Mark's Music Circus
presents
Music Events of
Births
10 January:
HELEN BONCHEK SCHNEYER
= American folk musician = [died: 2005]
22 January:
ARNO BABAJANIAN
= Armenian composer = [died: 1983]
26 January:
EDDIE BARCLAY
= French music producer = [died: 2005]
31 January:
MARIO LANZA
= American operatic tenor and film star = [died: 1959]
CAROL CHANNING
= American musical comedy star
5 February:
Sir JOHN PRITCHARD
= British conductor = [died: 1989]
16 February:
VERA-ELLEN
= American dancer and actress = [died: 1981]
26 February:
BETTY HUTTON
= American actress and singer = [died: 2007]
2 March:
ROBERT SIMPSON
= English musicologist and composer = [died: 1997]
6 March:
JULIUS RUDEL
= American conductor = [died: 2014]
11 March:
ÁSTOR PIAZZOLLA
= Argentine tango composer = [died: 1992]
12 March:
GORDON MacRAE
= American singer and actor = [died: 1986]
21 March:
ARTHUR GRUMIAUX
= Belgian violinist = [died: 1986]
ANTONY HOPKINS
= English composer and music writer = [died: 2014]
22 March:
NINO MANFREDI
= Italian actor and film score composer = [died: 2004]
1 April:
WILLIAM BERGSMA
= American composer = [died: 1994]
ARTHUR "GUITAR BOOGIE" SMITH
= American musician, composer = [died: 2014]
8 April:
ALFIE BASS
= English actor (Tevye in West End production of Fiddler on the Roof) = [died: 1987]
FRANCO CORELLI
= Italian operatic tenor = [died: 2003]
22 April:
CANDIDO CAMERO
= Cuban-born percussionist
26 April:
JIMMY GIUFFRE
= American jazz musician = [died: 2008]
17 May:
DENNIS BRAIN
= British horn virtuoso = [died: 1957]
BOB MERRILL
= American songwriter = [died: 1998]
23 May:
HUMPHREY LYTTELTON
= English jazz musician = [died: 2008]
25 May:
HAL DAVID
= American lyricist = [died: 2012]
KITTY KALLEN
= American singer = [died: 2016]
1 June:
NELSON RIDDLE
= American conductor, composer and arranger = [died: 1985]
3 June:
BETTY FREEMAN
= American patron of classical music = [died: 2009]
21 June:
JUDY HOLLIDAY
= American actress and singer = [died: 1965]
24 June:
PEGGY DeCASTRO
= American singer born in the Dominican Republic, eldest of the DeCastro Sisters = [died: 2004]
25 June:
CELIA FRANCA
= English-Canadian dancer and choreographer = [died: 2007]
12 July:
HILARY CORKE
= English writer and composer = [died: 2001]
17 July:
GEORGE BARNES
= American jazz musician = [died: 1977]
24 July:
GIUSEPPE DI STEFANO
= Italian opera singer = [died: 2008]
3 August:
RICHARD ADLER
= American composer and lyricist = [died: 2012]
4 August:
HERB ELLIS
= American guitarist = [died: 2010]
7 August:
KAREL HUSA
= Czech-born American composer and conductor
9 August:
LOLA BOBESCO
= Belgian violinist of Romanian origin = [died: 2003]
4 September:
ARIEL RAMÍREZ
= Argentine composer = [died: 2010]
8 September:
Sir HARRY SECOMBE
= Welsh singer and comedian = [died: 2001]
19 September:
BILLY WARD
= American R&B singer, leader of
The Dominoes
{1950-1960s}
= [died: 2002]
21 September:
CHICO HAMILTON
= American jazz drummer = [died: 2013]
1 October:
JAMES WHITMORE
= American actor in film musicals = [died: 2009]
21 October:
Sir MALCOLM ARNOLD
= English composer = [died: 2006]
JARMIL BURGHAUSER
= Czech conductor, composer and musicologist = [died: 1997]
25 October:
LITTLE HATCH
= American blues musician = [died: 2003]
5 November:
GEORGES CZIFFRA
= Hungarian-French pianist = [died: 1994]
9 November:
PIERRETTE ALARIE
= French Canadian coloratura soprano = [died: 2011]
21 November:
VIVIAN BLAINE
= American actress and singer = [died: 1995]
23 November:
FRED BUSCAGLIONE
= Italian singer, musician and songwriter = [died: 1960]
3 December:
PHYLLIS CURTIN
= American soprano = [died: 2016]
4 December:
DEANNA DURBIN
= Canadian singer and actress = [died: 2013]
8 December:
JOHNNY OTIS
= American blues musician = [died: 2012]
15 December:
ALAN FREED
= American disc jockey = [died: 1965]
26 December:
STEVE ALLEN
= American musician and comedian = [died: 2000]
Timeline of Musical Events
Sometime in 1921:-
CLARENCE WILLIAMS
makes his first recordings
The Harvard Glee Club takes its first trip to Europe, garnering international press attention
AMELITA GALLI-CURCI
marries her accompanist,
HOMER SAMUELS
MARY STAFFORD
becomes the first black woman to record for Columbia Records
Publications
FERRUCCIO BUSONI
=
The Essence of Oneness of Music
Published Popular Music
"Ain't We Got Fun?"
