Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 18 January:   GÁBOR DARVAS = Hungarian composer and musicologist = [died: 1985]
• 20 January:   ROY ELDRIDGE = American jazz musician =[died: 1989]
• 3 February:   JEHAN ALAIN = French organist and composer = [died: 1940]
• 5 February:   JUSSI BJÖRLING = Swedish tenor = [died: 1960]
• 11 February:   WESLEY ROSE = American music industry executive and record producer = [died: 1990]
• 20 February:   ROBERT McBRIDE = American composer and instrumentalist = [died: 2007]
• 7 March:   STEFAN KISIELEWSKI = Polish composer = [died: 1991]
• 8 March:   ALAN HOVHANESS = Armenian-American composer = [died: 2000]
• 16 March:   HARPER GOFF = American special effects man for Disney and Dixieland musician = [died: 1993]
• 18 March:   SMILEY BURNETTE = American country music performer and a comedic actor = [died: 1967]
• 6 April:   GUILLERMO PORTABALES = Cuban singer-songwriter and guitarist [died: 1970]
• 8 April:   ICHIRO FUJIYAMA = Japanese composer and singer = [died: 1993]
• 8 May:   ROBERT JOHNSON = American blues guitarist and singer = [died: 1938]
• 13 May:   MAXINE SULLIVAN = American jazz singer = [died: 1987]
• 18 May:   BIG JOE TURNER = American blues shouter = [died: 1985]
• 20 May:   VET BOSWELL = American, of the Boswell Sisters singing group = [died: 1988]
• 9 June:   FREDERICK MAY = Irish composer = [died: 1985]
• 24 June:   PORTIA WHITE = Canadian operatic contralto = [died: 1968]
• 29 June:   BERNARD HERRMANN = American film composer = [died: 1975]
• 4 July:   MITCH MILLER = American arranger, conductor, record producer and oboe player = [died: 2010]
• 7 July:   GIAN CARLO MENOTTI = Italian-American composer and librettist = [died: 2007]
• 16 July:   GINGER ROGERS = American dancer, actress and singer = [died: 1995]
• 26 July:   BUDDY CLARK = American singer = [died: 1949]
• 29 July:   JÁN CIKKER = Slovak composer = [died: 1989]
• 31 July:   GEORGE LIBERACE = American violinist and elder brother of Liberace = [died: 1983]
• 5 August:   ROGER ROGER = French film composer and bandleader = [died: 2007]
• 6 August:   LUCILLE BALL = American actress and singer = [died: 1989]
• 27 August:   KAY WALSH = English dancer and actress = [died: 2005]
• 2 September:   FLOYD COUNCIL = American blues musician = [died: 1976]
• 11 September:   BOLA DE NIEVE = Cuban singer, pianist, and songwriter = [died: 1971]
• 19 September:   ALLAN PETTERSSON = Swedish composer = [died: 1980]
• 7 October:
• VAUGHN MONROE = American singer and bandleader = [died: 1973]
• SHURA CHERKASSKY = American pianist = [died: 1995]
• 24 October:   SONNY TERRY = American blues musician = [died: 1986]
• 26 October:   MAHALIA JACKSON = American gospel singer = [died: 1972]
• 5 November:   ROY ROGERS = American singer, actor = [died: 1998]
• 3 December:   NINO ROTA = Italian composer = [died: 1979]
• 14 December:   SPIKE JONES = American bandleader = [died: 1965]
• 15 December:   STAN KENTON = American pianist, composer, and arranger = [died: 1979]
• 17 December:   ANDRÉ CLAVEAU = French singer = [died: 2003]
• 25 December:   ERIC GILDER = English musicologist = [died: 2000]
• 27 December:   ANNA RUSSELL = English-Canadian singer and comedienne = [died: 2006]


• date unknown:
• BLANCHE WINOGRON = American harpsichordist, pianist, and teacher = [died: 2002]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 9 January: EDWIN ARTHUR JONES dies in Stoughton, Massachusetts.
• 26 January: Premiere of the opera Der Rosenkavalier by RICHARD STRAUSS, in Dresden; the librettist is HUGO VON HOFFMANSTHAL and the director is MAX REINHARDT.
• 21 February: GUSTAV MAHLER, who had contracted bacterial endocarditis and is running a fever of 104 degrees, conducts his last concert, with the New York Philharmonic, of which he had been principal conductor since 1909.
• 25 March: Triangle Factory Fire, 146 garment workers die, NYC
• 8 April: GUSTAV MAHLER embarks from New York to France; he enters a clinic in Paris.
• 19 May:
• GUSTAV MAHLER dies in Vienna.
• MAURICE RAVEL's opera, L'heure espagnole, is premiered at the Opéra Comique, in a double bill with JULES MASSENET's 1907 opera Thérèse
• 24 May: EDWARD ELGAR conducts the premiere of his Symphony No. 2 in London
• 15 June: IGOR STRAVINSKY's ballet Petrushka premieres in Paris; the lead dancer is VASLAV NIJINSKY
• 20 November: GUSTAV MAHLER's Das Lied von der Erde is premièred in Munich, with his friend and former assistant BRUNO WALTER conducting.


