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1920 in jazz
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This is a timeline documenting events of Jazz in the year 1920. Jazz musicians born that year included Peggy Lee, Dave Bartholomew, in 1920 the jazz age was underway and was indirectly fuelled by prohibition of alcohol. It is important to note that Classic Blues became very prominent from 1920 after Mamie Smith recorded Crazy Blues, in 1920, Paul Whiteman and his band recorded Whispering in New York City, in a subgenre known as symphonic jazz. Meanwhile, in New York City Adrian Rollini began playing saxophone with the California Ramblers. Duke Ellington had developed in a band leader and Louis Armstrong began to amaze audiences with New Orleans Jazz. Standards published in 1920 included Al Jolsons Avalon and the popular hit Margie, the New Real Book, Volume I. The New Real Book, Volume II, the New Real Book, Volume III. The Real Vocal Book, Volume I
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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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1912 in music
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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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1913 in music
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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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1915 in music
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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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1917 in music
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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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1918 in music
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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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1919 in music
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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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1921 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1921. January - Amelita Galli-Curci marries her accompanist, Homer Samuels, who had named in her divorce from the Marchese Luigi Curci. June-July - The Harvard Glee Club takes its first trip to Europe, clarence Williams makes his first recordings Mary Stafford becomes the first black woman to record for Columbia Records The 17-string koto, or Jūshichi-gen, is invented by Michio Miyagi. Cyril Rootham dedicates his Suite in Three Movements for flute and piano to French flautist Louis Fleury, ferruccio Busoni – The Essence of Oneness of Music Aint We Got Fun. w. m. Richard A. Whiting, Raymond Egan & Gus Kahn All by Myself w. m, Irving Berlin And Her Mother Came Too w. Dion Titheradge m. Herbert Happy Lawson April Showers w. B. G. De Sylva m. Louis Silvers Baltimore Buzz w. m, noble Sissle & Eubie Blake Bandana Days w. m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake Bimini Bay w. Gus Kahn & Raymond Egan m, richard Whiting Boy Wanted w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin Dancing Time w. George Grossmith, Jr. Howard Dietz m. Jerome Kern US words written 1924. Dapper Dan w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer Dear Old Southland w. Henry Creamer m. Turner Layton Down South w. B. G. DeSylva m. Walter Donaldson. Introduced by Al Jolson in the musical Bombo Down Yonder w. m. L. Wolfe Gilbert Everybody Step w. m, Irving Berlin Hawaiian Chimes w. Irving Bibo m. Eva Applefield I Aint Nobodys Darling w. Elmer Hughes m. Robert A. King I Found A Rose In The Devils Garden w. m, fred Fisher & Willie Raskin I Wonder If You Still Care For Me w. m. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler Ill Forget You w. Annelu Burns m. Ernest R. Ball Im Just Wild About Harry w. m, noble Sissle & Eubie Blake Im Missin Mammys Kissin w. Sidney Clare m. Lew Pollack Im Nobodys Baby w. m, Benny Davis, Milton Ager & Lester Santly Jazz Me Blues m. Tom Delaney Keep Movin Helen Trix Kitten On The Keys m, zez Confrey Laughin Rag S. Moore, H. Skinner Learn To Smile w. Otto Harbach m. Louis A. Hirsch Leave Me With A Smile w. m, Charles Koehler & Earl Burtnett Love Will Find A Way w. m. Noble Sissle & Eubie Blake Ma, hes Making Eyes at Me w. Sidney Clare m. Con Conrad Make Believe w. Benny Davis m, jack Shilkret Mandy N Me w. Bert Kalmar m. Con Conrad My Sunny Tennessee w. m, Bert Kalmar, Harry Ruby & Herman Ruby Peggy ONeill w. m. Harry Pease, Ed G. Nelson & Gilbert Dodge Sally w. Clifford Grey m. Jerome Kern Say It With Music w. m
