23 September:MICKEY ROONEY = American actor and entertainer = [died: 2014]
28 September:IRMA BALTUTTIS = German singer and entertainer = [died: 1958]
13 October:ALBERT HAGUE = German-born songwriter, composer, and actor = [died: 2001]
27 October:NANETTE FABRAY = American actress and singer
4 December:THE COX TWINS = British music hall entertainers
FRANCIS THOMAS 'FRANK' COX = [died: 2007]
FREDERICK 'FRED' COX = [died: 2013]
6 December:DAVE BRUBECK = American jazz musician = [died: 2012]
Timeline of Musical Events
19 January: The Salzburg Festival is revived.
4 December: Première of the opera "Die tote Stadt" by 23-year-old ERICH WOLFGANG KORNGOLD. It later becomes known that the librettist, "PAUL SCHOTT", is KORNGOLD's father JULIUS.
Also in 1920:-
MAMIE SMITH's first blues recordings become a hit, alerting record companies to the African American market.
HAMILTON HARTY is appointed resident conductor of the Hallé Orchestra.
HENRI SAUGUET forms Groupe des Trois (the Group of Three) along with LOUIS EMIÉ and JEAN-MARCEL LIZOTTE.
The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra launches its Mahler festival.
GABRIEL FAURÉ retires from the Paris Conservatoire, and is awarded the Grand-Croix of the Légion d'Honneur.
Publications
STEWART MacPHERSON = Melody and Harmony = Stainer & Bell Ltd = ISBN: 0852492383
Published Popular Music
"After You Get What You Want, You Don't Want It" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"All She'd Say Was "Umh Hum"" = lyrics & music by KING ZANY, MAC EMERY, GUS VAN & JOE SCHENCK
"All The Boys Love Mary" = by GUS VAN & JOE SCHENCK
"Aunt Hagar's Blues" = lyrics & music by W. C. HANDY
"Avalon" = lyrics & music by B. G. DeSYLVA, AL JOLSON & VINCENT ROSE
"Blue Jeans" = lyrics by HARRY D. KERR; music by LOU TRAVELLER
"Bright Eyes" = lyrics by HARRY B. SMITH; music by OTTO MOTZAN & M. K. JEROME
"Broadway Rose" = lyrics by EUGENE WEST; music by MARTIN FRIED & OTIS SPENCER
"Chanson" = music by RUDOLF FRIML
"Chili Bean" = lyrics by LEW BROWN; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
"Crazy Blues" = lyrics & music by PERCY BRADFORD
"The Cuckoo Waltz" = lyrics by ARTHUR KINGSLEY; music by J. E. JONASSON
"Daddy, You've Been A Mother To Me" = lyrics & music by FRED FISHER
"Do You Ever Think Of Me?" = lyrics by JOHN COOPER & HARRY D. KERR; music by EARL BURTNETT
"Down By The O-HI-O (I've Got The Sweetest Little O, My ! O ! )" = lyrics by JACK YELLEN; music by ABE OLMAN
"Feather Your Nest" = lyrics & music by JAMES KENDIS, JAMES BROCKMAN & HOWARD JOHNSON
"The Gipsy Warned Me" = lyrics & music by R. P. WESTON & BERT LEE
"Great Camp Meeting Day" = lyrics by NOBLE SISSLE
"He Went In Like A Lion (And Came Out Like A Lamb)" = lyrics by ANDREW B. STERLING; music by HARRY VON TILZER
"Home Again Blues" = lyrics & music by HARRY AKST & IRVING BERLIN
"I Belong To Glasgow" = lyrics & music by WILL FYFFE
"I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody Like I'm Loving You" = lyrics & music by TOM PITTS, RAYMOND B. EGAN & ROY MARSH
"I Used To Love You, But It's All Over Now" = lyrics by LEW BROWN; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
"I'd Love To Fall Asleep And Wake Up In My Mammy's Arms" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG; music by FRED E. AHLERT
"I'll Be With You In Apple Blossom Time" = lyrics by NEVILLE FLEASON; music by ALBERT VON TILZER
"I'll See You In C-U-B-A" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"In A Persian Market" = music by ALBERT WILLIAM KETÈLBEY
