Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

7 January: CLARA HASKIL = Romanian classical pianist = [died: 1960]
27 January: BUDDY DESYLVA = American songwriter, film producer and record executive = [died: 1950]
7 February: IRVING AARONSON = American jazz pianist and big band leader = [died: 1963]
28 February: GUIOMAR NOVAES = Brazilian pianist = [died: 1979]
4 March: BJARNE BRUSTAD = Norwegian composer and violinist = [died: 1978]
23 March: DANE RUDHYAR = French author, modernist composer and humanistic astrologer = [died: 1985]
31 March: LIZZIE MILES = African American blues singer =[died: 1963]
1 April: ALBERTA HUNTER = American blues singer, songwriter, and nurse = [died: 1984]
3 April:

MARIO CASTELNUOVO-TEDESCO = Italian composer = [died: 1968]
ZEZ CONFREY = American composer and performer of piano music = [died: 1971]

9 April: MANCE LIPSCOMB = American blues singer, guitarist and songster = [died: 1976]
23 April: JIMMIE NOONE = American jazz clarinetist = [died: 1944]
29 April: Sir MALCOLM SARGENT = English conductor = [died: 1967]
1 May: LEO SOWERBY = American composer = [died: 1968]
2 May: LORENZ HART = American lyricist = [died: 1943]
6 May: RUDOLPH VALENTINO = Italian dancer and actor = [died: 1926]
11 May: WILLIAM GRANT STILL = African-American composer = [died: 1978]
10 June: HATTIE McDANIEL = American singer and actress = [died: 1952]
16 June: LEW POLLACK = American composer = [died: 1946]
4 July: IRVING CAESAR = American lyricist and librettist = [died: 1996]
5 July: GORDON JACOB = English composer = [died: 1984]
10 July: CARL ORFF = German composer = [died: 1982]
12 July: OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II = American lyricist = [died: 1960]
13 July: BRADLEY KINCAID = American folk singer = [died: 1989]
6 August: ERNESTO LECUONA = Cuban composer = [died: 1963]
10 August: HARRY RICHMAN = American singer, actor and composer = [died: 1972]
13 August: BERT LAHR = American vaudeville performer = [died: 1967]
9 September: HARRY TOBIAS = American lyric writer = [died: 1994]
16 September: KAROL RATHAUS = Austrian composer (from what is now the Ukraine) = [died: 1954]
22 September: HERBERT JANSSEN = German baritone = [died: 1965]
26 September: GEORGE RAFT = Amrican Hollywood actor and Broadway entertainer = [died: 1980]
11 October: JAKOV GOTOVAC = Croatian composer and conductor = [died: 1982]
12 October: TUBBY HALL = American jazz drummer = [died: 1945]
17 October: DORIS HUMPHREY = American dancer = [died: 1958]
29 October: HARRY RUBY = Jewish American songwriter = [died: 1974]
5 November: WALTER GIESEKING = French-born German pianist and composer = [died: 1956]
16 November: PAUL HINDEMITH = German composer = [died: 1963]
28 November: JOSÉ ITURBI = Spanish pianist = [died: 1980]
29 November: BUSBY BERKELEY = American film director, choreographer [died: 1976]
30 November: JOHANN NEPOMUK DAVID = Austrian composer = [died: 1977]
2 December: HARRIET COHEN = British pianist = [died: 1967]
16 December: ANDY RAZAF = American composer, poet and lyricist = [died: 1973]

Timeline of Musical Events

10 August: The first ever Promenade Concert is held at the Queen's Hall in London.
13 December: The first complete performance of GUSTAV MAHLER's Symphony No. 2 in Berlin

Published Popular Music

"America The Beautiful" = lyrics by KATHERINE LEE BATES; music by SAMUEL A. WARD
"The Band Played On" = lyrics by JOHN F. PALMER; music by CHARLES B. WARD
"The Belle Of Avenoo A" = lyrics & music by SAFFORD WATERS
"Down In Poverty Row" = lyrics by GUSSIE L. DAVIS; music by ARTHUR TREVELYAN
"A Dream" = lyrics by CHARLES B. CORY; music by J. C. BARTLETT
"The Hand That Rocks The Cradle" = lyrics by CHARLES W. BERKELEY; music by WILLIAM H. HOLMES
"It's A Great Big Shame" = lyrics by EDGAR BATEMAN; music by GEORGE LE BRUNN
"Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" = lyrics & music by PAUL DRESSER
"King Cotton March" = music by JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
"My Angeline" = lyrics by HARRY B. SMITH; music by VICTOR HERBERT
"My Best Girl's A New Yorker" = lyrics & music by JOHN STROMBERG
"Put Me Off At Buffalo" = lyrics by HARRY DILLON; music by JOHN DILLON
"Rastus On Parade" = lyrics by GEORGE MARION; music by KERRY MILLS
"She Was One Of The Early Birds" = lyrics & music by T. W. CONNOR
"Sleep Little Rosebud" = lyrics by ALFRED BRYANT; music by LOUIS CAMPBELL TIPTON
"The Soldiers Of The Queen" = lyrics & music by LESLIE STUART
"The Streets Of Cairo" = lyrics & music by JAMES THORNTON
"The Sunshine Of Paradise Alley" = lyrics by WALTER H. FORD; music by JOHN WALTER BRATTON

Recorded Popular Music

"Girl Wanted"

recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Berliner Records

"The Band Played On"

recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Columbia Records

"The Sidewalks of New York"

recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Berliner Records

Classical Music

LÉON BOËLLMANN

Suite Gothique for Organ

JOHANNES BRAHMS

Sonatas for clarinet (or viola) and piano , op. 120 no. 1 (in f) and no. 2 (in E-flat)

ANTONÍN DVORÁK

Cello Concerto in B minor, thirteenth and fourteenth string quartets

GUSTAV MAHLER

conducts the premieres of his Symphony No. 2, "Resurrection" in [Berlin] - the first three movement only, on March 4th, and the complete symphony on December 13th.