01-24 - Carl Nielsen conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 5 in Copenhagen.
04-21 - Death of Alessandro Moreschi, the last known castrato singer of the Vatican.
06-06 - American composer Randall Thompson wins The American Academy in Rome. The third two-year composition fellowship.
06-07 - Ralph Vaughan Williams conducts first American performance of his Pastoral Symphony at Norfolk, CT. Festival.
06-30 - Henry C. Gilliland & A.C. "Eck" Robertson made the first recordings ever by Southern country musicians
07-08 - Do It Again recorded by Paul Whiteman begins a run of 2 weeks at #1 on the US charts.
07-10 - Opening concert of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestral performances. Alfred Hertz the first conductor.
07-12 - First performance of Paul Hindemith's Kleine Kammermusik for winds, Op. 24, no. 2. Frankfurt Chamber Winds in Cologne, Germany.
07-22 - Stumbling recorded by Paul Whiteman begins a run of 6 weeks at #1 on the US charts.
07-31 - First performance of Paul Hindemith's Kammermusik No. 1, Op. 42a, with Hermann Scherchen conducting at Donaueschingen, Germany.
08-11 - Founding of the International Society for Contemporary Music in after a Festival of Contemporary Music in Salzburg, Austria
08-12 - First live broadcast of a concert by the New York Philharmonic on radio station WJZ. Music by Dvorák, Saint-Saens, Mendelssohn, Brahms, Rimksy-Korsakov and Gluck.
08-14 - Jenkins Family performs on Atlanta radio station WSB as one of earliest gospel music broadcasts
08-28 - Premiere of George Gershwin's one-act opera "Blue Monday," as a part of "George White's Scandals of 1922" at the Globe Theater in New York City; The opera was cut from the "Scandals" after its one opening night.
09-07 - Premiere of Bliss's "Colour Symphony," at the Three Choirs' Festival in Glouchester, England.
10-19 - Maurice Ravel orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition is premiered in Paris