28 December:MOE KOFFMAN = Canadian jazz musician = [died: 2001]
30 December:ELLAS OTHA BATES bka BO DIDDLEY = American singer, songwriter and guitarist = [died: 2008]
Timeline of Musical Events
27 April:IGOR STRAVINSKY's ballet Apollon musagète is premiered in Washington.
11 September: LEOŠ JANÁCEK's String Quartet No. 2, Intimate Letters, is premiered in Brno.
12 September: ANTON WEBERN's String Trio is premiered in Siena.
14 September: CARL NIELSEN's Clarinet Concerto is given its first performance.
21 September:AL JOLSON marries RUBY KEELER.
22 November: MAURICE RAVEL's Bolero is premiered in Paris.
27 November:IGOR STRAVINSKY's ballet Le Baiser de la fée is premiered in Paris.
2 December: ARNOLD SCHOENBERG's Variations for Orchestra is premiered in Berlin
Also in 1928:-
EDWARD GERMAN is knighted for services to music.
ERIC FENBY begins work as amanuensis for FREDERICK DELIUS.
MAURICE RAVEL embarks on a concert tour of the USA, where he meets GEORGE GERSHWIN.
TAMPA RED's recording career begins.
SCRAPPER BLACKWELL's makes his first recordings for Vocalion Records.
LEROY CARR's recordng career begins with the release of "How Long, How Long Blues"
HOWLIN' WOLF's musical career begins
The first commercial recordings of Cajun music are released.
The Detroit Symphony Orchestra makes its Carnegie Hall debut.
Published Popular Music
"After My Laughter Came Tears" = lyrics & music by CHARLES TOBIAS & ROY TURK
"Alabama Song" = lyrics by BERTOLT BRECHT; music by KURT WEILL
"All By Yourself In The Moonlight" = lyrics & music by JAY WALLIS
"Anything You Say" = lyrics & music by WALTER DONALDSON
"Back In Your Own Backyard" = lyrics & music by DAVE DREYER, AL JOLSON & BILLY ROSE
"Basin Street Blues" = lyrics & music by SPENCER WILLIAMS
"Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now" = lyrics & music by WALTER DONALDSON
"Big Rock Candy Mountain" = by HARRY McCLINTOCK
"Bill" = lyrics by P.G. WODEHOUSE & OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II; music by JEROME KERN. Introduced by HELEN MORGAN in the musical Showboat and performed by MISS MORGAN in the 1929 and 1936 film versions
"Bolero" = music by MAURICE RAVEL
"Button Up Your Overcoat" = lyrics by B.G. DeSYLVA & LEW BROWN; music by RAY HENDERSON
"Can't Help Loving Dat Man" = lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II; music by JEROME KERN
"Carolina Moon" = lyrics by BENNY DAVIS; music by JOE BURKE
"Cherry" = lyrics & music by DON REDMAN
"Chiquita" = lyrics by L. WOLFE GILBERT; music by MABEL WAYNE
"C-O-N-S-T-A-N-T-I-N-O-P-L-E" = lyrics & music by HARRY CARLTON
"Coquette" = lyrics by GUS KAHN; music by CARMEN LOMBARDO & JOHN GREEN
"Cow Cow Blues" = music by COW COW DAVENPORT
"Crazy Rhythm" = lyrics by IRVING CAESAR; music by JOSEPH MEYER & ROGER WOLFE KAHN. Introduced by BEN BERNIE, PEGGY CHAMBERLAIN and JUNE O'DEA in the musical 'Here's Howe'
"Dance, Little Lady" = lyrics & music by NOEL COWARD. Introduced by SONNIE HALE in the revue 'This Year of Grace'
"Diga Diga Doo" = lyrics by DOROTHY FIELDS; music by JIMMY McHUGH. Introduced by ADELAIDE HALL in the revue 'Blackbirds of 1928'