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1922 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1922. January 24 - Carl Nielsen conducts the first public performance of his Symphony No.5 in Copenhagen, october 11 - Leila Megàne makes the first complete recording of Sir Edward Elgars Sea Pictures, with Elgar himself conducting. October 19 - Maurice Ravels orchestral arrangement of Modest Mussorgskys Pictures at an Exhibition is premiered in Paris. December 20 - Antigone by Jean Cocteau appears on the stage of the Théâtre de lAtelier in Paris, with settings by Pablo Picasso, music by Arthur Honegger, Louis Armstrong leaves New Orleans for Chicago to join King Olivers Creole Jazz Band. Richard Tauber joins the Vienna State Opera, kid Ory makes his first recordings. All musical compositions written in this year or earlier are now public domain in the United States, recordings of those compositions, however are still protected by various state statutes and do not fully enter the nationwide public domain until February 15,2067. Roy Turk, J. Russel Robinson & Addy Britt Aint It A Shame w. m. W. A. Hann, Joseph Simms & Al W. Brown All Over Nothing At All w. J. Keirn Brennan & Paul Cunningham m. James Rule Along The Road To Gundagai w. m. Jack OHagan LAmour, Toujours LAmour w. Catherine Chisholm Cushing m, rudolf Friml Angel Child w. Georgie Price & Benny Davis m. Abner Silver Baby Blue Eyes w. m, jesse Greer, Walter Hirsch & George Jessel Bees Knees by Leo Wood & Ray Lopez Blue w. Grant Clarke & Edgar Leslie m. Lou Handman A Brown Bird Singing w. Rodney Richard Bennett m. Haydn Wood Bugle Call Rag m, Jack Pettis, Billy Meyers & Elmer Schoebel Carolina in the Morning w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson Carolina Shout m. James P. Johnson Chicago w. m. Dick Winfree & Phil Boutelje Crinoline Days w. m. Irving Berlin Dancing Fool w. Harry B. Smith & Francis Wheeler m. Ted Snyder Dearest w. Benny Davis m. Harry Akst Do It Again w. B. G. De Sylva m. George Gershwin Down In Midnight Town w. Andrew B. Sterling & Edward P. Moran m. Harry Von Tilzer Downhearted Blues w. m, alberta Hunter Dream On w. B. G DeSylva, m. Ted Koehler, Frank Magine & C, Paul Joseph Mares, Leon Rappolo & Elmer Schoebel Fate by Byron Gay Georgette w. Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson Georgia w. Howard Johnson m. Walter Donaldson Goin Home w. m, Williams Arms Fisher Hot Lips w. m. Brennan A Kiss In The Dark w. B. G. De Sylva m, victor Herbert The Lady In Ermine w. Cyrus Wood m. Al Goodman Lady Of The Evening w. m, introduced by John Steel in the Music Box Revue of 1922
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1923 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1923. February – Joseph Samuels Tampa Blue Jazz Band records the George Washington Thomas number The Fives for Okeh Records, november 11 – Première of John Fouldss World Requiem at the Royal Albert Hall in London. It is repeated on that date each year until 1926, George Enescu makes his debut as a conductor with the Philadelphia Orchestra in New York City. Henri Pawl-Pleyel, Roger Désormière, Maxime Jacob and Henri Sauguet form the Ecole dArcueil, augustus John completes his portrait of cellist Guilhermina Suggia. Japanese composer Michio Miyagi introduces an 80-string koto or or hachijugen and it proves less popular than the 17-string koto he had invented two years earlier. Ray Henderson Back To Croa-Jingo-Long w. m, pat Dunlop Bambalina w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Herbert Stothart & Vincent Youmans. Introduced by Edith Day in the musical Wildflower Barney Google w. m, Billy Rose & Con Conrad Beside A Babbling Brook w. Gus Kahn m. Walter Donaldson Charleston w. m. Cecil Mack & James P. Johnson, chimes Blues m. Joe King Oliver Come On, Spark Plug. w. m. Billy Rose & Con Conrad Covered Wagon Days w. m, will Morrisey & Joe Burrows Dizzy Fingers m. Franz Lehár Gulf Coast Blues w. m. Clarence Williams Horsey, Walter Hirsch & Bert Kaplan I Cried For You w. Arthur Freed m. Gus Arnheim & Abe Lyman I Love Life w. Irwin M. Cassel m, mana-Zucca I Love You w. Harlan Thompson m. Harry Archer. Introduced by John Boles and Margaret Wilson in the musical Little Jessie James I Wont Say I Will But I Wont Say I Wont w. B. G. De Sylva & Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin. Introduced by Irene Bordoni in the play Little Miss Bluebeard Im Goin South w. m, abner Silver & Harry Woods Im Sitting Pretty In A Pretty Little City w. m. Lou Davis, Henry Santly & Abel Baer Indiana Moon w. Benny Davis m. Isham Jones It Aint Gonna Rain No Mo w. m, wendell Hall Ive Got The Yes. We Have No Bananas Blues w. Lew Brown m. James F. Hanley & Robert King Just A Girl That Men Forget w. Al Dubin & Fred Rath m. Joe Garron Just One More Chance m. Steiger King Porter Stomp m. Ferdinand Jelly Roll Morton Last Night On The Back Porch w. Lew Brown m, carl Schraubstader Linger Awhile w. Harry Owens m. Vincent Rose Louisville Lou w. Jack Yellen m, milton Ager Mama Goes Where Papa Goes w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager Mama Loves Papa w. m, cliff Friend & Abel Baer March Of The Cameron Men w. m
