11 November: Premiere of JOHN FOULDS'sWorld Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall in London. It is repeated on that date each year until 1926.
19 November: At a concert celebrating the 50th anniversary of the union of Buda and Pest (thus creating Budapest), BÉLA BARTÓK's Dance Suite and ZOLTÁN KODÁLY's Psalmus Hungaricus both receive their world premieres
Also in 1923:-
Explosion of recordings of African American musicians; BESSIE SMITH, IDA COX, JOE "KING" OLIVER, LOUIS ARMSTRONG, JELLY ROLL MORTON, SIDNEY BECHET, many others make their first recordings.
GEORGE ENESCU makes his debut as a conductor with the Philadelphia Orchestra in New York City.
HENRI PAWL-PLEYEL, ROGER DESORMIÈRE, MAXIME JACOB and HENRI SAUGUET form the Ecole d'Arcueil.
Augustus John completes his portrait of cellist GUILHERMINA SUGGIA.
Published Popular Music
"Annabelle" = lyrics by LEW BROWN; music by RAY HENDERSON
"Back To Croa-Jingo-Long" = lyrics & music by PAT DUNLOP
"Bambalina" introduced by EDITH DAY in the musical 'Wildflower' = lyrics by OTTO HARBACH & OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II; music by HERBERT STOTHART & VINCENT YOUMANS
"Barney Google" = lyrics & music by BILLY ROSE & CON CONRAD
"Beside A Babbling Brook" = lyrics by GUS KAHN; music by WALTER DONALDSON
"Charleston" (inspiration for a dance craze) = lyrics & music by CECIL MACK & JAMES P. JOHNSON
"Chimes Blues" = music by JOE "KING" OLIVER
"Come On, Spark Plug!" = lyrics & music by BILLY ROSE & CON CONRAD
"Covered Wagon Days" = lyrics & music by WILL MORRISEY & JOE BURROWS
"Dizzy Fingers" = music by ZEZ CONFREY
"Frasquita Serenade" = music by FRANZ LEHÁR
"Gulf Coast Blues" = lyrics & music by CLARENCE WILLIAMS
"Horsey, Keep Your Tail Up" = lyrics & music by WALTER HIRSCH & BERT KAPLAN
"I Cried For You" = lyrics by ARTHUR FREED; music by GUS ARNHEIM & ABE LYMAN
"I Love Life" = lyrics by IRWIN M. CASSEL; music by MANA-ZUCCA
"I Love You" introduced by JOHN BOLES and MARGARET WILSON in the musical 'Little Jessie James' = lyrics by HARLAN THOMPSON; music by HARRY ARCHER
"I Won't Say I Will But I Won't Say I Won't" introduced by IRENE BORDONI in the play 'Little Miss Bluebeard' = lyrics by B. G. De SYLVA & IRA GERSHWIN; music by GEORGE GERSHWIN
"I'm Goin' South" = lyrics & music by ABNER SILVER & HARRY WOODS
"I'm Sitting Pretty In A Pretty Little City" = lyrics & music by LOU DAVIS, HENRY SANTLY & ABEL BAER
"Indiana Moon" = lyrics by BENNY DAVIS; music by ISHAM JONES
"It Ain't Gonna Rain No Mo'" = lyrics & music by WENDELL HALL
"I've Got The Yes! We Have No Bananas Blues" = lyrics by LEW BROWN; music by JAMES F. HANLEY & ROBERT KING
"Just A Girl That Men Forget" = lyrics by AL DUBIN & FRED RATH; music by JOE GARRON
"Just One More Chance" = music by STEIGER
"King Porter Stomp" = music by FERDINAND "JELLY ROLL" MORTON
"Last Night On The Back Porch" = lyrics by LEW BROWN; music by CARL SCHRAUBSTADER
"Linger Awhile" = lyrics by HARRY OWENS; music by VINCENT ROSE
"Louisville Lou" = lyrics by JACK YELLEN; music by MILTON AGER
"Mama Goes Where Papa Goes" = lyrics by JACK YELLEN; music by MILTON AGER
"Mama Loves Papa" = lyrics & music by CLIFF FRIEND & ABEL BAER
"March Of The Cameron Men" = lyrics & music by CAMPBELL
"Mexicali Rose" = lyrics by HELEN STONE; music by JACK B. TENNEY
"Milenberg Joys" = music by LEON RAPPOLO, PAUL MARES & JELLY ROLL MORTON
