Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

12 January: MAUDE NUGENT = American songwriter = [died: 1958]
1 February: JOSEPH ALLARD = Canadian fiddler and composer = [died: 1947]
13 February: FEODOR CHALIAPIN = Russian operatic bass = [died: 1938]
27 February: ENRICO CARUSO = Italian operatic tenor = [died: 1921]
19 March: MAX REGER = German composer = [died: 1916]
1 April: SERGEI RACHMANINOFF = Russian composer = [died: 1943]
18 April: JEAN ROGER-DUCASSE = French composer = [died: 1954]
1 May: HARRY EVANS = Welsh composer = [died: 1914]
1 June: ADA JONES = English-American singer = [died: 1922]
16 June: ANTONINA NEZHDANOVA = Russian operatic soprano = [died: 1950]
11 July: NAT M. WILLS = American singer, comedian, and actor = [died: 1917]
11 August: J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON = American composer and singer [died: 1954]
18 August: OTTO HARBACH = American lyricist = [died: 1963]
21 September: PAPA JACK LAINE = American bandleader [died: 1966]
14 October: JOSÉ SERRANO = Spanish composer = [died: 1941]
23 October: RICARDO VILLA = Spanish composer = [died: 1935]
1 November: CHARLES QUEF = French organist and composer = [died: 1931]
16 November: W. C. HANDY = American songwriter = [died: 1958]
14 December: JOSEPH JONGEN = Belgian organist and composer = [died: 1953]

Timeline of Musical Events

April: THE FISK JUBILEE SINGERS, an African American a cappella ensemble, perform before Queen Victoria of the United Kingdom during their first European tour.
27 August: Sir ARTHUR SULLIVAN's oratorio The Light of the World (inspired by William Holman Hunt's painting of the same name) is premièred at the Birmingham Festival.

JOSEPH PARRY becomes Professor of Music at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth.
THERESE MALTEN makes her solo debut as Pamina in The Magic Flute at Dresden.

"The German Polka" = by GUS WILLIAMS
"Good Sweet Ham" = by HENRY HART
"Home on the Range" = by DANIEL KELLY & BREWSTER M. HIGLEY
"I'se Gwine Back to Dixie" = by CHARLES A. WHITE
"Silver Threads Among the Gold" = lyrics by EBEN EUGENE REXFORD; music by HART PEASE DANKS