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Contents
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Events
2
Published popular music
3
Hit recordings
4
Classical music
5
Opera
6
Musical theater
7
Births
8
Deaths
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References
Events
February 1
-
Carl Nielsen
conducts the premiere of his
Symphony No. 4
, the
Inextinguishable
, in
Copenhagen
.
February 11
-
Baltimore Symphony Orchestra
presents its first concert.
April 28
-
Edison Records
carry out the first public "comparison test" between live and recorded singing voices at Carnegie Hall, featuring soprano
Marie Rappold
.
[
1
]
June 5
- Stein's Dixie Jass Band plays its first concert under its new name, the
Original Dixieland Jass Band
.
The
Original Dixieland Jass Band
make a hit in
Chicago, Illinois
.
Wilber Sweatman
records his hot ragtime in
New York City
.
Sydney conservatorium of music
in Australia accepted first students.
Soprano
Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann
is awarded the
Charlottenkreuz
.
German soprano
Vali von der Osten
marries tenor
Fritz Windgassen
.
Published popular music
"Allah's Holiday" w.
Otto Harbach
m.
Rudolf Friml
"And They Called It Dixieland" w. Raymond Egan m.
Richard A. Whiting
"Arrah Go On, I'm Gonna Go Back To Oregon" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
"At Finnigan's Ball" w.m.
Bert Lee
"Baby Shoes" by Joe Goodwin
"
Beale Street Blues
" w.m.
W. C. Handy
"A Broken Doll" w.m.
James W. Tate
&
Frank Clifford Harris
"
Bugle Call Rag
" w.m.
Eubie Blake
& Carey Morgan
"Bull Frog Blues" Tom Brown, Guy Shrigley
"The Cobbler's Song" w.
Oscar Asche
m.
Frederic Norton
"La Cumparsita" w. Carol Raven m. G. H. Matos Rodriguez (words written 1932)
"Don't Leave Me, Daddy" Joe Verges
"Down In Honky Tonky Town" w.
Charles McCarron
m.
Chris Smith
"Down Where The Swanee River Flows" w. Charles McCarron m. Charles S. Alberte
"For Dixie And Uncle Sam" w.
J. Keirn Brennan
m.
Ernest R. Ball
""Forever" Is A Long, Long Time" w. Darl MacBoyle m.
Albert Von Tilzer
"From Here To Shanghai" w.m.
Irving Berlin
"Give Me All Of You" Schwartzwald
"Goodbye, Good Luck, God Bless You" w.
J. Keirn Brennan
m.
Ernest R. Ball
"Green Hills Of Somerset" w.
Fred E. Weatherly
m.
Eric Coates
"Have A Heart" w. Gene Buck m.
Jerome Kern
"Homesickness Blues" w.m. Cliff Hess
"The Honolulu Blues" w. Grant Clarke & Eddie Cox m.
James V. Monaco
"How's Every Little Thing In Dixie?" w.
Jack Yellen
m. Albert Gumble
"Hula Lou" w. Edward Grossmith m. Ted D. Ward
"
I Ain't Got Nobody
" w. Roger Graham & Dave Peyton m.
Spencer Williams
"I Can Dance With Everybody But My Wife" w. Joseph Cawthorn & John Golden m. John Golden
"I Sent My Wife To The Thousand Isles" w.
Andrew B. Sterling
& Ed Moran m.
Harry von Tilzer
"I Want To Marry A Male Quartette" w.
Otto Harbach
m.
Rudolf Friml
"If I Knock The "L" Out Of Kelly" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Bert Grant
"
If You Were the Only Girl (in the World)
" w. Clifford Grey m. Nat D. Ayer
"I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" w.m. N. J. Clesi
"
Ireland Must Be Heaven, for My Mother Came from There
" w.
Joseph McCarthy
&
Howard Johnson
m.
Fred Fisher
"I've A Shooting Box In Scotland" w.m. Thomas Lawrason Riggs &
Cole Porter
"Joe Turner Blues" w. Walter Hirsch m.
W. C. Handy
"Katinka" w.
Otto Harbach
m.
Rudolf Friml
"Keep Your Eye On The Girlie You Love" w. Howard Johnson & Alex Gerber m. Ira Schuster
"The Laddies Who Fought And Won" w.m.
Harry Lauder
"
Li'l Liza Jane
" w.m. Countess Ada De Lachau
"Love Me At Twilight" w. William Jerome &
Joe Young
m. Bert Grant
"Mammy's Little Coal Black Rose" w. Raymond Egan m.
