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1899 in music
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April 26 Jean Sibeliuss Symphony No.1 is premiered in Helsinki. Tenor Antonio Paoli makes his début in Rossinis William Tell in Paris, may 27 – Maurice Ravel conducts the first performance of his song cycle Shéhérazade. June 19 – Edward Elgars Enigma Variations are premiered in London, september 18 – Scott Joplins Maple Leaf Rag is registered for copyright as ragtime music enjoys mainstream popularity in the United States. Claude Debussy marries Rosalie Texier, having lived for nine years with her best friend, adelina Patti marries Baron Rolf Cederström. Dame Marie Tempest marries actor-playwright Cosmo Stuart, unknown date, Billy Murray makes his singing debut. Absent w. Catherine Young Glen m, W. Charles Horwitz m. Frederick V. Bowers Cake Walk In The Sky by Ben Harney Come Home Dewey We Wont Do A Thing To You w. m. Paul Dresser A Coon Band Contest m. Arthur Pryor Cotton Pickers Rag & Cakewalk by William Braun Doan Ye Cry, alfred W. Noll Hands Across The Sea m. John Philip Sousa Hearts And Flowers w. Mary D. Brine m. Theodore Moses Tobani Hello, ida Emerson & Joseph E. Howard Id Leave My Happy Home For You w. Will A. Heelan m. Harry Von Tilzer If Only You Were Mine w. Harry B. Smith m, victor Herbert Ill Be Your Sweetheart w. m. Harry Dacre Impecunious Davis by Kerry Mills Keep on the Sunny Side, w. A. Blenkhorn, thurland Chattaway Maple Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin Mosquito Parade m. Howard Whitney My Little Georgia Rose w. Robert F. Roden m. Max S. Witt My Wild Irish Rose w. m, chauncey Olcott O Sole Mio. w. Giovanni Capurro m. Eduardo di Capua A Picture No Artist Can Paint w. m, J. Fred Helf She Was Happy Till She Met You w. Charles Graham m. Monroe H. Rosenfeld Smoky Mokes m. Abe Holzmann Stay In Your Own Back Yard w. Karl Kennett m, lyn Udall The Story Of The Rose w. Alice m. Andrew Mack Telephone Me, Baby w. m. George M. Cohan Theres Where My Heart Is Tonight w. m, paul Dresser Where The Sweet Magnolias Grow w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer Whistling Rufus w. W. Murdock Lind m. Kerry Mills You Tell Me Your Dream, Ill Tell You Mine w. Seymore Rice & Albert H. Brown, m. Charles N. Daniels Abide With Me – Frank C. Stanley on Edison Records Always
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1900 in music
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This is a mostly comprehensive list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1900. April - Mary Garden makes her debut in the title role of Gustave Charpentiers opera Louise. October 3 - Edward Elgars The Dream of Gerontius receives its première in Birmingham, the Honolulu Symphony Orchestra is founded. Absence Makes The Heart Grow Fonder w. Arthur Gillespie m. Herbert Dillea A Bird in a Gilded Cage w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Harry Von Tilzer The Blue, paul Dresser Bridge Of Sighs w. m. James Thornton Calligan - Call Again, Herbert Rutter & Harry Lauder Calling To Her Boy Just Once Again w. m. Paul Dresser Creolle Belles w. George Sidney m. J. Bodewalt Lampe The Duchess Of Central Park w. J. Cheaver Goodwin m. Maurice Levi Every Race Has a Flag but the Coon w. m. Will A. Heelan & J. Fred Helf Eyes Of Blue m. Andrew Mack The Fatal Rose of Red - J. Fred Helf The Flight Of The Bumble Bee m, nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov A Flower From The Garden Of Life w. m. Thurland Chattaway For Old Times Sake w. m, Charles K. Harris The Gladiators Entry m. Julius Fučík Hail To The Spirit Of Liberty w. m, john Philip Sousa Hunky Dory m. Abe Holzmann I Cant Tell Why I Love You But I Do w, gus Edwards I Love You, Ma Cherie w. m. Paul Rubens I Must Have Been A-Dreamin w. m, bob Cole I Need The Money w. m. Raymond A. Browne I Wont Be an Actor No More w. m, George M. Cohan In The House Of Too Much Trouble w. m. Will A. Heelan & J. Fred Helf Ive A Longing In My Heart For You Louise w. m, Charles K. Harris Just Because She Made Dem Goo-Goo Eyes w. m. John Stromberg Midnight Fire-Alarm - H. J. Lincoln My Charcoal Charmer w, gus Edwards My Drowsy Babe w. George Totten Smith m. George A. Nichols My Sunflower Sue w. Walter H. Ford m. John Walter Bratton Nothing Doing w. Edgar Smith m, john Stromberg Off To Philadelphia w. Gordon Temple m. Walter B. Will D. Cobb The Old Flag Never Touched The Ground w. m, james Weldon Johnson & J. Rosamond Johnson Song Of The Flea - w. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, m. Modest Moussorgsky Strike Up the Band - Here Comes a Sailor w. Andrew B, sterling m. Charles B. Ward Swipesy m. Scott Joplin and Arthur Marshall The Tale Of The Kangaroo w. Frank Pixley m. Gustave Luders Tell Me Pretty Maiden w. Owen Hall m, leslie Stuart That Old Sunny Window w. m
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1901 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1901. April 18 - Contralto Mariska Horvath marries politician J. Frank Aldrich, enrique Granados founds the Academia Granados in Spain. Geraldine Farrar makes her operatic debut, percy Grainger makes his recital debut. Thirteen-year-old Agustín Barrios begins attending university in Asunción on a music scholarship, aint That A Shame w. John Queen m. Walter Wilson All That Glitters Is Not Gold w. George A. Norton m. James W. Casey Any Old Place I Can Hang My Hat Is Home Sweet Home To Me w. William Jerome m, jean Schwartz At The Pan-I-Marry-Can w. Harry Dillon m. John Dillon Baby Mine w. Raymond A. Browne m, John N. Klohr Blaze Away m. Coon. by Leo Friedman & Gene Jefferson The Country Girl w. Stanislaus Stange m. Julian Edwards Davy Jones Locker w. m. H. W. Petrie Dont Put Me Off At Buffalo Any More w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz Down Where The Cotton Blossoms Grow w. Andrew B, sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer Eyes Of Blue, Eyes Of Brown w. m. Sterling Flora, I Am Your Adorer w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Charles Robinson The Fortune Telling Man w. m, Bert Williams & George Walker Go Way Back And Sit Down w. Elmer Bowman m. Ben Jansen He Ought To Have A Tablet In The Hall of Fame w. Arthur L. Robb m, John Walter Bratton Hello Central, Give Me Heaven w. m. Charles K. Harris Hiawatha w. James ODea m, high Society Porter Steele Hoity-Toity w. Edgar Smith m. Hughie Cannon I Love You Truly w. m. Carrie Jacobs-Bond I Want To Be A Lidy w. George Dance m. George Dee If You Love Your Baby, gus Edwards Im Tired w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz In The Shade Of The Palm w. m, leslie Stuart The Invincible Eagle March w. m. John Philip Sousa It Seems Like Yesterday w. Frederic Ranken m, isidore Witmark Ive Grown So Used To You w. m. Thurland Chattaway Josephine, My Jo w. Cecil Mack m. J. Tim Brymn Just A-Wearyin For You w. Frank Lebby Stanton m. Carrie Jacobs-Bond The Maiden With The Dreamy Eyes w. James Weldon Johnson & Bob Cole m. J. Rosamond Johnson Mamie, gus Edwards Mighty Lak A Rose w. Frank Lebby Stanton m. Ethelbert Nevin My Castle On The Nile w. Bob Cole & James Weldon Johnson m. J. Rosamond Johnson My Japanese Cherry Blossom w. Edgar Smith m, John Stromberg My Lady Hottentot w. William Jerome m. Harry von Tilzer My Lonesome Little Louisiana Lady w
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1902 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1902. April 30 – Claude Debussys opera Pelléas et Mélisande is premiered at the Opéra-Comique in Paris, june 9 – the first complete performance of Gustav Mahlers Symphony No.3 is given in Krefeld. June 26 - Composer Hubert Parry receives a baronetcy in the 1902 Coronation Honours, another composer, Charles Villiers Stanford, is knighted. December 1 – Carl Nielsen conducts the premiėre of his Symphony No,2, The Four Temperaments, in Copenhagen Lead Belly begins performing. Thomas S. Allen Because w. Edward Teschemacher m. Guy dHardelot Bill Bailey Wont You Please Come Home w. m, hughie Cannon Come Down Ma Evenin Star w. Robert B. Smith m. John Stromberg Could You Be True To Eyes Of Blue If You Looked Into Eyes Of Brown, will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards Didnt Know Exactly What To Do w. Frank Pixley m. Charles Shackford The Gambling Man w. William Jerome m, jean Schwartz The Glow Worm w. Lilla Cayley Robinson Heinz Bolten-Backers m. Paul Lincke Happy Hooligan m. Theodore Morse Have You Seen My Sweetheart In His Uniform Of Blue. Gus Edwards Heidelberg Stein Song w. Frank Pixley m, Gustav Luders I Just Cant Help From Lovin That Man w. Andrew B. Sterling & Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry von Tilzer I Sing A Little Tenor w. Harry Linton m. John Gilroy I Went To See Them March Away w. S. E. Keisser m. R. J. Jose I Wonder Why Bill Bailey Dont Come Home w. m. Frank Fogerty, Matt C. Woodward & William Jerome If Money Talks It Aint On Speaking Terms With Me w. m, J. Fred Helf Ill Be There Mary Dear w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer Ill Be Waiting In The Gloaming, Sweet Genevieve w. m. J. Fred Helf Ill Be Your Rain-beau w. Ed Gardinier m. J. Fred Helf Ill Wed You In The Golden Summertime w. Alfred Bryan m. Stanley Crawford Im The Man Who Makes The Money In The Mint w. m. Will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards Im Unlucky w. William Jerome m, jean Schwartz Ive Been Sleeping On The Floor All Night w. m. T. W. Connor In Dear Old Illinois by Paul Dresser In Silence w. Sydney Rosenfeld m. A. Baldwin Sloane In The City Of Sighs And Tears w. Andrew B. Kerry Mills In The Good Old Summer Time w. Ren Shields m. George Evans, introduced by Blanche Ring in the musical The Defender. In The Sweet Bye And Bye w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Harry Von Tilzer In The Valley Of Kentucky w. m, tony Stanford Its A Nice Little Cosy Kitchen w. m. T. W. Connor Its Got To Be A Minstrel Show Tonight w. Ren Shields m. George Evans Jennie Lee w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Harry Von Tilzer Just Cant Help From Lovin That Man w. Andrew B
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1903 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1903. February 11 - Anton Bruckners 9th Symphony is premiered in Vienna February 23-March 8 – George Enescu conducts the world premieres of three of his works, the Suite No.1 for orchestra, op,9, in C major, and the two Romanian Rhapsodies, op. 11, in A major and D major, as part of a concert at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, september - Frederick Delius marries Jelka Rosen. Enrico Caruso joins cast of New Yorks Metropolitan Opera Company and makes first records for the Victor Talking Machine Company, Victor Herberts Babes in Toyland premieres. Charles W. Clark is the first American to give a concert at the Paris National Conservatoire of Music, Charles K. Harris Always Leave Them Laughing When You Say Goodbye w. m. George M. Cohan Are We To Part Like This, Harry Castling & Charles Collins Anona w. m. Vivian Grey Bedelia w. William Jerome m, Jean Schwartz The Beer That Made Milwaukee Famous w. m. Dan McAvoy The Burning of Rome by E. T. Paull By The Sycamore Tree w. George V. Hobart m, max Hoffmann Congo Love Song w. m. Bob Cole & J. Rosamond Johnson Daisy Donahue w. James ODea m. Robert J. Adams Dear Old Girl w. Richard Henry Buck m. Theodore F. Morse Dear Sing Sing Schwartz Down At The Old Bull And Bush w. m. Florrie Forde Flowers Of Dixieland w. Edgar Smith m. J. Rosamond Johnson General Hardtack On Guard w. m, dave Reed Jr Good-bye, Eliza Jane w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer Hamlet Was A Melancholy Dane w. William Jerome m, Jean Schwartz Hannah. by Joseph Farrell He Was A Sailor w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz Hurrah For Baffins Bay w. Vincent Bryan m. Theodore F. Morse I Cant Do The Sum w. Glen MacDonough m, Victor Herbert I Could Love You In A Steam Heat Flat w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen I Never Could Love Like That Bowman, Johns Ida, Eddie Munson Im A Jonah Man w. m. Alex Rogers Im On The Water Wagon Now w. Paul West m, John Walter Bratton Im Thinking Of You All The While Reed Jnr Im Wearing My Heart Away For You w. m. Charles K. Harris In The Village By The Sea w. Andrew B, sterling m. Stanley Crawford Indolence Jason Mathews Is Your Mother In, Molly Malone. Mills & Everard It Takes the Irish to Beat the Dutch w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse It Was The Dutch w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B. Mullen Its The Man In The Sailor Suit w. Fred C. Farrell m. Theodore F. Morse Jack Tar March by John Philip Sousa Julie w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz Lazy Moon w. Bob Cole m. J. Rosamond Johnson Like A Star That Falls From Heaven w. Arthur Lamb m, kerry Mills Little Yellow Bird w. m
