1915 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1915.
Events
- May 15 - Tom Brown's band from New Orleans begin performing in Chicago, Illinois and start advertising themselves as a "Jass Band".[1]
- Composer Herbert Howells is given six months to live, and becomes the first person in the UK to receive radium treatment (he will live on until 1983).[2]
- The ukulele becomes popular as a result of its appearance in the Hawaiian Pavilion at the Panama Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco.
Published popular music
- "Alabama Jubilee" w.m. Jack Yellen & George L. Cobb
- "All For You" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
- "Along The Rocky Road To Dublin" w. Joe Young m. Bert Grant
- "America, I Love You" w. Edgar Leslie m. Archie Gottler
- "Araby" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Are You From Dixie?" w.m. Jack Yellen & George L. Cobb
- "Are You The O'Reilly? (Blime Me, O' Reilly, You Are Lookin' Well)" Rooney, Emmett
- "The Army Of Today's All Right" w.m. Kenneth Lyle & Fred W. Leigh
- "Auf Wiedersehen" w. Herbert Reynolds m. Sigmund Romberg, from the musical The Blue Paradise
- "Babes In The Wood" w. Schuyler Greene & Jerome Kern m. Jerome Kern
- "Baby Shoes" w. Joe Goodwin & Ed Rose m. Al Piantadosi
- "Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What To Do" w.m. Grant Clarke, Joseph McCarthy, & James V. Monaco
- "Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser" w.m. Mark Sheridan
- "Blame It On The Blues" Cooke
- "Canadian Capers" w. Earl Burnett m. Gus Chandler, Bert White & Henry Cohan
- "Close To My Heart" by A.B. Sterling
- "Dear Old-Fashioned Irish Songs, My Mother Sang To Me" Bryan, Von Tilzer
- "Don't Bite The Hand That's Feeding You" w. Thomas Hoier m. James Morgan
- "Down In Bom-Bombay" w. Ballard MacDonald m. Harry Carroll
- "Everything In America Is Ragtime" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Fascination" w.m. Harold Atteridge & Sigmund Romberg
- "Gasoline Gus And His Jitney Bus" Gay, Brown
- "Georgia Grind" w.m. Spencer Williams
- "The Girl On The Magazine Cover" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "Hello Frisco!" w. Gene Buck m. Louis A. Hirsch
- "Hello, Hawaii, How Are You?" w. Bert Kalmar & Edgar Leslie m. Jean Schwartz
- "The Hesitating Blues" w.m. W. C. Handy
- "I Can Beat You Doing What You're Doing Me" w.m. Clarence Williams & Armand J. Piron
- "I Didn't Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier" w. Alfred Bryan m. Al Piantadosi
- "I Love A Piano" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "I Wish I Was An Island In An Ocean Of Girls" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
- "I'd Rather Be A Lamp-Post On Old Broadway" Benjamin Hapgood Burt
- "If I Can't Sing The Words, You Must Whistle The Tune" Hermann Darewski
- "If We Can't Be The Same Old Sweethearts" w. Joe McCarthy m. James V. Monaco
- "I'm Simply Crazy Over You" w. William Jerome & E. Ray Goetz m. Jean Schwartz
- "In A Monastery Garden" m. Albert William Ketèlbey
- "Ireland Is Ireland To Me" w. Fiske O'Hara & J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball
- "It's Tulip Time In Holland" w. Dave Radford m. Richard A. Whiting
- "I've Been Floating Down the Old Green River" w. Bert Kalmar m. Joe Cooper
- "I've Gotta Go Back To Texas" Irving Berlin
- "Just Try To Picture Me (Back Home In Tennessee)" w. William Jerome m. Walter Donaldson
- "The Ladder Of Roses" w. R. H. Burnside m. Raymond Hubbell
- "The Little House Upon The Hill" w. Ballard MacDonald & Joe Goodwin m. Harry Puck
- "Love Is The Best Of All" w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert
- "Love, Here Is My Heart" w. Adrian Ross m. Lãu Silésu
- "The Magic Melody" w. Schuyler Greene m. Jerome Kern
- "Memories" w. Gustave Kahn m. Egbert Van Alstyne
- "Molly Dear It's You I'm After" w. Frank Wood m. Henry E. Pether
- "M-O-T-H-E-R" w. Howard Johnson m. Theodore F. Morse
- "My Little Girl" w. Sam M. Lewis & William Dillon m. Albert Von Tilzer
- "My Mother's Rosary" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
- "My Sweet Adair" w.m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Anatole Friedland
- "Neapolitan Love Song" w. Henry Blossom Jr m. Victor Herbert
- "Nola" m.Felix Arndt
- "Norway" by Joe McCarthy
- "On The Beach At Waikiki" w. G. H. Stover m. Henry Kailimai
- "Pack Up Your Troubles in Your Old Kit-Bag" w. George Asaf m. Felix Powell
- "Paper Doll" w.m. Johnny S. Black
- "The Perfect Song" w. Clarence Lucas m. Joseph Carl Breil
- "Please Keep Out Of My Dreams" w.m. Elsa Maxwell
- "Ragging The Scale" w. Dave Ringle m. Edward B. Claypole
- "Ragtime Pipe of Pan" w. Harold J. Atteridge m. Sigmund Romberg from the revue A World of Pleasure
- "Railroad Jim" by Nat H. Vincent
- "Ritual Fire Dance" m. Manuel de Falla
- "She's The Daughter Of Mother Machree" w. Jeff T. Branen m. Ernest R. Ball
- "Siam" w. Howard Johnson m. Fred Fisher
- "So Long Letty" by Earl Carroll
- "Some Little Bug Is Going To Find You" w. Benjamin Hapgood Burt & Roy Atwell m. Silvio Hein. Introduced by Roy Atwell in the musical Alone at Last.