"The Japanese Sandman" = lyrics by RAYMOND B. EGAN; music by RICHARD A. WHITING
"Jellybean" = by JIMMIE DUPRE, SAM ROSEN, and JOE VERGES
"Kalua" = lyrics by ANNE CALDWELL; music by JEROME KERN
"Left All Alone Again Blues" = lyrics by ANNE CALDWELL; music by JEROME KERN
"Little Town In The Ould County Down" = lyrics by RICHARD PASCOE; music by MONTE CARLO & ALMA SAUNDERS
"Look for the Silver Lining" = lyrics by B. G. DeSYLVA; music by JEROME KERN
"The Love Boat" = by GENE BUCK
"Love Nest" = lyrics by OTTO HARBACH; music by LOUIS A. HIRSCH
"Margie" = lyrics by BENNY DAVIS; music by CON CONRAD & J. RUSSEL ROBINSON
"Mary" = lyrics by OTTO HARBACH; music by LOUIS A. HIRSCH
"My Little Bimbo Down On A Bamboo Isle" = lyrics by GRANT CLARKE; music by WALTER DONALDSON
"My Mammy" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG; music by WALTER DONALDSON
"My Man" = English lyrics by CHANNING POLLOCK, French lyrics by ALBERT WILLEMETZ & JACQUES CHARLES; music by MAURICE YVAIN
"O'er The Hills To Ardentinny" = lyrics & music by HARRY LAUDER
"Old Pal Why Don't You Answer Me" = lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG; music by M. K. JEROME
"Pale Moon" = lyrics by JESSE GLICK; music by FREDERICK KNIGHT LOGAN
"Palesteena" = lyrics & music by CON CONRAD & J. RUSSELL ROBINSON
"Polly" = lyrics by LEO WOOD; music by JACK RICHMOND
"Pretty Kitty Kelly" = lyrics by HARRY PEASE; music by ED G. NELSON
"Ritual Fire Dance" = music by MANUEL DE FALLA
"Rose Of Washington Square" = lyrics by BALLARD MacDONALD; music by JAMES F. HANLEY
"San" = lyrics & music by LINDSAY McPHAIL & WALTER MICHELS
"So Long, Oo Long" = lyrics by BERT KALMAR; music by HARRY RUBY
"Tell Me Little Gypsy" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"That Old Irish Mother Of Mine" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME; music by HARRY VON TILZER
"La Veeda" = lyrics by NAT VINCENT; music by JOHN ALDEN
"Wang Wang Blues" = lyrics by LEO WOOD; music by GUS MUELLER, BUSTER JOHNSON & HENRY BUSSE
"When My Baby Smiles At Me" = lyrics by ANDREW B. STERLING; music by BILLY MUNRO
"Where Do They Go When They Row, Row, Row?" = lyrics by BERT KALMAR & GEORGE JESSEL; music by HARRY RUBY
"Whispering" = lyrics by MALVIN SCHONBERGER; music by JOHN SCHONBERGER
"White Army, Black Baron" = lyrics by PAVEL GRIGOR'EV; music by SAMUEL POKRASS
"Whose Baby Are You?" = lyrics by ANNE CALDWELL; music by JEROME KERN
"Wild Rose" = lyrics by CLIFFORD GREY; music by JEROME KERN
"A Young Man's Fancy" = lyrics by JOHN MURRAY ANDERSON & JACK YELLEN; music by MILTON AGER
Classical Music
GRANVILLE BANTOCK
Arabian Nights
BÉLA BARTÓK
Eight Improvisations on Peasant Songs
ARNOLD BAX
Phantasy for viola and orchestra
ARTHUR BLISS
The Tempest, overture and interludes
Concerto for Piano, tenor voice, strings and percussion
Rout (for soprano and chamber orchestra)
ERNEST BLOCH
Violin Sonata No. 1
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
Piano Sonatina No. 6 (Fantasia da camera super Carmen), Divertimento for flute and orchestra
CARLOS CHÁVEZ
Symphony, Piano Sonata No. 1
FREDERICK DELIUS
Hassan
GABRIEL FAURÉ
Masques et Bergamasques
JOHAN HALVORSEN
Norwegian Rhapsody No. 2
GUSTAV HOLST
The Planets
ARTHUR HONEGGER
Pastorale d'été
Viola Sonata
Cello Sonata
MIKHAIL IPPOLITOV-IVANOV
An Episode from the Life of Schubert, op. 61
LEOŠ JANÁČEK
Symphonic poem Ballad of Blanik
DARIUS MILHAUD
Le Boeuf sur le toit (ballet), Ballade (for piano and orchestra)
FRANCIS POULENC
Five Impromptus for Piano, Suite in C Major for Piano
