"Bruno Klassiek". Archived from the original on June 24, 2015. Retrieved June 24, 2015.

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"Pierre Boulez: Le Soleil des eaux" (work details) (in French and English). IRCAM.

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Encyclopedia Universalis

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"Benjamin Britten: Five Flower Songs" (work details) (in French and English). IRCAM.

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Black Mountain Studies Journal

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"Boston Symphony Orchestra". Archived from the original on January 18, 2017. Retrieved May 25, 2017.

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Doce Notas

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Schott Music

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Naxos

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Thesis by Martin John Ward for the University of Birmingham, p.75

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"André Jolivet: Flute Concerto" (work details) (in French and English). IRCAM.

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"Le Chant du Monde" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on September 23, 2015. Retrieved June 30, 2015.

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Boosey & Hawkes

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"Fondazione Onlus". Archived from the original on March 5, 2016. Retrieved June 24, 2015.

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Classical Connect

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Darmstädter Ferienkurse, 1946–1966

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Historia de la sinfonía

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"Grable to appear in Blue Heaven: Star Ends Hold-Out Against the Fox Studios". The New York Times. October 19, 1949. p. 37.

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First week	Number of weeks	Title	Artist
January 7, 1950	1	"Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer"	Gene Autry, 7,000,000 sold by 1969^[7]
January 14, 1950	4	"I Can Dream, Can't I?"	The Andrews Sisters
February 11, 1950	1	"Rag Mop"	The Ames Brothers
February 18, 1950	4	"Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy"	Red Foley
March 18, 1950	4	"Music! Music! Music!"	Teresa Brewer
April 15, 1950	2	"If I Knew You Were Comin' I'd've Baked a Cake"	Eileen Barton
April 29, 1950	11	"The Third Man Theme"	Anton Karas, 4,000,000 sold^[7]
July 15, 1950	5	"Mona Lisa"	Nat King Cole
August 19, 1950	13	"Goodnight, Irene"	Gordon Jenkins & The Weavers, 2,000,000 sold^[7]
November 18, 1950	2	"Harbor Lights"	Sammy Kaye
December 2, 1950	4	"The Thing"	Phil Harris
December 30, 1950	9	"The Tennessee Waltz"	Patti Page

#	Artist	Title	Year	Country	Chart entries
1	Nat King Cole	Mona Lisa	1950	US	US 1940s 1 – Jun 1950, US 1 for 5 weeks Jul 1950, Oscar in 1950, US BB 2 of 1950, POP 2 of 1950, DDD 4 of 1950, Italy 48 of 1951, RIAA 109, Acclaimed 1292
2	Patti Page	Tennessee Waltz	1950	US	US 1940s 1 – Nov 1950, US 1 for 9 weeks Dec 1950, US BB 4 of 1950, 6,000,000 sold by 1967^[7]
3	Phil Harris	The Thing	1950	US	US 1940s 1 – Nov 1950, US 1 for 4 weeks Dec 1950, Peel list 1 of 1950, US BB 12 of 1950, POP 12 of 1950
4	Red Foley	Chattanoogie Shoe Shine Boy	1950	US	US 1940s 1 – Jan 1950, US 1 for 4 weeks Feb 1950, DDD 17 of 1950, US BB 18 of 1950, POP 25 of 1950
5	Teresa Brewer	Music! Music! Music!	1950	US	US 1940s 1 – Feb 1950, US 1 for 4 weeks Mar 1950, US BB 3 of 1950, POP 3 of 1950

Composer	Composition	Date	Location	Performers
Andriessen, Hendrik	Organ Concerto	1950-11-01	Amsterdam	Concertgebouw Orchestra – Monteux^[8]
Boulez, Pierre	Le Soleil des eaux (2nd version, subsequently withdrawn)	1950-07-18	Paris	Joachim, Mollet, Peyron / RTF National Orchestra – Désormière^[9]
Boulez, Pierre	Piano Sonata No. 2 (1948)	1950-04-29	Paris	Grimaud^[10]
Benjamin Britten	Five Flower Songs	1950-07-23	Darlington Hall, England	Imogen Holst conducting a student choir^[11]
Cage, John	String Quartet in Four Parts	1950-08-12	Black Mountain, North Carolina	Summer Session Quartet^[12]
Foss, Lukas	Song of Anguish	1950-03-10	Boston	Boston Symphony – Foss^[13]
Guridi, Jesús	String Quartet No. 2	1950-05-14	Madrid	National Chamber Music Association^[14]
Hartmann, Karl Amadeus	Adagio (Symphony No. 2)	1950-09-10	Donaueschingen Festival, Germany	SWF Symphony – Rosbaud^[15]
Howells, Herbert	Hymnus Paradisi (1938)	1950-09-07	Gloucester, UK (Three Choirs Festival)	Baillie, William Herbert / London Symphony – Howells^[16]^[17]
Jolivet, André	Concerto for Flute and Strings	1950-01-24	Paris	Rampla / [unknown orchestra and conductor]^[18]
Khachaturian, Aram	Triumphal Poem	1950-12-09	Moscow	USSR Radio Symphony – Gauk^[19]
Martinu, Bohuslav	Intermezzo for Large Orchestra	1950-12-29	New York City	Louisville Orchestra – Whitney^[20]^[21]
Martinu, Bohuslav	Piano Trio No. 2	1950-05-19	Cambridge, Massachusetts	Liepmann, Finckel, Tucker^[22]
Martinu, Bohuslav	Sinfonietta La Jolla	1950-08-13	San Diego, California	Orchestra of the Musical Arts Society of La Jolla – Sokoloff^[23]
Nono, Luigi	Variazioni canoniche sulla serie dell'op. 41 di Schoenberg	1950-08-27	Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany	Darmstadt Landestheater Orchestra – Scherchen^[24]
Prokofiev, Sergei	Cello Sonata (1949)	1950-03-01	Moscow	Rostropovich, Richter^[25]
Searle, Humphrey	Poem for 22 Strings	1950-08-27	Darmstädter Ferienkurse, Germany	Darmstadt Landestheater Orchestra – Scherchen^[26]
Strauss, Richard (d. 1949)	Four Last Songs (1948)	1950-05-22	Royal Albert Hall, London	Flagstad / Philharmonia Orchestra – Furtwängler^[27]
Villa-Lobos, Heitor	Montanhas de Brasil (Symphony No. 6) (1944)	1950-04-29	Rio de Janeiro	Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre Symphony – Villa-Lobos ^[28]
Villa-Lobos, Heitor	Piano Concerto No. 2 (1948)	1950-04-21	Rio de Janeiro	João de Souza Lima [pt; de; ru] / Rio de Janeiro Municipal Theatre Symphony – Villa-Lobos^[29]

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