10 December:SESTO BRUSCANTINI = Italian operatic bass-baritone = [died: 2003]
21 December:VIRGILIO SAVONA = Italian singer and songwriter (Quartetto Cetra) = [died: 2009]
25 December:NAUSHAD = Indian film score composer = [died: 2006]
Timeline of Musical Events
22 July: The Ballets Russes gives the world premiere of MANUEL DE FALLA's ballet El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) in London.
August:JOSEF MATTHIAS HAUER devises his own twelve-tone technique of composition.
27 October:EDWARD ELGAR'sCello Concerto is premiered in London
Also in 1919:
Original Dixieland Jass Band brings New Orleans jazz to England
The Louisiana Five are advertised as playing "Modern Jazz"
KING OLIVER leaves New Orleans
Ernest Ansermet writes an enthusiastic review of the Southern Syncopated Orchestra in London, singling out SIDNEY BECHET - one of the first serious pieces of jazz criticism.
JOHAN WAGENAAR becomes director of the Royal Conservatory at the Hague.
Published Popular Music
"Abie My Boy" lyrics & music by L. SILBERMAN, A. GROCK, HERBERT RULE & TOM MCGHEE
"Alcoholic Blues" = lyrics by EDWARD LASKA; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
"Alexander's Band Is Back In Dixieland" = lyrics by JACK YELLEN; music by ALBERT GUMBLE
"Alice Blue Gown" = lyrics by JOSEPH McCARTHY; music by HARRY TIERNEY
"All The Quakers Are Shoulder Shakers Down In Quaker Town" = lyrics by BERT KALMAR & EDGAR LESLIE; music by PETE WENDLING
"And He'd Say "Oo-La-La Wee Wee!"" = lyrics by GEORGE JESSEL; music by HARRY RUBY
"Any Old Place With You" = lyrics by LORENZ HART; music by RICHARD RODGERS
"Ask the Stars" = by FRANK M. STAMMERS
"Baby, Won't You Please Come Home?" lyrics & music by CHARLES WARFIELD & CLARENCE WILLIAMS
"Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me" lyrics & music by CHARLES McCARRON, CASEY MORGAN & ARTHUR SWANSTROM
"Breeze (Blow My Baby Back To Me)" lyrics & music by BALLARD MacDONALD, JOE GOODWIN & JAMES F. HANLEY
"Camp Meeting Blues" = by DABNEY'S BAND
"Cielito Lindo" lyrics & music by QUIRINO MENDOZA Y CORTEZ
"Daddy Long Legs" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG
"Dardanella" = lyrics by FRED FISHER; music by FELIX BERNARD & JOHNNY S. BLACK
"Don't Dilly Dally On The Way" lyrics & music by FRED W. LEIGH & CHARLES COLLINS
"Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar" lyrics & music by ED ROSE, BILLY BASKETTE & LEW POLLACK
"Hold Me" lyrics & music by ART HICKMAN & BEN BLACK
"I Ain't Gonna Give Nobody None O' This Jelly Roll" = lyrics by SPENCER WILLIAMS; music by CLARENCE WILLIAMS
"I Gave Her That" lyrics & music by B. G. DE SYLVA & AL JOLSON
"I Lost My Heart In Dixieland" lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"I Might be Your "Once-In-A-While"" = lyrics by ROBERT B. SMITH; music by VICTOR HERBERT
"I Never Realized" lyrics & music by COLE PORTER
"I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate" lyrics & music by ARMAND J. PIRON
"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles" = lyrics by JOHN W. KELLETTE; music by JAAN KENBROVIN (pseudonym of JAMES KENDIS, JAMES BROCKMAN and NAT VINCENT)
"Indian Summer" = lyrics (1939) AL DUBIN; music by VICTOR HERBERT
"Irene" introduced by EDITH DAY in the musical 'Irene' = lyrics by JOSEPH McCARTHY; music by HARRY TIERNEY
"I've Got My Captain Working for Me Now" lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Jazz Baby" = lyrics by BLANCHE MERRILL & WILLIAM JEROME; music by WILLIAM JEROME
"Just Like a Gipsy" lyrics & music by SEYMOUR SIMONS & NORA BAYES
"The Lamplit Hour" = lyrics by THOMAS BURKE; music by ARTHUR A. PENN
"Let The Rest Of The World Go By" = lyrics by J. KEIRN BRENNAN; music by ERNEST R. BALL
"Letter Song" = by WILLIAM LeBARON