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1904 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1904. January 13 – Béla Bartóks symphonic poem Kossuth is premiered in Budapest, february 17 – Puccinis Madama Butterfly debuts at La Scala in Milan to no great acclaim. On May 28 a revised version opens in Brescia to huge success, june 9 – The Queens Hall Orchestra, under Sir Henry Wood, plays its first concert under its new name of the London Symphony Orchestra. July 15 – Soprano Agnes Nicholls marries conductor Hamilton Harty, september 12 – Pianist Ignacy Jan Paderewski gives a concert in Wellington, New Zealand. October Alban Berg begins his studies under Arnold Schoenberg, the Gramophone Company records the Bach-Gounod Ave Maria performed by Dame Nellie Melba with Jan Kubelík on violin. October 18 – Gustav Mahlers Symphony No.5 is premiered by the Gürzenich Orchestra Cologne under the composers baton, november 10 – Ferruccio Busoni gives the world premiere of his Piano Concerto at the Beethoven-Saal in Berlin. Claudio Monteverdis opera LOrfeo is given a debut in concert version in Paris. Von Tilzer Absinthe Frappe w. Glen MacDonough m, victor Herbert Aint It Funny What a Difference Just a Few Hours Make w. Henry Blossom m. Alfred G. Robyn. Introduced by Raymond Hitchcock in the Broadway show The Yankee Consul Al Fresco w. Glen MacDonough m, victor Herbert Alexander w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer All Aboard For Dreamland w. Andrew B, sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer Back, Back To Baltimore w. Harry H. Williams m. Max Hoffmann Come Back To Sorrento w. m, Bob Cole The Day That You Grew Colder w. m. Paul Dresser Dont Cry, Katie, Dear Mills Down In The Subway Jerome, Mullen Fascination w. Dick Manning m. F. D. Marchetti Words 1932. Fishing w. James Weldon Johnson m. J. Rosamond Johnson Following In Fathers Footsteps w. m, E. W. Rogers Fu The Noo w. Harry Lauder & Gerald Grafton m. Harry Lauder The Ghost That Never Walked w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz Gimme De Leavins w. James Weldon Johnson m. Bob Cole Give My Regards to Broadway w. m, george M. Cohan Good-bye Flo w. m. George M. Cohan Goodbye, Little Girl, Goodbye w, gus Edwards Goodbye, My Lady Love w. m. Joseph E. Howard The Goo-Goo Man Stoddard, Schindler, Jerome Hannah, sterling m. Harry von Tilzer Have You Seen Maggie Riley. Von Tilzer He Done Me Wrong w. m, hughie Cannon Heinie Rose, Snyder I Love You All The Time w. m. Will R. Anderson I Want To Be A Soldier w. m, William Cahill Im Longing For My Old Kentucky Home w. Vincent Bryan m. J. B
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1905 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1905. January 6 - Premiere of Leoš Janáčeks piano cycle On an Overgrown Path at the Besední dům Hall in Brno, January 26 - Arnold Schoenbergs symphonic poem Pelleas und Melisande is premiered in Vienna. January 29 - Gustav Mahlers Kindertotenlieder is premiered in Vienna, september - The lyrics of Rabindranath Tagores song Amar Shonar Bangla are published in two magazines. They are later adopted as the anthem of Bangladesh. October - The opera house at Nancy, France, is destroyed by fire, october 15 - Claude Debussys La Mer is premiered in Paris. October 21 - Henry Wood first conducts a performance of his Fantasia on British Sea Songs at a Trafalgar Day concert in London, Otto Klemperer meets Mahler for the first time, while conducting one of his works. Hery Frantzen Come Clean by Paul Sarebresole Daddys Little Girl w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse Dearie w. m, clare Kummer Down Where The Silvry Mohawk Flows w. Monroe Rosenfeld m. John A. Heinzman & Otto Milton Heinzman Everybody Works But Father w. m, Jean Havez Farewell, Mister Abner Hemingway w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz Forty-Five Minutes From Broadway w. m, George M. Cohan from the musical of the same name. Friends That Are Good And True Eysler G. O. P. Bryan, Hoffman Gee, but This Is A Lonesome Town Gaston The Girl Who Cares For Me w. Gus Edwards Goodbye, Maggie Doyle Jean Schwartz Good-bye, Sweet Old Manhattan Isle w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz Goodbye, Sweetheart, Goodbye w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Harry von Tilzer Happy Heine m. J. Bodewalt Lampe Hes Me Pal w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Victor Herbert I Would Like To Marry You w. m. Edward Laska I Thought It Was My Birthday Come w. m, T. W. Connor If A Girl Like You Loved A Boy Like Me w. m. Gus Edwards If The Man In The Moon Were A Coon w. m, Fred Fisher Im Getting Sleepy w. Wilbur U. Gumm m. Joe Hollander Im The Only Star That Twinkles On Broadway w. Andrew B, sterling m. Harry von Tilzer Im Trying To Find A Sweetheart w. Jean Lenox m. Henry O. Sutton In Dear Old Georgia w. Harry Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne In My Merry Oldsmobile w. Vincent P. Bryan m, gus Edwards In the Shade of the Old Apple Tree w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne The Irish Girl I Love w. George V. Hobart m, W. Frank Williams m. Ernest Hogan & Tom Lemonier It Aint All Honey And It Aint All Jam w. m. Fred Murray & George Everard Its Allus De Same In Dixie Cook Ive Got A Little Money And Ive Saved It All For You Farrell, Silver Ive Sweethearts In Every Port Keith Jolly Pickaninnies m
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1906 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1906. February – Abyssinia receives its première at the Majestic Theatre, with a score co-written by Bert Williams, may 27 – Gustav Mahlers Symphony No.6 receives its première in Essen, Germany. December 11 – The Melbourne Symphony Orchestra plays its first concert, amelita Galli-Curci makes her operatic debut at Trani, as Gilda in Verdis Rigoletto. Last full-scale court performance of gambuh dance-drama with gamelan ensemble in Bali, abraham Jefferson Washington Lee Harry Von Tilzer Aint You Coming Back To Old New Hampshire, Molly. W. Robert F. Roden m. J. Fred Helf Alice, Where Art Thou Going. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer Arrah Wanna w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse At Dawning w. Nelle Richmond Eberhart m. Charles Wakefield Cadman Because Youre You w. Henry Blossom m. Egbert Van Alstyne Colleen Bawn w. Edward Madden m. J. Fred Helf College Life w. Porter Emerson Browne m. Henry Frantzen Come, Take A Skate With Me w. m. Raymond Brown & Gus Edwards Crocodile Isle Morse Dill Pickles Rag m. Charles L. Johnson Do Re Mi Fa So La Ti Do w. William Cahill m. Benjamin Hapgood Burt Dont You Think Its Time To Marry. Edwards Dreaming w. L. W. Heiser m. J. Anton Dailey Every Day Is Ladies Day To Me w. Henry Blossom m, victor Herbert The Free Lance March m. George M. Cohan He Walked Right In Turned Around And Walked Right Out Again w. Edward Rose m. Maxwell Silver Heres To Our Absent Brothers w. m. J. Fred Helf Hes A Cousin Of Mine w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith & Silvio Hein Highland Birthday Party w. m. Hector Grant Holding Hands w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer Honora H. Doolin Mills I Dont Like Your Family Howard I Just Cant Make My Eyes Behave w. m, will D. Cobb & Gus Edwards I Miss You In A Thousand Different Ways w. Gus Edwards I Never Saw Such Jealousy In My Life w. Andrew B, sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer I Was Born In Virginia w. m. Von Tilzer If Anybody Wants To Meet A Jonah Shake Hands With Me w. m, Harry Hoyt Im Sorry Von Tilzer Im Wise w. Harry Williams m. Egbert van Alstyne In Old New York w. Henry Blossom m, victor Herbert Is It Warm Enough For You. Paley Ive Said My Last Farewell Sischer Just One Word Of Consolation w. Frank B. Williams m. Tom Lemonier Keep on the Sunny Side w. Jack Drislane m. Theodore F. Morse Kiss, Kiss, Kiss w. Harry B. Smith m. Gertrude Hoffmann Lassie, hector Grant A Lemon In The Garden Of Love w. M. E. Richard Carle Let Bygones Be Bygones And Let Us Be Sweethearts Again w. Alex Rogers m, Bert Williams Let It Alone w. Alex Rogers m
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1907 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1907. February 21 – Frederick Deliuss opera A Village Romeo and Juliet is premiered in Berlin, february 22 – Thomas Beecham conducts Deliuss new opera at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, London. May 27 – Bach House opens in what is at this time believed to be the birthplace of Johann Sebastian Bach, publication of Sketch of a New Aesthetic of Music by Ferruccio Busoni. Cosima Wagner steps down from her position as head of the Bayreuth Festival and she is succeeded by her son Siegfried. All She Gets from the Iceman is Ice w. Arthur J. Lamb m. Alfred Solman And A Little Bit More w. Alfred Bryan m, Fred Fisher Ballooning w. Paul West m. Jerome Kern The Bandolero w. m. Leslie Stuart Be My Little Teddy Bear w. Vincent Bryan m, max Hoffman Because Im Married Now w. m. Herbert Ingraham Bon Bon Buddy by Alex Rogers Brother Noah Gave Out Checks For Rain w. m, Arthur Longbrake Budweisers A Friend Of Mine w. Vincent P. Bryan m. Seymour Furth Bye Bye Dearie w. Andrew B, sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer The Caissons Go Rolling Along m. Edmund L. Gruber Come Along, My Mandy w. m, tom Mellor, Alfred J. Lawrence & Harry Gifford New words Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth 1910 Common Sense w. m. Chris Smith & John Larkins Dont Worry w. m, ed Rose & Ted Snyder Down Home Shout Herman Carle Fairy Queen m. Percy Wenrich Fishing For the Moon David Kilburn Stevens Gladiolus Rag by Scott Joplin Golden Rod McKinley The Handsome, Brave Life Saver Gumble Harrigan w. m. Introduced by George M. Cohan in the musical Fifty Miles from Boston He Goes to Church on Sunday w. Vincent Bryan m. E. Ray Goetz He Was One Of The Boys w. m. T. W. Connor The Homesick Yankee Clark Honey Boy w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer The Honeybees Honeymoon Reed I Finnish em Off, T. W. Connor I Love You So w. Adrian Ross m. Franz Lehár I Wish I Had A Girl w. Gus Kahn m. Grace Leboy Kahn Id Rather Be A Lobster Than A Wise Guy Morse Id Rather Two-Step Than Waltz, benjamin Hapgood Burt Im Afraid to Come Home in the Dark w. Harry H. Williams m. Egbert Van Alstyne Im Happy When The Band Plays Dixie Vandeveer Im Tying The Leaves So They Wont Come Down w. E. S. S. Huntingdon m. J. Fred Helf In A Hammock Built For Two w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry von Tilzer In the Land of the Buffalo Williams, herbert H. Taylor In Washington w. Vincent Bryan m. Gertrude H. Hoffman Its A Poor Heart That Never Rejoices w. m. T. W. Connor Its Delightful To Be Married w. Anna Held m. Vincent Scotto Its Great To Be A Soldier Man Morse Its Nice To Have A Sweetheart Kerker Ive Told His Missus All About Him Tate Just Because He Couldnt Sing Love Me And The World Is Mine w. m
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1908 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1908. January 26 - Sergei Rachmaninoffs Symphony No.2 receives its première, march 15 - Maurice Ravels Rapsodie espagnole receives its première in Paris. April 11 - Spyridon Samarass opera Rhea is premiered in Florence September 19 - Première of Gustav Mahlers Symphony No.7 in Prague, november 18 - Release in France of the film The Assassination of the Duke of Guise with a score from Saint-Saëns. December 3 - Edward Elgars Symphony No.1 receives its première in Manchester, december 18 - Claude Debussys Childrens Corner receives its première in Paris. Anthony Maggio publishes a dance band orchestration of early Blues I Got The Blues in New Orleans, opera singer Amelita Galli marries the Marchese Luigi Curci, and acquires the name by which she becomes best-known. The ABCs of the U. S. A. w. m. George M. Cohan from the musical The Yankee Prince All For Love Of You w. Dave Reed m. Ernest R. Ball Any Old Port In A Storm w. Arthur J. Lamb m, kerry Mills Black And White Rag w. m. George Botsford Call Round Any Old Time w. m, Charles Moore & E. W. Rogers Consolation by Edward Madden Cuddle Up A Little Closer, Lovey Mine w. Otto Harbach m. Karl Hoschna Daisies Wont Tell w. m. Anita Owen Down Among The Sugar Cane w. Avery & Charles Hart m, cecil Mack & Chris Smith Down In Jungle Town w. Edward Madden m. Theodore F. Morse Dusty Rag m. May Aufderhelde The Fairest Of The Fair w. m, john Philip Sousa Feed The Kitty w. Ed Moran m. J. Fred Helf Fig Leaf Rag by Scott Joplin Gee But Theres Class To A Girl Like You w. m. W. R. Williams Golliwogs Cake Walk m. Claude Debussy Good Evening, C. W. Murphy & Will Letters. With new lyrics by William McKenna it was performed by Nora Bayes in the 1910 Broadway production of the musical The Jolly Bachelors Hoo-oo Aint You Calling Me w. m. Al Piantodosi & Halsey K. Mohr Im Glad Im Married w. Jack Norworth m. Albert Von Tilzer Im Looking For The Man That Wrote The Merry Widow Waltz w. Edgar Selden m. Kerry Mills The Longest Way Round Is The Sweetest Way Home w. Ren Shields m, kerry Mills Love Is Like A Cigarette w. Glen MacDonough m. Jean Schwartz Mephisto Rag by Anthony J. Stasny Mother Hasnt Spoken To Father Since w. William Jerome m, jean Schwartz My Brudda Sylvest w. Jesse Lasky m. Fred Fisher My Girls A Yorkshire Girl w. m, C. W. Murphy & Dan Lipton Now I Have To Call Him Father w. m. Charles Collins & Fred Godfrey The Old Time Rag w. Edward Madden m. Theodore Morse Pine Apple Rag by Scott Joplin Roses Bring Dreams Of You w. m. Herbert Ingraham She Sells Sea-Shells w. Terry Sullivan m. Harry Gifford Shine On Harvest Moon w. Jack Norworth m, Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth A Singer Sang A Song w
