Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of

Births

• 18 January:   DANNY KAYE = American actor, singer, dancer and comedian = [died: 1987]
• 22 January:   SID BASS = American songwriter = [died: 1993]
• 24 January:   NORMAN DELLO JOIO = American composer = [died: 2008]
• 25 January:   WITOLD LUTOSLAWSKI = Polish composer = [died: 1994]
• 26 January:   JIMMY VAN HEUSEN = American composer = [died: 1990]
• 27 January:   MILTON ADOLPHUS = American pianist and composer = [died: 1988]
• 2 March:   CELEDONIO ROMERO = Cuban guitarist, composer and poet = [died: 1996]
• 4 March:   WILLIE JOHNSON = American guitarist = [died: 1995]
• 5 March:   GANGUBAI HANGAL = Indian classical singer = [died: 2009]
• 6 March:   ELLA LOGAN = Scottish-born actress and singer = [died: 1969]
• 13 March:
• SMOKY DAWSON = Australian singer = [died: 2008]
• LIBERO DE LUCA = Swiss operatic tenor = [died: 1997]
• SERGEY MIKHALKOV = Russian lyricist = [died: 2009]
• 30 March:   FRANKIE LAINE = American singer = [died: 2007]
• 31 March:   ETTA BAKER = American blues guitarist and singer = [died: 2006]
• 4 April:
• GENE RAMEY = American jazz musician = [died: 1984]
• MUDDY WATERS = American blues musician = [died: 1983]
• 14 April:   JEAN FOURNET = French conductor = [died: 2008]
• 1 May:   WALTER SUSSKIND = Czech conductor = [died: 1980]
• 6 May:
• CARMEN CAVALLARO = American pianist = [died: 1989]
• GYULA DÁVID = Hungarian composer = [died: 1977]
• 12 May:   JAMELÃO = Brazilian samba singer = [died: 2008]
• 16 May:   WOODY HERMAN = American jazz musician and bandleader = [died: 1987]
• 18 May:   CHARLES TRENET = French singer, actor and songwriter = [died: 2001]
• 21 May:   GINA BACHAUER = Greek pianist = [died: 1976]
• 10 June:   TIKHON KHRENNIKOV = Russian composer = [died: 2007]
• 11 June:   RISË STEVENS = American mezzosoprano = [died: 2013]
• 18 June:   SAMMY CAHN = American lyricist, songwriter and musician = [died: 1993]
• 23 June:   HELEN HUMES = American singer = [died: 1981]
• 28 June:   GEORGE LLOYD = British composer = [died: 1998]
• 12 July:   REINO HELISMAA = Finnish singer-songwriter, musician and scriptwriter = [died: 1965]
• 15 July:   COWBOY COPAS = American country singer = [died: 1963]
• 22 July:   GORNI KRAMER = Italian bandleader and songwriter = [died: 1995]
• 2 August:
• HAL BLOCK = American songwriter = [died: 1981]
• EDRIC CONNOR = Trinidadian-English calypso singer = [died: 1968]
• 28 August:   ROBERT IRVING = British conductor = [died: 1991]
• 29 August:   SYLVIA FINE = American songwriter = [died: 1991]
• 20 September   JOHN COLLINS = American jazz guitarist = [died: 2001]
• 26 September:   DOROTHY SLOOP = American jazz musician = [died: 1998]
• 15 October:   DAVID CARROLL = American studio arranger, conductor, and musical director = [died: 2008]
• 16 October:   GINO BECHI = Italian operatic bass-baritone = [died: 1993]
• 19 October:   JOHN BLACKBURN = American lyricist = [died: 2006]
• 24 October:   TITO GOBBI = Italian operatic baritone = [died: 1984]
• 26 October:   CHARLIE BARNET = American bandleader [died: 1991]
• 2 November:   HARRY BABBITT = American singer with Kay Kyser & his orchestra [died: 2004]
• 3 November:   MARIKA RÖKK = Austrian-German singer, dancer and actress = [died: 2004]
• 15 November:   GUS JOHNSON = American jazz drummer = [died: 2000]
• 19 November:   BLUE BARRON = American orchestra leader = [died: 2005]
• 22 November:   BENJAMIN BRITTEN = English composer = [died: 1976]
• 1 December:   MARY MARTIN = American singer and actress = [died: 1990]
• 30 December:   LUCIO AGOSTINI = Italian-born Canadian conductor and composer = [died: 1996]

Timeline of Musical Events

• 1 April: MANUEL DE FALLA's opera La vida breve is given its world premiere in Nice
• 29 May: There is a near-riot at the premiere of the IGOR STRAVINSKYI-scored ballet The Rite of Spring in Paris
• October: Edison Diamond Disc Record introduced


• Also in 1913:-
• EDWARD BAIRSTOW becomes organist of York Minster.