"Mon Paradis (Sérénade d'Aujourd'hui)" = music by CUTHBERT CLARKE
"Moon Love" = lyrics by GEORGE GROSSMITH, JR. & P. G. WODEHOUSE; music by JEROME KERN
"My Sweetie Went Away" = lyrics by ROY TURK; music by LOU HANDMAN
"Nashville Nightingale" = lyrics by IRVING CAESAR; music by GEORGE GERSHWIN
"No, No, Nora" = lyrics by GUS KAHN; music by TED FIO RITO & ERNIE ERDMAN
"Nobody Knows You When You're Down And Out" = lyrics & music by JIMMY COX
"Oh Didn't It Rain" = lyrics & music by EDDIE LEONARD
"Oh Gee Oh Gosh Oh Golly I'm In Love" = lyrics by OLE OLSEN & CHIC JOHNSON; music by ERNEST BREUER
"Oklahoma Indian Jazz" = lyrics & music by RAY HIBBLER, T.J. JOHNSEN, J.W. BARNA, J.W. MURRIN, AND T. GUARINI
"Old Fashioned Love" = lyrics by CECIL MACK; music by JAMES P. JOHNSON
"Old King Tut" = lyrics by WILLIAM JEROME; music by HARRY VON TILZER
"On The Mall" = music by EDWIN FRANKO GOLDMAN
"Once In A Blue Moon" = lyrics by ANNE CALDWELL; music by JEROME KERN
"An Orange Grove In California" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Out Where The Blue Begins" = by GRAFF, MCHUGH, GRANT
"(Home In) Pasadena" = lyrics & music by HARRY WARREN, GRANT CLARKE & EDGAR LESLIE
"Raggedy Ann" = lyrics by ANNE CALDWELL; music by JEROME KERN
"Rememb'ring" = lyrics & music by VIVIAN DUNCAN & ROSETTA DUNCAN
"La Rosita" = lyrics by ALLAN STUART; music by PAUL DUPONT (Pseud. of WALTER HAENSCHEN)
"Seven Or Eleven" = lyrics by LEW BROWN; music by WALTER DONALDSON
"Sittin' In A Corner" = lyrics by GUS KAHN; music by GEORGE W. MEYER
"Sleep" = lyrics & music by EARL LEBIEG
"A Smile Will Go A Long Long Way" = lyrics by BENNY DAVIS; music by HARRY AKST
"Snake Rag" = music by KING OLIVER
"Sobbin' Blues" = lyrics & music by ART KASSEL
"Some Sweet Day" = lyrics by GENE BUCK; music by DAVE STAMPER & LOUIS A. HIRSCH
"Stella" = lyrics & music by AL JOLSON, BENNY DAVIS & HARRY AKST
"Swingin' Down The Lane" = lyrics by GUS KAHN; music by ISHAM JONES
"Tell Me With A Melody" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"That Old Gang Of Mine" = lyrics by BILLY ROSE & MORT DIXON; music by RAY HENDERSON
"Tin Roof Blues" = music by PAUL MARES, WALTER MELROSE, BEN POLLACK, MEL STITZEL, GEORGE BRUNIES & LEON ROPPOLO
"Waitin' For The Evenin' Mail" = by BILLY BASKETTE
"When Clouds Have Vanished And Skies Are Blue" = lyrics by WILLIAM R. CLAY; music CHARLES L. JOHNSON
"When It's Night-Time In Italy, It's Wednesday Over Here" = lyrics & music JAMES KENDIS & LEW BROWN
"When June Comes Along With A Song" from the musical 'The Rise Of Rosie O'Reilly = lyrics & music by GEORGE M. COHAN
"When You Walked Out Someone Else Walked Right In" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Who'll Buy My Violets" = lyrics by E. RAY GOETZ; music by JOSE PADILLA
"Who's Sorry Now?" = lyrics by BERT KALMAR & HARRY RUBY; music by TED SNYDER
"Wild Flower" = lyrics by OTTO HARBACH & OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II; music by VINCENT YOUMANS & HERBERT STOTHART
"Wolverine Blues" = lyrics & music by FERDINAND "JELLY ROLL" MORTON, BENJAMIN SPIKES & JOHN C. SPIKES
"Yes! We Have No Bananas" = lyrics & music by FRANK SILVER & IRVING COHN
"You Can't Do What My Last Man Did" = lyrics & music by J. C. JOHNSON & ALLIE MOORE
"You've Got To See Mama Ev'ry Night" = lyrics & music by CON CONRAD & BILLY ROSE
Hit Songs on Record
"Everything is K.O. in K.Y."