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1910 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1910. March 19 – Béla Bartóks String Quartet No.1 is premiered in Budapest June 25 – Igor Stravinskys ballet,8, the Symphony of a Thousand, is premiered in Munich. Sweet Mystery Of Life w. Rida Johnson Young m, from the operetta Naughty Marietta Alexander and His Clarinet w. Irving Berlin m. Ted Snyder All Aboard For Blanket Bay w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer All That I Ask Of You Is Love w. Edgar Selden m. Herbert Ingraham Alma, adolph Philipp Angel Eyes w. Alfred Bryan m. James Kendis & Herman Paley Angels w. m. Irving Berlin Any Little Girl, Thats a Nice Little Girl, is the Right Little Girl For Me w. Thomas J. Gray m, Fred Fisher Back To My Old Home Town w. m. Nora Bayes & Jack Norworth A Banjo Song by Howard Weeden The Big Bass Viol w. m, M. T. Bohannon The Birth of Passion w. Otto Harbach m. Karl Hoschna. Bring Back My Lena To Me w. m, Irving Berlin & David Andrew Noll By The Saskatchewan w. C. M. S. McLellan m. Ivan Caryll Call Me Up Some Rainy Afternoon w. m, fritz Kreisler The Chanticleer Rag w. Edward Madden m. Albert Gumble The Chicken Reel m. Joseph M. Daly Chinatown, My Chinatown w. William Jerome m. Jean Schwartz Cloud-Chief m. J. Ernest Philie, Come Josephine In My Flying Machine w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher Come To The Ball w. Adrian Ross m, lionel Monckton Constantly w. Chris Smith m. James Henry Burris The Convict And The Bird w. m. T. W. Connor Day Dreams, Visions Of Bliss w. Harry B. Smith & Robert B. Smith m, heinrich Reinhardt Dear Mayme, I Love You. Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder Doctor Tinkle Tinker by Otto Harbach Dont Wake Me Up, George Botsford & Irving Berlin Hennessy w. m. T. W. Connor w. m. Herman E. Darewski Jr. Herman Lets Dance That Beautiful Waltz Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder How Can You Love Such A Man, Berlin I Feel So Lonely w. m. Introduced by Fred Allandale in the musical The Islander Id Love To Live In Loveland w. m, W. R. Williams If He Comes In Im Going Out w. Cecil Mack m. Chris Smith If I Was A Millionaire w. Gus Edwards Im Falling In Love With Someone w. Rida Johnson Young m, victor Herbert Im Henery the Eighth w. m. Fred Murray & R. P. Weston In The Shadows w. E. Ray Goetz m. Herman Finck Is There Anything Else I Can Do For You, Irving Berlin & Ted Snyder Italian Street Song w. Rida Johnson Young m. Leo Friedman Let Me Live And Stay In Dixieland w. m, elizabeth Brice & Charles King Liebesfreud m. Fritz Kreisler Life Is Only What You Make It After All w. Edgar Smith m. A. Baldwin Sloane Macushla w. Josephine V. Rowe m
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1911 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1911. January 26 - Première of the opera Der Rosenkavalier by Richard Strauss, in Dresden, the librettist is Hugo von Hofmannsthal, april 8 - Gustav Mahler embarks from New York to France, he enters a clinic in Paris, where he dies just over a month later. May 19 - Maurice Ravels opera, Lheure espagnole, is premiered at the Opéra-Comique, may 24 - Edward Elgar conducts the premiere of his Symphony No.2 in London. June 15 - Igor Stravinskys ballet Petrushka is premiered in Paris, june 29 - Bernard Herrmann born in New York. July - Frank Bridge completes his orchestral suite The Sea, while staying at Eastbourne, november 20 - Gustav Mahlers Das Lied von der Erde is premièred in Munich, after the composers death, with his friend and former assistant Bruno Walter conducting at the request of Alma Mahler. Date unknown Aino Ackté and other prominent opera singers found the Domestic Opera in Finland, elsässisches Fahnenlied is adopted as the anthem of the Republic of Alsace-Lorraine. 16-year-old Carl Orff publishes his first compositions, the Society of Women Musicians is co-founded by Marion Scott and others. Gustav Holst wrote the Second Suite in F for concert band, after That I Want A Little More w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher After The Honeymoon w. m, Irving Berlin Alexanders Ragtime Band w. m. Irving Berlin All Alone w. William Dillon m. Harry Von Tilzer Any Old Iron w. m, Charles Collins & Terry Sheppard Archibald, Certainly Not w. m. Alfred Glover & John St John Baby Rose by Louis Weslyn Billy w. Joe Goodwin m. James Kendis & Herman Paley Bring Back My Lovin Man w. m, Irving Berlin Cant You Take It Back And Change It For A Boy. w. m. Thurland Chattaway Core ngrato w. Riccardo Cordiferro, m, salvatore Cardillo Dalys Reel m. Joseph M. Daly Down Home Rag m. Wilbur Sweatman Down The Field w. Caleb OConnor m. Stanleigh P. Friedman El Choclo w. Francice Luban m, angel G. Villoldo Everybodys Doing it Now w. m. Irving Berlin The Fire Bird m, katie Moss The Gaby Glide w. Harry Pilcer m. Louis Hirsch Hello. Gus Edwards The Little Grey Home In The West w. D. Eardley-Wilmot m, hermann Löhr Love Is Mine w. Edward Teschemacher m. Clarence G. Gartner Make Me Love You Like I Never Loved Before w. Alfred Bryan m. Fred Fisher Mary OHoolihan Berlin Moonlight Bay w. Edward Madden m, percy Wenrich Movin Man Dont Take My Baby Grand w. Bert Kalmar m. Ted Snyder My Beautiful Lady w. C. M. S. McLellan m. Ivan Caryll My Hula Hula Love w. Edward Madden m, percy Wenrich My Rosary Of Dreams w. m. E. F. Dusenberg & C. M. Denison Naughty, Naughty, Naughty w. Harry Williams m, egbert Van Alstyne The Oceana Roll w. Roger Lewis m
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1912. February 28 – In a concert in Copenhagen, Carl Nielsen conducts the premiere of his Symphony No.3, march – Hart A. Wand publishes Dallas Blues, a jazz standard and an early published blues song. June 26 – Gustav Mahlers Symphony No.9 is premiered in Vienna by the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Bruno Walter, handy publishes The Memphis Blues, one of the first blues songs to become a hit. October 16 – Arnold Schoenbergs Pierrot Lunaire debuts at the Berlin Choralion-Saal, aino Ackté founds an opera festival in Savonlinna, after a period of dormancy, the Savonlinna Opera Festival will become one of the most important cultural events in Finland. The Birmingham Triennial Music Festival is held for the last time, William Henry Bell becomes director of the South African College of Music in Cape Town. After All That Ive Been To You w. Jack Drislane m. Chris Smith Alexanders Ragtime Band w. m, Irving Berlin, E. Ray Goetz, A. Baldwin Sloane All Night Long w. m. Shelton Brooks And The Green Grass Grew All Around w. William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer At The Devils Ball w. m, Irving Berlin Baby Seals Blues m. Artie Matthews Bagdad w. Anne Caldwell m, victor Herbert Be My Little Baby Bumble Bee w. Stanley Murphy m. Henry I. W. Elmer Bowman m. Chris Smith Beckys Got A Job In A Musical Show w. m, Irving Berlin Come Back To Me, My Melody Irving Berlin, Ted Snyder Come Back To Playland With Me w. m. Irving Berlin Down In Dear Old New Orleans w. Joe Young m. Conrad & Whidden Dreams Of Long Ago w. Earl Carroll m, enrico Caruso The Elevator Man Going Up, Going Up, Going Up, Going Up. w. m. Irving Berlin Everybody Loves A Chicken w. m, bobby Jones Everybody Two-Step w. Earl C. Jones m. Wallie Herzer Florida Rag V. Lowry The Funny Little Melody w. m, Irving Berlin Giannina Mia w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml Goodnight, Nurse w. Thomas J. Gray m. W. Raymond Walker He Played It On His Fid, Fid, Fiddle-dee-dee w. m. E. Ray Goetz & Irving Berlin Hitchy-Koo w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Lewis F. Muir & Maurice Abrahams Im Afraid, Pretty Maid, Im Afraid w. m. Irving Berlin Im The Lonesomest Gal In Town w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer In My Harem w. m, Irving Berlin In the Garden w. m. C. Austin Miles Its A Long Way To Tipperary w. m, Jack Judge & Harry H. Williams Keep Away From The Fellow Who Owns An Automobile w. m. Irving Berlin Kentucky Sue by Lew Brown The Land Of Golden Dreams w. C. M. Denison m. E. F. Dusenberry Last Night Was The End Of The World w. Andrew B. Sterling m. Harry Von Tilzer The Last Shot Got Him w. m, Leo Silesu Love Is Like A Firefly w. Otto Harbach m
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1913. March 9 – The second performance of Francesco Balilla Pratellas Musica Futurista in Rome becomes the first of several pieces this year of music with an unruly audience response. April 1 – Manuel de Fallas opera La vida breve is given its world première in Nice, the audience includes Gabriele DAnnunzio, Coco Chanel, Marcel Duchamp, Harry Graf Kessler and Maurice Ravel. Police are called during the interval, september 5 – Sergei Prokofievs performance of the first version of his Piano Concerto No.2 at Pavlovsk, Saint Petersburg, is met with hisses and catcalls. September 10 – Jean Sibeliuss tone poem Luonnotar is premiered at the Three Choirs Festival in Gloucester Cathedral, England, with soprano Aino Ackté, october – Edison Diamond Disc Record introduced. The term Jazz first appears in print, louis Armstrong begins playing the cornet, in the band of the New Orleans Home for Colored Waifs. Lili Boulanger becomes the first woman to win the Musical Composition section of the Prix de Rome, the Aeolian Company introduces the Duo-Art piano technology. Edward Bairstow becomes organist of York Minster. Abie Sings An Irish Song, words & music by Irving Berlin All Aboard For Dixieland, words Jack Yellen, music George L. Cobb And Then, w. Alfred Bryan, m. Herman Paley The Angelus, w. Robert B. Victor Herbert Cross The Great Divide w. Sam M. Lewis m. George W. Meyer The Curse Of An Aching Heart w. Henry Fink m, Al Piantadosi Daddy, Come Home w. m. Irving Berlin Danny Boy w. Frederick Weatherly m. trad Dont Blame It All On Broadway w. Joe Young & Harry Williams m, bert Grant Down In Chattanooga w. m. Irving Berlin El Cóndor Pasa by Daniel Alomía Robles Fat Lil Feller Wid His Mammys Eyes w. m. Sheridan Gordon & F. L. Stanton Fifteen Cents by Chris Smith Gasoline w. J, will Callahan, m. Paul Pratt Goodbye Boys w. Andrew B. Sterling & William Jerome m. Harry Von Tilzer Happy Little Country Girl w. m. Irving Berlin Hed Have to Get Under — Get Out and Get Under w. Grant Clark & Edgar Leslie m. Maurice Abrahams Hello, introduced by Elizabeth Brice in the revue Ziegfeld Follies of 1913 Hungarian Rag m. Julius Lenzberg I Can Live Without You w. Gene Buck m. Dave Stamper I Miss You Most Of All w. m. Joseph McCarthy Sr. & James V. Monaco If I Had My Way w. Lou Klein m. James Kendis Ill Change The Shadows To Sunshine w. George Graff Jr m. Ernest R. Ball Ill Get You w. Gus Edwards Im On My Way To Mandalay w. Al Bryan m, fred Fisher The Incandescent Rag m. George Botsford The International Rag w. m. Irving Berlin Isle DAmour w. Earl Carroll m, leo Edwards Its Nice To Get Up In The Morning w. m