Richard Whiting
"M-I-S-S-I-S-S-I-P-P-I" w, Bert Hanlon & Benny Ryan m. Harry Tierney
"Movie Trot" m. Harry H. Raymond
"My Hawaiian Sunrise" w.m.
L. Wolfe Gilbert
& Carey Morgan
"My Syncopated Melody Man" w.m. Blanche Merrill & Eddie Cox
"Nat'an, For What Are You Waitin', Nat'an" w.m. James Kendris
"Naughty! Naughty! Naughty!" w. Joe Goodwin & William Tracey m. Nat Vincent
"Never Let The Same Bee Sting You Twice" w.m.
Cecil Mack
&
Chris Smith
"O'Brien Is Tryin' To Learn To Talk Hawaiian" w.
Al Dubin
m. Rennie Cormack
"Oh! How She Could Yacki, Hacki, Wicki, Wacki, Woo" w. Stanley Murphy & Charles McCarron m.
Albert Von Tilzer
"Operatic Rag" J. Lensberg
"
Poor Butterfly
" w. John Golden m.
Raymond Hubbell
"
Pretty Baby
" w.
Gus Kahn
m.
Tony Jackson
&
Egbert Van Alstyne
"Rackety Coo!" w.
Otto Harbach
m.
Rudolf Friml
"Rolling Stones - All Come Rolling Home Again" w. Edgar Leslie m. Archie Gottler
"
Roses of Picardy
" w.
Frederick Weatherly
m. Haydn Wood
"Shamrock Rag" m.
Euday L. Bowman
"She Is The Sunshine Of Virginia" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
"Sierra Sue" w.m. Joseph Buell Carey
"Someone Else May Be There While I'm Gone" w.m.
Irving Berlin
"Sweet Cider Time When You Were Mine" w.
Joe McCarthy
m.
Percy Wenrich
"
Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty
" w.m. A. J. Mills,
Fred Godfrey
&
Bennett Scott
"That Funny Jas Band From Dixieland" w.m. Henry I. Marshal
"There's A Little Bit Of Bad In Every Good Little Girl" w.
Grant Clarke
m.
Fred Fisher
"There's A Quaker Down In Quaker Town" w. David Berg m. Alfred Solman
"They Made It Twice As Nice as Paradise and They Called It Dixieland" w. Raymond Egan m.
Richard Whiting
"They're Wearing 'Em Higher In Hawaii" w. Joe Goodwin m. Halsey K. Mohr
"Throw Me A Rose" w.
P. G. Wodehouse
& Herbert Reynolds m. Emmerich Kallman
"Turn Back The Universe And Give Me Yesterday" w.
J. Keirn Brennan
m.
Ernest R. Ball
"Walkin' The Dog"
Shelton Brooks
"What Do You Want To Make Those Eyes At Me For?" w.
Joseph McCarthy
& Howard Johnson m.
James V. Monaco
"When John McCormack Sings A Song" w.
William Jerome
&
E. Ray Goetz
m.
Jean Schwartz
"When You're Down In Louisville" w.m.
Irving Berlin
"Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m.
George W. Meyer
"Where The Black-Eyed Susans Grow" w. Dave Radford m.
Richard Whiting
"Yaacka Hula Hickey Dula" w.m.
E. Ray Goetz
, Joe Young &
Pete Wendling
"You Belong To Me" w.
Harry B. Smith
m.
Victor Herbert
"You Can't Get Along With 'Em Or Without 'Em" w. Grant Clarke m.
Fred Fisher
"You're In Love" w.
Otto Harbach
& Edward Clark m.