"Do I Hear You Saying?" = lyrics by LORENZ HART; music by RICHARD RODGERS. Introduced by CHARLES KING and FLORA LE BRETON in the musical 'Present Arms'
"Doin' The New Low-Down" = lyrics by DOROTHY FIELDS; music by JIMMY McHUGH. Introduced by BILL ROBINSON in the revue 'Blackbirds of 1928'
"Doin' The Raccoon" = lyrics by RAYMOND KLAGES; music by J. FRED COOTS
"Don't Look At Me That Way" = lyrics & music by COLE PORTER. Introduced by IRENE BORDONI in the musical 'Paris'
"Dusky Stevedore" = lyrics by ANDY RAZAF; music by J. C. JOHNSON
"Empty Bed Blues" = lyrics & music by J. C. JOHNSON
"Fancy Our Meeting" = lyrics by DOUGLAS FURBER; music by JOSEPH MEYER & PHILIP CHARIG. Introduced by JACK BUCHANAN and ELSIE RANDOLPH in the musical That's a Good Girl
"Forgetting You" = lyrics by B.G. DeSYLVA & LEW BROWN; music by RAY HENDERSON
"From Monday On" = lyrics by BING CROSBY; music by HARRY BARRIS
"A Garden In The Rain" = lyrics by JAMES DYRENFORTH; music by CARROLL GIBBONS
"A Gay Caballero" = lyrics & music by FRANK CRUMIT & LOU KLEIN
"Get Out And Get Under The Moon" = lyrics by CHARLES TOBIAS & WILLIAM JEROME; music by LARRY SHAY
"De Glory Road" = lyrics by CLEMENT WOOD; music by JACQUES WOLFE
"Golden Gate" = by BILLY ROSE & DAVE DREYER
"Henry's Made A Lady Out Of Lizzie" = lyrics & music by WALTER O'KEEFE
"Honey" = lyrics by SEYMOUR SIMONS & HAVEN GILLESPIE; music by RICHARD A. WHITING
"Hooray for Captain Spaulding" = lyrics by BERT KALMAR; music by HARRY RUBY. Introduced by ZEPPO MARX, ROBERT GREIG, MARGARET DUMONT and GROUCHO MARX in the musical 'Animal Crackers' and also performed by them in the 1930 film version.
"How About Me?" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"How Long Has This Been Going On?" = lyrics by IRA GERSHWIN; music by GEORGE GERSHWIN. Introduced by BOBBE ARNST in the musical 'Rosalie'. Performed by AUDREY HEPBURN in the 1957 film 'Funny Face'
"I Can't Give You Anything But Love, Baby" = lyrics by DOROTHY FIELDS; music by JIMMY McHUGH. Introduced by AIDA WARD and WILLARD McLEAN in the revue 'Blackbirds of 1928'
"I Kiss Your Hand, Madame" = English lyrics by SAM M. LEWIS & JOE YOUNG, German lyrics by FRITZ ROTTER; music by RALPH ERWIN
"I Wanna Be Loved by You" = lyrics by BERT KALMAR; music by HARRY RUBY & HERBERT STOTHART. Introduced by HELEN KANE and DAN HEALY in the musical 'Good Boy'. Performed by MISS KANE dubbing for DEBBIE REYNOLDS in the 1950 film 'Three Little Words'
"I'd Rather Be Blue Over You" = lyrics by BILLY ROSE; music by FRED FISHER. Introduced by FANNY BRICE in the film 'My Man'
"If I Had You" = lyrics & music by TED SHAPIRO, JIMMY CAMPBELL & REG CONNELLY
"If You Want the Rainbow" = lyrics by MORT DIXON & BILLY ROSE; music by OSCAR LEVANT
"I'll Get By" = lyrics by ROY TURK; music by FRED E. AHLERT
"I'm a Ding Dong Daddy From Dumas" = lyrics & music by PHIL BAXTER
"I'm Bringing A Red, Red Rose" = lyrics by GUS KAHN; music by WALTER DONALDSON. Introduced by PAUL GREGORY and FRANCES UPTON in the musical 'Whoopee!'