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1914 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1914. January 1 - The copyright on Parsifal expires allowing it to be staged outside of Bayreuth, performances take place in Barcelona, Prague, Berlin, Budapest, Bologna, Rome and Wrocław. In the next few weeks it is staged in St. Petersburg, Paris, Brussels, Vienna and Londons Covent Garden. January 24 - First public performance of Leoš Janáčeks piano cycle In the Mists at the concert of the Organ School in Brno by pianist Marie Dvořáková. January - First Finnish performance of Jean Sibeliuss tone poem Luonnotar, with soprano Aino Ackté, august 26 - Rutland Boughtons fairy opera The Immortal Hour is first performed in Glastonbury Assembly Rooms at the inaugural Glastonbury Festival co-founded by the English socialist composer. October - Adelina Patti gives her last public performance, in a Red Cross concert at Londons Royal Albert Hall, october 15 - In Rovigo, Beniamino Gigli makes his operatic debut in Amilcare Ponchiellis La Gioconda. The first recorded music is made in Trinidad and Tobago. First publication of Orchestration, the book by Cecil Forsyth. Performed in the 1951 film Two Weeks with Love by Debbie Reynolds, Irving Berlin Always Treat Her Like A Baby w. m. Irving Berlin Back To The Carolina You Love w. Grant Clarke m, Jean Schwartz Burlington Bertie From Bow w. m. William Hargreaves By Heck w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. S. R. Henry By The Beautiful Sea w. Harold R. Atteridge m. Harry Carroll By The Waters Of Minnetonka w. J. M. Cavanass m. Thurlow Lieurance California And You w. Edgar Leslie m. Harry Puck Cant You Hear Me Callin Caroline, william H. Gardner & Caro Roma Cecile Waltz by Frank McKee Colonel Bogey - March m. Kenneth J. Alford Come Over To Dover Murphy, Botsford La Cucaracha w. Stanley Adams m. arr, dLorah The Darktown Poker Club w. Jean C. Bert Williams & Will H. Vodery The Day Is Done w. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow m. Herman Lohr Desecration Rag Felix Arndt Down Among The Sheltering Palms w. James Brockman m. Irving Berlin Gilbert, The Filbert w. Arthur Wimperis m. Herman Finck Goodbye Girls Im Through w. John Golden m. Ivan Caryll Hes A Devil In His Own Home Town w. Grant Clarke & Irving Berlin m. Irving Berlin Hes A Rag Picker w. m. Irving Berlin Hot House Rag m. Paul Pratt I Love the Ladies by Grant Clarke I Want To Go Back To Michigan, Down On The Farm w. m. Irving Berlin I Was A Good Little Girl Till I Met You w. Clifford Harris m. James W. Tate If I Had You w. m, Irving Berlin If Thats Your Idea Of A Wonderful Time, Take Me Home w. m
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1915. March–December - The ukulele becomes popular as a result of its appearance in the Hawaiian Pavilion at the Panama–Pacific International Exposition in San Francisco, may 15 - Tom Browns band from New Orleans begin performing in Chicago, Illinois and start advertising themselves as a Jass Band. April 21 - Sibelius sees sixteen swans over Lake Tuusula which immediately inspires him to write the theme becomes the finalé to his Symphony No.5. Summer - Claude Debussy composes at Pourville on the French Channel coast, october 28 - Richard Strausss symphonic poem An Alpine Symphony is premiered by the orchestra of the Dresden Hofkapelle in Berlin under the composers baton. November 13 - First concert devoted to the work of Brazilian composer Heitor Villa-Lobos, December 8 - Jean Sibeliuss Symphony No.5 is premiered by the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra at a birthday concert for him. December - Claude Debussy becomes one of the first people to receive a colostomy, composer Alban Berg enters service with the Austro-Hungarian Army. Composer Herbert Howells is given six months to live, and becomes the first person in the UK to receive radium treatment, William Penfro Rowlandss hymn tune Blaenwern is first published in Henry H. Jones Cân a Moliant. Jack Yellen & George L. Cobb All For You w. Henry Blossom m, victor Herbert Along The Rocky Road To Dublin w. Joe Young m. Bert Grant America, I Love You w. Edgar Leslie m, irving Berlin Are You From Dixie. Jack Yellen & George L. Cobb Are You The OReilly, rooney, Emmett The Army Of Todays All Right w. m. Kenneth Lyle & Fred W. Leigh Auf Wiedersehen w. Herbert Reynolds m, Sigmund Romberg, from the musical The Blue Paradise Babes In The Wood w. Schuyler Greene & Jerome Kern m. Jerome Kern Baby Shoes w. Joe Goodwin & Ed Rose m. Al Piantadosi Beatrice Fairfax, Tell Me What To Do w. m, Grant Clarke, Joseph McCarthy, & James V. Monaco Belgium Put the Kibosh on the Kaiser w. m. Mark Sheridan Blame It On The Blues Doc Cooke Canadian Capers w. Earl Burnett m, Gus Chandler, Bert White & Henry Cohan Close To My Heart by A. B. Harold Atteridge & Sigmund Romberg Gasoline Gus And His Jitney Bus Gay, spencer Williams The Girl On The Magazine Cover w. m. Hirsch Hello, Hawaii, How Are You, W. Bert Kalmar & Edgar Leslie m. Jean Schwartz The Hesitating Blues w. m, handy I Can Beat You Doing What Youre Doing Me w. m. Clarence Williams & Armand J. Piron I Didnt Raise My Boy To Be A Soldier w. Alfred Bryan m. Al Piantadosi I Love a Piano w. m, irving Berlin I Wish I Was An Island In An Ocean Of Girls w. Henry Blossom m. Jean Schwartz In a Monastery Garden m. Albert William Ketèlbey Ireland Is Ireland To Me w. Fiske OHara & J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball Its Tulip Time In Holland w. Dave Radford m
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1916 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1916. February 1 - Carl Nielsen conducts the première of his Symphony No, february 11 - Baltimore Symphony Orchestra presents its first concert. March 3 - The Original Dixieland Jass Band begin playing at Schillers Cafe in Chicago, Illinois, march 10 - Sir Hubert Parry writes the choral setting of William Blakes poem And did those feet in ancient time which becomes known as Jerusalem. April 28 - Edison Records carry out the first public comparison test between live and recorded singing voices at Carnegie Hall, featuring soprano Marie Rappold, june 5 - Steins Dixie Jass Band plays its first concert under its new name, the Original Dixieland Jass Band. August 3 - The musical comedy Chu Chin Chow, written, produced, directed and starring Oscar Asche, with music by Frederic Norton, premières at His Majestys Theatre in London. It will run for five years and a total of 2,238 performances, december - Wilbur Sweatman records his hot ragtime for Emerson Records in New York City. Gustav Holst completes composition of his orchestral suite The Planets, Op.32, sydney Conservatorium of Music in Australia accepts its first students. Soprano Hedy Iracema-Brügelmann is awarded the Charlottenkreuz, german soprano Vali von der Osten marries tenor Fritz Windgassen. Allahs Holiday w. Otto Harbach m, rudolf Friml And They Called It Dixieland w. Raymond Egan m. Richard A. Whiting Arrah Go On, Im Gonna Go Back To Oregon w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m, Bert Grant At Finnigans Ball w. m. Bert Lee Baby Shoes by Joe Goodwin Beale Street Blues w. m, James W. Tate & Frank Clifford Harris Bugle Call Rag w. m. Eubie Blake & Carey Morgan Bull Frog Blues Tom Brown, Guy Shrigley The Cobblers Song w. Oscar Asche m, cliff Hess The Honolulu Blues w. Grant Clarke & Eddie Cox m. James V. Monaco Hows Every Little Thing In Dixie. W. Jack Yellen m. Albert Gumble Hula Lou w. Edward Grossmith m. Ted D. Ward I Aint Got Nobody w. Roger Graham & Dave Peyton m, spencer Williams I Can Dance With Everybody But My Wife w. Joseph Cawthorn & John Golden m. John Golden I Sent My Wife To The Thousand Isles w. Andrew B, sterling & Ed Moran m. Harry von Tilzer I Want To Marry A Male Quartette w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml If I Knock The L Out Of Kelly w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m, If You Were the Only Girl w. Clifford Grey m. Nat D. Ayer Im Sorry I Made You Cry w. m. N. J. Clesi Ireland Must Be Heaven, Fred Fisher Ive A Shooting Box In Scotland w. m. Thomas Lawrason Riggs & Cole Porter Joe Turner Blues w. Walter Hirsch m. W. C, handy Katinka w. Otto Harbach m. Rudolf Friml Keep Your Eye On The Girlie You Love w. Howard Johnson & Alex Gerber m, ira Schuster The Laddies Who Fought And Won w. m
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1917. S. See Category, Musical groups established in 1917 All The World Will Be Jealous Of Me w. Al Dubin m. Ernest R. Ball Any Time Is Kissing Time w. Oscar Asche m, frederic Norton from the musical Chu Chin Chow Are You From Heaven. W. m. L. Wolfe Gilbert & Anatole Friedland A Bachelor Gay w. Frank Clifford Harris & Valentine m. James W. Tate from the musical The Maid of the Mountains Barnyard Blues w. m. Edwin B. Charles Shisler Cheer Up, Liza John L. Golden, Raymond Hubbell Cleopatra Had A Jazz Band w. Jack Coogan m, jimmy Morgan Come To The Fair w. Helen Taylor m. Easthope Martin The Darktown Strutters Ball w. m, shelton Brooks Dixie Jass Band One-Step Original Dixieland Jass Band Down in the Valley trad US Eileen w. Henry Blossom m. Victor Herbert For Me And My Gal w. Edgar Leslie & E. Ray Goetz m. George W. Meyer For Your Country and My Country w. m. Irving Berlin Give a Man a Horse He Can Ride w. James Thomson m. Geoffrey OHara Give Me the Moonlight, Hirsch Good Luck and God Be With You, Laddie Boy w. Gus Edwards Good Bye Broadway, Hello France w. C. Francis Reisner & Benny Davis m, goodbye, Mule, with Yer Old Hee-Haw. w. William Herschell m. Barclay Walker Good-bye, That Means You w. Andrew B, sterling m. Arthur Lange Good-bye-ee w. m. R. P. Weston & Bert Lee Hail, the Gangs All Here w. D. A. Esrom m. Theodore F. Morse & Arthur Sullivan Have A Heart w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern Hawaiian Butterfly w. George A. Billy Baskette & Joseph H. Santley Homeward Bound m. George Meyer w. Howard Johnson, teresa del Riego How Can I Forget When Theres So Much To Remember w. m. Irving Berlin Huckleberry Finn by Cliff Hess I Dont Know Where Im Going But Im On My Way w. m, willie White Ill Take You Back To Italy w. m. Irving Berlin Im All Bound Round With The Mason-Dixon Line w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m, irving Berlin, Edgar Leslie & George W. Meyer Lily Of The Valley w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Fred Fisher Love Will Find A Way w. Harry Graham m, introduced by José Collins in the musical The Maid of the Mountains Madmoiselle From Armentieres w. m. anon McNamaras Band w. John J. Stamford m. Shamus OConnor The Modern Maidens Prayer w. Ballard MacDonald m. James F. Hanley My Sunshine Jane w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball My Sweetie w. m. Al Jolson, B. G. DeSylva & Gus Kahn Napoleon w. P. G, Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern Nesting Time In Flatbush w. P. G. Wodehouse m. Jerome Kern Oh Its A Lovely War w. m. Maurice Scott Oh Johnny, Oh Johnny, Oh, abe Olman Ole Miss Rag w. m. Handy On The Road To Home Sweet Home w. Gus Kahn m, egbert van Alstyne Ostrich Walk m. Edwin B
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1918. January 18 - The Historic Concert for the Benefit of Widows and Orphans of Austrian and Hungarian Soldiers at the Konzerthaus, Vienna. February 13 - May Mukle and Rebecca Clarke give a recital at the Aeolian Hall in New York City, accompanied by Marjorie Hayward, performing works by Hubert Parry, Frank Bridge and it includes the premiėre of Morpheus, written by Clarke under the pen-name Anthony Trent. March 3 - Béla Bartóks String Quartet No.2 is premièred in Budapest, april 30-May 1 - Composer Toivo Kuula is mortally wounded in the Finnish Civil War. May 24 - Béla Bartóks opera Duke Bluebeards Castle is premiered in Budapest, september 28 - First performance of Igor Stravinskys Histoire du Soldat, conducted by Ernest Ansermet, in Lausanne, Switzerland. September 29 - First performance of Gustav Holsts orchestral suite The Planets, before an audience at the Queens Hall in London. November 15 - Rosa Ponselle makes her Metropolitan Opera début as Leonora in Verdis La forza del destino, november 30 - Ernest Ansermet conducts the first concert by the Orchestre de la Suisse Romande. Ralph Vaughan Williams is appointed Director of Music, First Army, First documented racially integrated jazz recording session. Worldwide sales of phonograph/gramophone records estimated at 100 million records this year, Goldman Band founded by Edwin Franko Goldman After Youve Gone w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton At The Jazz Band Ball w. m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields Bagdad w. Harold Atteridge m. Al Jolson Beautiful Ohio w. Ballard MacDonald m. Mary Earl Clarinet Marmalade m. Edwin B. Edwards, Nick LaRocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields Dallas Blues w. Lloyd Garrett m. Hart A. Wand Dancing neath the Dixie moon w, dark Grows The Sky w. Harry Graham m. Harold Fraser-Simson The Daughter Of Rosie OGrady w. Monty C, brice m. Walter Donaldson Dear Little Boy of Mine w. J. Keirn Brennan m. Ernest R. Ball Dear Old Pal of Mine w. Harold Robe m. Lt. Gitz Rice Ding Dong w. m, Irving Berlin Every Day by Shelton Brooks Evrybodys Crazy bout the Doggone Blues, But Im Happy by Henry Creamer and Turner Layton Everything Is Peaches Down In Georgia w. Grant Clarke m. Milton Ager Fidgety Feet m. Edwin B, edwards, Nick La Rocca, Tony Spargo & Larry Shields A Good Man Is Hard To Find w. m. Eddie Green Good Morning Mr. Zip-Zip-Zip. w. m, give Me No Mans Land w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Oliver G. Wallace & Harold Weeks Hike, nat Vincent Hinky Dinky Parlay Voo by Edward Rowland How Can You Tell by Ned Wayburn How Ya Gonna Keep em Down on the Farm. W. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Walter Donaldson I Found The End Of The Rainbow w. m, john Mears, Harry Tierney & Joseph McCarthy I Want To Shimmy by Shelton Brooks If He Can Fight Like He Can Love, Good Night Germany. W. Grant Clarke & Howard Johnson m. George W. Meyer Ill Be There, Laddie Boy, B. G. DeSylva, Gus Kahn & Al Jolson In The Land Of Beginning Again w. Grant Clarke m. George W. Meyer Ja-Da w. m