= lyrics & music by
RICHARD A. WHITING, RAYMOND EGAN & GUS KAHN
"All by Myself"
= lyrics & music by
IRVING BERLIN
"And Her Mother Came Too"
= lyrics by
PETER DION TITHERADGE
; music by
IVOR NOVELLO
"Any Time"
= lyrics & music by
HERBERT HAPPY LAWSON
"April Showers"
= lyrics by
B. G. DE SYLVA
; music by
LOUIS SILVERS
"Baltimore Buzz"
= lyrics & music by
NOBLE SISSLE & EUBIE BLAKE
"Bandana Days"
= lyrics & music by
NOBLE SISSLE & EUBIE BLAKE
"Bimini Bay"
= lyrics by
GUS KAHN & RAYMOND EGAN
; music by
RICHARD WHITING
"Boy Wanted"
introduced in the musical
'A Dangerous Maid'
= lyrics by
IRA GERSHWIN
; music by
GEORGE GERSHWIN
"Coal-Black Mammy"
= by
LADDIE CLIFF
"Dancing Time"
= English lyrics by
GEORGE GROSSMITH, Jr.
, US lyrics (1924)
HOWARD DIETZ
; music by
JEROME KERN
"Dapper Dan"
= lyrics by
LEW BROWN
; music by
ALBERT VON TILZER
"Dear Old Southland"
= lyrics by
HENRY CREAMER
; music by
TURNER LAYTON
"Down South"
introduced by
AL JOLSON
in the musical
'Bombo'
= lyrics by
B. G. DeSYLVA
; music by
WALTER DONALDSON
"Down Yonder"
= lyrics & music by
L. WOLFE GILBERT
"Everybody Step"
= lyrics & music by
IRVING BERLIN
"Hawaiian Chimes"
= lyrics by
IRVING BIBO
; music by
EVA APPLEFIELD
"I Ain't Nobody's Darling"
= lyrics by
ELMER HUGHES
; music by
ROBERT A. KING
"I Found A Rose In The Devil's Garden"
= lyrics & music by
FRED FISHER & WILLIE RASKIN
"I Wonder If You Still Care For Me"
= lyrics & music by
HARRY B. SMITH & FRANCIS WHEELER
"I'll Forget You"
= lyrics by
ANNELU BURNS
; music by
ERNEST R. BALL
"I'm Just Wild About Harry"
= lyrics & music by
NOBLE SISSLE & EUBIE BLAKE
"I'm Missin' Mammy's Kissin'"
= lyrics by
SIDNEY CLARE
; music by
LEW POLLACK
"I'm Nobody's Baby"
= lyrics & music by
BENNY DAVIS, MILTON AGER & LESTER SANTLY
"Jazz Me Blues"
= music by
TOM DELANEY
"Keep Movin'"
= by
HELEN TRIX
"Kitten On The Keys"
= music by
ZEZ CONFREY
"Laughin' Rag"
= by
S. MOORE, H. SKINNER
"Learn To Smile"
= lyrics by
OTTO HARBACH
; music by
LOUIS A. HIRSCH
"Leave Me With A Smile"
= lyrics & music by
CHARLES KOEHLER & EARL BURTNETT
"Love Will Find A Way"
= lyrics & music by
NOBLE SISSLE & EUBIE BLAKE
"Ma! He's Making Eyes At Me"
= lyrics by
SIDNEY CLARE
; music by
CON CONRAD
"Make Believe"
= lyrics by
BENNY DAVIS
; music by
JACK SHILKRET
"Mandy 'N' Me"
= lyrics by
BERT KALMAR
; music by
CON CONRAD
"My Sunny Tennessee"
= lyrics & music by
BERT KALMAR, HARRY RUBY & HERMAN RUBY
"Peggy O'Neill"
= lyrics & music by
HARRY PEASE, ED G. NELSON & GILBERT DODGE
"Puttin' on the Ritz"
= by
IRVING BERLIN
"Sally"
= lyrics by
CLIFFORD GREY
; music by
JEROME KERN
"Say It With Music"
= lyrics & music by
IRVING BERLIN
"Second Hand Rose"
= lyrics by
GRANT CLARKE
; music by
JAMES F. HANLEY
"The Sheik of Araby"
= lyrics by
HARRY B. SMITH & FRANCIS WHEELER
; music by
TED SNYDER
"She's Mine, All Mine"
= lyrics & music by
BERT KALMAR & HARRY RUBY
"Shuffle Along"
= lyrics & music by
NOBLE SISSLE & EUBIE BLAKE
"Shimmy With Me"
from the musical
'The Cabaret Girl'
= lyrics by
P. G. WODEHOUSE
; music by
JEROME KERN
"Song Of Love"
= lyrics by
DOROTHY DONNELLY
; music by
SIGMUND ROMBERG
"Strut Miss Lizzie"
= lyrics by
HENRY CREAMER
; music by
TURNER LAYTON
"Swanee River Moon"
= lyrics & music by
H. PITMAN CLARKE
"Sweet Lady"
= lyrics by
HOWARD JOHNSON
; music by
FRANK CRUMIT & DAVE ZOOB
"Ten Little Fingers And Ten Little Toes"
= lyrics by
HARRY PEASE & JOHNNY WHITE
; music by
IRA SCHUSTER & ED G. NELSON
"There'll Be Some Changes Made"
= lyrics by
BILLY HIGGINS
; music by