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1925 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1925. January 1 - First day of broadcasting in Sweden, Gaston Borch conducts the Skandia Cinema Orchestra in the countrys first broadcast of orchestral music. February 25 - Art Gillham - The Whispering Pianist records the first electrical recordings to be released for Columbia using the Western Electric system, march 1 - Edgard Varèses Intégrales is premiered in New York City. March 21 - Maurice Ravels LEnfant et les sortilèges is premiered in Monte Carlo, april 3 - Gustav Holsts opera At the Boars Head is premiered in Manchester. June 6 - Sergei Prokofievs Symphony No.2 is premiered in Paris, november 28 - The weekly country music radio program Grand Ole Opry is first broadcast on WSM radio in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance. December 11 - Carl Nielsens Symphony No,6, the Sinfonia semplice, is premiered in Copenhagen. December 14 - Alban Bergs opera Wozzeck is given its first complete performance, in Berlin, Joseph Canteloube founds a group called La Bourrée in Paris to publicize the folklore and other attractions of the Auvergne. Blind Lemon Jeffersons recording career begins, Louis Armstrong leaves Fletcher Hendersons Orchestra, returns to Chicago, Illinois, and makes his first records under his own name, leading Louis Armstrong & His Hot Five. Adios, Mariquita Linda w. Ray Gilbert Marcos A. Jimenez m. Marcos A. Jimenez Alone at Last w. Gus Kahn m. Ted Fio Rito Always w. m, Irving Berlin Bam, Bam, Bamy Shore w. Mort Dixon m. Hoagy Carmichael & Irving Mills Brown Eyes, Why Are You Blue, W. Alfred Bryan m. George W. Meyer By the Light of the Stars w. m. Arthur Sizemore, George A. Little, & Larry Shay Bye and Bye w. Lorenz Hart m, Richard Rodgers Cecilia w. Herman Ruby m. Dave Dreyer Cheatin on Me w. Jack Yellen m. W. Billy Rose & Ballard MacDonald m. Joseph Meyer Collegiate w. m, moe Jaffe & Nat Bonx A Cup of Coffee, a Sandwich and You w. Billy Rose & Al Dubin m. Joseph Meyer Davenport Blues m. Ray Henderson Dont Wake Me Up, Let Me Dream w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m, mabel Wayne Down by the Winegar Works w. m. Don Bestor, Roger Lewis & Walter Donovan Drifting and Dreaming w. Haven Gillespie, egbert Van Alstyne, Erwin R. Schmidt & Loyal Curtis DYe Love Me. w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern. Introduced by Marilyn Miller in the musical Sunny Five Foot Two Eyes of Blue w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m, fred Rose & Paul Whiteman Footloose w. Hal Cochran m. Carl Rupp Freshie w. Harold Berg m. Jesse Greer Grandpas Spells m, jelly Roll Morton Headin for Louisville w. B. G. De Sylva m. Joseph Meyer Here in My Arms w. Lorenz Hart m. Richard Rodgers The Hills of Home w. Floride Calhoun m. Oscar J. Fox I Found a New Baby w. m, Jack Palmer & Spencer Williams I Lost My Heart in Heidelberg w. Fritz Löhner-Beda & Ernst Neubach m. Fred Raymond I Love My Baby w. Bud Green m. Harry Warren I Might Have Known Lucas I Miss My Swiss w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m
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1926 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1926. January - Blind Lemon Jefferson makes his first recordings, april 9 - Leopold Stokowski conducts the world premiere of Edgar Varèses Amériques, with the Philadelphia Orchestra. April 25 - Première of Giacomo Puccinis opera Turandot at the Teatro alla Scala in Milan, may 12 - Dmitri Shostakovichs Symphony No.1 premières in Leningrad. The composer is 19 years old, december 18 - The Estonian National Symphony Orchestra gives its first concert. First recordings by Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers Opening of the Salzburger Festspielhaus Virgilio Savona begins studying music, the Société de Musique de Chambre de Genève is founded by Frank Martin. The National Conservatoire is founded in Athens by composer Manolis Kalomiris, operatic baritone Leslie Rands marries his DOyly Carte co-star Marjorie Eyre. Hamiltons Sisters and Fordyce tour briefly with another female group, Jerry. John Serry Sr. is accepted for studies at the noted Pietro Deiro accordion studio in Greenwich Village starting his education as an instrumentalist at the age of 11, sweetheart of All My Dreams w. m. Art Finch, Kay Finch, & Bert Lowe After I Say Im Sorry w. m. Walter Donaldson & Abe Lyman Alabama Stomp w. Henry Creamer m. James P. Johnson All Alone Monday w. Bert Kalmar m. Harry Ruby Am I Wasting My Time On You. Irving Bibo & Howard Johnson Baby Face w. Benny Davis m. Harry Akst Barcelona w. Gus Kahn m, tolchard Evans Because I Love You w. m. Irving Berlin Big Butter And Egg Man w. m, Sidney Clare, Cliff Friend & Joseph H. Santly The Birth Of The Blues w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Introduced by Harry Richman in the revue George Whites Scandals of 1926 Black Bottom w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Introduced by Ann Pennington, The McCarthy Sisters, Frances Williams, Jelly Roll Morton The Blue Room w. Lorenz Hart m. Introduced by Eva Puck and Sammy White in the musical The Girl Friend Breezin Along With The Breeze w. m, mel Stitzel Charmaine w. Lew Pollack m. Erno Rapee Cherie, I Love You w. m, milton Ager Cross Your Heart w. B. G. De Sylva m. Lewis E. Gensler Deed I Do w. Walter Hirsch m. Fred Rose The Desert Song w. Otto Harbach & Oscar Hammerstein II m, introduced by Vivienne Segal and Robert Halliday in the operetta The Desert Song The Devil Is Afraid Of Music w. m. Willard Robison The Dicky Bird Hop w. Leslie Sarony m, ronald Gourley Do, Do, Do w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin
