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Contents
1
Events
2
Published popular music
3
Top hit recordings
4
Classical music
5
Opera
6
Musical theatre
7
Births
8
Deaths
Events
March 3
-
Béla Bartók
's
String Quartet No. 2
is premiered in
Budapest
May 24
-
Béla Bartók
's
opera
Duke Bluebeard's Castle
(composed 1911) is premiered in Budapest.
April 30
/
May 1
-
Toivo Kuula
is mortally wounded in the
Finnish Civil War
.
November 15
-
Rosa Ponselle
makes her Metropolitan Opera début as Leonora in Verdi's
La forza del destino
, opposite
Enrico Caruso
.
Ralph Vaughan Williams
is appointed Director of Music, First Army.
First documented racially integrated
jazz
recording session.
Worldwide sales of
phonograph/gramophone
records estimated at 100 million records this year.
Published popular music
"
After You've Gone
" w.
Henry Creamer
m.
Turner Layton
"At The Jazz Band Ball" w.m.
Edwin B. Edwards
,
Nick LaRocca
,
Tony Spargo
&
Larry Shields
"Bagdad" w.
Harold Atteridge
m.
Al Jolson
"Beautiful Ohio" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Mary Earl
"Clarinet Marmalade" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
"Dallas Blues" w. Lloyd Garrett m. Hart A. Wand
"Dancing 'neath the Dixie moon" w. Will J. Hart m. Ed. Nelson.
"Dark Grows The Sky" w. Harry Graham m. Harold Fraser-Simson
"The Daughter Of Rosie O'Grady" w. Monty C. Brice m.
Walter Donaldson
"Dear Little Boy Of Mine" w. J. Keirn Brennan m.
Ernest R. Ball
"Dear Old Pal Of Mine" w. Harold Robe m. Lt. Gitz Rice
"Ding Dong" w.m.
Irving Berlin
"Every Day" by
Shelton Brooks
"Ev'rybody's Crazy 'bout the Doggone Blues, But I'm Happy" by
Henry Creamer
and
Turner Layton
"Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia" w. Grant Clarke m. Milton Ager
"Fidgety Feet" m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields
"A Good Man Is Hard To Find" w.m. Eddie Green
"
Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip!
" w.m. Robert Lloyd
"Good-bye, France" w.m.
Irving Berlin
"Hello, Central, Give Me No Man's Land" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
"Hindustan" w.m. Oliver G. Wallace & Harold Weeks
"Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo" by
Edward Rowland
"How Can You Tell" by
Ned Wayburn
"How Ya Gonna Keep 'Em Down On The Farm" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m.
Walter Donaldson
"I Found The End Of The Rainbow" w.m. John Mears, Harry Tierney &
Joseph McCarthy
"I Want To Shimmy" by
Shelton Brooks
"If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany" w. Grant Clarke &
Howard Johnson
m. George W. Meyer
"I'll Say She Does" w.m. B. G. DeSylva,
Gus Kahn
&
Al Jolson
"In The Land Of Beginning Again" w. Grant Clarke m. George W. Meyer
"
Ja-Da
" w.m.
Bob Carleton
"
K-K-K-Katy
" w.m.
Geoffrey O'Hara
"Madelon" w. (Eng) Alfred Bryan (Fr) Louis Bousquet m. Camille Robert
"Mammy's Chocolate Soldier" w. Sidney Mitchell m. Archie Gottler
"Me-Ow!" by Mel B. Kaufman
"Mickey" w. Harold H. Williams m. Neil Moret
"My Baby Boy" w. Will Dillon m.
Albert Von Tilzer
"Oh How I Wish I Could Sleep Until My Daddy Comes Home" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m.
Pete Wendling
"Oh! Frenchy!" w. Sam Ehrlich m.
Con Conrad
"
Oh! How I Hate to Get Up in the Morning
" w.m.
Irving Berlin
"On The Road To Calais" w. Alfred Bryan m.
Al Jolson
"Original Dixieland One-Step" w.m.
Joe Jordan (musician)
,
Nick LaRocca
&
J. Russell Robinson
"Oui Oui Marie" w. Alfred Bryan &
Joseph McCarthy
m. Fred Fisher
"
Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With A Dixie Melody
" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
"The Rose Of No Man's Land" w. Jack Caddigan m. James A. Brennan
"Russian Rag" m.
George L. Cobb
"
Somebody Stole My Gal
" w.m.
Leo Wood
"Sometime" by
Rida Johnson Young
"Tell That To The Marines" w. Harold Atteridge &
Al Jolson
m. Jean Schwartz
"That Tumble-Down Shack In Athlone" w. Richard W. Pascoe m. Monte Cobb & Alma M. Saunders
"That Wonderful Mother Of Mine" w. Clyde Hager m. Walter Goodwin
"There's Nobody Home but Me" w. Sam Erlich m.