"I'm On The Crest Of A Wave" = lyrics by B.G. DeSYLVA & LEW BROWN; music by RAY HENDERSON. Introduced by HARRY RICHMAN in the revue 'George White's Scandals of 1928'
"I've Got a Crush on You" = lyrics by IRA GERSHWIN; music by GEORGE GERSHWIN. Introduced by CLIFTON WEBB and MARY HAY in the musical 'Treasure Girl'
"Is There Anything Wrong In That?" = lyrics & music by MICHAEL H. CLEARY & HERB MAGIDSON
"It Goes Like This (That Funny Melody)" = lyrics by IRVING CAESAR; music by CLIFF FRIEND
"It's Tight Like That" = by THOMAS A. DORSEY, HUDSON "TAMPA RED" WHITTAKER
"Jeannine, I Dream of Lilac Time" = lyrics by L. WOLFE GILBERT; music by NATHANIEL SHILKRET
"Jimmy, the Well-Dressed Man" = lyrics & music by JIMMY DURANTE
"Let's Do It" = lyrics & music by COLE PORTER. Introduced by IRENE BORDONI and ARTHUR MARGETSON in the musical 'Paris'
"Let's Misbehave" = lyrics & music by COLE PORTER
"Life Upon The Wicked Stage" = lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II; music by JEROME KERN
"Louisiana" = lyrics by ANDY RAZAF & BOB SCHAFER; music by J. C. JOHNSON
"Lovable" = by HOLMES, SIMONS, WHITING
"Love Me or Leave Me" = lyrics by GUS KAHN; music by WALTER DONALDSON
"Lover, Come Back to Me" = lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II; music by SIGMUND ROMBERG
"Ma Belle" = lyrics by CLIFFORD GREY; music by RUDOLF FRIML
"Mack The Knife" = English lyrics by MARC BLITZSTEIN, German lyrics by BERTOLT BRECHT; music by KURT WEILL
"Make Believe" = lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II; music by JEROME KERN
"Makin' Whoopee" = lyrics by GUS KAHN; music by WALTER DONALDSON
"Malagueña" = music by ERNESTO LECUONA
"March Of The Musketeers" = lyrics by P. G. WODEHOUSE & CLIFFORD GREY; music by RUDOLF FRIML. Introduced by DENNIS KING, DOUGLASS DUMBRILLE, DETMAR POPPEN, JOSEPH MACAULEY and chorus in the theatre musical 'The Three Musketeers'
"Marie" = lyrics & music by IRVING BERLIN
"Memories of France" = by AL DUBIN
"My Blackbirds Are Bluebirds Now" = lyrics by IRVING CAESAR; music by CLIFF FRIEND
"My Baby Just Cares for Me" = lyrics by GUS KAHN; music by WALTER DONALDSON
"My Lucky Star" = lyrics by B.G. DeSYLVA & LEW BROWN; music by RAY HENDERSON
"Nagasaki" = lyrics by MORT DIXON; music by HARRY WARREN
"One Kiss" = lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II; music by SIGMUND ROMBERG
"Pine Top's Boogie Woogie" = music by CLARENCE "PINE TOP" SMITH
"Pirate Jenny" = lyrics by BERTOLT BRECHT; music by KURT WEILL
"A Precious Little Thing Called Love" = lyrics & music by LOU DAVIS & J. FRED COOTS
" 'Round Evening" = lyrics by HERB STEINER & J. FRED COOTS; music by GEORGE WHITING
"She's Funny That Way" = lyrics by RICHARD A. WHITING; music by NEIL MORET
"Short'nin' Bread" = adapted lyrics & music by JACQUES WOLFE
"Softly, As in a Morning Sunrise" = lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II; music by SIGMUND ROMBERG. Introduced by WILLIAM O'NEAL in the operetta 'The New Moon'. Performed in the 1940 film 'New Moon' by NELSON EDDY
"The Song Of The Prune" = by FRANK CRUMIT, DE COSTA
"Sonny Boy" = lyrics & music by AL JOLSON, B.G. DeSYLVA, LEW BROWN & RAY HENDERSON
"St James Infirmary" = lyrics & music by JOE PRIMROSE
"Stack O'Lee" = trad. arranged by CLIFF EDWARDS
"Stouthearted Men" = lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II; music by SIGMUND ROMBERG
"Sugar (That Sugar Baby of Mine)" = lyrics & music by MACEO PINKARD & SIDNEY D. MITCHELL
"Sweet Lorraine" = lyrics by MITCHELL PARISH; music by CLIFF BURWELL
"Sweet Sue" = lyrics by WILL J. HARRIS; music by VICTOR YOUNG
"Sweetheart Of All My Dreams" = lyrics & music by ART FITCH, KAY FITCH & BERT LOWE
