Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 20 January:   ELMER DIKTONIUS = Finnish poet and composer = [died: 1961]
• 28 January:   ELSIE CARLISLE = English singer = [died: 1977]
• 3 February:   KID THOMAS VALENTINE = American jazz trumpeter = [died: 1987]
• 22 February:   NACIO HERB BROWN = American songwriter = [died: 1964]
• 1 March:   DIMITRIS MITROPOULOS = Greek pianist, conductor and composer = [died: 1960]
• 10 April:   EDITH DAY = American actress, singer and dancer = [died: 1971]
• 30 April:   Reverend GARY DAVIS = American blues and gospel singer and guitarist = [died: 1972]
• 20 June:   WILFRID PELLETIER = Canadian conductor = [died: 1982]
• 2 August:   LORENZO HERRERA = Venezuelan singer and composer = [died: 1960]
• 15 August:   LÉON THEREMIN = Russian inventor of the musical instrument named after him = [died: 1993]
• 2 September:   AMANDA RANDOLPH = American actress and singer = [died: 1967]
• 8 September:   HOWARD DIETZ = American lyricist = [died: 1983]
• 10 September:   ADELE ASTAIRE = American dancer and singer = [died: 1981]
• 15 September:   AMBROSE = English bandleader and violinist = [died: 1971]
• 25 September:   ROBERTO GERHARD = Catalan Spanish composer = [died: 1970]
• 7 October:   PHIL OHMAN = American bandleader = [died: 1954]
• 18 October:   FRIEDRICH HOLLAENDER = German composer = [died: 1976]
• 28 October:   HOWARD HANSON = American composer = [died: 1981]
• 31 October:   ETHEL WATERS = American singer = [died: 1977]
• 23 November:   RUTH ETTING = American singer = [died: 1978]
• 25 November:   VIRGIL THOMSON = American composer and critic = [died: 1989]
• 6 December:   IRA GERSHWIN = American lyricist = [died: 1983]
• 12 December:   JENÖ ÁDÁM = Hungarian conductor, composer and music teacher = [died: 1982]
• 21 December:   LEROY ROBERTSON = American composer and music teacher = [died: 1971]
• 28 December:   ROGER SESSIONS = American composer = [died: 1985]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 1 February: GIACOMO PUCCINI's La Bohème debuts in Turin
• March: LEO STERN plays in the premiere of Dvorák's second cello concerto in London


• Undated:
• ENGELBERT HUMPERDINCK is created a professor of music by the Kaiser.
• GABRIEL FAURÉ takes over from THÉODORE DUBOIS as organist of the Église de la Madeleine.
• In Moscow, MARIYA KERZINA and her husband ARKADIY KERZIN form the Circle of Russian Music Lovers, a performance society.

Published Popular Music

• "All Coons Look Alike To Me" = lyrics & music by ERNEST HOGAN
• "The Amorous Goldfish" = lyrics by HARRY GREENBANK; music by SIDNEY JONES
• "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" = lyrics by HARRY GREENBANK; music by SIDNEY JONES
• "El Capitan March" = music by JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
• "Eli Green's Cakewalk" = lyrics & music by DAVID REED & SADIE KONINSKY
• "Elsie From Chelsea" = lyrics & music by HARRY DACRE
• "Going For A Pardon" = lyrics by JAMES THORNTON & CLARA HAVENSCHILD; music by JAMES THORNTON
• "Happy Days In Dixie" = music by KERRY MILLS
• "Hot Tamale Alley" = by GEORGE M. COHAN
• "A Hot Time In The Old Town" = lyrics by JOSEPH HAYDEN; music by THEODORE A. METZ
• "I Love You In The Same Old Way - Darling Sue" = lyrics by WALTER H. FORD; music by JOHN WALTER BRATTON
• "In The Baggage Coach Ahead" = lyrics & music by GUSSIE L. DAVIS
• "A Jovial Monk Am I" = English lyrics by ARTHUR STURGESS; music by EDMOND AUDRAN
• "Kentucky Babe" = lyrics by RICHARD HENRY BUCK; music by ADAM GEIBEL
• "Laugh And The World Laughs With You" = lyrics by ELLA WHEELER WILCOX; music by LOUIS GOTTSCHALK
• "Love Makes The World Go 'Round" = lyrics by CLYDE FITCH; music arranged by WILLIAM FURST
• "Mister Johnson, Turn Me Loose" = lyrics & music by BEN HARNEY
• "Mother Was A Lady" = lyrics by EDWARD B. MARKS; music by JOSEPH W. STERN
• "Musetta's Waltz Song" = music by GIACOMO PUCCINI
• "My Gal Is A High Born Lady" = lyrics & music by BARNEY FAGAN; arranged by GUSTAVE LUDERS
• "Remus Takes the Cake" = by J. H. ELLIS
• "The Saint Louis Cyclone" = by REN SHIELDS & GEORGE EVANS
• "Sambo at the Cakewalk" = by ALFRED E. MARKS
• "Stars & Stripes Forever" = by JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
• "Sweet Rosie O'Grady" = lyrics & music by MAUDE NUGENT
• "To A Wild Rose" = music by EDWARD MacDOWELL
• "Warmest Baby in the Bunch" = by GEORGE M. COHAN
• "When the Saints Go Marching In" lyrics by KATHERINE E. PURVIS; music by JAMES M. BLACK