BENTON OVERSTREET
"Tuck Me To Sleep In My Old 'Tucky Home"
= lyrics by
SAM H. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG
; music by
GEORGE W. MEYER
"Wabash Blues"
= lyrics by
DAVE RINGLE
; music by
FRED MEINKEN
"When Big Profundo Sang Low C"
= lyrics by
MARION T. BOHANNON
; music by
GEORGE BOTSFORD
"When Buddha Smiles"
= lyrics by
ARTHUR FREED
; music by
NACIO HERB BROWN
"When Francis Dances With Me"
= lyrics by
BEN RYAN
; music by
SOL VIOLINSKY
"When Shall We Meet Again"
= lyrics by
RAYMOND B. EGAN
; music by
RICHARD A. WHITING
"Whip-poor-will"
= lyrics by
B. G. DE SYLVA
; music by
JEROME KERN
"Yoo-Hoo"
= lyrics by
B. G. DE SYLVA
; music by
AL JOLSON
Top Hit Recordings
"All by Myself"
recorded by
TED LEWIS & HIS JAZZ BAND
"Everybody Step"
recorded by
PAUL WHITEMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA
"Look for the Silver Lining"
recorded by
MARION HARRIS
"Margie"
recorded by
EDDIE CANTOR
"Margie, introducing Singing the Blues/Palesteena"
recorded by
THE ORIGINAL DIXIELAND JAZZ BAND
"Say It with Music"
recorded by
PAUL WHITEMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA
"The Wabash Blues"
recorded by
ISHAM JONES & HIS ORCHESTRA
"Wang Wang Blues"
recorded by
PAUL WHITEMAN'S ORCHESTRA, featuring GUSSIE MUELLER
Classical Music
AGUSTÍN BARRIOS
La Catedral
JOHN FOULDS
World Requiem
(1919-21) (premiered 1923)
HOWARD HANSON
Before the night
CARL NIELSEN
Moderen
(stage music)
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Piano Concerto No. 3 in C Major
EDGARD VARÈSE
Offrandes
Amériques
(1918-21)
RALPH VAUGHAN WILLIAMS
A Pastoral Symphony
(1921)
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Fantasia de Movimentos Mistos, for violin & orchestra
ARNOLD SCHOENBERG
Suite for Piano Op. 25
Opera
FRANCO ALFANO
La leggenda di Sakùntala
NICOLAE BRETAN
Luceafarul
LEOŠ JANÁCEK
Katya Kabanova
HANS JELMOLI
Die Badener Fahrt
EMMERICH KALMAN
Die Bajadere
PIETRO MASCAGNI
Il Piccolo Marat
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
The Love for Three Oranges
Musical Theatre
BOMBO
Broadway production opened at Jolson's 59th Street Theatre on October 6 and ran for 213 performances
THE BROADWAY WHIRL
Broadway revue opened at the Times Square Theatre on June 8 and ran for 85 performances
THE GOLDEN MOTH
Starring Bobbie Comber and Thorpe Bates
(Music: Ivor Novello)
London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on October 5
GOOD MORNING, DEARIE
Broadway production opened at the Globe Theatre on November 1 and ran for 347 performances
POT LUCK
London production opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on December 24.
THE LEAGUE OF NOTIONS
London revue opened at the Oxford Theatre on January 17
THE REBEL MAID
London production opened at the Empire Theatre on March 12 and ran for 114 performances.
THE ROSE GIRL
Starring Mabel Withee, Charles Purcell and May Boley
(Music: Anselm Goetzl Book & Lyrics: William Carey Duncan)
Broadway production opened at the Ambassador Theatre on February 11 and ran for 99 performances
SALLY
London production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 10 and ran for 387 performances
SHUFFLE ALONG
Broadway production opened at the 63rd Street Music Hall on May 23 and ran for 504 performances
SYBIL
London production opened at Daly's Theatre on February 19 and ran for 346 performances
Please address any comments concerning this page to
The Music Maestro
Mark Chard
BSc, PLY
Page created: 19th May 2011
Last edited: 21st December 2023