• Also in 1911:-
• SCOTT JOPLIN publishes his opera, Treemonisha
• IRVING BERLIN publishes his first number-one hit, Alexander's Ragtime Band
• AINO ACKTÉ and other prominent opera singers found the Domestic Opera in Finland.
• "Elsässisches Fahnenlied" is adopted as the anthem of the Republic of Alsace-Lorraine.
• 16-year-old CARL ORFF publishes his first compositions.

Published Popular Music

• "After That I Want A Little More" = lyrics by ALFRED BRYAN; music by FRED FISHER
• "After The Honeymoon" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Alexander's Ragtime Band" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "All Alone" = lyrics by WILLIAM DILLON; music by HARRY VON TILZER
• "Any Old Iron" = lyrics & music by CHARLES COLLINS & TERRY SHEPPARD
• "Archibald, Certainly Not" = lyrics & music by ALFRED GLOVER & JOHN ST JOHN
• "Baby Rose" = by LOUIS WESLYN
• "Billy" = lyrics by JOE GOODWIN; music by JAMES KENDIS & HERMAN PALEY
• "Bring Back My Lovin' Man" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Can't You Take It Back And Change It For A Boy?" = lyrics & music by THURLAND CHATTAWAY
• "Daly's Reel" = music by JOSEPH M. DALY
• "Down Home Rag" = music by WILBUR SWEATMAN
• "Down The Field" = lyrics by CALEB O'CONNOR; music by STANLEIGH P. FRIEDMAN
• "El Choclo" = lyrics by FRANCICE LUBAN; music by ANGEL G. VILLOLDO
• "Everybody's Doing it Now" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "The Fire Bird" = music by IGOR STRAVINSKY
• "Floral Dance" = lyrics & music by KATIE MOSS
• "The Gaby Glide" = lyrics by HARRY PILCER; music by LOUIS A. HIRSCH
• "Hello! Susie Green" = lyrics by LESTER BARRETT; music by HERMAN DAREWSKI
• "Honey Love" = lyrics by JACK DRISLANE; music by GEORGE W. MEYER
• "Honeysuckle Rag" = music by GEORGE BOTSFORD
• "I Want A Girl (Just Like The Girl)" = lyrics by WILLIAM DILLON; music by HARRY VON TILZER
• "I Want To Be In Dixie" (also known as "I'm Going Back To Dixie") = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN & TED SNYDER
• "If Every Hour Were A Day" = lyrics by ANNA DRIVER; music by ALFRED BRYAN
• "In The Land Of Harmony" = lyrics by BERT KALMAR; music by TED SNYDER
• "It's A Long Lane That Has No Turning" = lyrics by ARTHUR PENN; music by MANUEL KLEIN
• "Jimmy Valentine" = lyrics by EDWARD MADDEN; music by GUS EDWARDS
• "The Little Grey Home In The West" = lyrics by D. EARDLEY-WILMOT; music by HERMANN LÖHR
• "Love Is Mine" = lyrics by EDWARD TESCHEMACHER; music by CLARENCE G. GARTNER
• "Make Me Love You Like I Never Loved Before" = lyrics by ALFRED BRYAN; music by FRED FISHER
• "Mary O'Hoolihan" = by BERLIN
• "(On) Moonlight Bay" = lyrics by EDWARD MADDEN; music by PERCY WENRICH
• "Movin' Man Don't Take My Baby Grand" = lyrics by BERT KALMAR; music by TED SNYDER
• "My Beautiful Lady (Kiss Waltz)" = lyrics by C. M. S. McLELLAN; music by IVAN CARYLL
• "My Hula Hula Love" = lyrics by EDWARD MADDEN; music by PERCY WENRICH
• "My Rosary Of Dreams" = lyrics & music by E. F. DUSENBERG & C. M. DENISON
• "Naughty, Naughty, Naughty" = lyrics by HARRY WILLIAMS; music by EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE
• "The Oceana Roll" = lyrics by ROGER LEWIS; music by LUCIEN DENNI
• "Oh Baby Mine" = lyrics & music by CECILLE BOUCHER
• "Oh, You Beautiful Doll" = lyrics by A. SEYMOUR BROWN; music by NAT D. AYER
• "One O'Clock In The Morning I Get Lonesome" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Ragtime Violin!" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Red Rose Rag" = lyrics by EDWARD MADDEN; music by PERCY WENRICH
• "A Ring On The Finger Is Worth Two On The Phone" = lyrics by JACK MAHONEY; music by GEORGE W. MEYER
• "Roamin' In The Gloamin'" = lyrics & music by HARRY LAUDER
• "Run Home And Tell Your Mother" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Somewhere A Voice Is Calling" = lyrics by EILEEN NEWTON; music by ARTHUR F. TATE
• "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life" = lyrics & music by BILLY MERSON
• "Spanish Love" = by IRVING BERLIN, VINCENT BRYAN, TED SNYDER
• "Texas Tommy Swing" = by SID BROWN & VAL HARRIS
• "That Baboon Baby Dance" = lyrics by DAVE OPPENHEIM; music by JOE COOPER
• "That Hypnotizing Man" = lyrics by LEW BROWN; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
• "That Mysterious Rag" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN, TED SNYDER
• "That Was Before I Met You" = lyrics by ALFRED BRYAN; music by GEORGE W. MEYER
• "There's A Girl In Havana" = by IRVING BERLIN, E. RAY GOETZ, A. BALDWIN SLOANE
• "They Always Pick On Me" = by HARRY VON TILZER AND STANLEY MURPHY
• "Till The Sands Of The Desert Grow Cold" = lyrics by GEORGE GRAFF Jr; music by ERNEST R. BALL
• "To The Land Of My Own Romance" = lyrics by HARRY B. SMITH; music by VICTOR HERBERT
• "Too Much Mustard" = music by CECIL MACKLIN
• "Virginia Lou" = by IRVING BERLIN, EARL TAYLOR
• "A Wee Deoch-an-Doris" = lyrics & music by GERALD GRAFTON & HARRY LAUDER
• "When I Was Twenty-One And You Were Sweet Sixteen" = lyrics by HARRY WILLIAMS; music by EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE
• "When I'm Alone I'm Lonesome" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN & TED SNYDER
• "When It Rains, Sweetheart, When It Rains" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "When Ragtime Rosie Ragged The Rosary" = lyrics by EDGAR LESLIE; music by LEWIS F. MUIR
• "When You Kiss An Italian Girl" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "When You're Away" = lyrics by A. SEYMOUR BROWN & JOE YOUNG; music by BERT GRANT
• "When You're In Town" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "The Whistling Rag" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Woodman, Woodman, Spare That Tree" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN & VINCENT BRYAN
• "Yiddisha Nightingale" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "You've Got Me Hypnotized" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN

