Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 11 January:   MAURICE DURUFLÉ = French composer = [died: 1986]
• 22 January:   HANS ERICH APOSTEL = German-born Austrian composer = [died: 1972]
• 2 February:   JASCHA HEIFETZ = Lithuanian violinist = [died: 1987]
• 9 February:   SEBASTIAN KUNJUKUNJU BHAGAVATHAR = Malayalam actor, singer, and author = [died: 1985]
• 15 February:   JAMES ARNOLD = American blues musician = [died: 1968]
• 21 March:   NIKOS SKALKOTTAS = Greek composer = [died: 1949]
• 27 March:   ENRIQUE SANTOS DISCÉPOLO = Argentinian tango musician, composer and writer = [died: 1951]
• 12 May:   SCRAPPY LAMBERT = American singer = [died: 1987]
• 17 May:   WERNER EGK = German composer = [died: 1983]
• 21 May:   HORACE HEIDT = American bandleader = [died: 1986]
• 23 May:   EDMUND RUBBRA = British composer = [died: 1986]
• 30 May:   FRANKIE TRUMBAUER = American saxophonist, bandleader and singer = [died: 1956]
• 6 June:   VÉRA KORÈNE = Russian-born French actress and singer = [died: 1996]
• 10 June:   FREDERICK LOEWE = Austrian-American composer of musicals [died: 1988]
• 24 June:   HARRY PARTCH = American composer = [died: 1974]
• 29 June:   NELSON EDDY = American singer and actor = [died: 1967]
• 3 July:   RUTH CRAWFORD-SEEGER = American composer = [died: 1953]
• 28 July:   RUDY VALLÉE = American singer & bandleader = [died: 1986]
• 4 August:   LOUIS ARMSTRONG = American jazz trumpeter, composer, bandleader, singer = [died: 1971]
• 2 September:   PHIL NAPOLEON = American jazz trumpeter = [died: 1990]
• 9 September:   JAMES BLADES = English percussionist = [died: 1999]
• 12 September:   ERNST PEPPING = German composer = [died: 1981]
• 26 September:   TED WEEMS = American bandleader = [died: 1963]
• 2 October:
• WALTHER AESCHBACHER = Swiss conductor and composer = [died: 1969]
• KIKI = French artist model, nightclub singer, actress, memoirist, and painter = [died: 1953]
• 7 October:   RALPH RAINGER = American composer and pianist = [died: 1942]
• 8 October:   EIVIND GROVEN = Norwegian composer = [died: 1977]
• 18 October:   ANNETTE HANSHAW = American singer = [died: 1985]
• 20 October:   FRANK CHURCHILL = American composer = [died: 1942]
• 21 November:   GIACOMO VAGHI = Italian opera singer = [died: 1978]
• 22 November:   JOAQUIN RODRIGO = Spanish composer = [died: 1999]
• 22 December:   ANDRÉ KOSTELANETZ = Russian conductor and arranger = [died: 1980]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 27 October: First complete performance of SERGEI RACHMANINOFF's Piano Concerto No. 2
• 25 November: Premiere of GUSTAV MAHLER's Symphony No. 4


• Undated:
• The classical music publishing firm Universal Edition is founded in Vienna.
• ENRIQUE GRANADOS founds the Academia Granados in Spain.
• GERALDINE FARRAR makes her operatic debut.
• PERCY GRAINGER makes his recital debut.
• Thirteen-year-old AUGUSTIN BARRIOS begins attending university in Asunción on a music scholarship.
• Ragtime popularity grows.