- "Some Sort Of Somebody" w. Elsie Janis m. Jerome Kern
- "Song Of The Islands" w.m. Charles E. King
- "That Hula Hula" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "There Must Be Little Cupids In The Briny" Jack Foley
- "There's A Broken Heart For Every Light On Broadway" w. Howard Johnson m. Fred Fisher
- "There's A Little Lane Without A Turning On The Way To Home Sweet Home" w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer
- "Underneath The Stars" w. Fleta Jan Brown m. Herbert Spencer
- "We'll Have A Jubilee In My Old Kentucky Home" w. Coleman Goetz m. Walter Donaldson
- "When I Get Back To The USA" w.m Irving Berlin
- "When I Leave The World Behind" w.m. Irving Berlin
- "When Old Bill Bailey Plays The Ukulele" w.m. Charles McCarron & Nat Vincent
- "When You're In Love With Someone" w.m. Grant Clarke & Al Piantadosi
- "Which Switch Is The Switch, Miss, For Ipswich?" David, Barnett & Darewski
- "You Can't Mend A Broken Heart" by Shelton Brooks
- "You Know And I Know" w. Schuyler Greene m. Jerome Kern
- "You'll Always Be The Same Sweet Girl" w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer
Hit recordings
- "Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" by Alma Gluck
- "It's A Long Way To Tipperary" by John McCormack
- "I Didn't Raise My Boy to be a Soldier" by Morton Harvey
Classical music
- Claude Debussy - En blanc et noir
- Jesús Guridi - Así cantan los chicos
- Federico Mompou - L'Hora Gris (Grey Hour)
- Manuel Ponce - Balada Mexicana
- Max Reger - String Trio No. 2 in D minor Op. 141b
- Max Reger - Requiem, Op. 144b
- Richard Strauss - An Alpine Symphony
- Heitor Villa-Lobos - String Quartets 1 & 2
Opera
- Umberto Giordano - Madame Sans-Gene
- Scott Joplin - Treemonisha (the only performance during his lifetime)
Musical theater
- Alone at Last Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 14 and ran for 180 performances
- Betty London production opened at Daly's Theatre on April 24 and ran for 391 performances
- Bric-A-Brac London production opened at the Palace Theatre on September 18.
- 5064 Gerrard London revue opened at the Alhambra Theatre on March 19.
- Hip-Hip-Hooray Broadway revue opened at the Hippodrome Theatre on September 30 and ran for 425 performances.
- Maid in America Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 18 and ran for 108 performances.
- The Blue Paradise Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on August 5 and ran for 356 performances.
- The Only Girl London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on September 25 and ran for 107 performances.
- The Passing Show Of 1915 Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on May 29 and ran for 145 performances.
- Shell Out London production opened at the Comedy Theatre on August 24 and ran for 315 performances.
- Stop! Look! Listen! Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on December 25 and ran for 105 performances.
- Tonight's The Night London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on April 18 and ran for 460 performances.
- Very Good Eddie Broadway production opened at the Princess Theatre on December 23 and ran for 341 performances
- A World of Pleasure Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on October 14 and ran for 116 performances.
