Ravel is perhaps known best for his orchestral work Boléro ( 1928 ), which he considered trivial and once described as " a piece for orchestra without music ".

* Entrata for orchestra, after " The Bells " by William Byrd ( 1539 – 1623 ) ( 1928, reworked 1941 )

President Harry H. Flagler, of the Symphony Society, will be president of the merger. At the first joint board meeting in 1928, the chairman, Clarence Mackay, expressed the opinion that " with the forces of the two Societies now united ... the Philharmonic-Symphony Society could build up the greatest orchestra in this country if not in the world.

In 1928 he composed the Concert champêtre, a piece for harpsichord and orchestra commissioned by Wanda Landowska.

These, and later concerts by the same orchestra in 1928 and 1929, made obvious the poor standards then prevailing in London.

In 1928 the Princesse de Polignac and Coco Chanel proposed to establish a new orchestra, well enough paid to keep its players from taking conflicting engagements.

* The Pilgrim's Progress for solo voices, chorus and orchestra ( 1928, BBC commission, Queen's Hall, BBC Orchestra and Choral Society / composer, 1928-29 season, 23 November 1928 ; this was the first appearance for the Choral Society )

This was approved by the Archbishop of Canterbury, so Vaughan Williams recast his 1928 setting of the English metrical version of Psalm 100, the Jubilate Deo (" All people that on earth do dwell ") for congregation, organ and orchestra: the setting has become ubiquitous at festal occasions in the Anglophone world.

Orchestral banduras were first developed by Leonid Haydamaka in Kharkiv 1928 in order to extend the range of the bandura section in his orchestra of Ukrainian folk instruments.

Béla Bartók used it in his Rhapsody # 1 for violin and orchestra ( 1928 ).

They include the English musician Stanley Wilson's " Hiawatha, 12 Scenes " ( 1928 ) for first grade solo piano, based on Longfellow's lines, and Soon Hee Newbold's " Hiawatha " for junior string orchestra ( 2003 ), a rhythmic composition in Dorian mode.

These, and later concerts by the same orchestra in 1928 and 1929, made obvious the comparatively poor standards of London orchestras.

* 1928: Kleine Suite for small orchestra

The songs were first written for medium voice and piano ; they were revised for high voice and orchestra in 1928.

Rafael Cortijo ( January 11, 1928 – October 3, 1982 ), was a Puerto Rican musician, orchestra leader, and composer.

For a short time he played trumpet with Arnold Johnson's orchestra, and by July 1928 he traveled to France with George Carhart's band.

In 1928 Green played in the orchestra of the revue Keep Shufflin together with Fats Waller and James P. Johnson.

The first commercial recording of part of the symphony was made by Dol Dauber with his salon orchestra in 1928 for HMV.

Designed by Detroit-based architect Maurice Finkel and built in 1928, the theater seats 1700 and features the theater's original 1927 Barton Theatre Pipe Organ, orchestra pit, stage, and elaborate architectural details.

18, suite for flute, optional soprano and orchestra ( 1928 )

He began his own nine-piece orchestra, known at various times as the Peninsula Band, the Super Soloists, and the Merrimakers, and appeared in San Mateo ( 1926 to June 1927 ), where he also owned a music store ; San José ( 1928 to January 1929 ), where he was Master of Ceremonies and wrote revues for the California Theatre before moving on to Fresno and Oakland.

The original line can be heard in several early recordings of the song, such as a recording made by Dorsey Brothers & their Orchestra ( featuring a vocal by a young Bing Crosby ), Rudy Vallée, both in 1928, and a version of the song by the singer and well-known broadway star Mary Martin ( with Ray Sinatra's orchestra ), recorded in 1944.

In 1928, he joined Bert Ambrose's orchestra at the Mayfair Hotel in London and played there until 1935 when he moved on to Sydney Lipton's orchestra at the Grosvenor House.

Iuliu Maniu ( 1873 – 1953 ) was prime minister with an agrarian cabinet from 1928 to 1930, but the Great Depression made proposed reforms impossible.

The effect of the failure of the 1928 book was salutary: no further attempts were made to revise the Book of Common Prayer.

Many prominent figures testified in that trial, including members of the parliamentary committee investigating the reasons for the defeat, so some of its results were made public long before the publication of the committee report in 1928.

DKW cars were made from 1928 until 1966.

The German American Rockefeller family's Rockefeller Foundation made a large donation enabling the development of a new dedicated building for the institute, along Kraepelin's guidelines, which was officially opened in 1928.

The building was named after the ancient phrase of Hakkō ichiu ( literally " eight cords, one roof "), which had been attributed to Emperor Jimmu and, since 1928, has been espoused by the Imperial government as an expression of Japanese expansionism, as it envisioned to the unification of the world ( the " eight corners of the world ") under the Emperor's " sacred rule ", a goal that was considered imperative to all Japanese subjects, as Jimmu, finding five races in Japan, had made them all as " brothers of one family.

* 1928 film made in Movietone at SilentEra

Four silent films were made featuring Kit Carson as the " star " from 1903 to 1928.

Steiner immediately began work designing a second Goetheanum building – this time made of concrete instead of wood – which was completed in 1928, three years after his death.

In 1928 she was made a member of the Committee of Yuans by Chiang.

In 1927, Philo Farnsworth made the world's first working television system with electronic scanning of both the pickup and display devices, which he first demonstrated to the press on 1 September 1928.

In 1928 important discoveries were made in the region from then on called Copperbelt-enormous copper deposits were found, transforming Northern Rhodesia from a prospective land of colonization for white farmers to a copper exporter.

It was suggested that the Indonesian language is an artificial language made official in 1928.

Baird then set up the Baird Television Development Company Ltd, which in 1928 made the first transatlantic television transmission, from London to Hartsdale, New York, and the first television programme for the BBC.

In 1928, Fritz Lang made the film Spies which contained many tropes that became popular in later spy dramas, including secret headquarters, an agent known by a number, and the beautiful foreign agent who comes to love the hero.

The play was made into a film in 1925, which was so successful that two sequels followed in 1926 and 1928.

In 1928 Novello starred in the silent adaptation of Coward's much more successful The Vortex, and made his last silent film, A South Sea Bubble.

After two months of planning, in 1928 Ravel made a four-month concert tour in North America, for a promised minimum of $ 10, 000 ( approximately $, adjusted for inflation ).

In October 1928, Raeder was promoted to Admiral and made Commander-in-Chief of the Reichsmarine, the Weimar Republic Navy ( Oberbefehlshaber der Reichsmarine ).

In September 1928, three German researchers ( E. Allwein, E. Schneider, Karl Wien ), from a Soviet-German scientific expedition, made the first attempt to reach the highest point of the Trans-Alai Range, which at that time had the name Kaufman Peak.

In 1928, Kahn made a European tour and took a particular interest in the medieval walled city of Carcassonne, France and the castles of Scotland rather than any of the strongholds of classicism or modernism.

By 1928 he had joined the Kaiserslautern youth academy, and he made his first team debut at 17, continuing an association with the club that would be his only professional club.

When sound arrived, he made his Hollywood debut in 1928.

This development led to the Cierva C. 8, which, on 18 September 1928, made the first rotorcraft crossing of the English Channel followed by a tour of Europe.

* In 1928, a silent film The Private Life of Helen of Troy, was made.