"Sweethearts On Parade" = lyrics by CHARLES NEWMAN; music by CARMEN LOMBARDO
"'Tain't So, Honey, 'Tain't So" = lyrics & music by WILLARD ROBISON
"That's My Weakness Now" = lyrics & music by BUD GREEN & SAM H. STEPT
"There Ain't No Sweet Man (That's Worth The Salt Of My Tears)" = lyrics & music by FRED FISHER
"There's A Rainbow 'Round My Shoulder" = lyrics & music by DAVE DREYER, BILLY ROSE & AL JOLSON
"Together" = lyrics by B.G. DeSYLVA & LEW BROWN; music by RAY HENDERSON
"Wanting You" = lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II; music by SIGMUND ROMBERG. Introduced by EVELYN HERBERT and ROBERT HALLIDAY in the operetta 'The New Moon'. Performed in the 1930 film version by GRACE MOORE and LAWRENCE TIBBETT
"West End Blues" = lyrics & music by JOSEPH OLIVER & CLARENCE WILLIAMS
"When You're Smiling" = lyrics & music by MARK FISHER, JOE GOODWIN &am; LARRY SHAY
"Willow Tree" = lyrics by ANDY RAZAF; music by THOMAS WALLER from the musical ' Keep Shufflin' '
"World Weary" = lyrics & music by NOEL COWARD. Introduced by BEATRICE LILLIE in the revue 'This Year of Grace'
"You Are Love" = lyrics by OSCAR HAMMERSTEIN II; music by JEROME KERN
"You Took Advantage of Me" = lyrics by LORENZ HART; music by RICHARD RODGERS
"You Wouldn't Fool Me" = lyrics by B. G. DE SYLVA & LEW BROWN; music by RAY HENDERSON
"You're The Cream In My Coffee" = lyrics by B.G. DeSYLVA & LEW BROWN; music by RAY HENDERSON
Top Hits on Record
"Because My Baby Don't Mean Maybe Now"
recorded by RUTH ETTING
"Diga Diga Doo"
recorded by DUKE ELLINGTON & His Cotton Club Orchestra
"Is There Anything Wrong In That?"
recorded by HELEN KANE
"I Wanna Be Loved By You"
recorded by HELEN KANE
"Jazz Holiday"
recorded by TED LEWIS & His Jazz Band
"(Goodbye, Broadway) Hello, Montreal!"
recorded by TED LEWIS & His Jazz Band
"Let's Misbehave"
recorded by IRVING AARONSON & His Commanders
"Let's Misbehave"
recorded by HELEN KANE
"Little Orphan Annie"
recorded by The Coon-Sanders' Nighthawks
"Mississippi Mud"
recorded by PAUL WHITEMAN's Orchestra
"Makin' Whoopee"
recorded by EDDIE CANTOR
"My Man"
recorded by FANNY BRICE
"That's My Weakness Now"
recorded by PAUL WHITEMAN & His Orchestra featuring BING CROSBY
Other Important Recordings
"Big Bill Blues"
recorded by BIG BILL BROONZY
"How Long, How Long Blues"
recorded by LEROY CARR
"It's Tight Like That"
recorded by TAMPA RED and GEORGIA TOM DORSEY
"The Mooche"
recorded by DUKE ELLINGTON
"Muggles"
recorded by LOUIS ARMSTRONG
"Pinetop's Boogie Woogie"
recorded by PINETOP SMITH
"Playing With the Strings"
recorded by LONNIE JOHNSON
"Prison Cell Blues"
recorded by BLIND LEMON JEFFERSON
"Statesboro Blues"
recorded by BLIND WILLIE McTELL
"West End Blues"
recorded by LOUIS ARMSTRONG
Classical Music
AARON AVSHALOMOV
Four Biblical Tableaux
GRANVILLE BANTOCK
Pagan Symphony
BÉLA BARTÓK
String Quartet No. 4
WERNER EGK
Concerto for Violin and Chamber Orchestra
GERALD FINZI
Grand Fantasia and Toccata
ROBERTO GERHARD
Wind Quintet
KARL AMADEUS HARTMANN
Jazz Toccata and Fugue
GORDON JACOB
String Quartet
DMITRI KABALEVSKY
Piano Concerto No. 1
String Quartet No. 1
WILHELM KIENZL
String Quartet No. 3 in E major
UUNO KLAMI
Karelian Rhapsody
ERNST KRENEK
Little Symphony
Piano Sonata No. 2
MAURICE RAVEL
Bolero
SERGEI PROKOFIEV
Symphony No. 3
The Prodigal Son (ballet)
ALBERT ROUSSEL
Psalm 80
ROGER SESSIONS
The Black Maskers Suite for Orchestra
LEO SOWERBY
Symphony No. 2
HEITOR VILLA-LOBOS
Chôros bis
Chôros No. 11
Chôros No. 14
Quinteto em forma de chôros
PANCHO VLADIGEROV
Bulgarische Rhapsodie "Vardar"
Opera
ERWIN DRESSEL
Der arme Columbus
CYRIL SCOTT
The Alchemist
DMITRI SHOSTAKOVICH
The Nose (1927–28)
RICHARD STRAUSS
Die ägyptische Helena
premiered at the Dresden Semperoper on 6 June 1928.