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1927 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1927. January 8 - Alban Bergs Lyric Suite is premièred in Vienna, april 21 - Electric re-recording of George Gershwins Rhapsody in Blue by Paul Whitemans Orchestra directed by Nathaniel Shilkret, with Gershwin at the piano. June - Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce, vocalists, record My Heart Stood Still, july 1 - Béla Bartóks Piano Concerto No.1 is premiered in Frankfurt, with the composer at the piano and Wilhelm Furtwängler conducting. August 4 - Jimmie Rodgers records his first sides for Victor in Camden, publishers Chappell & Co withdraw their financial support for the Promenade Concerts, to be replaced by the BBC. Benjamin Britten becomes a pupil of Frank Bridge, witold Lutosławski enters the Warsaw conservatory. Blind Willie McTells recording career begins, the Soul Stirrers recording career begins. Big Bill Broonzys recording career begins, the Carter Familys recording career begins. Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven record, Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce, harmony trio, tour Variety Theaters with Savoy Havana Band, record with Orpheans, Bert Ambrose, and others in England June–November. Adios Muchachos w. Cesar Felipe Vedani m, julio Cesar Sanders Aint She Sweet w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager Among My Souvenirs w. Edgar Leslie m, horatio Nicholls Are You Lonesome Tonight. W. Roy Turk m. Lou Handman At Sundown w. m, Walter Donaldson The Babbitt And The Bromide w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin The Best Things In Life Are Free w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m. Ray Henderson Black And Tan Fantasy m, Duke Ellington Bless This House w. Helen Taylor m. Irving Berlin Broken Hearted w. B. G. De Sylva & Lew Brown m, ray Henderson Cant Help Lovin Dat Man w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern. Introduced by Helen Morgan in the musical Show Boat Changes w. m, Walter Donaldson Chlo-e w. Gus Kahn m. Neil Moret Creole Love Call w. m, edward Duke Ellington Dew-Dew-Dewy Day w. m. Al Sherman, Charles Tobias & Howard Johnson Diane w. m, ernie Rapee & Lew Pollack Did You Mean It. W. Abe Lyman & Sid Silvers m, phil Baker The Doll Dance m. Nacio Herb Brown Everywhere You Go w. m, larry Shay, Joe Goodwin & Mark Fisher Fifty Million Frenchmen Cant Be Wrong w. Willie Raskin & Billy Rose m
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1928 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1928. April 27 - Igor Stravinskys ballet Apollon musagète receives its première in Washington, may 5 - Composers Alban Berg and George Gershwin meet for the first time, in Vienna. September 11 - Leoš Janáčeks String Quartet No,2, Intimate Letters, receives its première in Brno. September 12 - Anton Weberns String Trio receives its première in Siena, September 14 - Carl Nielsens Clarinet Concerto is given its first performance. September 21 - Al Jolson marries Ruby Keeler, November 22 - Maurice Ravels Bolero receives its première in Paris at the Palais Garnier. November 27 - Igor Stravinskys ballet Le Baiser de la fée receives its première in Paris, edward German is knighted for services to music. Eric Fenby begins work as amanuensis for Frederick Delius, Maurice Ravel embarks on a concert tour of the United States, where he meets George Gershwin. Scrapper Blackwell makes his first recordings for Vocalion Records, leroy Carrs recording career begins with the release of How Long, How Long Blues. The first commercial recordings of Cajun music are released, the Detroit Symphony Orchestra makes its Carnegie Hall début. After My Laughter Came Tears w. m, Charles Tobias & Roy Turk Alabama Song w. Bertolt Brecht m. Kurt Weill All By Yourself In The Moonlight w. m, jay Wallis Anything You Say w. m. Walter Donaldson Baby w. Dorothy Fields m, recorded and sung by Adelaide Hall Back In Your Own Backyard w. m. Dave Dreyer, Al Jolson & Billy Rose Basin Street Blues w. m, spencer Williams Because My Baby Dont Mean Maybe Now w. m. Walter Donaldson Big Rock Candy Mountain Harry McClintock Bill w. P. G, Wodehouse & Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern. Introduced by Helen Morgan in the musical Showboat and performed by Miss Morgan in the 1929 and 1936 film versions, Blue Yodel w. Jimmie Rodgers Bolero m. Maurice Ravel Button Up Your Overcoat w. B. G. Cant Help Lovin Dat Man w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern Carolina Moon w. Benny Davis m. Joe Burke Cherry w. m, don Redman Chiquita w. L. Wolfe Gilbert m. Harry Carlton Coquette w. Gus Kahn m, carmen Lombardo & John Green Cow Cow Blues m. Cow Cow Davenport Crazy Rhythm w. Irving Caesar m. Joseph Meyer & Roger Wolfe Kahn, introduced by Ben Bernie, Peggy Chamberlain and June ODea in the musical Heres Howe
