15 October: In Rovigo, BENIAMINO GIGLI makes his operatic debut in Amilcare Ponchielli's La Gioconda.
Also in 1914:-
The first recorded calypso music is made in Trinidad and Tobago.
First publication of Orchestration, the classic book by CECIL FORSYTH.
Published Popular Music
"The Aba Daba Honeymoon" performed in the 1951 film 'Two Weeks with Love' by DEBBIE REYNOLDS and CARLETON CARPENTER = lyrics & music by ARTHUR FIELDS & WALTER DONOVAN
"After The Roses Have Faded Away" = lyrics by BESSIE BUCHANAN; music by ERNEST R. BALL
"Along Came Ruth" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Always Treat Her Like A Baby" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Back To The Carolina You Love" = lyrics by GRANT CLARKE; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
"Burlington Bertie From Bow" = lyrics & music by WILLIAM HARGREAVES
"By Heck" = lyrics by L. WOLFE GILBERT; music by S. R. HENRY
"By The Beautiful Sea" = lyrics by HAROLD R. ATTERIDGE; music by HARRY CARROLL
"By The Waters Of Minnetonka" = lyrics by J. M. CAVANASS; music by THURLOW LIEURANCE
"California And You" = by HARRY PUCK
"Can't You Hear Me Callin' Caroline?" = lyrics & music by WILLIAM H. GARDNER & CARO ROMA
"Cecile Waltz" = by FRANK McKEE
"Chinatown, My Chinatown" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
"Colonel Bogey - March" = music by KENNETH J. ALFORD
"Come Over To Dover" = by MURPHY, BOTSFORD
"La Cucaracha" = English lyrics by STANLEY ADAMS; music arranged by JUAN Y. D'LORAH
"The Darktown Poker Club" = lyrics by JEAN C. HAVEZ; music by BERT WILLIAMS & WILL H. VODERY
"The Day Is Done" = lyrics by HENRY WADSWORTH LONGFELLOW; music by HERMAN LOHR
"Desecration Rag" = by FELIX ARNDT
"Down Among The Sheltering Palms" = lyrics by JAMES BROCKMAN; music by ABE OLMAN
"La Estrellita" = music by MAURICE PONCE
"Everybody Rag With Me" = lyrics by GUS KAHN; music by GRACE LEBOY
"Fido Is A Hot Dog Now" = lyrics by CHARLES McCARRON & THOMAS J. GRAY; music by RAYMOND WALKER
"Follow The Crowd" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Gilbert, The Filbert" = lyrics by ARTHUR WIMPERIS; music by HERMAN FINCK
"Goodbye Girls I'm Through" = lyrics by JOHN GOLDEN; music by IVAN CARYLL
"He's A Devil In His Own Home Town" = lyrics by GRANT CLARKE & IRVING BERLIN; music by IRVING BERLIN
"He's A Rag Picker" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Hot House Rag" = music by PAUL PRATT
"I Love the Ladies" = by GRANT CLARKE
"I Want To Go Back To Michigan, Down On The Farm" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"I Was A Good Little Girl Till I Met You" = lyrics by CLIFFORD HARRIS; music by JAMES W. TATE
"If I Had You" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"If That's Your Idea Of A Wonderful Time, Take Me Home" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"If You Don't Want My Peaches" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"I'll Make A Man Of You" = lyrics & music by ARTHUR WIMPERIS & HERMAN FINCK
"I'm Goin' Back To Louisiana (Where The Bright Moon Shines)" = by E. CLINTON KEITHLEY
"In An Old-Fashioned Town" = lyrics & music by SQUIRE
"In Siam" = by MANUEL KLEIN
"In The Candlelight" = lyrics & music by FLETA JAN BROWN
"Katyusha's song" = composed by NAKAYAMA SHIMPEI is the first big kayokyoku (pop music) hit in Japan
"Keep the Home Fires Burning" = lyrics by LENA GUILBERT FORD; music by IVOR NOVELLO
"Land" = by IRVING BERLIN
"A Little Bit Of Heaven Sure They Call It Ireland" = lyrics by J. KEIRN BRENNAN; music by ERNEST R. BALL
"The Little Ford Rambled Right Along" = by BYRON GAY & C.R. FOSTER
"Love's Own Sweet Song" = lyrics by C. C. S. CUSHING & E. P. HEATH; music by EMMERICH KALMAN
"The Minstrel Parade" = by IRVING BERLIN
"Missouri Waltz" = lyrics by JAMES ROYCE SHANNON; music by FREDERICK KNIGHT LOGAN
"Mrs. Sippi, You're A Grand Old Girl" = by BELLE ASHLYN
"Music Box Rag" = by CHARLES LUCKEYTH ROBERTS
"My Bird Of Paradise" = by IRVING BERLIN
"My Croony Melody" = lyrics & music by JOE GOODWIN & E. RAY GOETZ
"On The 5:15" = lyrics by STANLEY MURPHY; music by HENRY I. MARSHALL
"On The Good Ship Mary Ann" = lyrics by GUS KAHN; music by GRACE LE BOY
"On The Shores Of Italy" = lyrics & music by AL PIANTADOSI, DAVE OPPENHEIM & JACK GLOGAU
"Pigeon Walk" = music by JAMES V. MONACO
"Play a Simple Melody" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Poor Pauline" = lyrics by CHARLES McCARRON; music by RAYMOND WALKER
"Revival Day" = by BERLIN
"Roll Them Cotton Bales" = lyrics by JAMES WELDON JOHNSON; music by J. ROSAMOND JOHNSON
"Rufus Johnson's Harmony Band" = lyrics & music by SHELTON BROOKS & MAURICE ABRAHAMS
"Same Sort Of Girl" = lyrics by HARRY B. SMITH; music by JEROME KERN
"Settle Down In A One-Horse Town" = by IRVING BERLIN
"Shadowland" = lyrics by BLANCHE MERRILL; music by GUS EDWARDS
"She's Dancing Her Heart Away" = lyrics by L. WOLFE GILBERT; music by KERRY MILLS