recorded by PAUL WHITEMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA
"Felix The Cat"
recorded by PAUL WHITEMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA
"Swinging Down The Lane"
recorded by ISHAM JONES & HIS ORCHESTRA
"Down Hearted Blues"
recorded by BESSIE SMITH
"Waitin' For The Evenin' Mail"
recorded by AL BERNARD
"Cut Yourself A Piece of Cake (and Make Yourself at Home)"
recorded by BILLY JONES
"Love Her By Radio"
recorded by BILLY JONES
"I Love Me (I'm Wild About Myself)"
recorded by BILLY MURRAY
"That Old Gang Of Mine"
recorded by BILLY MURRAY
"Yes! We Have No Bananas"
recorded by BILLY MURRAY
recorded by BILLY JONES
recorded by BEN SELVIN & HIS ORCHESTRA
"Someboy Stole My Gal"
recorded by TED WEEMS AND HIS ORCHESTRA
"No No Nora/I've Got the Yes! We Have No Bananas Blues"
recorded by EDDIE CANTOR
"Parade of the Wooden Soldiers"
recorded by PAUL WHITEMAN & HIS ORCHESTRA
"(Nothing Could Be Finer Than to be in) Carolina in the Morning"
recorded by VAN & SCHENCK
"Love Sends a Little Gift of Roses"
recorded by CARL FENTON & HIS ORCHESTRA
"Dreamy Melody"
recorded by ART LANDRY & HIS ORCHESTRA
Other Important Recordings
"Dippermouth Blues"
recorded by KING OLIVER'S CREOLE JAZZ BAND
"High Society"
recorded by KING OLIVER'S CREOLE JAZZ BAND
"Milenburg Joys"
recorded by THE NEW ORLEANS RHYTHM KINGS with JELLY ROLL MORTON
"Wild Cat Blues/Kansas City Man Blues"
recorded by CLARENCE WILLIAMS BLUE 5, featuring SIDNEY BECHET
Classical Music
HENRY COWELL
Aeolian Harp
GERALD FINZI
A Severn Rhapsody
SIGFRID KARG-ELERT
Cathedral Windows
DARIUS MILHAUD
La création du monde (ballet)
HANS PFITZNER
Concerto for Violin in B minor
IGOR STRAVINSKY
Octet for wind Instruments
GERMAINE TAILLEFERRE
Ballade for Piano and Orchestra
Concerto No. 1 for Piano and Orchestra
JOAQUÍN TURINA
Jardin de Oriente
EDGARD VARÈSE
Hyperprism (1922-23)
Octandre
WILLIAM WALTON
Toccata for Violin and Piano
LEÓ WEINER
Concertino for Piano and Orchestra
ALEXANDER VON ZEMLINSKY
Lyric Symphony
Opera
ALFRED BRUNEAU
Le Jardin du paradis
JOAQUÍN TURINA
Jardin de Oriente
Musical Theatre
THE BEAUTY PRIZE
(Music: Jerome Kern Lyrics and Book: P. G. Wodehouse and George Grossmith)
London production opened at the Winter Garden Theatre on September 5 and ran for 214 performances
CATHERINE
London production opened at the Gaiety Theatre on September 22 and ran for 217 performances
THE COUSIN FROM NOWHERE
London production opened at Prince's Theatre on February 24 and ran for 105 performances
DOVER STREET TO DIXIE
London revue opened at the Pavilion on May 31 and ran for 108 performances
GEORGE WHITE'S SCANDALS OF 1923
Broadway revue opened at the Globe Theatre on June 18 and transferred to the Fulton Theatre on November 5 for a total run of 168 performances
HEAD OVER HEELS
London production opened at the Adelphi Theatre on September 8 and ran for 113 performances
KATINKA
London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on August 30 and ran for 108 performances
KID BOOTS
Broadway production opened at the Earl Carroll Theatre on December 31 and transferred to the Selwyn Theatre on September 1, 1924 for a total run of 489 performances
LITTLE NELLIE KELLY
London production opened at the New Oxford Theatre on July 2 and ran for 265 performances
LONDON CALLING!
London revue opened at the Duke of York's Theatre on September 4 and ran for 367 performances
MADAME POMPADOUR
Vienna production opened at the Carltheater on March 2
London production opened at Daly's Theatre on December 20 and ran for 467 performances
THE MUSIC BOX REVUE
London revue opened at the Palace Theatre on May 15 and ran for 217 performances
THE RAINBOW
London production opened at the Empire Theatre on April 3 and ran for 113 performances
RATS
London revue opened at the Vaudeville Theatre on February 4 and ran for 285 performances
THE RISE OF ROSIE O'REILLY
Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on December 25 and ran for 97 performances
STOP FLIRTING
London production opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre on May 30 and ran for 418 performances
WILDFLOWER
Broadway production opened at the Casino Theatre on February 7 and ran for 477 performances
YOU'D BE SURPRISED
London production opened at the Royal Opera House on January 27 and ran for 270 performances
ZIEGFELD FOLLIES OF 1923
Broadway revue opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on October 20 and ran for 233 performances
Please address any comments concerning this page to The Music Maestro
Mark Chard BSc
Page created: 19th May 2011
Last edited: 17th January 2017