KURT WEILL and BERTOLT BRECHT
Die Dreigroschenoper
premiered on 31 August 1928, at Berlin's Theater am Schiffbauerdamm.
Musical Theatre
ANGELA
(Written by: Fanny Todd Mitchell)
Broadway production opened at Ambassador Theatre, New York, NY on 3rd December 1928
BLACKBIRDS OF 1928
Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre on May 9 and ran for 518 performances
BLUE EYES
London production opened at the Piccadilly Theatre on April 27 and ran for 278 performances
CASANOVA
Berlin production
HELLO, DADDY
(Music: Jimmy McHugh, Lyrics: Dorothy Fields, Book: Herbert Fields)
Broadway production opened at Lew Fields' Mansfield Theatre on December 26, transferred to George M. Cohan's Theatre on January 21, 1929 and transferred to Erlanger's Theatre on May 6, 1929 for a total run of 198 performances
HERE'S HOWE
Broadway production opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on May 1 and ran for 71 performances.
HOLD EVERYTHING
Broadway production opened at the Broadhurst Theatre on October 10 and ran for 409 performances.
KEEP SHUFFLIN'
Broadway production opened at Daly's Theatre on February 27 and ran for 104 performances
THE NEW MOON
(Sigmund Romberg)
Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre on September 19, transferred to the Casino Theatre on November 18 and ran for a total of 509 performances.
PARIS
(Cole Porter)
Broadway production opened at the Music Box Theatre on October 8 and ran for 195 performances.
PRESENT ARMS
(Lorenz Hart and Richard Rodgers)
Broadway production opened at Lew Fields' Mansfield Theatre on April 26 and ran for 155 performances.
RAIN OR SHINE
Broadway production opened at George M. Cohan's Theatre on February 9 and ran for 356 performances
RAINBOW
Broadway production opened at the Gallo Opera House on November 21 and ran for 29 performances
SHOW BOAT
(Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II)
London production
SO THIS IS LOVE
London production opened on April 25 at the Winter Garden Theatre and ran for 321 performances
SUNNY DAYS
Broadway production opened at the Imperial Theatre on February 8 and ran for 101 performances. It re-opened at the Century Theatre on October 1 for a further run of 32 performances.
THE THREE MUSKETEERS
Broadway production opened at the Lyric Theatre on March 13 and ran for 319 performances.
THIS YEAR OF GRACE
(Noel Coward)
London revue opened at the Pavilion on March 22 and ran for 316 performances.
Broadway production opened at the Selwyn Theatre on November 7 and ran for 158 performances.
TREASURE GIRL
Broadway production opened at the Alvin Theatre on November 8 and ran for 68 performances
UPS-A-DAISY Starring Marie Saxon, Luella Gear, William Kent, Bob Hope and Roy Royston.
(Music by: Lewis E. Gensler; Book by: Clifford Grey, Robert A. Simon; Lyrics by: Clifford Grey, Robert A. Simon)
Broadway production opened at the Shubert Theatre on October 8 and ran for 64 performances.
VIRGINIA
London production opened at the Palace Theatre on October 24.
WHITE LILACS
opened at the Shubert Theatre on September 10 and transferred to Jolson's 59th Street Theatre on October 8 for a total run of 136 performances
WHOOPEE!
(Music by: Walter Donaldson; Book by: William Anthony McGuire; Lyrics by: Gus Kahn)
Broadway production opened at the New Amsterdam Theatre on December 4 and ran for 407 performances
Please address any comments concerning this page to The Music Maestro
Mark Chard BSc, PLY
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Last edited: 23rd December 2023
