1944 first performance of Béla Bartók's Concerto for Orchestra by the Boston Symphony, Serge Koussevitzky conducting.
1946 Rudolf Buchbinder – Austrian pianist and conductor (78 years old); has performed all 32 of Beethoven’s Piano Sonatas in more than 40 cities, and recorded them in performance in 2011.
1956 premiere of Leonard Bernstein's show Candide on Broadway; this version with Lillian Hellman’s adaptation of Voltaire and lyrics by Hellman and Richard Wilbur is no longer available for staging; several other versions followed.
1974 Antonio Pompa-Baldi – Italian-American pianist (50 years old); Gold Medalist in the 1999 Cleveland International Piano Competition.