Published Popular Music

• "Ain't That A Shame" = lyrics by JOHN QUEEN; music by WALTER WILSON
• "All That Glitters Is Not Gold" = lyrics by GEORGE A. NORTON; music by JAMES W. CASEY
• "Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home To Me" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
• "At The Pan-I-Marry-Can" = lyrics by HARRY DILLON; music by JOHN DILLON
• "Baby Mine" = lyrics by RAYMOND A. BROWNE; music by LEO FRIEDMAN
• "The Billboard" = music by JOHN N. KLOHR
• "Blaze Away" = music by ABE HOLZMANN
• "Coon! Coon! Coon!" = by LEO FRIEDMAN & GENE JEFFERSON
• "The Country Girl" = lyrics by STANISLAUS STANGE; music by JULIAN EDWARDS
• "Davy Jones' Locker" = lyrics & music by H. W. PETRIE
• "Don't Put Me Off At Buffalo Any More" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
• "Down Where The Cotton Blossoms Grow" = lyrics by ANDREW B. STERLING; music by HARRY VON TILZER
• "Eyes Of Blue, Eyes Of Brown" = lyrics & music by COSTEN & ANDREW B. STERLING
• "Flora, I Am Your Adorer" = lyrics by VINCENT P. BRYAN; music by CHARLES ROBINSON
• "The Fortune Telling Man" = lyrics & music by BERT WILLIAMS & GEORGE WALKER
• "Go Way Back And Sit Down" = lyrics by ELMER BOWMAN; music by AL JOHNS
• "Good Morning, Carrie" = lyrics by CECIL MACK; music by CHRIS SMITH & ELMER BOWMAN
• "He Calls Me His Own Grace Darling" = lyrics & music by LAWRENCE BARCLAY
• "He Laid Away A Suit Of Gray To Wear The Union Blue" = lyrics by EDWARD M. WICKES; music by BEN JANSEN
• "He Ought To Have A Tablet In The Hall of Fame" = lyrics by ARTHUR L. ROBB; music by JOHN WALTER BRATTON
• "Hello Central, Give Me Heaven" = lyrics & music by CHARLES K. HARRIS
• "Hiawatha" = lyrics (written in 1903) by JAMES O'DEA; music by NEIL MORET
• "High Society" = by PORTER STEELE
• "Hoity-Toity" = lyrics by EDGAR SMITH; music by JOHN STROMBERG
• "Jagtime Johnson's Ragtime March" = by FRED L. RYDER
• "The Honeysuckle And The Bee" = lyrics by ALBERT H. FITZ; music by WILLIAM H. PENN
• "I Ain't A-goin' To Weep No More" = lyrics by GEORGE TOTTEN SMITH; music by HARRY VON TILZER
• "I Hate To Get Up Early In The Morning" = lyrics by JOHN QUEEN; music by HUGHIE CANNON
• "I Love You Truly" = lyrics & music by CARRIE JACOBS-BOND
• "I Want To Be A Lidy" = lyrics by GEORGE DANCE; music by GEORGE DEE
• "If You Love Your Baby, Make Dem Goo-Goo Eyes" = lyrics by BERT WILLIAMS; music by GEORGE WALKER
• "I'll Be With You When The Roses Bloom Again" = lyrics by WILL D. COBB; music by GUS EDWARDS
• "I'm Tired" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
• "In The Shade Of The Palm" = lyrics & music by LESLIE STUART
• "The Invincible Eagle March" = lyrics & music by JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
• "It Seems Like Yesterday" = lyrics by FREDERIC RANKEN; music by ISIDORE WITMARK
• "I've Grown So Used To You" = lyrics & music by THURLAND CHATTAWAY
• "Josephine, My Jo" = lyrics by CECIL MACK; music by J. TIM BRYMN
• "Just A-Wearyin' For You" = lyrics by FRANK LEBBY STANTON; music by CARRIE JACOBS-BOND
• "The Maiden With The Dreamy Eyes" = lyrics by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON & BOB COLE; music by J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON
• "Mamie, Don't You Feel Ashamie" = lyrics by WILL D. COBB; music by GUS EDWARDS
• "Mighty Lak' A Rose" = lyrics by FRANK LEBBY STANTON; music by ETHELBERT NEVIN
• "My Castle On The Nile" = lyrics by BOB COLE & JAMES WELDON JOHNSON; music by J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON
• "My Japanese Cherry Blossom" = lyrics by EDGAR SMITH; music by JOHN STROMBERG
• "My Lady Hottentot" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME; music by HARRY VON TILZER
• "My Lonesome Little Louisiana Lady" = lyrics by WILL D. COBB; music by GUS EDWARDS
• "My Own United States" = lyrics by STANISLAUS STANGE; music by JULIAN EDWARDS
• "My Princess Zulu Lulu" = lyrics & music by DAVE REED Jr
• "Nancy Brown" = lyrics & music by CLIFTON CRAWFORD
• "O Dry Those Tears!" = lyrics & music by TERESA DEL RIEGO
• "Oh! Oh! Miss Phoebe" = lyrics by ANDREW B. STERLING; music by HARRY VON TILZER
• "Panamericana" = music by VICTOR HERBERT
• "The Phrenologist Coon" = lyrics by ERNEST HOGAN; music by WILL ACCOOEE
• "A Picture Without A Frame" = lyrics & music by AL WILBUR & HARRY JONNES
• "Rusty Rags" = by OSSMAN
• "Sally's Sunday Hat" = lyrics by WILL D. COBB; music by GUS EDWARDS
• "Serenade" = lyrics by JERRY GRAY & HERB HENDLER; music by RICCARDO DRIGO
• "Seven Songs as Unpretentious as the Wild Rose = by CARRIE JACOBS-BOND
• "She's Getting More Like The White Folks Every Day" = lyrics & music by BERT WILLIAMS & GEORGE WALKER
• "A Signal from Mars" = by E. T. PAULL
• "Simple Little Sister Mary Green" = lyrics & music by CLIFTON CRAWFORD
• "Somehow It Made Him Think Of Home" = lyrics by FREDERIC RANKEN; music by ISIDORE WITMARK
• "Sunflower Slow Drag" = music by SCOTT JOPLIN & SCOTT HAYDEN
• "Sweet Annie Moore" = by JOHN H. FLYNN
• "Tact" = lyrics & music by LESLIE STUART
• "The Tale Of A Bumble Bee" = lyrics by FRANK PIXLEY; music by GUSTAV LUDERS
• "Tell Me Dusky Maiden" = lyrics by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON & BOB COLE; music by J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON
• "Tell Us Pretty Ladies" = lyrics by EDGAR SMITH; music by JOHN STROMBERG
• "There's No North Or South Today" = lyrics & music by PAUL DRESSER
• "Tobermory" = lyrics & music by HARRY LAUDER
• "Way Down In Indiana" = lyrics & music by PAUL DRESSER
• "Way Down Yonder In The Cornfield" = lyrics by WILL D. COBB; music by GUS EDWARDS
• "We Shall Overcome" lyrics by C. ALBERT TINDLEY; music 1794 "O Sanctissima"
• "The Wedding Of Reuben And The Maid" = lyrics by HARRY B. SMITH; music by MAURICE LEVI
• "When It's All Goin' Out And Nothin' Comin' In" = lyrics & music by BERT WILLIAMS & GEORGE WALKER
• "When Mr Shakespeare Comes To Town" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
• "When The Boys Go Marching By" = lyrics & music by CHARLES W. DOTY
• "When Two Little Hearts Are One" = lyrics by EDGAR SMITH; music by JOHN STROMBERG
• "Where The Silv'ry Colorado Wends Its Way" = lyrics by C. H. SCOGGINS; music by CHARLES AVRIL
• "Zamona" = lyrics by FREDERIC RANKEN; music by WILLIAM LORAINE