Rudolf Friml
Hit recordings
"
O Sole Mio
" by
Enrico Caruso
"Santa Lucia" by Enrico Caruso
"Somewhere a Voice is Calling" by
John McCormack
"Where Did Robinson Crusoe Go With Friday On Saturday Night?" by
Al Jolson
"I Love A Piano" by
Billy Murray
"
Pretty Baby
" by Billy Murray
"I'm Gonna Make Hay While the Sun Shines in Virginia" by
Marion Harris
"Keep the Home Fires Burning ('Till the Boys Comes Home)" by James F. Harrison
"
There's A Long Long Trail A-Winding
" by James F. Harrison
"Ireland Must Be Heaven, For My Mother Came From There" by Charles Harrison
Classical music
Kurt Atterberg
-
Symphony no. 3, "West Coast Pictures"
Béla Bartók
-
Suite for Piano
Ernest Bloch
-
Israel Symphony
,
String Quartet No. 1
Claude Debussy
-
Sonata for Flute, Viola and Harp
Frederick Delius
-
Cello Sonata
George Enescu
-
Piano Trio
Alexander Glazunov
-
Karelian Legend
Jesus Guridi
-
Una aventura de Don Quijote
Paul Hindemith
-
Cello Concerto in E-flat
, Op. 3
Ludvig Holm
-
Concerto for violin and orchestra in G major
Charles Ives
-
Fourth Symphony
Erkki Melartin
-
Symphony no 5 in A minor
, Op. 90, "Sinfonia brevis"
Hubert Parry
-
Jerusalem
Siegfried Salomon
-
Concerto for violin and orchestra in G minor
Igor Stravinsky
-
Burleske for 4 Pantomimes and Chamber Orchestra
Heitor Villa-Lobos
-
Second Cello Sonata
Opera
Rutland Boughton
-
The Round Table
Enrique Granados
-
Goyescas
Erwin Lendvai
-
Elga
Manuel Penella
-
El Gato Montés
Felix Weingartner
-
Dame Kobold
Musical theater
Betty
Broadway production opened at the
Globe Theatre
on
October 2
and ran for 63 performances
Broadway And Buttermilk
Broadway production opened at
Maxine Elliott's Theatre
on
August 15
and ran for 23 performances
Chu Chin Chow
London
production opened at
His Majesty's Theatre
on
August 31
and ran for a record 2238 performances.
Follow Me
Broadway production opened at the
Casino Theatre
on
November 29
and ran for 78 performances
Pell Mell
London production opened at the
Ambassadors Theatre
on
June 5
and ran for 298 performances
Robinson Crusoe Jr
Broadway
production opened on
February 17
at the
Winter Garden Theatre
and ran for 139 performances
So Long Letty
Broadway production opened at the
Shubert Theatre
on
October 23
and ran for 96 performances
Sybil
Broadway production opened on
January 10
at the
Liberty Theatre
and ran for 168 performances. Starring
Julia Sanderson
,
Donald Brian
and
Joseph Cawthorn
.
We're All in It
London
revue
opened at the
Empire Theatre
on
July 13
Ziegfeld Follies Of 1916
Broadway
revue
opened at the
New Amsterdam Theatre
on
June 12
and ran for 112 performances
Births
January 4
-
Slim Gaillard
, jazz musician (d. 1991)
January 9
-
Vic Mizzy
, TV theme composer (d. 2009)
January 14
-
Maxwell Davis
, R&B musician (d. 1970)
January 15
-
Artie Shapiro
, jazz bassist (d. 2003)
January 16
-
Rudolf Benesh
, developer of the Benesh Movement Notation for dancing (d. 1975)
January 22
-
Henri Dutilleux
,
French
composer
February 5
-
Daniel Santos
, singer (d. 1992)
February 8
-
Jimmy Skidmore
, jazz musician (d. 1998)
February 22
-
Pedro Junco
, composer (d. 1939)
February 29
-
Dinah Shore
, singer (d. 1994)
March 6
-
Red Callender
, jazz musician (d. 1992)
March 15
-
Harry James
, bandleader (d. 1983)
March 17
-
Ray Ellington
, singer and bandleader (d. 1985)
April 11
-
Alberto Ginastera
,
Argentinian
composer (d. 1983)
April 12
-
Russell Garcia
, film score composer
April 14
-
Denis ApIvor
, composer (d. 2004)
April 15
-
Lee Vincent
, DJ and orchestra leader (d. 2007)
April 22
-
Yehudi Menuhin
, violinist (d. 1999)
April 30
-
Robert Shaw
, conductor (d. 1999)
May 6
-
Adriana Caselotti
, voice (and model) for Snow White (d. 1997)
May 9
-
Bernard Rose
, organist and composer (d. 1996)
May 10
-
Milton Babbitt
, composer
May 17
-
Paul Quinichette
, jazz musician (d. 1983)
May 21
-
Lydia Mendoza
, guitarist and singer (d. 2007)
May 26
-
Moondog
, singer, percussionist, composer and inventor of musical instruments (d. 1999)
June 15
-
Horacio Salgán
, pianist, composer and orchestra leader
June 17
-
Einar Englund
,
Finnish
composer (died 1999)
June 26
-
Giuseppe Taddei
, operatic baritone
July 9
Dean Goffin
, Salvation Army composer (d. 1984)
Edward Heath
, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, organist and conductor (d. 2005)
July 16
-
Miles Copeland, Jr.