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1929 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1929. January 1 – Pianist and composer Abram Chasins makes his debut playing his own piano concerto with the Philadelphia Orchestra. January 11 – Karol Szymanowskis Stabat Mater is premiered, may 17 – Sergei Prokofievs Symphony No.3 is premiered in Paris. May 21 Season opening of Sergei Diaghilevs Ballets Russes, in Paris, with the first performances of Igor Stravinskys Renard and Sergei Prokofievs Le Fils prodigue. June 27 – First London performances of two ballets by Igor Stravinsky, Apollon musagète and Le Baiser de la fée, conducted by the composer at the Kingsway Hall, september 11 - Louis Armstrong records his hit song When Youre Smiling. Manuel de Falla relocates to Granada, the Musashino Academia Musicae is founded in Tokyo, Japan. Edison Records closes, ending production of Diamond Discs and Blue Amberols, a Bundle of Old Love Letters, recorded by James Melton, by Lewis James, and by Charles Kaley Am I A Passing Fancy. by Pete Woolery Am I Blue. Andy Razaf m. Thomas Fats Waller & Harry Brooks After A Million Dreams w. m, Walter Donaldson and Edgar Leslie All That Im Asking Is Sympathy w. m. Benny Davis and Joe Burke Am I Blue, W. Grant Clarke m. Harry Akst Any Old Time w. m. Jimmie Rodgers Around The Corner w. Gus Kahn m. Art Kassel The Banjo w. m. Cole Porter Barnacle Bill The Sailor w. m, carson Robison & Frank Luther Big City Blues w. Sidney D. Mitchell m. Archie Gottler & Con Conrad Black and Blue w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas Fats Waller Blue, nacio Herb Brown Can Broadway Do Without Me. w. m. Jimmy Durante Cant We Be Friends, kay Swift Chant Of The Jungle w. Arthur Freed m. Introduced by Joan Crawford in the film Untamed, Sam Coslow Dear Little Cafe w. m. Noël Coward Deep Night w. Rudy Vallee m, Victor Schertzinger Every Little Moment w. m. Vivian Ellis Feeling Sentimental w. Ira Gershwin m. George Gershwin Find Me A Primitive Man w. m. Cole Porter Funny, Dear, Charles Straight, Joe Bennett & George Little Gee Baby, Aint I Good To You. W. Andy Razaf & Don Redman m, W. Billy Rose & Edward Eliscu m. Vincent Youmans Happy Days Are Here Again w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager Have A Little Faith In Me w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Harry Warren Here Am I w. Oscar Hammerstein II m. Jerome Kern Hes A Good Man To Have Around w. Jack Yellen m
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1930 in music
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February 16 - Nicolas Slonimsky conducts the first performance of Charles Ivess Three Places in New England. February 17 - The Technicolor musical film, The Vagabond King, is released, dennis King recreates his original London and Broadway stage role as Villon in this film, and records two songs from the film for Victor Records. They also acquire four music publishers to profit from sales in sheet music, may 10 Metropolitan Opera baritone Lawrence Tibbetts first film The Rogue Song, a lavish Technicolor musical, is released to rave reviews. Lawrence Tibbett records the songs he sang in the film for Victor Records, the film version of the stage hit Hold Everything is released. Winnie Lightner and Joe E. Brown star in this Technicolor musical which opens to rave reviews, of the films song, When the Little Red Roses Get the Blues for You, becomes a hit. Al Jolson records this song from the picture for Brunswick Records, may 25 - The all Technicolor musical film, Song of the Flame, based on the 1925 Broadway musical of the same name, is released to rave reviews. The film stars Noah Beery and Bernice Claire and is nominated for an Oscar for Best Sound Recording, Noah Beery records his song from the picture for Brunswick Records. August 24 - Festival Puccini is launched at Torre del Lago, october 29 - Bing Crosby makes his first recording with the Gus Arnheim orchestra as a solo vocalist. His new type of singing voice, a low baritone, becomes a sensation, December 10 - First performance of Bertolt Brechts play The Decision, with music by Hanns Eisler. December 13 – Ernest Ansermet conducts the premiere of Stravinskys Symphony of Psalms. The BBC Symphony Orchestra is formed in London, the song Body and Soul is written by Johnny Green with lyrics by Edward Heyman, Robert Sour and Frank Eyton in New York City for the British actress Gertrude Lawrence who first performs in London. Libby Holman introduces it to the United States in the Broadway revue Threes a Crowd, There are at least 11 recordings by the end of the year and it becomes the all-time most recorded jazz standard. Frankie Laine sings to an audience of 5,000 at The Merry Garden Ballroom, richard A. Whiting, Featured in the Paramount musical film Paramount on Parade Alone in the Rain w. m. Dan Dougherty and Edmund Goulding, Featured in the Pathe musical film The Grand Parade Alone with My Dreams w. Gus Kahn m. Harry Archer Always in All Ways w. Leo Robin m, richard A. Whiting & W. Franke Harling. Introduced by Jeanette MacDonald in the Paramount musical film Monte Carlo, any Times the Time to Fall in Love w. m. Elsie Janis and Jack King, Featured in the Paramount musical film Paramount on Parade A Bench in the Park w. Jack Yellen m, milton Ager, Featured in the Universal musical film King of Jazz Betty Co-Ed w. m. J. Paul Fogarty & Rudy Vallee Beware of Love m. w, William Kernell, Featured in the William Fox musical film Women Everywhere Beyond the Blue Horizon w. Leo Robin m. Richard A. Whiting & W. Franke Harling, introduced by Jeanette MacDonald in the Paramount musical film Monte Carlo
