Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 1 January:   GIOVANNI D'ANZI = Italian songwriter = [died: 1974]
• 4 January:   FRANKIE NEWTON = American trumpeter = [died: 1954]
• 7 January:   RED ALLEN = American jazz musician = [died: 1967]
• 15 January:   ALESSANDRO CICOGNINI = Italian film music composer = [died: 1995]
• 27 January:   RADAMÉS GNATTALI = Brazilian composer = [died: 1988]
• 31 January:
• BENJAMIN FRANKEL = British composer = [died: 1973]
• ROOSEVELT SYKES = American blues musician = [died: 1983]
• 1 February:   HILDEGARDE = American actress, singer = [died: 2005]
• 5 February:   ZARA LEVINA = Russian pianist and composer = [died: 1976]
• 19 February:   GRACE WILLIAMS = Welsh composer = [died: 1977]
• 3 March:   BARNEY BIGARD = American jazz musician = [died: 1980]
• 13 March:   FRANK TESCHEMACHER = American jazz musician = [died: 1932]
• 20 March:   OZZIE NELSON = American actor, band leader = [died: 1975]
• 25 March:   JEAN SABLON = French singer = [died: 1994]
• 27 March:   PEE WEE RUSSELL = American jazz musician = [died: 1969]
• 9 April:   ANTAL DORÁTI = Hungarian-born conductor = [died: 1988]
• 18 April:   LITTLE BROTHER MONTGOMERY = American, jazz musician = died: 1985]
• 23 May:   LUCHA REYES = Mexican singer = [died: 1944]
• 1 June:   WALTER LEGGE = English record producer = [died: 1979]
• 3 June:   JOSEPHINE BAKER = American singer, dancer and toast of Paris = [died: 1975]
• 26 June:   ALBERTO RABAGLIATI = Italian singer and actor = [died: 1974]
• 28 June:   SAFFORD CAPE = American conductor and musicologist = [died: 1973]
• 7 July:   ANTON KARAS = Austrian zither player and composer = [died: 1985]
• 30 July:   LUDOVÍT RAJTER = Slovak composer = [died: 2000]
• 4 September:   ALEXANDER MOYZES = Slovak composer and conductor = [died: 1984]
• 25 September:
• JAROSLAV JEŽEK = Czech composer = [died: 1942]
• DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH = Soviet Russian composer = [died: 1975]
• 30 September:   MIREILLE HARTUCH = French singer = [died: 1996]
• 9 October:   JANIS IVANOVS = Latvian composer = [died: 1983]
• 10 October:   PAUL CRESTON = Italian American composer = [died: 1985]
• 15 October:   VICTORIA SPIVEY = American singer, pianist and composer = [died: 1976]
• 22 October:   CHARLES LYNCH = Irish concert pianist = [died: 1984]
• 31 October:   LOUISE TALMA = American composer = [died: 1996]
• 3 November:   ALMA ROSÉ = Austrian violinist of Jewish descent = [died: 1944]
• 9 November:   PETE BROWN = American jazz musician = [died: 1963]
• 10 December:   HAROLD ADAMSON = American lyricist = [died: 1980]
• 26 December:   MORGAN LEWIS = American songwriter = [died: 1968]
• 27 December:   OSCAR LEVANT = American pianist and actor [died: 1972]

Timeline of Musical Events

• February: Abyssinia premiered at the Majestic Theatre (Broadway), with a score co-written by BERT WILLIAMS, including premiere of Nobody.
• 27 May: GUSTAV MAHLER's Symphony No. 6 is premiered in Essen.


• Also in 1906:-
• AMELITA GALLI-CURCI makes her operatic debut.