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Five Songs without Words (for voice and piano)
MAURICE RAVEL
La Valse
Sonata for violin and cello
ERIK SATIE
La Belle excentrique
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
Five Preludes for Piano
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Pulcinella, Concertino for string quartet, Symphonies of Wind Instruments
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
The Lark Ascending, Mass in G minor, London Symphony
Opera
VINCENT D'INDY
The Legend of St. Christoper
CLEMENS FREIHERR VON FRANCKENSTEIN
Li-Tai-Pe
HENRY HADLEY
Cleopatra's Night
LEOŠ JANÁČEK
The Excursions of Mr. Broucek on the Moon and in the 15th Century
ERICH KORNGOLD
Die tote Stadt
RUGGIERO LEONCAVALLO
Edipo Re
MICHAEL TIPPETT
The Knot Garden
Musical Theatre
AFGAR
Broadway production opened at the Central Theatre on November 8 and ran for 168 performances
ALWAYS YOU
Broadway production
AS YOU WERE Starring Sam Bernard, Irene Bordoni, Clifton Webb and Hugh Cameron.
Broadway production opened at the Central Theatre on January 27 and ran for 143 performances
THE BEGGAR'S OPERA
London production opened at the Lyric Theatre, Hammersmith on June 5 and ran for 1463 performances
DIE BLAUE MAZUR (THE BLUE MAZURKA)
(Music by Franz Lehár)
Vienna production
CHERRY
London production opened at the Apollo Theatre on July 22 and ran for 76 performances
GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS OF 1920
Broadway revue opened at the Globe Theatre on June 7 and ran for 134 performances
IRENE
London production opened at the Empire Theatre on April 7 and ran for 399 performances
JIMMY
Broadway production
JOHNNY JONES
London production opened at the Alhambra Theatre on June 1 and ran for 349 performances
JUMBLE SALE
London revue opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on December 16 and ran for 176 performances
JUST FANCY
London production opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on March 26 and ran for 332 performances
KISSING TIME
Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on October 11 and ran for 65 performances
DER LETZTE WALZER (THE LAST WALTZ)
(Music by Oscar Straus)
Berlin production
A LITTLE DUTCH GIRL
opened at the Lyric Theatre on December 1 and ran for 207 performances
THE MIDNIGHT ROUNDERS
Broadway revue opened at the Century Promenade Theatre on July 12 and ran for 120 performances
THE NIGHT BOAT Jeanette MacDonald made her first Broadway appearance as a member of the chorus.
Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on February 2 and ran for 318 performances
A NIGHT OUT
London production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 18 and ran for 309 performances
SALLY
Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on December 21 and ran for 570 performances
THE SHOP GIRL
London revival opened at the Gaiety Theatre on March 25 and ran for 327 performances
TICKLE ME Starring Louise Allen, Allen Kearns and Frank Tinney.
(Music: Herbert P. Stothart)
Broadway production opened at the Selwyn Theatre on August 17 and ran for 207 performances
TIP TOP
Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on October 5 and ran for 241 performances
WHAT'S IN A NAME
Broadway production opened at Maxine Elliott's Theatre on March 19 and ran for 87 performances
ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1920
Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on June 22 and ran for 123 performances
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Mark Chard BSc, PLY
Page created: 19th May 2011
Last edited: 21st December 2023