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1919. January 18 - The pianist Paderewski becomes Prime Minister of Poland, april 7 - The Original Dixieland Jazz Band brings Dixieland jazz to England, opening a 15-month tour at the Hippodrome, London. July 22 - The Ballets Russes gives the premiere of Manuel de Fallas ballet El sombrero de tres picos in London. August - Josef Matthias Hauer devises his own technique of composition. August 19 - The Southern Syncopated Orchestra, visiting the UK, Ernest Ansermet subsequently writes an enthusiastic review of the orchestras performances in London, singling out Sidney Bechet - one of the first serious pieces of jazz criticism. October 27 - Edward Elgars Cello Concerto is premiered in London, the Louisiana Five are advertised as playing Modern Jazz. Johan Wagenaar becomes director of the Royal Conservatory at the Hague, elsie Griffin joins the DOyly Carte Opera Company. Gustav Kobbés guide The Complete Opera Book is first published, in the United States, wee-Wee. w. George Jessel, m. Harry Ruby Any Old Place With You w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers Ask the Stars by Frank M. Stammers Baby, Charles Warfield & Clarence Williams Blues My Naughty Sweetie Gives To Me w. m. Charles McCarron, Casey Morgan & Arthur Swanstrom Breeze w. m. Ballard MacDonald, ed. Thomas Camp Meeting Blues by Dabneys Band Cielito Lindo w. m. Quirino Mendoza y Cortez Daddy Long Legs w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young Dardanella w. Fred Fisher m, felix Bernard & Johnny S. Black Dont Dilly Dally on the Way w. m. Fred W. Leigh & Charles Collins Everybody Wants A Key To My Cellar w. m, ed Rose, Billy Baskette & Lew Pollack Grönnens Laid, w. Geert Teis Pzn. m. Art Hickman & Ben Black I Aint Gonna Give Nobody None O This Jelly Roll w. Spencer Williams m. Clarence Williams I Gave Her That w. m. B. G. De Sylva & Al Jolson I Lost My Heart In Dixieland w. m. Irving Berlin I Might be Your Once-In-A-While w. Robert B. Smith m, victor Herbert I Never Realized w. m. Cole Porter I Wish I Could Shimmy Like My Sister Kate w. m. Armand J. Piron Im Forever Blowing Bubbles w. John W. Kellette m, jaan Kenbrovin Indian Summer w. Al Dubin m. Irene w. Joseph McCarthy m. Harry Tierney, introduced by Edith Day in the musical Irene Ive Got My Captain Working for Me Now w. m. Irving Berlin Jazz Baby w. Blanche Merrill & William Jerome m. William Jerome Just Like a Gipsy w. m, victor Jacobi Love Sends A Little Gift Of Roses w. Leslie Cooke m. John Openshaw Mah Lindy Lou w. m, lily Strickland Mammy O Mine w. William Tracey m
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February 20 – Filippo Tommaso Marinettis Futurist Manifesto is first published, in the French newspaper Le Figaro. May–June – Claude Monets Water Lilies series of paintings are first exhibited, july 22 – Widowed Irish-born painter John Lavery marries Irish American painter Hazel Martyn. Guillaume Apollinaires first book of poetry is illustrated with woodcuts by André Derain, léon Bakst begins painting scenery for Sergei Diaghilevs Ballets Russes, beginning with Cleopatra. Robert Delaunay begins painting his Saint-Sévrin, City and Eiffel Tower series, lithuanian Jewish sculptor Jacques Lipchitz moves to Paris to study and work. Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque create the first works of analytical cubism, sonderbund westdeutscher Kunstfreunde und Künstler established in Düsseldorf. Kunsthalle Mannheim established as a permanent art gallery, reformation Wall created in Geneva by Swiss architects Charles Dubois, Alphonse Laverrière, Eugène Monod and Jean Taillens with figures by French sculptors Paul Landowski and Henri Bouchard. Sergey Prokudin-Gorsky is commissioned by Nicholas II of Russia to begin a record in color photography of his empire, Henri Gaudier meets Sophie Brzeska at the Bibliothèque Sainte-Geneviève in Paris. W. W. Waterhouse – Gather Ye Rosebuds While Ye May January 16 – Clement Greenberg, January 25 – Joseph Solman, American painter. February 7 – Wilhelm Freddie, Danish painter and sculptor, february 12 – Zoran Mušič, Slovenian- born painter. February 17 – Gertrude Abercrombie, American painter, february 19 – Enrico Donati, Italian- born American Surrealist painter and sculptor. February 26 – Michel Tapié, French artist, critic, curator, march 13 – Reynolds Stone, English wood engraver. March 22 – Milt Kahl, American animator, april 3 – Graham Stuart Thomas, English horticultural artist, author and garden designer. April 30 – F. E. McWilliam, Irish sculptor, may 17 – Giulio Carlo Argan, Italian art historian and politician. June 14 – Ettore DeGrazia, American impressionist, painter, sculptor, june 26 – Wolfgang Reitherman, German-American animator. July 13 – Marie-Thérèse Walter, mistress of Pablo Picasso, september 14 – Peter Scott, English ornithologist, conservationist, painter. September 28 – Al Capp, cartoonist, october 13 – Herblock, political cartoonist. October 28 – Francis Bacon, Irish-born British figurative painter, november 5 – Milena Pavlović-Barili, Serbian painter and poet. November 6 – Herman Rose painter, december 25 – Philip Zec, British political cartoonist
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The year 1909 in architecture involved some significant events. February 28 - The Praetorian Building in Dallas, Texas, USA, march 15 - Selfridges, Oxford Street, London department store, designed by American architect Daniel Burnham, opens. March 25 - Hjorthagen Church in Stockholm, Sweden, opens, march 30 - Queensboro Bridge in New York City, designed by Gustav Lindenthal in collaboration with Leffert L. Buck and Henry Hornbostel, opens. April 25 - A bomb blast damages St. Louis Cathedral, may 1 - Opening of the International Exhibition of the East of France, held in Nancy until October 31. July 1 - Wiesen Viaduct on the Rhaetian Railway in Switzerland, designed by Henning Friedrich, july 14 - Teatro Municipal opens. October 10 - Fades viaduct in France opens, October - United States Post Office, Courthouse, and Custom House, designed under the supervision of James Knox Taylor, opens. November 8 - Boston Opera House in the United States opens, november 25 - Bucharest Russian Church sanctified. Catholic Cathedral of the Madeleine in Salt Lake City, Utah, designed by Carl M. Neuhausen and Bernard O. Mecklenburg, basílica del Voto Nacional in Quito, Ecuador, designed by Emilio Tarlier, completed. Holy Myrrhbearers Cathedral in Baku, Azerbaijan, built, St. Nicholas Roman Catholic Cathedral, Kiev, completed by Władysław Horodecki to a design of S. Volovskiy, consecrated. Saint-Édouard Church in Montreal, Quebec, designed by Joseph-Ovide Turgeon, novi Sad Synagogue in Serbia, designed by Baumhorn Lipót, completed. Façade of San Silvestro, Venice, designed by Giuseppe Sicher, grand Post Office in Istanbul, Turkey, designed by Vedat Tek, completed. United States Post Offices in New York State at Corning, Ithaca and Little Falls, designed under the supervision of James Knox Taylor, chemnitz Opera in Germany, designed by Richard Möbius, completed. Higgins Building in Los Angeles completed, corinthian Hall in Kansas City, Missouri, designed by Henry Hoit of Hoit, Price and Barnes, completed. Construction work begins on the Robie House, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, in Hyde Park, AIA Gold Medal - Charles Follen McKim. Royal Gold Medal - Arthur John Evans, grand Prix de Rome, architecture, Maurice Boutterin
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1909 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1909. January – T. E. Hulmes poems Autumn and A City Sunset, january 15 – Opening night of Filippo Tommaso Marinettis drama La donna è mobile at the Teatro Alfieri, Turin. February 20 – Filippo Tommaso Marinettis Futurist Manifesto is first published, march 2 – Katherine Mansfield, at this time pregnant by another man, marries singing teacher George Bowden in London, leaving him the same evening to resume a lesbian relationship with Ida Baker. April The opening night of Filippo Tommaso Marinettis drama Le Roi bombance is heckled by the audience, the German periodical Die Tat is founded by Ernst Horneffer. April 24 – The Metropolitan Library in Beijing, predecessor of the National Library of China, is founded by the Qing government, september 6 – Israel Zangwills play The Melting Pot opens in New York City. September 23 – Gaston Lerouxs novel The Phantom of the Opera begins serialization in the Paris newspaper Le Gaulois. September 29 – Franz Kafkas short story The Aeroplanes at Brescia, based on an event, is published in the Prague newspaper Bohemia. November – E. M. Forsters science fiction short story The Machine Stops is published in The Oxford and Cambridge Review. G
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Leopold Stokowski
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Leopold Anthony Stokowski was a British conductor of Polish and Irish descent. One of the conductors of the early and mid-20th Century, he is best known for his long association with the Philadelphia Orchestra. He was especially noted for his conducting style that spurned the traditional baton. He was also the founder of the All-American Youth Orchestra, the New York City Symphony, the Hollywood Bowl Symphony Orchestra, there is some mystery surrounding his early life. For example, he spoke with an unusual, non-British accent, though he was born and raised in London. On occasion, Stokowski gave his year of birth as 1887 instead of 1882, as in a letter to the Hugo Riemann Musiklexicon in 1950, in Germany there was a corresponding rumour that his original name was simply Stock. However, Stokowskis birth certificate gives his birth on 18 April 1882, at 13 Upper Marylebone Street, Stokowski was named after his Polish-born grandfather Leopold, who died in the English county of Surrey on 13 January 1879, at the age of 49. Samaroff, born Lucy Mary Agnes Hickenlooper, was from Galveston, Texas, for professional and career reasons, she urged him to emphasize only the Polish part of his background once he became a resident of the United States. He studied at the Royal College of Music, where he first enrolled in 1896 at the age of thirteen, in his later life in the US, Stokowski would perform six of the nine symphonies composed by his fellow organ student Ralph Vaughan Williams. Stokowski sang in the choir of the St Marylebone Parish Church, by age 16, Stokowski was elected to a membership in the Royal College of Organists. In 1900, he formed the choir of St. Marys Church, Charing Cross Road, in 1902, he was appointed the organist and choir director of St. Jamess Church, Piccadilly. He also attended The Queens College, Oxford, where he earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 1903, in 1905, Stokowski began work in New York City as the organist and choir director of St. Bartholomews Church. He was very popular among the parishioners, who included members of the Vanderbilt family, Stokowski moved to Paris for additional study in conducting. There he heard that the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra would be needing a new conductor when it returned from a long sabbatical, Stokowski was selected over the other applicants, and took up his conducting duties in late 1909. Stokowskis conducting debut in London took place the week on 18 May with the New Symphony Orchestra at Queens Hall. His engagement as new permanent conductor in Cincinnati was a great success and he introduced the concept of pops concerts and, starting with his first season, he began championing the work of living composers. His concerts included performances of music by Richard Strauss, Sibelius, Rachmaninoff, Debussy, Glazunov, Saint-Saëns and he conducted the American premieres of new works by such composers as Elgar, whose 2nd Symphony was first presented there on 24 November 1911. He was to maintain his advocacy of music to the end of his career
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Boston Opera House (1909)