"Little Girls, Goodbye" = lyrics by WILLIAM LeBARON; music by VICTOR JACOBI
"Love Sends A Little Gift Of Roses" = lyrics by LESLIE COOKE; music by JOHN OPENSHAW
"Mah Lindy Lou" lyrics & music by LILY STRICKLAND
"Mammy O' Mine" = lyrics by WILLIAM TRACEY; music by MACEO PINKARD
"Mandy" lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Mirandy" lyrics & music by JAMES REESE EUROPE, NOBLE SISSLE & EUBIE BLAKE
"The Moon Shines On The Moonshine" introduced by HARRY WILLIAMS in the revue 'Ziegfeld Follies of 1919' = lyrics by FRANK DE WITT; music by ROBIN HOOD BOWERS
"My Baby's Arms" = lyrics by JOSEPH McCARTHY; music by HARRY TIERNEY
"My Isle Of Golden Dreams" = lyrics by GUS KAHN; music by WALTER BLAUFUSS
"Nobody Knows (And Nobody Seems To Care)" lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"O" = lyrics by BYRON GAY; music by ARNOLD JOHNSON
"Oh By Jingo! (Oh By Gee, You're The Only Girl For Me)" = lyrics by LEW BROWN; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
"Oh How I Laugh When I Think How I Cried About You" = lyrics by ROY TURK & GEORGE JESSEL; music by WILLY WHITE
"Oh! What A Pal Was Mary" = lyrics by EDGAR LESLIE & BERT KALMAR; music by PETE WENDLING
"Old-Fashioned Garden" lyrics & music by COLE PORTER
"On Miami Shore" = lyrics by WILLIAM LeBARON; music by VICTOR JACOBI
"On Patrol In No Man's Land" lyrics & music by JAMES REESE EUROPE, NOBLE SISSLE & EUBIE BLAKE
"Open Up The Golden Gates To Dixieland And Let Me Into Paradise" = lyrics by JACK YELLEN; music by GUS VAN & JOE SCHENCK
"Peggy" = lyrics by HARRY WILLIAMS; music by NEIL MORET
"A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody" lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Prohibition Blues" = lyrics by RING LARDNER; music by NORA BAYES
"Royal Garden Blues" lyrics & music by CLARENCE WILLIAMS & SPENCER WILLIAMS
"Sahara (We'll Soon Be Dry Like You)" introduced in the musical 'Monte Cristo, Jr.' = lyrics by ALFRED BRYAN; music by JEAN SCHWARTZ
"Sipping Cider Through A Straw" lyrics & music by CAREY MORGAN & LEE DAVID
"Smilin' Through" lyrics & music by ARTHUR A. PENN
"Someday Sweetheart" lyrics & music by JOHN SPIKES & BENJAMIN SPIKES
"Sugar Blues" = lyrics by LUCY FLETCHER; music by CLARENCE WILLIAMS
"Swanee" = lyrics by IRVING CAESAR; music by GEORGE GERSHWIN
"Sweet Hawaiian Moonlight" = lyrics by HAROLD G. FROST; music by F. H. KLICKMANN
"Sweet Kisses That Came In The Night" = lyrics by LEW BROWN & EDDIE BUZZELL; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
"Take Me To The Land Of Jazz" = music by PETE WENDLING
"Take Your Girlie To The Movies (If You Can't Make Love At Home)" = lyrics by EDGAR LESLIE & BERT KALMAR; music by PETE WENDLING
"Tell Me" = lyrics by J. WILL CALLAHAN; music by MAX KORTLANDER
"That Naughty Waltz" = lyrics by EDWIN STANLEY; music by SOL P. LEVY
"There's More To The Kiss Than the X-X-X" = lyrics by IRVING CAESAR; music by GEORGE GERSHWIN
"Tulip Time" = lyrics by GENE BUCK; music by DAVE STAMPER
"The Vamp" lyrics & music by BYRON GAY
"Wait Till You Get Them Up In The Air, Boys" = lyrics by LEW BROWN; music by HARRY VON TILZER
"What'll We Do On A Saturday Night When The Town Goes Dry" lyrics & music by HARRY RUBY
"When Honey Sings An Old Time Song" lyrics & music by JOSEPH B. CAREY
"When They're Old Enough To Know Better, It's Better To Leave Them Alone" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG; music by HARRY RUBY
"Who Played Poker With Pocahontas When John Smith Went Away?" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG; music by FRED AHLERT
"Winnie The Window Cleaner" lyrics & music by HERMAN DAREWSKI
"The World Is Waiting For The Sunrise" = lyrics by EUGENE LOCKHART; music by ERNEST SEITZ
"You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet" = lyrics & music by AL JOLSON, GUS KAHN & B. G. DeSYLVA