Con Conrad
"They Were All Out Of Step But Jim" w.m.
Irving Berlin
"Those Draftin' Blues" w.m.
Maceo Pinkard
"
Till We Meet Again
" w. Raymond B. Egan m.
Richard A. Whiting
"Tishomingo Blues"
Spencer Williams
"Wedding Bells, Will You Ever Ring For Me?" w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Jean Schwartz
"We'll Do Our Share while You're Over There" w. Lew Brown & Al Herriman m. Jack Egan
"When Alexander Takes His Ragtime Band To France" w. Alfred Bryan & Edgar Leslie m. Cliff Hess
"When Tony Goes Over The Top" w. Billy Frisch & Archie Fletcher m. Alex Marr
"When You Look In The Heart Of A Rose" w. Marion Gillespie m. Florence Methuen
"Why Do They All Take The Night Boat To Albany?" w. Joe Young & Sam M. Lewis m. Jean Schwartz
"Without You" w.
Nora Bayes
m. Irving Fisher
"Would You Rather Be A Colonel With An Eagle On Your Shoulder Or A Private With A Chicken On Your Knee?" w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Archie Gottler
"You'll Find Old Dixieland In France" w. (Eng) Grant Clarke (Fr) Louis Delamarre m. George W. Meyer
"You're In Style When You're Wearing A Smile" w.m. Al W. Brown,
Gus Kahn
& Egbert van Alstyne
Top hit recordings
"
Tiger Rag
/Skeleton Jangle" by the
Original Dixieland Jass Band
"Over There" by
Enrico Caruso
"After You've Gone" by
Marion Harris
"Smiles" by Joseph C. Smith's Orchestra
"I'm Always Chasing Rainbows" by Charles Harrison
"Rock-A-Bye Your Baby With a Dixie Melody" by
Al Jolson
"Hello Central, Give Me No-Man's Land" by Al Jolson
"I'm Sorry I Made You Cry" by
Henry Burr
Classical music
Arnold Bax
-
Symphonic Variations
Frederick Delius
-
A Song Before Sunrise
Alexander Glazunov
-
Romance of Nina
Agustín Barrios
-
Un sueño en la foresta
Carl Nielsen
-
Pan and Syrinx
(tone poem)
Karol Szymanowski
-
Songs of an infatuated Muezzin
Opera
Charles Wakefield Cadman
-
Shanewis
Giacomo Puccini
-
Il Trittico
(consisting of
Il Tabarro
,
Suor Angelica
and
Gianni Schicchi
)
Gabriel von Wayditch
-
Jesus Before Herod
Musical theatre
As You Were
London production opened at the
Pavilion
on
August 3
The Better 'Ole
Broadway production opened at the Greenwich Village Theatre on
October 19
, transferred to the
Cort Theatre
on
November 18
and transferred to the
Booth Theatre
on June 16, 1919 for a total run of 353 performances
Buzz-Buzz
London
revue
opened at the
Vaudeville Theatre
on
December 20
and ran for 612 performances
The Canary
Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on
November 4
and ran for 152 performances
Fiddlers Three
Broadway production opened at the
Cort Theatre
on
September 3
and ran for 87 performances
The Girl Behind The Gun
Broadway production opened at the
New Amsterdam Theatre
on
September 16
and ran for 160 performances
Hullo, America
London production opened at the
Palace Theatre
on
September 25
The Lilac Domino
London production opened at the
Empire Theatre
on
February 21
and ran for 747 performances
Listen Lester
(Music: Harold Orlob Book and Lyrics: Harry L. Cort & George E. Stoddard. Broadway production opened at the
Knickerbocker Theatre
on
December 23
and ran for 272 performances. Starring Mary Milburn, Eddie Garvie,
Johnny Dooley
,
Clifton Webb
, Ada Mae Weeks, Ada Lewis and
Gertrude Vanderbilt
.
Oh, Lady! Lady!!
Broadway
production opened at the
Princess Theatre
on
February 1
, transferred to the
Casino Theatre
on
June 17
and ran for a total of 219 performances.
The Passing Show of 1918
Broadway revue opened at the
Winter Garden Theatre
on
July 25
and ran for 142 performances
Phi-Phi
Paris
operetta
opened at the
Bouffes-Parisiens
on
November 12
Sinbad
Broadway production opened at the
Winter Garden Theatre
on
February 14
and ran for 164 performances
Sometime
(Music:
Rudolf Friml
Book:
Rida Johnson Young
Lyrics:
Rida Johnson Young
) Broadway production opened at the
Shubert Theatre
on October 4 and transferred to the
Casino Theatre
on November 11 for a total run of 283 performances. Featuring
Mae West
and
Ed Wynn
Toot-Toot!