Recorded Popular Music

• "All Coons Look Alike To Me" = (lyrics & music by Ernest Hogan)
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Edison Records
• "The Amorous Goldfish" = (lyrics by Harry Greenbank; music by Sidney Jones)
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Edison Records
• "And Her Golden Hair Was Hanging Down Her Back" = (lyrics by Monroe H. Rosenfeld; music by Felix McGlennon)
• recorded by MAUD FOSTER = on Berliner Records
• "Annie Laurie" = (lyrics by William Douglas; music by Lady John Douglas Scott)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Edison
• recorded by EDISON MALE QUARTETTE = on Edison
• "Auld Lang Syne" = (lyrics adapted by Robert Burns)
• recorded by EDISON MALE QUARTETTE = on Edison
• "The Band Played On" = (lyrics by John F. Palmer; music by Charles B. Ward)
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Columbia records and Berliner
• "The Belle Of Avenoo A" = (lyrics & music by Safford Waters)
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Berliner
• "Ben Bolt" = (lyrics by Thomas Dunn English; music by Nelson Kneass)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Berliner
• "The Blue Danube" = (music by Johann Strauss)
• recorded by EDISON GRAND CONCERT BAND = on Edison
• "Chin, Chin, Chinaman" = (lyrics by Harry Greenbank; music by Sidney Jones)
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Edison
• "La Donna è Mobile" = (lyrics by Francesco Piave; music by Giuseppe Verdi)
• recorded by FERRUCCIO GIANNINI = on Berliner
• "Don't You Hear Dem Bells?" = (lyrics & music by D. S. McCosh)
• recorded by BRILLIANT QUARTET = on Berliner
• "Down In Poverty Row" = (lyrics by Gussie L. Davis; music by Arthur Trevelyan)
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Berliner
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Edison
• "Elsie From Chelsea" = (lyrics & music by Harry Dacre)
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Edison
• "Funiculì, Funiculà" = (lyrics by G. Turco; music by Luigi Denza)
• recorded by FERRUCCIO GIANNINI = on Berliner
• "The Future Mrs 'Awkins" = (lyrics & music by Albert Chevalier)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Berliner
• "The Gladiators" = (music by John Philip Sousa)
• recorded by EDISON GRAND CONCERT BAND = on Edison
• "Hallelujah Chorus" = (lyrics by Charles Jennes; music by George Frideric Handel)
• recorded by EDISON GRAND CONCERT BAND = on Edison
• "The Holy City" = (lyrics by Frederick Edward Weatherly; music by Stephen Adams)
• recorded by FERRUCCIO GIANNINI = on Berliner
• "Home Sweet Home" = (lyrics by John Howard Payne; music by Sir Henry Rowley Bishop)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Edison
• "The Honeymoon" = (music by George Rosey)
• recorded by EDISON GRAND CONCERT BAND = on Edison
• "I Don't Want To Play In Your Yard" = (lyrics by Philip Wingate; music by Henry W. Petrie)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Berliner
• recorded by MAUD FOSTER = on Berliner
• "In The Baggage Coach Ahead" (lyrics & music by Gussie L. Davis)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Edison
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN
• "I'se Gwine Back To Dixie" = (lyrics & music by C. A. White)
• recorded by BRILLIANT QUARTET = on Berliner
• "I've Been Hoodoed"
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Berliner
• "Just Tell Them That You Saw Me" = (lyrics & music by Paul Dresser)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Berliner
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Berliner
• "Kathleen" = (lyrics & music by Helene Mora)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Edison
• "Kathleen Mavourneen" = (lyrics by Annie Crawford (Barry); music by Frederick William Nichols Crouch)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Berliner
• "King Cotton March" = (music by John Philip Sousa)
• recorded by EDISON GRAND CONCERT BAND = on Edison
• "Listen To The Mocking Bird" = (lyrics by Alice Hawthorne; music by Richard Milburn)
• recorded by WHISTLING BILLY GOLDEN = on Edison
• "The Lost Chord" = (lyrics by Adelaide Anne Procter; music by Sir Arthur Sullivan)