- Ziegfeld Follies Of 1915 Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 21 and ran for 104 performances
Births
- January 6 - Bob Copper, folk singer (d. 2004)
- January 25 - Ewan MacColl, folk singer and songwriter (d. 1989)
- January 27 - Jack Brymer, clarinettist (d. 2003)
- January 29 - John Serry, Sr., concert accordionist, composer & arranger (d. 2003)
- January 30 - Dorothy Dell, actress and singer (d. 1934)
- February 4 - Ray Evans, songwriter (d. 2007)
- February 18 - Marcel Landowski, French composer, biographer and arts administrator (d. 1999)
- March 10 - Sir Charles Groves, conductor (d. 1992)
- March 20
- Sister Rosetta Tharpe, gospel singer (d. 1973)
- Sviatoslav Richter, pianist (d. 1997)
- March 25 - Dorothy Squires, singer (d. 1998)
- March 28 - Jay Livingston, songwriter (d. 2001)
- March 29 - George Chisholm, jazz trombonist and comedian (d. 1997)
- April 4 - Muddy Waters (d. 1983)
- April 7 - Billie Holiday, blues singer (d. 1959)
- April 12 - Hound Dog Taylor, blues musician (d. 1975)
- April 29 - Donald Mills, US singer of the Mills Brothers (d. 1999)
- May 5 - Alice Faye, US actress and singer (d. 1998)
- May 8 - Nan Wynn, US singer (d. 1971)
- May 25 - Ginny Simms, US singer (d. 1994)
- May 27 - Midge Williams, jazz singer (d. 1952)
- June 1 - Bart Howard, composer and pianist (d. 2004)
- June 9 - Les Paul, musician, inventor of the solid body electric guitar (d. 2009)
- June 12 - Priscilla Lane, US singer and actress (d. 1995)
- June 17 - David "Stringbean" Akeman, US country musician (d. 1973)
- June 18 - Vic Legley, Dutch composer (d. 1994)
- June 28 - David Honeyboy Edwards, blues musician (d. 2011)
- July 9 - David Diamond, classical composer (d. 2005)
- July 15 - Frankie Yankovic, polka musician (d. 1998)
- July 23 - Emmett Berry, jazz trumpeter (d. 1993)
- July 31 - George Forrest, musical theatre writer (d. 1999)
- August 6 - Jacques Abram, pianist (d. 1998)
- August 24 - Wynonie Harris, US singer (d. 1969)
- August 26 - Humphrey Searle, composer (d. 1982)
- September 3 - Memphis Slim, blues musician (d. 1988)
- September 5 - Florencio Morales Ramos, singer, trovador and composer (d. 1989)
- September 12 - Billy Daniels, US singer (d. 1988)
- September 23 - Julius Baker, flautist (d. 2003)
- September 24 - Ettore Gracis, conductor (d. 1992)
- October 10 - Sweets Edison, jazz trumpeter (d. 1999)
- November - Jane Jarvis, jazz pianist and composer
- November 5 – Myron Floren, accordionist (d. 2005)
- November 9 - Hanka Bielicka, Polish singer and actress (d. 2006)
- November 14 - Billy Bauer, jazz guitarist (d. 2005)
- December 12 - Frank Sinatra, US singer and actor (d. 1998)
- December 16 - Georgy Sviridov, Russian/Soviet composer (d. 1998)
- December 17 - André Claveau, singer (d. 2003)
- December 19 - Édith Piaf, French singer (d. 1963)
- December 25 - Pete Rugolo, Italian-born US pianist and bandleader (d 2011)
- December 30 - Brownie McGhee, folk-blues singer and guitarist (d. 1996)
- date unknown - Fulgencio Aquino, Venezuelan harpist and composer (d. 1994)
Deaths
- January 2 - Karl Goldmark, composer (b. 1830)
- January 5 - Jeanne Gerville-Réache, operatic contralto (b. 1882)
- January 21 - Louis Gregh, composer and publisher (b. 1843)
- January 22 - Anna Bartlett Warner, songwriter (b. 1827)
- January 25 - Rudolf Tillmetz, flute virtuoso, pedagogue and composer (b. 1847)
- February 12
- Fanny Crosby, hymn-writer (b. 1820)
- Emile Waldteufel, composer (b. 1837)
- March 12 - Heinrich Schülz-Beuthen, composer (b. 1838)
- March 19 - Franz Xaver Neruda, cellist and composer (b. 1843)
- April 27 - Alexander Scriabin, composer (b. 1872)
- May 7 - Charles Frohman, Broadway producer (b. 1856) (drowned in sinking of Lusitania)
- June 9 - Enrico Rocca, violin maker (b. 1847)
- June 10 - William Hayman Cummings, organist and singer (b. 1831)
- June 19 - Sergei Taneyev, pianist and composer (b. 1856)
- June 25 - Rafael Joseffy, pianist and composer (b. 1852)
- September 15 - Isidor Bajić, composer (b. 1878)
- September 29 - Rudi Stephan, composer (b. 1887) (killed in action)
- October 2 - Russell Alexander, entertainer and composer (b. 1877)
- October 5
- Otto Malling, organist and composer (b. 1848)
- Jose Maria Usandizaga, composer (b. 1887)
- October 22 - Adèle Isaac, operatic soprano (b. 1854)
- October 26 - August Bungert, composer and poet (b. 1845)
- November 14 - Teodor Leszetycki, pianist and composer (b. 1830)
- November 27 - Sigismund Zaremba, composer (b. 1861)
- December 10 - David Jenkins, composer (b. 1848)
- date unknown
- Henry Hart, entertainer and composer (b. 1839)
- Billy Kersands, dancer (b. c. 1842)
- Bertha Tammelin, mezzo-soprano singer and actress (b. 1836)
References
- ↑ Tom Brown's Band from Dixie Land. Accessed 17 April 2013
- ↑ Spicer (1998). Herbert Howells. Seren. p. 44. ISBN 1-85411-233-3.
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