Broadway production opened at George M. Cohan's Theatre on
March 11
and ran for 40 performances
Very Good, Eddie
London production opened at the
Palace Theatre
on
May 18
and ran for 341 performances
Births
January 20
–
Juan García Esquivel
, Mexican bandleader (d. 2002)
January 24
-
Gottfried von Einem
, composer (d. 1996)
January 27
Skitch Henderson
, bandleader (d. 2005)
Elmore James
, blues musician (d. 1963)
February 3
-
Joey Bishop
, all-round entertainer (d. 2007)
February 15
-
Hank Locklin
, singer (d. 2009)
February 16
- Patty Andrews of
The Andrews Sisters
singing group
March 20
-
Marian McPartland
, British jazz pianist
March 23
-
Alberto Caracciolo
, tango musician (d. 1994)
March 29
-
Pearl Bailey
, singer (d. 1990)
April 3
-
Sixten Ehrling
, conductor (d. 2005)
May 15
-
Eddy Arnold
, country singer (d. 2008)
May 17
-
Birgit Nilsson
, operatic soprano (d. 2005)
June 4
-
Noel Estrada
, composer (d. 1979)
June 8
-
Robert Preston
, star of musicals (d. 1987)
June 10
-
Patachou
, French singer
June 26
-
Roger Voisin
, trumpeter (d. 2008)
July 5
-
George Rochberg
, composer (d. 2005)
July 6
-
Eugene List
, classical pianist (d. 1985)
July 24
-
Ruggiero Ricci
, violinist
July 27
-
Leonard Rose
, cellist (d. 1984)
August 18
-
Cisco Houston
, folk singer (d. 1961)
August 25
-
Leonard Bernstein
, composer (d. 1990)
August 31
-
Alan Jay Lerner
, US lyricist (d. 1986)
September 22
-
Henryk Szeryng
, violinist (d. 1988)
September 23
-
Lola Graham
, pianist (d. 1992)
September 26
-
John Zacherle
, actor and singer
October 11
-
Jerome Robbins
, choreographer (d. 1998)
October 17
-
Rita Hayworth
, actress, dancer and singer (d. 1987)
November 20
-
Tibor Frešo
, composer (d. 1987)
December 12
-
Joe Williams
, jazz singer (d. 1999)
December 19
-
Professor Longhair
, blues singer and pianist (d. 1980)
December 23
-
José Greco
, flamenco dancer and choreographer (d. 2000)
Deaths
January 19
-
Juan José Cañas
, co-writer of the El Salvador national anthem (b. 1826)
February 7
-
Alexander Taneyev
, composer (b. 1850)
February 15
-
Miguel Marqués
- Spanish composer and violinist (b. 1843)
March 1
-
Emil Sjögren
, composer (b. 1853)
March (12-15) -
José White Lafitte
, violinist and composer (b. 1836)
March 13
-
César Cui
, music critic and composer (b. 1835)
March 15
-
Lili Boulanger
, composer (b. 1893)
March 23
-
Théo Ysaÿe
, pianist and composer (b. 1865)
March 25
-
Claude Debussy
, composer (b. 1862)
April 13
-
David Ffrangcon Davies
, operatic baritone (b. 1855)
April 21
-
Antonio Pini-Corsi
, operatic baritone (b. 1859)
May 5
-
Bertha Palmer
, writer and musician
May 18
-
Toivo Kuula
, conductor and composer (b. 1883) (accidentally shot)
May 22
-
Fritz Seitz
, violinist and composer (b. 1848)
June 9
-
Jozsef Angster
, master organ maker (b. 1834)
June 10
-
Arrigo Boito
, writer and composer (b. 1842)
August 12
-
Anna Held
, singer (b. 1872)
August 15
-
Heinrich Köselitz
, author and composer (b. 1854)
August 26
-
Cecil Coles
, composer (b. 1888) (killed in action)
September 7
-
Morfydd Llwyn Owen
, singer, pianist and composer (b. 1891) (appendicitis)
October 7
-
Hubert Parry
, composer (b. 1848)
October 15
-
Antonio Cotogni
, operatic baritone (b. 1831)
October 16
-
Felix Arndt
, pianist & composer (b. 1889)
October 22
-
Charles Peccatte
, archetier (b. 1850)
October 24
Charles Lecocq
, composer (b. 1832)
Marianne Scharwenka
, violinist (b. 1856)
October 29
-
Rudolf Tobias
, organist and composer (b. 1873)
November 4
-
Joaquín Valverde Sanjuán
,
zarzuela
composer (b. 1875)
date unknown
-
King Watzke
, violinist and bandleader (b. c. 1880)