• recorded by EDISON GRAND CONCERT BAND = on Edison
• "Marching Through Georgia" = (lyrics & music by Henry Clay Work)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Berliner
• "La Marseillaise" = (lyrics & music by Claude Joseph Rouget de Lisle)
• recorded by FERRUCCIO GIANNINI = on Berliner
• "McKinley is our Man"
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on U.S. Phonograph Records
• "My Angeline" = (lyrics by Harry B. Smith; music by Victor Herbert)
• recorded by FRANK DANIELS = on Berliner
• "My Best Girl's A New Yorker" = (lyrics & music by John Stromberg)
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Berliner
• "My Gal Is A High Born Lady" = (lyrics & music by Barney Fagan; arranged by Gustave Luders)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Edison
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Berliner
• "My Pearl Is A Bowery Girl" = (lyrics by William Jerome; music by Andrew Mack)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Berliner
• "Nearer, My God, To Thee" (lyrics by Sarah F. Adams; music by Lowell Mason)
• recorded by J. W. MYERS on Berliner
• recorded by LEN SPENCER & ROGER HARDING = on Columbia
• "Onward, Christian Soldiers" = (lyrics by Rev. Sabine Baring-Gould; music by Sir Arthur Sullivan)
• recorded by J. W. MYERS = on Berliner
• "The Palms" = (Jean-Baptiste Faure)
• recorded by FERRUCCIO GIANNINI = on Berliner
• "La Paloma" (lyrics by (anon); music by Sebastian Yradier)
• recorded by FERRUCCIO GIANNINI = on Berliner
• "Private Tommy Atkins" = (lyrics by Henry Hamilton; music by S. Potter)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Berliner
• "Put Me Off At Buffalo" = (lyrics by Harry Dillon; music by John Dillon)
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Berliner
• "Rock Of Ages" (lyrics by Augustus Montague Toplady; music by Thomas Hasting)
• recorded by J. W. MYERS = on Berliner
• "'Round His Bed I'm Goin' To Creep"
• recorded by LEN SPENCER = on Columbia
• "Sally In Our Alley" = (lyrics by Henry Carey music by [traditional])
• recorded by EDISON MALE QUARTETTE = on Edison
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Berliner
• "She Is More To Be Pitied Than Censured" = (lyrics & music by William B. Gray)
• recorded by STEVE PORTER = on Columbia
• "She May Have Seen Better Days" = (lyrics & music by James Thornton)
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Berliner
• "The Sidewalks Of New York" = (lyrics & music by Charles B. Lawlor & James W. Blake)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Edison and on Berliner
• "The Streets Of Cairo" = (lyrics & music by James Thornton)
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN = on Berliner
• "The Sunshine Of Paradise Alley" = (lyrics by Walter H. Ford; music by John Walter Bratton)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Berliner
• "Tenting On The Old Camp Ground" = (lyrics & music by Walter Kittredge)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Berliner
• "Then You'll Remember Me" = (lyrics by Alfred Bunn; music by Michael William Balfe)
• recorded by FERRUCCIO GIANNINI = on Berliner
• "There's Only One Girl In the World For Me" (lyrics & music by Dave Marion)
• recorded by J. W. MYERS = on Berliner
• "They Are The Best Friends Of All"
• recorded by HELENE MORA = on US Phonograph Records
• "Toreador Song" = (lyrics by Henri Meilhac, Ludovic Halévy music by Georges Bizet)
• recorded by J. W. MYERS = on Berliner
• "Tramp, Tramp, Tramp" = (lyrics & music by George Frederick Root)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Berliner
• "Trilby Song"
• recorded by MAURICE FARKOA with piano FRANK LAMBERT = on Berliner
• "Watchman Tell Us Of The Night" = (Bowring, Mason)
• recorded by J. W. MYERS = on Berliner
• "'Way Down Yonder In The Cornfield"
• recorded by COLUMBIA QUARTETTE = on Columbia
• "When Johnny Comes Marching Home" = (lyrics & music by Louis Lambert)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Berliner
• "Where Is My Wandering Boy, Tonight?" = (lyrics & music by Rev. R. Lowry)
• recorded by J. W. MYERS = on Berliner
• "Wot Cher!" = (lyrics by Albert Chevalier; music by Charles Ingle)
• recorded by GEORGE J. GASKIN = on Berliner