Published Popular Music

• "Abie Sings An Irish Song" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "All Aboard For Dixieland" = lyrics by JACK YELLEN; music by GEORGE L. COBB
• "Aloha Oe (Farewell to Thee)" = by H.M. QUEEN LILIUOKALANI
• "And Then" = lyrics by ALFRED BRYAN; music by HERMAN PALEY
• "The Angelus" = lyrics by ROBERT B. SMITH; music by VICTOR HERBERT
• "Asia" = by E. RAY GOETZ
• "At The Ball, That's All" = by J. LEUBRIE HILL
• "Ay, Ay, Ay!" = by OSMAN PEREZ FREIRE
• "Ballin' The Jack" = lyrics by JAMES HENRY BURRIS; music by CHRIS SMITH
• "Brighten The Corner Where You Are" = lyrics by INA DULEY OGDON; music by CHARLES H. GABRIEL
• "The Bubble" = by OTTO HARBACH
• "Crazy Bone Rag" = music by CHARLES L. JOHNSON
• "The Cricket On The Hearth" = lyrics by ROBERT B. SMITH; music by VICTOR HERBERT
• "'Cross The Great Divide" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS; music by GEORGE W. MEYER
• "The Curse Of An Aching Heart" = lyrics by HENRY FINK; music by AL PIANTADOSI
• "Daddy, Come Home" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Danny Boy" = lyrics by FREDERICK WEATHERLY; music by Traditional
• "Don't Blame It All On Broadway" = lyrics by JOE YOUNG & HARRY WILLIAMS; music by BERT GRANT
• "Down In Chattanooga" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "El Cóndor Pasa" = by DANIEL ALOMÍA ROBLES
• "Fat Li'l' Feller Wid His Mammy's Eyes" = lyrics & music by SHERIDAN GORDON & F. L. STANTON
• "Fifteen Cents" = by CHRIS SMITH
• "Gasoline" = lyrics by J. WILL CALLAHAN (1874–1946); music by PAUL PRATT (1890–1948)
• "Goodbye Boys" = lyrics by ANDREW B. STERLING & WILLIAM JEROME; music by HARRY VON TILZER
• "Happy Little Country Girl" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "He'd Have to Get Under, Get Out and Get Under (to Fix Up His Automobile)" = lyrics by GRANT CLARK & EDGAR LESLIE; music by MAURICE ABRAHAMS
• "Hello, Honey" introduced by ELIZABETH BRICE in the revue 'Ziegfeld Follies of 1913' = lyrics by GEORGE V. HOBART; music by RAYMOND HUBBELL
• "Hungarian Rag" = music by JULIUS LENZBERG
• "I Can Live Without You" = lyrics by GENE BUCK; music by DAVE STAMPER
• "I Miss You Most Of All" = lyrics & music by JOSEPH McCARTHY Sr. & JAMES V. MONACO
• "If I Had My Way" = lyrics by LOU KLEIN; music by JAMES KENDIS
• "I'll Change The Shadows To Sunshine" = lyrics by GEORGE GRAFF Jr; music by ERNEST R. BALL
• "I'll Get You" = lyrics by WILL D. COBB; music by GUS EDWARDS
• "I'm On My Way To Mandalay" = lyrics by AL BRYAN; music by FRED FISHER
• "The Incandescent Rag" = music by GEORGE BOTSFORD
• "The International Rag" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Isle D'Amour" = lyrics by EARL CARROLL; music by LEO EDWARDS
• "It's Nice To Get Up In The Morning" = lyrics & music by HARRY LAUDER
• "Just For Tonight" = lyrics & music by GEORGE L. COBB
• "Keep On Walking" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Lion Tamer Rag" = music by MARK JANZA
• "Look In Her Eyes" = lyrics by M. E. ROURKE; music by JEROME KERN
• "Marcheta" = by VICTOR SCHERTZINGER
• "Melinda's Wedding Day" = by BERLIN
• "My Little Moonlight Maid" = lyrics by W. R. WILLIAMS; music by SPENCER WILLIAMS
• "Never Mind" = lyrics & music by HARRY DENT & TOM GOLDBURN
• "The Old Maids' Ball" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "On The Old Fall River Line" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME & ANDREW B. STERLING; music by HARRY VON TILZER
• "Panama" = lyrics by GEORGE V. HOBART; music by RAYMOND HUBBELL
• "Peg O' My Heart" = lyrics by ALFRED BRYAN; music by FRED FISHER
• "The Pullman Porters On Parade" = lyrics by REN G. MAY; music by MAURICE ABRAHAMS
• "Rebecca Of Sunnybrook Farm" = lyrics by A. SEYMOUR BROWN; music by ALBERT GUMBLE
• "Sailing Down The Chesapeake Bay" = by GEORGE BOTSFORD & JEAN C. HARVEZ
• "San Francisco Bound" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Snookey Ookums" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Somebody's Coming To My House" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Something Seems Tingle-Ingling" = lyrics by OTTO HARBACH; music by RUDOLF FRIML
• "The Sunshine Of Your Smile" = lyrics by LEONARD COOKE; music by LILIAN RAY
• "Sweethearts" = lyrics by ROBERT B. SMITH; music by VICTOR HERBERT
• "Take Me to Roseland, My Beautiful Rose" = lyrics by JACK STROUSE & ED JOHNSON; music by NAT OSBRONE
• "There's A Girl In The Heart Of Maryland" = lyrics by BALLARD MacDONALD; music by HARRY CARROLL
• "There's A Long Long Trail" = lyrics by STODDARD KING; music by ALONZO ELLIOT
• "They've Got Me Doin' It Now" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Too-Ra-Loo-Ra-Looral" = lyrics & music by JAMES R. SHANNON
• "The Trail Of The Lonesome Pine" = lyrics by BALLARD MacDONALD; music by HARRY CARROLL
• "Tra-La, La, La!" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "We Have Much To Be Thankful For" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "Welcome Home" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
• "When You Play In The Game Of Love" = lyrics by JOE GOODWIN; music by AL PIANTADOSI
• "When You're All Dressed Up And No Place To Go" = lyrics by BENJAMIN HAPGOOD BURT; music by SILVIO HEIN
• "Where Did You Get That Girl?" = lyrics by BERT KALMAR; music by HARRY PUCK
• "You Made Me Love You" = lyrics by JOSEPH McCARTHY; music by JAMES V. MONACO
• "You're Here And I'm Here" = lyrics by HARRY B. SMITH; music by JEROME KERN
• "You've Got Your Mother's Big Blue Eyes" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN

Popular Recordings

• "Cohen on the Telephone - (Ethnic humor)"
• recorded by JOE HAYMAN = on Regal Records
• "It's Nicer To Be In Bed"
• recorded by HARRY LAUDER
• "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life"
• recorded by AL JOLSON
• "Till the Sands of the Desert Grow Cold"
• recorded by ALAN TURNER
• "When the Midnight Choo-Choo Leaves for Alabam'"
• recorded by COLLINS & HARLAN

Classical Music

• GEORGE BUTTERWORTH
• Banks of Green Willow
• JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER
• Violin Sonata
• CLAUDE DEBUSSY
• La boîte à joujoux (ballet)
• Trois poèmes de Mallarmé
• GUSTAV HOLST
• St Paul's Suite
• IGOR STRAVINSKY
• The Rite of Spring
• LOUIS VIERNE
• Messe basse, Op. 30

Opera

• MANUEL DE FALLA
• La vida breve
• GABRIEL FAURÉ
• Pénélope
• UZEYIR HAJIBEYOV
• Arshin Mal Alan (operetta)
• JULES MASSENET
• Panurge
• ITALO MONTEMEZZI
• L'amore dei tre re (The Love of the Three Kings)
• MODEST MUSSORGSKY
• The Fair at Sorochyntsi (Sorochinskaya yarmarka) (incomplete)

Musical Theatre

• ADELE
• Broadway production opened at the Longacre Theatre on August 28 and ran for 196 performances
• THE AMERICAN MAID
• Broadway production
• THE GIRL FROM UTAH
• London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on October 18 and ran for 195 performances
• THE GIRL ON THE FILM
• London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on April 5 and ran for 232 performances
• THE GIRL ON THE FILM
• Broadway production opened at the 44th Street Theatre on December 29 and ran for 64 performances
• THE HONEYMOON EXPRESS
• Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 6 and ran for 156 performances
• HULLO, TANGO
• London production opened at the Hippodrome on December 23
• THE ISLE O' DREAMS
• Broadway production opened at the Grand Opera House on January 27 and ran for 32 performances
• THE LAUGHING HUSBAND
• London production opened at the New Theatre on October 2.
• THE LITTLE CAFÉ
• Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on November 10 and ran for 144 performances
• THE MADCAP DUCHESS Starring Ann Swinburne, Peggy Wood and Glenn Hall
• (Music: Victor Herbert)
• Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on November 11 and ran for 71 performances.
• DER MÄDCHENMARKT
• Vienna production opened at the Carltheater on May 7
• THE MARRIAGE MARKET
• London production opened at Daly's Theatre on May 17 and ran for 423 performances
• THE PEARL GIRL
• London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on September 25 and ran for 254 performances
• THE PLEASURE SEEKERS
• Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on November 3 and ran for 72 performances
• THE SUNSHINE GIRL
• Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on February 3 and ran for 160 performances
• SWEETHEARTS
• Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on September 8 and transferred to the Liberty Theatre on November 10 for a total run of 272 performances
• ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1913
• Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 16 and ran for 108 performances