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The Boston Opera House was an opera house located on Huntington Avenue in Boston, Massachusetts. It opened in 1909 as the home of the Boston Opera Company and was demolished in 1958 after years of disuse, speare Hall, a Northeastern University dormitory, now stands on the site at the corner of Opera Place and Huntington Avenue. Designed by the Boston architects Wheelwright and Haven, construction began on the Boston Opera House in 1901, guido Nincheri provided interior decoration for the theatre which was located two blocks from Boston Symphony Hall, and one block from the New England Conservatory of Music. The opera house opened on November 8,1909 with a performance of La Gioconda by the BOC. The production starred Lillian Nordica in the role and Louise Homer as La Cieca. At its opening, the theatre was described as a perfect jewel-box of an opera house and it served as the home of the BOC during the companys six years of operation. Russell served as the director for all its short duration. After the BOC went bankrupt in 1915 the venue was used by other opera companies. During the Great Depression and World War II, the Opera House fell into disuse, in 1957, the Boston Redevelopment Authority, acting on behalf of the Northeastern University Trustees, declared it unsafe, and scheduled it for demolition. The local opera community demonstrated and petitioned the BRA to spare their only venue, the solidly built building was gutted in 1958, but proved difficult to demolish. Two demolition companies gave up in frustration, as the house resisted their efforts. Only after a new and larger wrecking derrick arrived, did the walls fall, a brick rescued from the demolished theater by noted WGBH-FM announcer Ron Della Chiesa is preserved in the theaters archives at Northeastern University. The archived plans for the Opera House may be viewed and copied by requesting an appointment with Northeastern Universitys Facilities or Space Planning and Design Department. The grand opera singers of to-day, an account of the operatic stars who have sung during recent years. Page and Company,1912 Eichler, Jeremy, The rise and fall of the original Boston Opera House, The Boston Globe, November 8,2009
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La Gioconda (opera)
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La Gioconda is an opera in four acts by Amilcare Ponchielli set to an Italian libretto by Arrigo Boito, based on Angelo, Tyrant of Padua, a play in prose by Victor Hugo, dating from 1835. First performed in 1876, La Gioconda was a success for Ponchielli. It is also an example of the Italian genre of Grande opera. Ponchielli revised the work several times, the version that is played today was first given in 1880, there are several complete recordings of the opera, and it is regularly performed, especially in Italy. It is one of only a few operas that features a role for each of the six major voice types. La Gioconda was first performed at the Teatro alla Scala, Milan and it was especially successful in its third and final version first seen at the same theatre on 28 March 1880. The opera had its American premiere at the Metropolitan Opera on 20 December 1883, the operas title translates as The Happy Woman, but is usually given in English as The Ballad Singer. However, as this fails to convey the irony inherent in the original, each act of La Gioconda has a title. The villain Barnaba tries to seduce Gioconda, but she prefers death, when his amorous advances are firmly rejected, he exacts his revenge by denouncing the old lady as a witch whose evil powers influenced the outcome of the gondola race. It is only the intervention of a sea captain that keeps the angry mob at bay. Calm is restored at the approach of Alvise Badoero, a member of the Venetian Inquisition, Laura places La Cieca under her personal protection, and in gratitude the old woman presents her with her most treasured possession, a rosary. The sharp-eyed Barnaba notices furtive behaviour between Laura and the sea captain indicating a secret relationship, recalling that Laura was engaged to the now banished nobleman Enzo Grimaldo before her forced marriage to Alvise, Barnaba realises that the sea captain is Enzo in disguise. Barnaba confronts Enzo, who admits his purpose in returning to Venice is to take Laura, Barnaba knows that Gioconda is also infatuated with Enzo and he sees an opportunity to improve his chances with her by assisting Enzo with his plan of elopement. When Enzo has gone, Barnaba dictates a letter to Alvise revealing his wifes infidelity and he is unaware that he has been overheard by Gioconda. The deck of Enzos ship Enzo waits for Barnaba to row Laura out from the city to his vessel and their joyful reunion is overshadowed by Lauras fears as she does not trust Barnaba. Gradually Enzo is able to reassure her, and he leaves her on deck while he goes to prepare for their departure, La Gioconda has been following Laura with the intention of exacting revenge from her rival. Alvise and his men are also in hot pursuit. She hurries Laura into her boat so that she can evade her pursuers, Enzo returns to the deck to find that Laura has fled leaving Gioconda triumphant
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Lillian Nordica
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Lillian Nordica was an American opera singer who had a major stage career in Europe and her native country. She was born Lillian Allen Norton in a small Cape Cod style farmhouse built by her grandfather on a hill in Farmington, the Nordica stage name was bestowed by an Italian maestro at the beginning of her operatic career. He convinced her that European opera-goers would not tolerate a diva with a plain sounding, the adopted name, Giglia Nordica, meant Lily of the North but she soon became known as Madame Nordica or simply as Nordica. In her youth, Nordica is said to have possessed an inherent fondness for music, when she was eight her family moved to Boston, Massachusetts to continue the musical education of her sister Wilhelmina. Wilhelmina died before her 18th birthday, family hopes were then pinned on Lillian and her musical education began soon thereafter. She trained as a singer at Boston, graduating from the New England Conservatory in that city at the age of 18 and she had made her public debut at the conservatory as a soloist with the Handel and Haydn Society. Convinced that she could forge a career as a professional performer, she travelled to Italy. As Madame Nordica, she made her debut at Brescia in 1879. She went on to assume a high rank among the international prima donnas of her era, appearing in major musical venues in Western Europe. She sang for example at The Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, in 1887-93, in her native America she was particularly associated with the Metropolitan Opera in New York, where her frequent stage partner was the cultured Polish tenor Jean de Reszke. She sang at the Met from 1891 until 1910, with breaks in between. By all accounts Nordica possessed a big, agile and pure-toned soprano voice which she was prepared to use unstintingly. She established her reputation as an opera singer of the first magnitude despite facing powerful competition during her career from a number of other outstanding dramatic sopranos. Her main rivals included Lilli Lehmann, Rosa Sucher, Katharina Klafsky, Milka Ternina, Therese Malten, Johanna Gadski, Félia Litvinne, Olive Fremstad, Anna von Mildenburg, by 1913, Nordicas voice and health were in decline. She nearly missed the ship leaving Sydney on her return, and it would prove to be a fatal mistake. The Tasman hit a reef, where it remained for three days, and Nordica suffered hypothermia from which she never recovered. She was taken to Thursday Island, Queensland, where she was hospitalised for some time, there she befriended a small American boy who was taken ill while on a different vessel passing through Torres Strait. After his death, Nordica installed a gravestone in the cemetery in his memory
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Louise Homer
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Louise Homer was an American operatic contralto who had an active international career in concert halls and opera houses from 1895 until her retirement in 1932. After a brief stint as an entertainer in New England. She then became a member of the Metropolitan Opera from 1900 to 1919 and she was also active as an opera singer in Boston, Chicago, and California. She recorded extensively for Victor Records and Columbia Records in the decades of the 20th century. She was married to composer Sidney Homer for 52 years, Homer sang a broad repertoire which encompassed works from the French, German, and Italian repertoires. She enjoyed particular success in the operas of Giuseppe Verdi and Richard Wagner and she often stated in interviews that her favorite role to perform was Amneris in Verdis Aida. At the Met she sang in several United States premieres and created roles in two world premieres, the witch in Engelbert Humperdincks Königskinder and the role in Horatio Parkers Mona. Soprano Nellie Melba once hailed her as the worlds most beautiful voice, in 1923 and 1924 she was listed as one of the 12 greatest living women by the National League of Women Voters. Homer was born Louise Dilworth Beatty in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania on April 30,1871 and her father, Reverend William Trimble Beatty, was a Presbyterian minister who founded Pennsylvania Female College. Her father initially expressed concerns over his daughters desired singing career for religious reasons and she began her vocal training in Philadelphia, but ultimately ended up in Boston. In Boston Homer met composer Sidney Homer whom she married in 1895 and they remained married until her death more than five decades later and had six children together, including authors Joy Homer and Anne Homer, as well as Louise Homer, a soprano. Just months before her marriage, Homer made her debut in January 1895 in a vaudeville production at Keiths Opera House in Providence. While further honing her craft, she spent the few years performing periodically at functions organized by members of the elite society of Boston. In 1898 Homer went to France to pursue studies in Paris with Fidèle König and she made her professional operatic debut as Léonore in Donizettis La favorite at Vichy in 1898. The following year she performed at the Royal Opera House in London before going to Brussels where she was engaged at the Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie for eight months. Homer made her American opera debut at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City in 1900 singing Amneris in Verdis Aida and she sang at the Met for 19 consecutive seasons, often singing opposite such acclaimed singers as Enrico Caruso, Geraldine Farrar, and Ernestine Schumann-Heink. At the Met, she created roles in two world premieres, the witch in Engelbert Humperdincks Königskinder and the role in Horatio Parkers Mona. She also sang in the American premieres of Ignacy Jan Paderewskis Manru, Richard Wagners Parsifal, Christoph Willibald Glucks Armide and she also sang Suzuki in the Met premiere of Puccinis Madama Butterfly in the presence of the composer on February 11,1907
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Sergei Rachmaninoff
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Sergei Vasilievich Rachmaninoff was a Russian pianist, composer, and conductor of the late-Romantic period, some of whose works are among the most popular in the classical repertoire. Born into a family, Rachmaninoff took up the piano at age four. He graduated from the Moscow Conservatory in 1892 and had composed several piano, in 1897, following the critical reaction to his Symphony No. 1, Rachmaninoff entered a depression and composed little until successful therapy allowed him to complete his enthusiastically received Piano Concerto No.2 in 1901. After the Russian Revolution, Rachmaninoff and his family left Russia and resided in the United States, in 1942, Rachmaninoff moved to Beverly Hills, California. One month before his death from advanced melanoma, Rachmaninoff acquired American citizenship, the piano is featured prominently in Rachmaninoffs compositional output, and through his own skills as a performer he explored the expressive possibilities of the instrument. Rachmaninoff was born at an estate in the Novgorod province in north-western Russia. It is unclear if he was born in the estate of Oneg, near Veliky Novgorod, or Semyonovo, near Staraya Russa, the Rachmaninoffs had strong musical and military leanings. The composers grandfather on the line, Arkady Alexandrovich, was a musician. His father, Vasily Arkadyevich Rachmaninoff, was an army officer and he married Lyubov Petrovna Butakova, the daughter of a wealthy army general who gave her five estates as part of her dowry. The couple had three sons and three daughters, Rachmaninoff being their fourth child, Rachmaninoff began piano and music lessons organised by his mother at the age of four. She became impressed with her sons musical ability to recite passages from memory without playing a wrong note. Rachmaninoff later dedicated Spring Waters, Song No.32 to Ornatskaya, in 1882, Rachmaninoffs father had to auction off their Oneg estate due to his financial incompetence—the familys five estates had been reduced to one. Rachmaninoff described his father as a wastrel, a gambler, a pathological liar. The family moved to a flat in Saint Petersburg. When Rachmaninoffs course of lessons with Ornatskaya neared its end, she arranged for him to music at the Saint Petersburg Conservatory. That year, his sister Sofia died of diphtheria and his left the family, with their approval. In 1885, Rachmaninoffs sister Yelena died of pernicious anemia at eighteen and she was an important musical influence to Rachmaninoff who introduced him to the works of Tchaikovsky