Published Popular Music

• "Abraham Jefferson Washington Lee" = by HARRY VON TILZER
• "Ain't You Coming Back To Old New Hampshire, Molly?" = lyrics by ROBERT F. RODEN; music by J. FRED HELF
• "Alice, Where Art Thou Going?" = by HEELAN, GUMBLE
• "All In Down And Out" = lyrics by Cecil Mack; music by CHRIS SMITH, BILLY B. SMITH & ELMER BOWMAN
• "Anchors Aweigh" = lyrics by ALFRED HART MILES & R. LOVELL; music by CHARLES A. ZIMMERMAN
• "Andulko Safárova" = by KMOCH
• "Anxious" = by WILLIAM JEROME, JEAN KENDIS, PALEY
• "Are You Coming Out Tonight, Mary Ann?" = lyrics by ANDREW B. STERLING; music by HARRY VON TILZER
• "Arrah Wanna" = lyrics by JACK DRISLANE; music by THEODORE F. MORSE
• "At Dawning" = lyrics by NELLE RICHMOND EBERHART; music by CHARLES WAKEFIELD CADMAN
• "Because You're You" = lyrics by HENRY BLOSSOM; music by VICTOR HERBERT
• "The Bee That Gets The Honey Doesn't Hang Around The Hive" = lyrics by ED ROSE; music by J. FRED HELF
• "The Bird On Nellie's Hat" = lyrics by ARTHUR J. LAMB; music by ALFRED SOLMAN
• "The Buffalo Rag" = by TOM TURPIN
• "By The Side Of The Zuyder Zee" = lyrics by A. J. MILLS; music by BENNETT SCOTT
• "Captain Baby Bunting Of The Rocking Horse Brigade" = lyrics by ED GARDINIER & WILL D. COBB; music by J. FRED HELF
• "Cheyenne" = lyrics by HARRY H. WILLIAMS; music by EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE
• "Colleen Bawn" = lyrics by EDWARD MADDEN; music by J. FRED HELF
• "College Life" = lyrics by PORTER EMERSON BROWNE; music by HENRY FRANTZEN
• "Come, Take A Skate With Me" = lyrics & music by RAYMOND BROWN & GUS EDWARDS
• "Crocodile Isle" = by MORSE
• "Dill Pickles Rag" = music by CHARLES L. JOHNSON
• "Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do" = lyrics by WILLIAM CAHILL; music by BENJAMIN HAPGOOD BURT
• "Don't You Think It's Time To Marry?" = by EDWARDS
• "Dreaming" = lyrics by L. W. HEISER; music by J. ANTON DAILEY
• "Every Day Is Ladies' Day To Me" = lyrics by HENRY BLOSSOM; music by VICTOR HERBERT
• "The Free Lance March" = music by JOHN PHILIP SOUSA
• "Frog Legs Rag" = music by JAMES SCOTT
• "The Game Of Peek-a-Boo" = by EDWARDS
• "Girlie, I Love You" = by MORSE
• "The Good Old USA" = lyrics by JACK DRISLANE; music by THEODORE F. MORSE
• "The Grand Old Rag" (aka "You're a Grand Old Flag") = lyrics & music by GEORGE M. COHAN
• "He Walked Right In Turned Around And Walked Right Out Again" = lyrics by EDWARD ROSE; music by MAXWELL SILVER
• "Here's To Our Absent Brothers" = lyrics & music by J. FRED HELF
• "He's A Cousin Of Mine" = lyrics by CECIL MACK; music by CHRIS SMITH & SILVIO HEIN
• "Highland Birthday Party" = lyrics & music by HECTOR GRANT
• "Holding Hands (You Don't Say Nothing At All)" = lyrics by JACK NORWORTH; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
• "Honora H. Doolin" = by MILLS
• "I Don't Like Your Family" = by HOWARD
• "I Just Can't Make My Eyes Behave" = lyrics & music by WILL D. COBB & GUS EDWARDS
• "I Miss You In A Thousand Different Ways" = lyrics by WILL D. COBB; music by GUS EDWARDS
• "I Never Saw Such Jealousy In My Life" = lyrics by ANDREW B. STERLING; music by HARRY VON TILZER
• "I Was Born In Virginia" = lyrics & music by GEORGE M. COHAN
• "Ida-Ho!" = by VON TILZER
• "If Anybody Wants To Meet A Jonah Shake Hands With Me" = lyrics & music by HARRY HOYT
• "If The Man In The Moon Were A Coon" = lyrics & music by FRED FISHER
• "I'm Sorry" = by VON TILZER
• "In Old New York" = lyrics by HENRY BLOSSOM; music by VICTOR HERBERT
• "Is It Warm Enough For You?" = by PALEY
• "I've Said My Last Farewell" = by SISCHER
• "Just One Word Of Consolation" = lyrics by FRANK B. WILLIAMS; music by TOM LEMONIER
• "Keep On The Sunny Side" = lyrics by JACK DRISLANE; music by THEODORE F. MORSE
• "Kiss, Kiss, Kiss (If You Want To Learn To Kiss)" = lyrics by HARRY B. SMITH; music by GERTRUDE HOFFMANN
• "Lassie, Dinna Sigh For Me" = lyrics & music by HECTOR GRANT
• "A Lemon In The Garden Of Love" = lyrics by M. E. ROURKE; music by RICHARD CARLE
• "Let Bygones Be Bygones And Let Us Be Sweethearts Again" = lyrics by ALEX ROGERS; music by BERT WILLIAMS
• "Let It Alone" = lyrics by ALEX ROGERS; music by BERT WILLIAMS
• "Let Me See You Smile" = by FISCHER
• "The Little Chauffeur" = by BOWERS
• "The Load That Father Carried" = lyrics by FRANK FOGERTY; music by J. B. MULLEN
• "Love Me And The World Is Mine" = lyrics by DAVE REED Jr; music by ERNEST R. BALL
• "Mississippi Sunflower" (characteristic march & two-step) = music by OTTO and JOHN HEINZMAN
• "Moonbeams" = lyrics by HENRY BLOSSOM; music by VICTOR HERBERT
• "Moonlight Dance" = music by HERMAN FINCK
• "Mr Monkey" = by EDWARDS
• "My Mariuccia Take A Steamboat" = lyrics by GEORGE RONKLYN; music by AL PIANTODOSI
• "National Emblem March" = lyrics by E. E. BAGLEY
• "The Next Horse I Ride On" = lyrics & music by FRED MURRAY & GEORGE EVERARD
• "Not Because Your Hair Is Curly" = lyrics & music by BOB ADAMS
• "Nothing Like That In Our Family" = by HEELAN, FURTH
• "Poor John" = lyrics by FRED W. LEIGH; music by HENRY E. PETHER
• "The Poor Old Man" = lyrics & music by VINCENT BRYAN
• "School Days" = lyrics by WILL D. COBB; music by GUS EDWARDS
• "Since Father Went To Work" = lyrics & music by WILLIAM CAHILL
• "Some One Looks Good To Some One" = by WEAVER
• "The Streets Of New York" from the musical The Red Mill = lyrics by HENRY BLOSSOM; music by VICTOR HERBERT
• "Sunbonnet Sue" = lyrics by WILL D. COBB; music by GUS EDWARDS
• "Sweet Anastasia Brady" = by SCHWARTZ
• "That's The Reason Noo I Wear A Kilt" = lyrics & music by A. B. KENDAL & HARRY LAUDER
• "Waltz Me Around Again Willie" = lyrics by WILL D. COBB; music by REN SHIELDS
• "We Parted On The Shore" = lyrics & music by HARRY LAUDER
• "We've Been Chums For Fifty Years" = lyrics & music by THURLAND CHATTAWAY
• "What A Mouth" = lyrics & music by R. P. WESTON
• "What's The Use Of Dreaming?" = lyrics & music by JOSEPH E. HOWARD
• "What's The Use Of Loving If You Can't Love All The Time" = lyrics by JOSEPH MITTENTHAL; music by HARRY ARMSTRONG
• "When Love Is Young In Springtime" = lyrics & music by RIDA JOHNSON YOUNG & MELVILLE ELLIS
• "When The Whip-poor-will Sings, Marguerite" = lyrics by C. M. DENISON; music by J. FRED HELF
• "When Tommy Atkins Marries Dolly Gray" = lyrics by WILL D. COBB; music by GUS EDWARDS
• "When You Know You're Not Forgotten By The Girl You Can't Forget" = lyrics by ED GARDINIER; music by J. FRED HELF
• "While The Old Mill Wheel Is Turning" = lyrics by WILL D. COBB; music by KERRY MILLS
• "Whistle It!" = by BLOSSOM, HERBERT
• "Wonderland" = lyrics & music by THOMAS S. ALLEN
• "Won't You Come Over To My House" = lyrics by HARRY H. WILLIAMS; music by EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE
• "Wouldn't You Like To Flirt with Me?" = by ROGERS
• "You Can Have Broadway" from the musical George Washington, Junior = lyrics & music by GEORGE M. COHAN
• "You Can't Give Your Heart To Somebody Else And Still Hold Hands With Me" = by EDWARDS

