Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 10 February:   JIMMIE DURANTE = American singer, pianist, comedian and actor = [died: 1980]
• 15 February:   WALTER DONALDSON = American prolific popular songwriter = [died: 1947]
• 21 February:   ANDRÉS SEGOVIA = Spanish classical guitarist = [died: 1987]
• 2 April:   SERGEI PROTOPOPOV = Russian composer and music theorist = {died: 1954]
• 16 April:   FEDERICO MOMPOU = Catalan Spanish composer and pianist = [died: 1987]
• 28 June:   LUCIANO GALLET = Brazilian composer, pianist and conductor = [died: 1931]
• 3 July:   MISSISSIPPI JOHN HURT = American country blues singer and guitarist = {died: 1966]
• 22 August:   DOROTHY PARKER = American writer, poet and lyricist = [died: 1967]
• 13 September:   LARRY SHIELDS = American dixieland jazz clarinetist = [died: 1953]
• 24 September:   BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON = American blues musician = [died: 1929]
• 1 October:   CLIFF FRIEND = American composer = [died: 1974]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 9 February: Premiere of GIUSEPPE VERDI's final opera Falstaff in La Scala in Milan
• 14-15 August: America's oldest music organization, the Stoughton Musical Society performs at the World's Columbian Exposition
• 29 December: CLAUDE DEBUSSY's String Quartet premiered in Paris


• Undated:
• Song "Happy Birthday To You" by MILDRED J. HILL and PATTY SMITH HILL first published in the book "Song Stories for the Kindergarten"

Published Popular Music

• "Can't Lose Me, Charlie" = lyrics & music by HARRY S. MILLER
• "The Cat Came Back" = lyrics & music by HARRY S. MILLER
• "December And May" = lyrics by EDWARD MARKS; music by WILLIAM LORRAINE
• "Do Do My Huckleberry Do" = lyrics by HARRY DILLON; music by JOHN DILLON
• "The Fatal Wedding" = lyrics by W. H. WINDOM; music by GUSSIE L. DAVIS
• "Good Morning to All" = lyrics by PATTY SMITH HILL; music by MILFRED J. HILL
• "I Long to See The Girl I Left Behind" = lyrics & music by JOHN T. KELLY
• "Liberty Bell March" = by JOHN PHILIP SOUSE
• "Mamie, Come Kiss Your Honey" = lyrics & music by MAY IRWIN
• "Marguerite" = by CHARLES A. WHITE
• "Oh! Mr Porter" = lyrics by THOMAS LE BRUNN; music by GEORGE LE BRUNN
• "Private Tommy Atkins" = lyrics by HENRY HAMILTON; music by S. POTTER
• "Say 'Au Revoir', But Not 'Good-Bye'" = by HARRY KENNEDY
• "Sweet Marie" = lyrics by CY WARMAN; music by RAYMOND MOORE
• "Two Little Girls in Blue" = lyrics & music by CHARLES GRAHAM
• "The Volunteer Organist" = lyrics by WILLIAM G. GRAY; music by HENRY LAMB
• "When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder" = lyrics & music by JAMES M. BLACK
• "Zacatecas" = by GENARO CODINA

Recorded Popular Music

• "Daisy Bell"
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN
• "The Volunteer Organist" = (Glenroy/Lamb, 1893)
• recorded by DEREK B. SCOTT

Classical Music

• AMY BEACH
• Gaelic Symphony
• ANTONÍN DVORÁK
• Symphony no. 9 in E minor, "From the New World"
• EDWARD GERMAN
• Symphony in A minor, "Norwich"
• JOHAN HALVORSEN
• Entry of the Boyars
• JEAN SIBELIUS
• Lemminkäinen Suite
• JOSEF SUK
• Quintet for Piano and Strings in G minor
• PYOTR ILYICH TCHAIKOVSKY
• Symphony no. 6 in B minor, "Pathétique"

Opera

• GRANVILLE BANTOCK
• Caedmar
• JULIUS BECHGAARD
• Frode
• premiered on May 11 in Copenhagen
• ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK
• Hänsel und Gretel
• ISIDORE DE LARA
• Amy Robsart
• EMILE PESSARD
• Une nuit de Noël
• premiered at the Ambigu, Paris
• Mam'zelle Carabin
• premiered on November 3 at the Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, Salle Choiseul, Paris
• GIACOMO PUCCINI
• Manon Lescaut
• GIUSEPPE VERDI
• Falstaff

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 13 April 1893 @ the Shaftesbury Theatre, transferring on 8 January 1894 to the Trafalgar Square Theatre, London
• MOROCCO BOUND [Original "West End" production]
  (Musical, Comedy)
• Music by: Frank Osmond Carr;   Lyrics: Adrian Ross
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 295


• Opening: 13 May 1893 @ the Savoy Theatre, London
• JANE ANNIE [Original "West End" production]
  (Comic Opera)
• Composer: Ernest Ford;   Libretto: J.M. Barrie, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
• Closing: 1 July 1893               Performance Count: 50


• Opening: 5 June 1893 @ the Daly's Theatre, London
• A GAIETY GIRL [Original "West End" production]
  (Musical, Comedy)
• Composer: Sidney Jones;   Book: Owen Hall;   Lyricist: Harry Greenbank
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 413


• Opening: 7 October 1893 @ the Savoy Theatre, London
• UTOPIA, LIMITED [Original "West End" production]
  (Opera)
• Music by: Arthur Sullivan;   Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 245


• Opening: 10 October 1893 @ the Lyric Theatre, London
• LITTLE CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS [Original "West End" production]
  (Burlesque)
• Composer: Gustave Adolph Kerker, Ivan Caryll;   Libretto: Cecil Raleigh, George R. Simms
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 421