Recorded Popular Music

• "A German Minstrel"
• recorded by GEORGE P. WATSON = on Edison Records
• "Good Evening Carrie"
• recorded by DAN W. QUINN
• "In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree"
• recorded by WILLIAM BAIRD
• "Just As the Sun Went Down"
• recorded by J.J. FISHER on Consolidated Phonograph

Classical Music

• HAKON BØRRESEN
• String Sextet opus 5 in G major
• FRANK BRIDGE
• Scherzo Phantastick, String Quintet in E minor (probably), Berceuse for viola or cello and piano
• ANDRÉ CAPLET
• Myrrha (cantata)
• FELIX DRAESEKE
• String Quintet opus 77 in F major for two violins, viola and two cellos
• ALEXANDER GLAZUNOV
• Piano Sonatas 1 and 2 opus 74 and 75 in B-flat minor and E minor
• GUSTAV MAHLER
• Der Tambourg'sell
• OTTORINO RESPIGHI
• String Quintet for two violins, two violas and cello
• SERGEI TANEYEV
• String Quintet opus 14 in G major for two violins, viola and two cellos
• LUDWIG THUILLE
• Piano Quintet opus 20 in E-flat major

Opera

• FREDERICK DELIUS
• A Village Romeo and Juliet
• ANTONÍN DVORÁK
• Rusalka
• ENRIQUE GRANADOS
• Picarol
• JULES MASSENET
• Grisélidis
• CHARLES VILLIERS STANFORD
• Much Ado About Nothing
• RICHARD STRAUSS
• Feuersnot

Musical Theatre

• BLUE BELL IN FAIRYLAND
• London production
• A CHINESE HONEYMOON
• London production opened at the Strand Theatre on October 5 and ran for 1075 performances.
• THE EMERALD ISLE
• London production opened at the Savoy Theatre on April 27 and ran for 205 performances.
• THE FORTUNE TELLER
• London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on April 7.
• HOITY-TOITY
• Broadway revue opened at the Weber and Fields Music Hall on September 5 and ran for 225 performances.
• KITTY GREY
• London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on September 7 and ran for 220 performances.
• THE LITTLE DUCHESS
• Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on October 14 and ran for 136 performances.
• THE ROGERS BROTHERS IN WASHINGTON
• Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on September 2 and ran for 49 performances
• THE SILVER SLIPPER
• London production opened at the Lyric Theatre on June 1 and ran for 197 performances
• THE SUPPER CLUB
• Broadway production opened on December 23 at the Winter Garden Theatre and ran for 40 performances.
• THE TOREADOR
• London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on June 17