Classical Music

• EYVIND ALNÆS
• Symphony no 1
• AMY BEACH
• Symphony in E minor Gaelic, violin sonata
• JOHANNES BRAHMS
• Vier ernste Gesänge, Eleven Chorale Preludes for organ
• ANTON BRUCKNER
• Symphony No. 9 (finished three movements, sketches of finale)
• ANTONÍN DVORÁK
• The Water Goblin, The Noon-Day Witch (and two other "Erben tone-poems", given their premiere later in the year in London)
• Quartet in A-flat major op. 105
• GUSTAV HOLST
• Quintet for piano and winds
• VINCENT d'INDY
• Istar
• CHARLES IVES
• String Quartet no. 1, From the Salvation Army
• EDWARD MacDOWELL
• Woodland Sketches
• ALBÉRIC MAGNARD
• Symphony No. 3 Opus 11 (1895-96)
• HANS PFITZNER
• Piano Trio in F Opus 8
• SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
• Symphony No. 1 (1895-96)
• CAMILLE SAINT-SAËNS
• Piano Concerto No. 5 (Egyptian)
• Violin Sonata No. 2
• ALEXANDER SCRIABIN
• 24 Preludes for Piano Opus 11
• Five Preludes for Piano Opus 15
• JEAN SIBELIUS
• Coronation Cantata
• RICHARD STRAUSS
• Also sprach Zarathustra
• FRANCISCO TÁRREGA
• Recuerdos de la Alhambra
• ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY
• String Quartet No. 1
• Trio for Clarinet, Cello and Piano

Opera

• AUGUST ENNA
• Aucassin og Nicolette
• GIALDINO GIALDINI
• La Pupilla premiered October 23 at the Societá Filarmonica Drammatica, Trieste
• UMBERTO GIORDANO
• Andrea Chénier
• PAUL JUON
• Aleko
• RUGGERO LEONCAVALLO
• Chatterton
• GIACOMO PUCCINI
• La Bohème
• NIKOLAI RIMSKY-KORSAKOV
• Sadko
• HUGO WOLF
• Der Corregidor

Musical Theatre

• Opening: 7 March 1896 @ the Savoy Theatre, London
• THE GRAND DUKE [Original "Savoy" production]
  (Musical, Opera)
• Music by: Arthur Sullivan;   Libretto by: W. S. Gilbert
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 123


• Opening: 4 April 1896 @ Duke of York's Theatre, London
• THE GAY PARISIENNE [Original "West End" production]
  (Musical)
• Music by: Ivan Caryll;   Book by: George Dance
• Closing: 28 March 1897               Performance Count: 369


• Opening: 20 April 1896 @ Broadway Theatre, New York, NY
• EL CAPITAN [Original "Broadway" production]
  (Musical, Comedy, Opera)
• Music by: John Philip Sousa;   Book by: Charles Klein;   Lyrics by: Tom Frost, Charles Klein
• Closing: 25 July 1896               Performance Count: 112


• Opening: 25 April 1896 @ Daly's Theatre, Leicester Square, London
• THE GEISHA [Original "West End" production]
  (Musical, Comedy)
• Music by: Sidney Jones;   Book by: Owen Hall;   Lyrics by: Harry Greenbank
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 760


• Opening: 5 September 1896 @ Weber and Fields' Music Hall, New York, NY
• THE ART OF MARYLAND [Original "Broadway" production]
  (Musical)
• Music, Book & Lyrics by: unknown
• Closing: date unknown


• Opening: 9 September 1896 @ Daly's Theatre, New York, NY
• THE GEISHA [Original "Broadway" production]
  (Musical, Comedy)
• Music by: Sidney Jones;   Book by: Owen Hall;   Lyrics by: Harry Greenbank
• Closing: 21 April 1897               Performance Count: 161


• Opening: 21 September 1896 @ Harlem Opera House, New York, NY
• EL CAPITAN [Original "Broadway" production]
  (Musical, Comedy, Opera)
• Music by: John Philip Sousa;   Book by: Charles Klein;   Lyrics by: Tom Frost, Charles Klein
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 8


• Opening: 24 September 1896 @ Olympia Theatre: Lyric, New York, NY
• SANTA MARIA [Original "Broadway" production]
  (Musical, Opera)
• Music by: Oscar Hammerstein;   Libretto by: Oscar Hammerstein
• Closing: 12 December 1896               Performance Count: 100


• Opening: 5 December 1896 @ Gaiety Theatre, London
• THE CIRCUS GIRL [Original "West End" production]
  (Musical)
• Book by James T. Tanner and Walter Palings; Lyrics by Harry Greenbank and Adrian Ross; Music by Ivan Caryll; additional numbers by Lionel Monckton
• Closing: date unknown               Performance Count: 494


• Opening: December 1896 @ Herald Square Theatre, New York, NY
• THE GIRL FROM PARIS [Original "Broadway" production]
  (Musical)
• Music by: Ivan Caryll;   Book by: George Dance
• Closing: date unknown