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1920 in art
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February 1 – National Art Gallery opens in Tblisi. November 7 – The mass action The Storming of the Winter Palace, the Cologne Dadaist group is formed by Jean Arp, Max Ernst and Alfred Grünwald. Katherine Dreier, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp form Société Anonyme, bernard Leach and Shoji Hamada set up the Leach Pottery in St Ives, Cornwall. Heckscher Museum of Art established in Huntington, New York, latvian Museum of Foreign Art established in Riga. Art historian Daniel-Henry Kahnweiler publishes Der Weg Zum Kubismus, W. January 17 – Georges Pichard, French comics artist. January 30 – Patrick Heron, English painter, writer and designer, march 3 – Ronald Searle, English cartoonist. March 14 – Hank Ketcham, American cartoonist, march 27 – Robin Jacques, English illustrator. April 8 – Hans Coper, German-born studio potter, april 24 – Paul Wonner, American painter. May – Hans Josephsohn, German-born sculptor, may 8 Saul Bass, American graphic designer and filmmaker. Tom of Finland, Finnish fetish artist, may 10 - Erna Viitol, Estonian sculptor June 4 – Alejandro Obregón, Colombian painter, muralist, sculptor and engraver. June 24 John Coplans, painter, photographer Jimmy Ernst, American painter born in Germany, June 29 – Ray Harryhausen, stop-motion animator, sculptor. July 20 – Arthur Boyd, Australian painter and sculptor, july 21 – Constant Nieuwenhuys, Dutch painter, one of the innovators of Unitary Urbanism. August 5 – George Tooker, painter, august 15 – Judy Cassab, born Judit Kaszab, Austrian-born Australian portrait painter. August 22 – Gene Davis, American painter, august 26 Mauri Favén, Finnish painter. October 31 – Helmut Newton, photographer, november 23 – Wayne Thiebaud, American painter. December 18 – Enrique Grau, Colombian painter and sculptor, december 21 – Bob Bindig, American illustrator Elaine Hamilton, American painter
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1920 in architecture
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The year 1920 in architecture involved some significant events. Construction of Welwyn Garden City in England begins with Louis de Soissons as architect, edith Hughes establishes her own architectural practice, in Glasgow, the first British woman to do so. In the first issue of the Purist art magazine L’ Esprit Nouveau co-founded by him, november 11 - The Cenotaph, Whitehall, London, designed by Edwin Lutyens. Ajuria Enea, Vitoria-Gasteiz, Spain, designed by Alfredo Baeschlin, manitoba Legislative Building in Winnipeg, Canada. Oak Tower, Downtown Kansas City, Missouri, USA
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1920 in literature
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This article presents lists of the literary events and publications in 1920. Reviewers hail the play and ONeill becomes famous, february 27 – Inaugural meeting of the Bloomsbury Groups Memoir Club arranged by Mary MacCarthy in London. March 26 – This Side of Paradise by F. Scott Fitzgerald is published and it is a sensation, immediately establishing Fitzgerald as a writer and celebrity, the initial print run of 3,000 copies sells out in 3 days. Though the books reputation will dim in later years, Dorothy Parker will recall that it was regarded as a work when it first appeared. April Hart Crane publishes his poem My Grandmothers Love Letters in The Dial, april 3 – F. Scott Fitzgerald marries Zelda Sayre in the rectory of St. Patricks Cathedral. K. November 1 – Eugene ONeills play, The Emperor Jones, is staged at the Playwrights Theater in New York City with Charles Sidney Gilpin in the title role. November 9 – D. H. Lawrences novel Women in Love is first published, december 23 – Arthur Schnitzlers play Reigen first receives an authorized performance, in Berlin, receiving strong criticism on moral and antisemitic grounds. Publication in Prague of Karel Čapeks drama R. U. R, Rossums Universal Robots, publication in Paris of the first volume of the Collection Budé, providing editions of Classical texts with parallel French translation, Platos Hippias Minor. Van Wyck Brooks publishes The Ordeal of Mark Twain, arguing that Twains genius was perverted by the conditions and this is the beginning of the reassessment of Mark Twain, who until this point had been regarded primarily as a humorous entertainer. The 1920s will force a reconsideration of many 19th-century writers, most importantly Herman Melville, goodyear – Forge of Foxenby Hugh Lofting – The Story of Doctor Dolittle Olive Beaupré Miller – In the Nursery S. Ansky – The Dybbuk Karel Čapek – R. U. R
