Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 7 February:   CLAUDIA MUZIO = Italian operatic soprano = [died: 1936]
• 2 March:   HARALD AGERSNAP = Danish classical musician = [died: 1982]
• 12 March:   VASLAV NIJINSKY = Russian ballet dancer and choreographer of Polish descent = [died: 1950]
• 15 March:   BILLY JONES = American singer = [died: 1940]
• 16 March:   ELSIE JANIS = American musical comedy star and songwriter = [died: 1956]
• 8 April:   Sir ADRIAN BOULT = English conductor = [died: 1983]
• 11 April:   NICK LAROCCA = Italian jazz bandleader = [died: 1961]
• 30 April:   RUDOLPH SIMONSEN = Danish composer = [died: 1947]
• 15 May:   GRAZIELLA PARETO = Spanish operatic soprano = [died: 1973]
• 20 May:   FELIX ARNDT = American pianist & composer = [died: 1918]
• 25 May:   GILARDO GILARDI = Argentine pianist, conductor and composer = [died: 1962]
• 4 July:   JOE YOUNG = American lyricist and singer = [died: 1939]
• 10 July:   NOBLE SISSLE = American bandleader and singer = [died: 1975]
• 10 August:   CECIL ARMSTRONG GIBBS = English composer = [died: 1960]
• 10 September:   VILÉM PETRŽELKA = Czech conductor and composer = [died: 1967]
• 26 September:   FRANK CRUMIT = American singer = [died: 1943]
• 3 October:   MANUEL MANETTA = American jazz musician & teacher = [died: 1969]
• 28 October:   JULIETTE BÉLIVEAU = French Canadian actress and singer = [died: 1975]
• 11 December:   BEN BLACK = English composer and impresario = [died: 1950]
• 25 December:   NATHANIEL SHILKRET = American composer and musician = [died: 1982]


• date unknown:
• NELLIE BRIERCLIFFE = English singer and actress = [died: 1966]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 20 November: GUSTAV MAHLER's Symphony No. 1 is premiered in Budapest


• Undated:
• EMILE BERLINER markets first commercial gramophone records
• JOSEPH KEKUKU is credited with inventing the Hawaiian steel guitar

Published Popular Music

• "Ask A Policeman" = lyrics by E. W. ROGERS; music by A. E. DURAN DEAU
• "Down Went McGinty" = lyrics & music by JOSEPH FLYNN
• "Four Little Curly Headed Coons" = by JAMES W. WHEELER
• "Little Annie Rooney (Is My Sweetheart)" = lyrics & music by MICHAEL NOLAN
• "Oh, Promise Me" = lyrics by CLEMENT SCOTT; music by REGINALD DE KOVEN
• "Playmates" = lyrics & music by HARRY DACRE
• "Slide Kelly Slide" = lyrics & music by JOHN W. KELLY
• "Take A Pair Of Sparkling Eyes" = lyrics by W. S. GILBERT; music by ARTHUR SULLIVAN
• "The Thunderer" music by JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
• "The Washington Post" music by JOHN PHILIP SOUSA

Classical Music

• EDWARD ELGAR
• "Queen Mary's Song"
• ENRIQUE GRANADOS
• Danzas espanolas
• AUGUSTA HOLMES
• Ode triomphale

Opera

• FRANCESCO CILEA
• Gina
• ROBERT FUCHS
• Die Königsbraut
• MIGUEL MARQUÉS
• El plato del día (libretto by Andrés Ruesga, Manuel Lastra and Enrique Prieto, premiered in Madrid)

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 31 August 1889 @ the Lyric Theatre, London
• LOVE'S TRICKERY [Original "London" production]
  (Operetta)
• Music by: Ivan Caryll
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 7 December 1889 @ the Savoy Theatre, London
• THE GONDOLIERS [Original "London" production]
  (Musical, Operetta)
• Music by: Sir Arthur Sullivan;   Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: 20 June 1891               Performance Count: 554