Recorded Popular Music

• "Stop Your Tickling Jock"
• recorded by HARRY LAUDER

Classical Music

• FRANK BRIDGE
• Three Idylls for String Quartet, Quartet no. 1 in E minor Bologna
• GRIGORAS DINICU
• Hora staccato
• EDWARD ELGAR
• The Kingdom (oratorio)
• CHARLES IVES
• Central Park in the Dark
• GUSTAV MAHLER
• Symphony No. 6 (3rd version)
• CARL NIELSEN
• String Quartet No. 4 in F major, op. 44
• SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
• Symphony No. 2 in E Minor
• MAX REGER
• Serenade in G for orchestra op. 95
• ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
• Chamber Symphony No. 1
• JOSEF SUK
• Symphony No. 2 Asrael finished
• SERGEI TANEYEV
• Piano Quartet in E major op. 20
• EDGARD VARÈSE
• Un grand sommeil noir
• ANTON WEBERN
• Rondo for string quartet

Opera

• WALTER BRAUNFELS
• Falada
• JULES MASSENET
• Ariane
• CARL NIELSEN
• Maskarade
• SERGEI RACHMANINOFF
• Francesca Da Rimini
• DAME ETHEL SMYTH
• The Wreckers
• ERMANNO WOLF-FERRARI
• I quattro rusteghi

Musical Theatre

• ABOUT TOWN
• (Music by Melville Ellis and Raymond Hubbell; Book & Lyrics by Joseph Herbert)
• Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre, New York, NY on August 30 and ran for 85 performances
• FORTY-FIVE MINUTES FROM BROADWAY
• (Written by: George M. Cohan)
• Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre, New York, NY on January 1 and ran for 90 performances
• THE FREE LANCE
• (Music by: John Philip Sousa; Book & Lyrics by: Harry B. Smith)
• Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on April 16 and ran for 43 performances
• GEORGE WASHINGTON, Jr.
• (Written by: George M. Cohan)
• Broadway production opened at the Herald Square Theatre on February 12 and ran for 81 performances.
• THE GLASS-BLOWERS
• Broadway production
• THE LITTLE CHERUB
• London production
• THE RED MILL
• Broadway production
• SEEING NEW YORK
• Broadway production opened at the New York Roof Theatre on June 5 and ran for 75 performances
• THE SPRING CHICKEN
• Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on October 8 and transferred to the New Amsterdam Theatre on December 10 and ran for a total of 91 performances.
• THE VICAR OF WAKEFIELD
• London production