Hit Recordings

• "Any Little Girl, That's a Nice Little Girl, is the Right Little Girl For Me"
• recorded by BILLY MURRAY
• "Turn Off Your Light, Mr. Moon Man"
• recorded by NORA BAYES AND JACK NORWORTH

Classical Music

• JOSEPH ACHRON
• Hebrew Melody
• FRANK BRIDGE
• The Sea
• GEORGE BUTTERWORTH
• Two English Idylls
• FREDERICK DELIUS
• Summer Night on the River
• REINHOLD GLIÈRE
• Symphony No. 3 Ilya Murometz (completed)
• ENRIQUE GRANADOS
• Goyescas
• GUSTAV HOLST
• Second Suite for Military Band in F
• CHARLES IVES
• Requiem S. 333
• NIKOLAI MEDTNER
• Sonata for Piano in E minor
• Op. 25 no 2 "Night Wind"
• NIKOLAI MYASKOVSKY
• Sinfonietta in A and Symphony No. 2 completed
• Cello Sonata No. 1 written (later revised in 1945)
• CARL NIELSEN
• Concerto for violin and orchestra
• ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
• Sechs Kleine Klavierstücke
• ALEKSANDR SCRIABIN
• Piano Sonata No. 6
• Piano Sonata No. 7 written
• IGOR STRAVINSKY
• Petrushka
• ETHEL SMYTH
• The March of the Women

Opera

• BÉLA BARTÓK
• Bluebeard's Castle
• FREDERICK DELIUS
• Fenimore and Gerda
• SCOTT JOPLIN
• Treemonisha
• MAURICE RAVEL
• L'Heure Espagnole
• RICHARD STRAUSS
• Der Rosenkavalier

Operetta

• VICTOR JACOBI
• Leányvásár (The Marriage Market)

Musical Theatre

• MADAME SHERRY
• New York
• THE COUNT OF LUXEMBOURG
• London production opened at Daly's Theatre on May 20 and ran for 340 performances
• THE FASCINATING WIDOW Starring Julian Eltinge, Winona Winter, Natalia Ault and Eddie Garvie.
• Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on September 11 and transferred to the Grand Opera House on November 13 for a total run of 65 performances.
• GYPSY LOVE (ZIGEUNERLIEBE)
• Opened in Berlin. The Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 17 and ran for 31 performances
• DER LILA DOMINO (THE LILAC DOMINO)
• Leipzig production
• MARRIAGE À LA CARTE
• Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on January 2 and ran for 64 performances
• THE PINK LADY
• Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on March 13 and ran for 312 performances
• THE QUAKER GIRL
• Broadway production opened at the Park Theatre on October 23 and ran for 240 performances
• THE REVUE OF REVUES Starring Gaby Deslys, Harry Jolson, Ernie Hare and Frank Tinney.
• Broadway revue opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 27 and ran for 55 performances.