"Sister Susie's Sewing Shirts For Soldiers" = lyrics by R. P. WESTON; music by HERMAN E. DAREWSKI
"The Springtime Of Life" = lyrics by ROBERT B. SMITH; music by VICTOR HERBERT
"St. Louis Blues" = lyrics & music by W. C. HANDY
"Stay Down Here Where You Belong" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Sylvia" = lyrics by CLINTON SCOLLARD; music by OLEY SPEAKS
"Syncopated Walk" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"That's a Plenty" = lyrics by RAY GILBERT; music by LEW POLLACK
"There's A Little Spark Of Love Still Burning" = lyrics by JOE McCARTHY; music by FRED FISHER
"They Didn't Believe Me" = lyrics by HERBERT REYNOLDS; music by JEROME KERN
"They're On Their Way To Mexico" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"This Is The Life" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"'Twas In September" = lyrics by BENJAMIN HAPGOOD BURT; music by SILVIO HEIN
"Twelfth Street Rag" = music by EUDAY L. BOWMAN
"Vienna, City Of My Dreams" = Austrian lyrics & music by RUDOLF SIECZYNSKI
"Way Out Yonder In The Golden West" = lyrics & music by PERCY WENRICH
"What Is Love" = IRVING BERLIN
"When It's Night Time In Dixieland" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"When Mother Backed The Winner Of The Derby" = by WILLIAMS & GODFREY
"When The Angelus Is Ringing" = lyrics by JOE YOUNG; music by BERT GRANT
"When The Grown-up Ladies Act Like Babies" = lyrics by JOE YOUNG & EDGAR LESLIE; music by MAURICE ABRAHAMS
"When You Wore A Tulip" = lyrics by JACK MAHONEY; music by PERCY WENRICH
"When You're A Long, Long Way From Home" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS; music by GEORGE W. MEYER
"When You're Away" = lyrics by HENRY BLOSSOM; music by VICTOR HERBERT
"Who Paid The Rent For Mrs Rip Van Winkle?" = by BRYAN, FISCHER
"The Yellow Dog Blues" = lyrics & music by W. C. HANDY
"You Planted A Rose In The Garden Of Love" = lyrics by J. WILL CALLAHAN; music by ERNEST R. BALL
Popular Recordings
"Aba Daba Honeymoon"
recorded by COLLINS & HARLAN
"Brindisi" from La traviata
recorded by ENRICO CARUSO & ALMA GLUCK
"Ballin' the Jack"
recorded by PRINCE'S ORCHESTRA
"The Little Ford Rambled Right Along"
recorded by BILLY MURRAY
Classical Music
JOHN ALDEN CARPENTER
Adventures in a Perambulator (ballet)
ARTHUR DE GREEF
Piano Concerto No. 1 in C Minor
FREDERICK DELIUS
Violin Sonata No. 1
ERNO DOHNÁNYI
Variations on a Nursery Song
MARCEL DUPRÉ
Psyche (cantata)
HERBERT HOWELLS
Piano Concerto No. 1
CHARLES IVES
Violin Sonata No. 3
NIKOLAI MEDTNER
Sonate-Ballade op. 27
CARL NIELSEN
Serenata in vano
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Violin Concerto No. 1 in D Major
Sarcasms, for piano
The Ugly Duckling, for mezzo-soprano and orchestra
ROGER QUILTER
A Children's Overture
MAURICE RAVEL
Piano Trio in A Minor
MAX REGER
Variations and Fugue on a Theme of Mozart (orchestral version)
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
Symphony No. 2 A London Symphony
ANTON WEBERN
Cello Sonata
Opera
RUTLAND BOUGHTON
The Immortal Hour
JULES MASSENET
Cléopâtre
HENRI RABAUD
Mârouf, savetier du Caire
JOAQUÍN TURINA
Margot
GABRIEL VON WAYDITCH
Opium Dreams
RICCARDO ZANDONAI
Francesca da Rimini
Musical Theatre
ADELE
London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on May 30
THE BELLE OF BOND STREET
Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on March 30 and ran for 48 performances
BUSINESS AS USUAL
London production opened at the Hippodrome on November 16
CHIN-CHIN
Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 20 and ran for 295 performances
THE EARL AND THE GIRL
London revival opened at the Aldwych Theatre on November 4
THE GIRL FROM UTAH
Broadway production opened at the Knickerbocker Theatre on August 24 and ran for 120 performances
THE LILAC DOMINO
(libretto by Emmerich von Gatti and Béla Jenbach; music by Charles Cuvillier)
Broadway production opened at the 44th Street Theatre on October 28 and ran for 109 performances
PAPA'S DARLING
Broadway production
THE PRETTY MRS SMITH
Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on September 21 and ran for 48 performances
SZIBILL
by Victor Jacobi, with libretto by Martos Ferenc and Miklós Bródy.
First performed on February 27 in Budapest.
TONIGHT'S THE NIGHT
Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on December 24 and ran for 112 performances
WARS OF THE WORLD
Broadway production opened at the Hippodrome Theatre on September 5 and ran for 229 performances
WATCH YOUR STEP
Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on December 8 and ran for 175 performances
WHEN CLAUDIA SMILES
Broadway production opened at the 39th Street Theatre on February 2 and moved to the Lyric Theatre on February 23 for a total run of 112 performances
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Mark Chard BSc, PLY
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Last edited: 17th December 2023