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Salzburg Festival
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The Salzburg Festival is a prominent festival of music and drama established in 1920. It is held each summer within the Austrian town of Salzburg, one highlight is the annual performance of the play Jedermann by Hugo von Hofmannsthal. Since 1967, an annual Salzburg Easter Festival has also been held, Music festivals had been held in Salzburg at irregular intervals since 1877 held by the International Mozarteum Foundation, but were discontinued in 1910. Although a festival was planned for 1914, it was cancelled at the outbreak of World War I, the Salzburg Festival was officially inaugurated on 22 August 1920 with Reinhardts performance of Hofmannsthals Jedermann on the steps of Salzburg Cathedral, starring Alexander Moissi. The practice has become a tradition, and the play is now performed at Cathedral Square, since 1921 it has been accompanied by several performances of chamber music. The first operatic production came in 1922, with Mozarts Don Giovanni conducted by Richard Strauss, the singers were mainly drawn from the Wiener Staatsoper, including Richard Tauber in the part of Don Ottavio. At that time the festival had developed a large-scale program including live broadcasts by the Austrian RAVAG radio network. During the years from 1934 to 1937 famed conductors such as Arturo Toscanini, in 1936, the festival featured a performance by the Trapp Family Singers, whose story was later dramatized as the musical and film The Sound of Music. In 1937, Boyd Neel and his orchestra premiered Benjamin Britten’s Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge at the Festival, the Festivals popularity suffered a major blow as a consequence of the Anschluss, the annexation of Austria by Nazi Germany in 1938. Toscanini resigned in protest, artists of Jewish descent like Reinhardt and Georg Solti had to emigrate, nevertheless, the festival remained in operation until in 1944 it was cancelled by the order of Reich Minister Joseph Goebbels in reaction to the 20 July plot. At the end of World War II, the Salzburg Festival reopened in summer 1945 immediately after the Allied victory in Europe. The post-war festival slowly regained its prominence as an opera festival, especially for works by Mozart. In 1960 the Great Festival Hall opera house opened its doors, upon Karajans death in 1989, the festival was drastically modernized and expanded by director Gerard Mortier, who was succeeded by Peter Ruzicka in 2001. In 2006, the festival was led by intendant Jürgen Flimm and that year, Salzburg celebrated the 250th anniversary of Mozarts birth by staging all 22 of his operatic works, to great acclaim. All 22 were filmed and released on DVD in November 2006, the 2006 festival also saw the opening of the Haus für Mozart. Alexander Pereira succeeded Flimm, who departed in 2011 to become director of the Berlin State Opera, Pereiras objective for the festival was to present only new productions. The 2015 festival marked the first one for which Bechtolf was responsible for the artistic programming, budget cuts led to a retreat from Pereiras new productions only objective. The remaining four opera productions—Norma, Il trovatore, Iphigénie en Tauride, the Salzburg Whitsun Festival was established at the behest of Herbert von Karajan in 1973 as a brief concert series with the name Pfingstkonzerte
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City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra
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The City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra is a British orchestra based in Birmingham, England. It is the resident orchestra at Symphony Hall, Birmingham, which has been its principal performance venue since 1991 and its administrative and rehearsal base is at the nearby CBSO Centre, where it also presents chamber concerts by members of the orchestra and guest performers. Each year the orchestra performs more than 130 concerts to audiences totalling over 200,000 people, another 72,000 people each year take part in its learning, participation and outreach events, and 750 local musicians are engaged in its six choirs and the CBSO Youth Orchestra. The CBSOs current music director is Mirga Gražinytė-Tyla, effective with the 2016-2017 season, the CBSOs current chief executive, appointed in 1999, is Stephen Maddock. Birminghams most notable early orchestra was the Birmingham Festival Orchestra, which formed as a group of 25 musicians in 1768 but by 1834 had grown into an orchestra of 147. This was eclipsed as the leading orchestra at the end of the 19th century by George Halfords Orchestra. The period between 1905 and 1920 saw this demand for orchestral music met by a number of competing enterprises. Landon Ronald presented a season of promenade concerts at the Theatre Royal in New Street from 1905 to 1914 with a 70-strong orchestra made up largely of Birmingham-based musicians. During its early years the orchestra was