1932 In Music
record The Clouds Will Soon Roll By for Columbia records.
- August 15 – First successful electrical re-recording, directed by Nathaniel Shilkret, of an orchestral accompaniment of a Victor recording by Enrico Caruso
- October 7 - The London Philharmonic Orchestra, recently founded by Thomas Beecham, gives its first public concert.
- October 13 - Isham Jones and the Three X Sisters record at New York Studio No.1. Several songs utilized for RCA Victor were labeled "experimental"
as this blues era band-leader was fusing new arraingment's, and an idea that would later influence part of the Swing era.
- October 19 – Frankie Laine and Ruthie Smith set the all-time dance marathon record of 3,501 hours (145 days) at the Million Dollar Pier in Atlantic City, New Jersey
- October 31 – Sergei Prokofiev's Piano Concerto No. 5 is premiered in Berlin
- November - Radio Digest Magazine Boswell Sisters, Pickens Sisters, and Three X Sisters.
- Henry Hall becomes Director of the BBC Dance Orchestra.
- Ruth Porter Crawford marries Charles Seeger.
- Sydney Symphony comes into existence
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“How little it takes to make us happy! The sound of a bagpipe.Without music life would be a mistake. The German even imagines God as singing songs.”
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