"You Cannot Make Your Shimmy Shake On Tea" = lyrics by RENNOLD WOLF; music by IRVING BERLIN
"You Didn't Want Me When You Had Me" = lyrics by BENEE RUSSELL & BERNIE GROSSMAN; music by GEORGE J. BENNETT
"You'd Be Surprised" lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Your Eyes Have Told Me So" = lyrics by GUS KAHN & EGBERT VAN ALSTYNE; music by WALTER BLAUFUSS
"You're A Million Miles From Nowhere When You're One Little Mile From Home" = lyrics by SAM LEWIS & JOE YOUNG; music by WALTER DONALDSON
Hit Recordings
"Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me"
recorded by TED LEWIS & HIS JAZZ BAND
"You Ain't Heard Nothing Yet"
recorded by AL JOLSON
"A Pretty Girl Is Like A Melody"
recorded by JOHN STEEL
"I'm Forever Blowing Bubbles"
recorded by BEN SELVIN'S NOVELTY ORCHESTRA
"The Moon Shines on the Moonshine"
recorded by BERT WILLIAMS
"Alcoholic Blues"
recorded by BILLY MURRAY
"Saxophobia"
recorded by RUDY WIEDOEFT
"Jazz Baby"
recorded by MARION HARRIS
"You'd Be Surprised"
recorded by EDDIE CANTOR
"The Alcoholic Blues"
recorded by THE LOUISIANA FIVE
Classical Music
ERNEST BLOCH
Suite for Viola and Orchestra
REBECCA CLARKE
Sonata for Viola and Piano
PEDER GRAM
Concerto for violin and orchestra in D major
CHARLES TOMLINSON GRIFFES
The Pleasure-Dome of Kubla Khan
JOHAN HALVORSEN
Norwegian Rhapsody No. 1
PAUL HINDEMITH
Sonata for viola & piano in F major, Op. 11/4
DARIUS MILHAUD
Le bœuf sur le toit (ballet)
CARL NIELSEN
Aladdin (for theatre)
GABRIEL PIERNÉ
Sonata for Cello and Piano
DANE RUDHYAR
Syntony
LEO SOWERBY
Concerto for Harp
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Firebird Suite No. 1
Opera
RICHARD STRAUSS
Die Frau ohne Schatten (staged)
WALTER GOETZE
Ihre Hoheit, die Tänzerin (Her Highness, the Dancer), operetta
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
The Love for Three Oranges
RUTLAND BOUGHTON
The Moon Maiden
Musical Theatre
AFGAR
(lyrics by Douglas Furber, music by Charles Cuvillier and book by Fred Thompson and Worton David)
London production opened at the Pavilion Theatre on September 17
APPLE BLOSSOMS
Broadway production
EASTWARD, HO!
London production opened at the Alhambra Theatre on September 9
GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS
Broadway revue opened at the Liberty Theatre on June 2 and ran for 128 performances
IRENE
Broadway production opened at the Vanderbilt Theatre on November 18 and ran for 670 performances
JOY-BELLS
London production opened at the Hippodrome Theatre on March 25 and ran for 723 performances
THE KISS CALL
Broadway production
LINGER LONGER LETTY Starring Charlotte Greenwood.
(Music: Alfred Goodman Lyrics: Bernard Grosman Book: Anne Nichols)
Broadway production opened at the Fulton Theatre on November 20 and ran for 69 performances.
MONSIEUR BEAUCAIRE
London production opened at the Prince of Wales Theatre on April 19, transferred to the Palace Theatre on July 29 and ran for 221 performances
Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on December 11 and ran for 143 performances
MONTE CRISTO, JR.
Broadway production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on February 12 and ran for 254 performances
OH, BOY! (musical)
London production opened on January 27 at the Kingsway Theatre and ran for 167 performances
THE RED MILL
London production opened at the Empire Theatre on December 26 and ran for 64 performances
SYBIL
Vienna production
TAKE IT FROM ME
Broadway production opened on March 31 at the 44th Street Theatre and ran for 96 performances
THE WHIRLIGIG
opened at the Palace Theatre on December 23
Please address any comments concerning this page to The Music Maestro
Mark Chard BSc
Page created: 19th May 2011
Last edited: 21st December 2023