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Piano Concerto No. 3 (Rachmaninoff)
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The second theme opens with quiet exchanges between the orchestra and the piano before fully diving into a slower theme in B♭ major. The first part of the first theme is restated before the movement is pulled into a development section which opens with toccata like quavers in the piano. The whole development exhibits features similar to a canon, such as an eighth note passage in the piano in which the left hand, the movement reaches a number of ferocious climaxes, especially in the cadenza. Rachmaninoff wrote two versions of this cadenza, the original, which is commonly notated as the ossia. Both cadenzas lead into a solo section where the flute, oboe, clarinet and horn restate the first theme of the exposition. Intermezzo, Adagio The second movement is opened by the orchestra and it consists of a number of variations around a single lush, the melody soon moves to the tonic major which is the second theme. Then the piano gets the last word with a short passage which moves into the last movement without pause. Many melodic thoughts of this movement allude to Rachmaninoffs second piano concerto, third movement, finale, Alla breve The third movement is quick and vigorous and contains variations on many of the themes that are used in the first movement, which unites the concerto cyclically. However, after the first and second themes it diverges from the regular sonata-allegro form, there is no conventional development, that segment is replaced by a lengthy digression using the major key of the third movements first theme, which leads to the two themes from the first movement. The movement concludes with a triumphant and passionate second theme melody in D major, the piece ends with the same four-note rhythm – claimed by some to be the composers musical signature – as both the composers second concerto and second symphony. Rachmaninoff, under pressure, and hoping to make his work more popular, authorized several cuts in the score and these cuts, particularly in the second and third movements, were commonly taken in performance and recordings during the initial decades following the Concertos publication. More recently, it has become commonplace to perform the concerto without cuts, a typical performance of the complete concerto lasts about forty minutes. Rachmaninoff composed the concerto in the setting of his familys country estate, Ivanovka. Contemporary with this work are his First Piano Sonata and his tone poem The Isle of the Dead, the concerto is respected, even feared, by many pianists. Josef Hofmann, the pianist to whom the work is dedicated, never performed it. Gary Graffman lamented he had not learned this concerto as a student, due to time constraints, Rachmaninoff could not practice the piece while in Russia. Instead, he practiced it on a silent keyboard that he brought with him while en route to the United States, the concerto was first performed on November 28,1909 by Rachmaninoff himself with the now-defunct New York Symphony Society with Walter Damrosch conducting, at the New Theater. It received a performance under Gustav Mahler several weeks later
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New York City
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The City of New York, often called New York City or simply New York, is the most populous city in the United States. With an estimated 2015 population of 8,550,405 distributed over an area of about 302.6 square miles. Located at the tip of the state of New York. Home to the headquarters of the United Nations, New York is an important center for international diplomacy and has described as the cultural and financial capital of the world. Situated on one of the worlds largest natural harbors, New York City consists of five boroughs, the five boroughs – Brooklyn, Queens, Manhattan, The Bronx, and Staten Island – were consolidated into a single city in 1898. In 2013, the MSA produced a gross metropolitan product of nearly US$1.39 trillion, in 2012, the CSA generated a GMP of over US$1.55 trillion. NYCs MSA and CSA GDP are higher than all but 11 and 12 countries, New York City traces its origin to its 1624 founding in Lower Manhattan as a trading post by colonists of the Dutch Republic and was named New Amsterdam in 1626. The city and its surroundings came under English control in 1664 and were renamed New York after King Charles II of England granted the lands to his brother, New York served as the capital of the United States from 1785 until 1790. It has been the countrys largest city since 1790, the Statue of Liberty greeted millions of immigrants as they came to the Americas by ship in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and is a symbol of the United States and its democracy. In the 21st century, New York has emerged as a node of creativity and entrepreneurship, social tolerance. Several sources have ranked New York the most photographed city in the world, the names of many of the citys bridges, tapered skyscrapers, and parks are known around the world. Manhattans real estate market is among the most expensive in the world, Manhattans Chinatown incorporates the highest concentration of Chinese people in the Western Hemisphere, with multiple signature Chinatowns developing across the city. Providing continuous 24/7 service, the New York City Subway is one of the most extensive metro systems worldwide, with 472 stations in operation. Over 120 colleges and universities are located in New York City, including Columbia University, New York University, and Rockefeller University, during the Wisconsinan glaciation, the New York City region was situated at the edge of a large ice sheet over 1,000 feet in depth. The ice sheet scraped away large amounts of soil, leaving the bedrock that serves as the foundation for much of New York City today. Later on, movement of the ice sheet would contribute to the separation of what are now Long Island and Staten Island. The first documented visit by a European was in 1524 by Giovanni da Verrazzano, a Florentine explorer in the service of the French crown and he claimed the area for France and named it Nouvelle Angoulême. Heavy ice kept him from further exploration, and he returned to Spain in August and he proceeded to sail up what the Dutch would name the North River, named first by Hudson as the Mauritius after Maurice, Prince of Orange
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George Enescu
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George Enescu, known in France as Georges Enesco, was a Romanian composer, violinist, pianist, conductor, and teacher. He is regarded by many as Romanias most important musician, Enescu was born in Romania, in the village of Liveni, in Dorohoi County at the time, today Botoşani County. He showed musical talent from early in his childhood, a child prodigy, Enescu began experimenting with composing at an early age. Several, mostly very short pieces survive, all of them for violin, the earliest work of significant length bears the title Pămînt românesc, and is inscribed opus for piano and violin by George Enescu, Romanian composer, aged five years and a quarter. Shortly thereafter, his father presented him to the professor and composer Eduard Caudella. On 5 October 1888, at the age of seven, he became the youngest student ever admitted to the Vienna Conservatory, where he studied with Joseph Hellmesberger, Jr. Robert Fuchs, and Sigismund Bachrich. He was the person ever admitted to this university by a dispensation of age, after only Fritz Kreisler. In 1891, the ten-year-old Enescu gave a concert at the Court of Vienna. Joseph Hellmesberger, Sr. one of his teachers and the director of the Vienna Conservatory, hosted Enescu at his home and he graduated before his 13th birthday, earning the silver medal. In his Viennese concerts young Enescu played works by Brahms, Sarasate, in 1895 he went to Paris to continue his studies. He studied violin with Martin Pierre Marsick, harmony with André Gedalge, Enescu then studied from 1895 to 1899 at the Conservatoire de Paris. André Gedalge said that he was the one who truly had ideas. On 6 February 1898, at the age of only 16, George Enescu presented in Paris his first mature work, Poema Română, played by the Colonne Orchestra and conducted by Édouard Colonne. Many of Enescus works were influenced by Romanian folk music, his most popular compositions being the two Romanian Rhapsodies, the opera Œdipe, and the suites for orchestra and he also wrote five symphonies, a symphonic poem Vox maris, and much chamber music. A young Ravi Shankar recalled in the 1960s how Enescu, who had developed a deep interest in Oriental music, rehearsed with Shankars brother Uday Shankar and his musicians. Around the same time, Enescu took the young Yehudi Menuhin to the Colonial Exhibition in Paris and it was in America, in the 1920s, that Enescu was first persuaded to make recordings as a violinist. He also appeared as a conductor with many American orchestras, in 1932, Enescu was elected a titular member of the Romanian Academy. In 1935, he conducted the Orchestre Symphonique de Paris and Yehudi Menuhin in Mozarts Violin Concerto No.3 in G major and he also conducted the New York Philharmonic between 1937 and 1938
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Octet (Enescu)
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The Octet for Strings in C major, Op.7, is a composition by the Romanian composer George Enescu, completed in 1900. Together with the Octet by Niels Gade, it is regarded as amongst the most notable successors to Felix Mendelssohns celebrated Octet, following the completion of his Second Violin Sonata in 1899, composition of the Octet occupied Enescu for a year and a half. The complexity of a structure spanning forty minutes in performance caused him considerable difficulty, I wore myself out trying to make work a piece of music divided into four segments of such length that each of them was likely at any moment to break. An engineer launching his first suspension bridge over a river, could not feel more anxiety than I felt when I set out to darken my paper, once he had completed the Octet, Enescu offered it to Édouard Colonne for performance in his Concerts Colonne. However, after five rehearsals, the impresario removed it from the program on grounds that it was too risky, a decision that Enescu regarded bitterly. The belated premiere finally took place on 18 December 1909 in the Salle des Agriculteurs in Paris, the performers were the combined members of the Géloso and Chailley Quartets, conducted by the composer. I leave it to the choice of the conductor to decide which passages are to be played solo. Enescus composition stands in contrast to Felix Mendelssohns Octet, which sets a soloistic violin part against an accompaniment of the stringed instruments. Enescus work on the hand is a genuine octet that finds its most natural expression just in its hallucinatory convergent and divergent contrapuntal voices. The first movement functions as the exposition and the finale as recapitulation, there are between nine and as many as twelve melodic themes used in the work, depending on the analysis. The greatest number of them are presented in the exposition of the first part, the second part is a kind of demonic scherzo, tumultuous and whirling, while the third is a lyrical, slow movement, in both of them new themes are added. George Enescu, Octet for Strings in C Major, Op.7, American Arts Orchestra, Karl Krueger, cond. LP recording,1 disc, analog, monaural,12 in, New Records, Inc. George Enescu, Octet for Strings in C Major, Op.7. String octet of members of the Uniunea Compozitorilor din Republica Socialista România, LP recording 1 audio disc, analog, 33⅓ rpm, monaural,12 in. Bucharest, Casa de discuri Electrecord, Artia ALP119, reissued in a coupling with the Decet for Winds in D Major, Op.14, as a “reconditioned recording”. CD recording,1 disc, digital, monaural & stereo,12 cm, Bucharest, Casa de discuri Electrecord,1992. George Enescu, Octet for Strings in C Major, Op.7, voces String Quartet of Iasi, Iasi String Quartet. LP recording 1 audio disc, analog, 33⅓ rpm, stereo,12 in, reissued, coupled with the Decet for winds in D, Op.14, performed by the Winds of the Iasi Moldova Philharmonic