, musician and CIA agent (d. 1991)
July 24
-
Bob Eberly
, US singer with
Jimmy Dorsey
's Orchestra (d. 1981)
July 28
-
Rosina Raisbeck
, operatic mezzo-soprano (d. 2006)
July 29
-
Charlie Christian
, swing and jazz guitarist (d. 1942)
August 3
-
Claude Demetrius
, songwriter (d. 1988)
August 18
-
Moura Lympany
, pianist (d. 2005)
August 21
-
Bill Lee
, singer (d. 1980)
August 24
–
Léo Ferré
, singer, songwriter and composer (d. 1993)
August 25
-
Ethel Stark
, violinist and composer
August 27
-
Martha Raye
, US singer and actress (d. 1994)
September 8
-
René Touzet
, pianist, composer and bandleader (d. 2003)
September 13
-
Dick Haymes
, Argentinian-born US singer and actor (d. 1980)
September 16
-
M.S. Subbulakshmi
,
Carnatic
vocalist (d. 2004)
October 3
-
David Mann
, songwriter (d. 2002)
October 19
Karl-Birger Blomdahl
, composer and conductor (d. 1968)
Emil Gilels
,
Ukrainian
classical
pianist
(d. 1985)
October 28
-
Bill Harris
, jazz trombonist (d. 1973)
October 29
-
Hadda Brooks
, pianist, singer and composer (d. 2002)
November 6
-
Ray Conniff
, trombonist and bandleader (d. 2002)
November 10
-
Billy May
, composer and arranger (d. 2004)
December 11
-
Perez Prado
, Cuban bandleader and composer (d. 1989)
December 15
Buddy Cole
, jazz musician (d. 1964)
Greta Gynt
, singer, dancer and actress (d. 2000)
December 18
-
Betty Grable
, star of many Hollywood musicals (d. 1973)
December 25
Oscar Moore
, jazz guitarist (d. 1981)
Graciela Naranjo
, Venezuelan singer and actress (d.
2001
)
December 27
–
Johnny Frigo
, American jazz violinist and bassist (d.
2007
)
date unknown
Jan Håkan Åberg
, organist and composer
Sam Taylor
, jazz musician (d.1980)
Freddie Webster
, jazz musician (d. 1947)
Deaths
January 16
-
Charles A. Zimmerman
, composer (b. 1861)
January 21
-
George Musgrove
, theatre and opera producer (b. 1854)
February 4
-
Adolphe Biarent
, cellist and composer (b. 1871)
February 5
-
Francesco Marconi
, operatic tenor (b. 1853/1855)
February 20
-
Giovanni Sbriglia
, operatic tenor and singing teacher (b. 1832)
March 7
-
José Ferrer
, guitarist (b. 1835)
March 24
-
Enrique Granados
, composer (b. 1867)
May 11
-
Max Reger
, composer (b. 1873)
May 13
Clara Louise Kellogg
, singer (b. 1842)
Jessie MacLachlan
, Gaelic singer (b. 1866)
May 28
-
Albert Lavignac
, musicologist and composer (b. 1846)
June 5
-
Mildred J. Hill
, songwriter (b. 1859)
June 10
-
Max Vogrich
, pianist and composer (b.1852)
August 2
-
Hamish MacCunn
, composer (b. 1868)
August 5
-
George Butterworth
, composer (b. 1885) (killed in action)
August 8
-
Franz Eckert
, composer (b. 1852)
September 10
-
Friedrich Gernsheim
, pianist, conductor and composer (b. 1839)
September 15
-
Julius Fučík
, composer (b. 1872)
November 2
-
Marie Wieck
, pianist, singer, piano teacher and composer (b. 1832)
November 23
-
Eduard Nápravník
, conductor and composer (b. 1839)
December 2
-
Francesco Paolo Tosti
, composer and music teacher (b. 1846)
December 5
-
Hans Richter
, conductor (b. 1843)
December 20
-
William Gilchrist
, composer (b. 1846)
December 28
-
Eduard Strauss
, composer (b. 1835)
December 31
-
Ernst Rudorff
, composer and music teacher (b. 1840)
date unknown
John Francis Barnett
, composer and music teacher (b. 1837)
Charlie Case
, vaudeville entertainer
References
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Edison Records -
Composers and Artists whose Art is Re-Created by Edison's New Art
(ca. 1920)