Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 25 February:   MYRA HESS = British pianist = [died: 1965]
• 27 February:   FREDDIE KEPPARD = American Jazz cornetist = [died: 1933]
• 12 March:   EVERT TAUBE = Swedish writer, artist, composer and singer = [died: 1976]
• 17 March:   HAROLD MORRIS = American pianist and composer = [died: 1964]
• 20 March:
• BENIAMINO GIGLI = Italian opera singer = [died: 1957]
• LAURITZ MELCHIOR = Danish and later American opera singer = [died: 1973]
• 28 March:   PAUL WHITEMAN = American bandleader and orchestral director = [died: 1967]
• 17 April:   GUSSIE MUELLER = American jazz clarinetist = [died: 1965]
• 21 May:   HARRY TIERNEY = American songwriter, composer of Irene and Rio Rita = [died: 1965]
• 6 June:   TED LEWIS = American singer and bandleader = [died: 1971]
• 26 June:   JEANNE EAGELS = American Broadway star = [died: 1929]
• 12 August:   LILLIAN EVANTI = African American opera singer = [died: 1967]
• 15 August:   JACQUES IBERT = French composer = [died: 1962]
• 28 August:   IVOR GURNEY = English poet and composer = [died: 1937]
• 15 September:   FRANK MARTIN = Swiss composer = [died: 1974]
• 26 September:   PAPANASAM SIVAN = Indian Carnatic music composer = [died: 1973]
• 1 October:   STANLEY HOLLOWAY = English actor and singer = [died: 1982]
• 8 October:   SAMUEL HOFFENSTEIN = Russian screenwriter and composer = [died: 1947]
• 13 October:   GÖSTA NYSTROEM = Swedish composer = [died: 1966]
• 10 November:   MISCHA BAKALEINIKOFF = Russian musical director = [died: 1960]
• 8 December:   BOHUSLAV MARTINU = Czech composer = [died: 1959]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 9 September: EDWARD ELGAR's concert overture Froissart is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Worcester


• Undated:
• GEORGE W. JOHNSON records phonograph cylinders
• First full performance of HECTOR BERLIOZ's opera, Les Troyens, takes place at Karlsruhe, 21 years after the composer's death
• CHARLES-MARIE WIDOR succeeds CÉSAR FRANCK as organ professor at the Paris Conservatoire.
• The New York Phonograph Company opens the first recording studio.

Published Popular Music

• "Little Pig Went To Market" = by J. CHEEVER GOODWIN & GUSTAVE KERKER published by T. B. Harms & Co., 819 Broadway, New York, USA
• "Maggie Murphy's Home" = lyrics by EDWARD HARRIGAN; music by DAVID BRAHAM published by William A. Pond & Co., 25 Union Square, New York, USA
• "Passing By" = lyrics by ROBERT HERRICK; music by EDWARD C. PURCELL published by The Frederick Harris Co., Oakville, Ontario, CANADA
• "Star of the East" = lyrics by GEORGE COOPER; music by AMANDA KENNEDY
• "Throw Him Down McCloskey" = lyrics & music by JOHN W. KELLY
• "You'll Miss Lots of Fun When You're Married" = by JOHN PHILIP SOUSA & EDWARD M. TABER

Classical Music

• FERRUCCIO BUSONI
• Violin Sonata No. 1, Opus 29
• ERNEST CHAUSSON
• Chansons de Shakespeare
• ANTONÍN DVORÁK
• Requiem
• ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
• Symphony No. 3, Opus 33
• ARMAS JÄRNEFELT
• Ouverture Lyrique
• CARL NIELSEN
• String Quartet No. 2 in F minor
• ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
• Romance for Horn and Piano
• JEAN SIBELIUS
• Piano Quintet in G minor
• JOHANN STRAUSS II
• Rathausball-Tänze
• SERGEI TANEYEV
• String Quartet No. 1 Opus 4

Opera

• CAVALLERIA RUSTICANA
• by PIETRO MASCAGNI
• PRINCE IGOR
• begun by ALEXANDER BORODIN, completed by ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV and NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
• QUEEN OF SPADES
• by PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 7 January 1890 @ the New Park Theatre, New York, transferring on 18 February to Palmer's Theatre, New York
• THE GONDOLIERS [Authorised American production]
  (Musical, Operetta)
• Music by: Sir Arthur Sullivan;   Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: 19 April 1890               Performance Count: 103


• Opening: 5 April 1890 @ the Lyric Theatre, London
• THE SENTRY [Original "West End" production]
  (Operetta)
• Ivan Caryll
• Closing: 17 May 1890


• Opening: 9 June 1890 @ the Chicago Opera House, USA
• ROBIN HOOD [Original "American" production]
  (Comic Opera)
• Reginald De Koven (music), Harry B. Smith (lyrics) and Clement Scott (lyrics of "Oh Promise Me")
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 29 December 1890 @ Harrigan's Theatre, New York, NY
• REILLY AND THE 400 [Original "Broadway" production]
  (Musical)
• Music: David Braham;   Book & Lyrics: Edward Harrigan
• Closing: date unknown               Performancce Count: 336


• Opening: 1890 @ London
• LOVE AND LAW [Original "West End" production]
  (Operetta)
• Ivan Caryll
• Closing: date unknown