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Theater Chemnitz
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The Chemnitz Opera is an opera house and opera company in Chemnitz. The building, designed by the German architect Richard Möbius, was constructed between 1906 and 1909, following its destruction during World War II, it was reconstructed between 1947 and 1951. It was renovated again in 1988 -1992, and is considered to be one of the most modern houses in Europe. The house can accommodate 720 patrons, source English article is based on a translation of the corresponding German article Retrieved 6 January 2013 Media related to Opernhaus Chemnitz at Wikimedia Commons Die Theater Chemnitz
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Adrian Ross
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He was the most important lyricist of the British stage during a career that spanned five decades. At a time when few shows had long runs, nineteen of his West End shows ran for over 400 performances. Starting out in the late 1880s, Ross wrote the lyrics for the earliest British musical theatre hits, including In Town, The Shop Girl and The Circus Girl. Ross next wrote the lyrics for a string of hit musicals, beginning with A Greek Slave, San Toy, The Messenger Boy and The Toreador and he also wrote the English lyrics for a series of hit adaptations of European operettas beginning with The Merry Widow in 1907. During World War I, Ross was one of the founders of the Performing Rights Society and he continued writing until 1930, producing several more successes after the war. He also wrote the popular novel The Hole of the Pit, Ross was born in Lewisham, London. He was the youngest son and fourth child of Ellen Harriet Ropes née Hall, of Scarborough, and William Hooper Ropes, a Russia merchant. Rosss parents lived in Normandy, France, but sent him to school in London at Priory House School in Clapton, Mill Hill School, and the City of London School. He later attended Kings College, Cambridge, where, in 1881, he won the Chancellors Medal for English verse for his poem Temple Bar, in 1883 he graduated with a first-class degree, winning the Lightfoot scholarship for history and a Whewell scholarship for international law. He was elected a fellow of the College and he was a Cambridge University graduate and don, teaching history and poetry from 1884 to 1890 and writing serious and comic verse of his own, the first volume of which was published in 1884. In 1889, he published A Sketch of the History of Europe and he was also a translator of French and German literature under his own name. He created the fictitious name Adrian Ross due to a concern that writing musicals would compromise his academic career. During a brief illness in 1883 after catching cold at the University Boat Race and this was produced at St. Georges Hall, London in 1884 with music by Arthur Law, and Ross used the name Arthur Reed. His next work for the stage, also as Arthur Reed, was the book and lyrics for a burlesque, Faddimir, with music by fellow Cambridge graduate. The piece earned enough praise so that the impresario George Edwardes commissioned the two to write another burlesque, together with the comic actor John Lloyd Shine, called Joan of Arc. Songs from the piece included I Went to Find Emin, Round the Town, Joan of Arc opened in 1891 at the Opera Comique starring Arthur Roberts and Marion Hood, he wrote under the pseudonym Adrian Ross, which he used for the rest of his career. The piece was a hit, lasting for almost eight hundred performances, to supplement his income from theatre writing, Ross became a contributor to such journals as Punch, Sketch, Sphere and The World, and he joined the staff of Ariel in 1891–1892. He wrote in The Tatler under the pseudonym Bran Pie and in 1893 published an edition of Lady Mary Wortley Montagues Letters and he also published numerous French texts for the Pitt Press series
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Lionel Monckton
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Lionel John Alexander Monckton was an English writer and composer of musical theatre. He became Britains most popular composer of Edwardian musical comedy in the years of the 20th century. Monckton was born in London, the eldest son of the Town Clerk of London, Sir John Braddick Monckton, and Lady Monckton, the former Maria Louisa Long and his sister was Mrs Augusta Moore, who wrote popular novels as Martin J. Pritchard. He was educated at Charterhouse School and Oriel College at Oxford University, there he acted in college theatrical productions and composed music for productions of the Oxford University Dramatic Society, of which he was a founder, and the Phil-Thespian Club. His first theatre work was Mummies and Marriage, an operetta produced by amateurs in 1888. At the age of 29, in 1891, he managed to place the song What will you have to Drink. with lyrics by Basil Hood. After this, his songs were included in several other London shows. s Beautiful Bountiful Bertie and he then added popular tunes to Carylls scores for The Circus Girl in 1896 and A Runaway Girl in 1898. The Girl musicals were followed by a number of Boy musicals, again with hit songs by Monckton, including The Messenger Boy in 1900, Moncktons songs continued to be performed long after the shows closed – some of them remaining popular into the 1960s. In 1902, he married Gertie Millar, one of the most successful actresses of the period and she starred in many of Moncktons shows, and he wrote some of his most popular songs for her, although their marriage was not a happy one for many years. She later sought a divorce from Monckton, which he refused, at the same time, Monckton also contributed songs for the musicals playing at Edwardess Dalys Theatre, which tended more towards romantic comedies, than the light musicals presented at the Gaiety. For Dalys Theatre, he collaborated with Sidney Jones, supplying numbers for hits such as The Geisha in 1896, A Greek Slave in 1898. Moncktons music was arranged and orchestrated by theatre conductor Carl Kiefert. Finally, in 1902, when Jones left Dalys, Edwardes gave Monckton the opportunity to compose his first complete score, A Country Girl and he also continued to contribute successful songs to other musicals, including The Orchid in 1903 at the Gaiety. The success of A Country Girl led to another musical with Monckton as principal composer and Rubens as contributor, Moncktons most successful songs in this score included The Island of Gay Ceylon and Pearl of Sweet Ceylon. Although the piece was successful, French operettas then became the fashion at Dalys Theatre, further collaborations with Caryll at the Gaiety included The Spring Chicken in 1905, The New Aladdin, in 1906 and The Girls of Gottenberg in 1907. These songs were among the most widely played and sung numbers of the light musical theatre. A last success at the Gaiety was Monckton and Carylls Our Miss Gibbs in 1909, after that, Monckton had his greatest success, in collaboration with Howard Talbot and the lyricist Arthur Wimperis, with The Arcadians, in 1909. The Arcadians, produced by Robert Courtneidge, was possibly Moncktons best score and is considered the musical of the Edwardian period
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Florence Smithson
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Florence Smithson was an actress and singer celebrated in Edwardian musical comedy. In her early career she was an opera singer and she was spotted by the impresario Robert Courtneidge and recruited for his productions in the West End of London and on tour, most notably the hit musical The Arcadians. She was known for the purity of her singing voice. She was the daughter of Will Smithson, a provincial theatre manager. She was born in Leicester in the heart of England, but was raised in south Wales and she made her stage debut at the age of three in pantomime. After leaving school she studied at the London College of Music, various singing engagements followed, and while she was touring with a small opera company in La fille du régiment, she was spotted by the impresario Robert Courtneidge. Under his management she toured in 1904–05 as Nanoya in The Cingalee, in August 1905 she made her first appearance in the West End repeating her role in The Blue Moon and making an immediate success. From then until the First World War she made occasional variety appearances, the latter included The Dairymaids, Tom Jones, The Arcadians, The Mousmé, The Sleeping Beauty, An Indian Romance and The Sleeping Beauty Re-Awakened. In July 1914, she sailed for Australia, but the outbreak of war curtailed her tour, returning to England in 1915 she toured in variety theatres and played pantomime seasons in London. Australian and South African tours followed in the 1920s, and she returned to England in 1927, one of her last engagements was in a national tour of The Gipsy Princess. She had a voice of great purity, and audiences waited expectantly for her trademark pianissimo high notes. The operatic star Adelina Patti dubbed her the Nightingale of Wales, Smithson was the first wife of the actor Dan Rolyat. She died after an operation in Cardiff at the age of 51, London, Sir Isaac Pitman and Sons
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The Arcadians (musical)
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The story concerns some idyllic Arcadians who wish to transform wicked London to a land of truth and simplicity. First produced by Robert Courtneidge, the opened at the Shaftesbury Theatre in London, on 29 April 1909. This was the third longest run for any musical theatre piece up to that time, the production starred Phyllis Dare, Dan Rolyat and Florence Smithson. A Broadway production opened in 1910 and ran for 193 performances, and the piece was toured extensively, a silent film version was made in 1927, and the piece was popular with amateur theatre groups, particularly in Britain, through the 20th century. Recordings of some of the numbers were recorded in 1909 and 1915 by original members of the London cast, the work is regarded by theatre historians as the finest example of its genre, with Moncktons melodic talent supported by Talbots technical skill. The score contains elements characteristic of the Savoy Operas of the generation as well as broader numbers reminiscent of the music hall. The development of aviation and flying in the years of the 20th century captivated the publics attention. Writers fantasised about the adventures that might befall those who ventured to travel by the new-fangled aeroplane. A forced landing, perhaps, in some land where time has stood still. These stories laid the basis for The Arcadians, by 1909, Lionel Monckton and Howard Talbot had each had met considerable success writing songs and scores for Edwardian musical comedies. Monckton had contributed to many hit George Edwardes shows, including The Geisha and Our Miss Gibbs, Talbot had a monstrous hit with A Chinese Honeymoon and had written such other long-running musicals as The Girl from Kays. He had worked with writer Alexander M. Thompson and producer Robert Courtneidge previously, the Arcadians particularly illustrates this, with the innocent Arcadians representing the older style, and the brash Londoners embodying the new. This contrast between simplicity and cynicism drive the plot and its humour, a contrast personified in the character of Smith, who is magically transformed during the piece. The music for the Arcadian scenes in Act I has harmonies and rhythms that suggest the styles of Arthur Sullivan and Edward German, the production opened on 29 April 1909 and ran for 809 performances. Only two musical shows had previously had longer runs, Dorothy and A Chinese Honeymoon, which ran for 931 and 1,075 performances respectively, the show starred Phyllis Dare as Eileen, Dan Rolyat as Smith, Harry Welchman as Jack, and Florence Smithson as Sombra. Cicely Courtneidge, the daughter, later took over the role of Eileen. The musical director was Arthur Wood, the costumes were by Wilhelm, who 27 years earlier had designed the Arcadian costumes for Iolanthe. A Broadway production opened at the Liberty Theatre in 1910, and ran for 193 performances, starring Frank Moulan, Connie Ediss, Courtneidge assembled a touring company, which played the piece in the British provinces for ten years