sometimes referred to as the Birmingham City Orchestra, as a result, a shortlist of four candidates was drawn up from the numerous applications for the post, though the initial one-year contract came to limit the choice to local applicants. The eventual appointee was Appleby Matthews, who had been running his own orchestra in the city since 1916 and had support from local music critics on the selection panel. Richard Wassell was appointed as Assistant Conductor, the CBOs first concert was given under Matthews baton as part of the Sunday series at the Theatre Royal on 5 September 1920, with the first piece of music performed being Granville Bantocks Saul. He had only limited experience in any of these roles, however, the CBO committee had two candidates in mind to replace Matthews, Eugene Goossens and Adrian Boult. For a while they explored the possibility of appointing both as joint conductors, but were convinced by Ernest de Sélincourt that this idea was unworkable. The urbane, Oxford-educated Boult was also dealing with influential local citizens. Boult brought a vision for the orchestras future, building on Matthews foundations. Some of the conductors in Europe were brought in to guest conduct, including Bruno Walter, Pierre Monteux, Ernest Ansermet. The orchestra made its first commercial recording in 1925. and building up the diary of out-of-town concerts. The advance made within a season is so considerable as to be remarkable
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Granville Bantock
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Sir Granville Ransome Bantock was a British composer of classical music. Granville Bantock was born in London and his father was an eminent Scottish surgeon. He was intended by his parents for the Indian Civil Service but he suffered poor health, at the age of 20, when he began studying composers manuscripts, at South Kensington Museum Library, he was drawn into the musical world. His first teacher was Dr Gordon Saunders at Trinity College of Music, in 1888 he entered the Royal Academy of Music where he studied harmony and composition with Frederick Corder winning the Macfarren Prize in the first year it was awarded. Early conducting engagements took him around the world with a comedy troupe. He founded a magazine, The New Quarterly Music Review. He was also conductor of the Liverpool Orchestral Society with which he premiered Deliuss Brigg Fair on 18 January 1908 and he became Principal of the Birmingham and Midland Institute school of music in 1900. He was a friend of fellow composer Havergal Brian. He was Peyton Professor of Music at the University of Birmingham from 1908 to 1934, in 1934, he was elected Chairman of the Corporation of Trinity College of Music in London. His students included the conductor and composer Anthony Bernard and the composer Eric Fogg, in 1898 he married Helena von Schweitzer who acted as a librettist for him. He was influential in the founding of the City of Birmingham orchestra, Bantocks Hebridean Symphony was recorded by the CBO on 28 January 1925 at Riley Hall, Constitution Hill, Birmingham. This acoustic version, conducted by Adrian Boult, was never released and his music was influenced by folk song of the Hebrides and the works of Richard Wagner. Many of his works have an element, including the choral epic Omar Khayyám. Among his other works are the overture The Pierrot of the Minute. Many of his works have been recorded since the early 1990s. Shortly after the death in London, in 1946, a Bantock Society was established. Its first president was Jean Sibelius, whose music Bantock championed during the years of the century. Sibelius dedicated his Third Symphony to Bantock, edward Elgar dedicated the second of his Pomp and Circumstance Marches to Bantock
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Edward Elgar
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Sir Edward William Elgar, 1st Baronet OM GCVO was an English composer, many of whose works have entered the British and international classical concert repertoire. Among his best-known compositions are orchestral works including the Enigma Variations, the Pomp and Circumstance Marches, concertos for violin and cello and he also composed choral works, including The Dream of Gerontius, chamber music and songs. He was appointed Master of the Kings Musick in 1924, although Elgar is often regarded as a typically English composer, most of his musical influences were not from England but from continental Europe. He felt himself to be an outsider, not only musically and he nevertheless married the daughter of a senior British army officer. His later full-length religious choral works were received but have not entered the regular repertory. In his fifties, Elgar composed a symphony and a concerto that were immensely successful. His second symphony and his cello concerto did not gain immediate public popularity, Elgars music came, in his later years, to be seen as appealing chiefly to British audiences. His stock remained low for a generation after his death and it began to revive significantly in the 1960s, helped by new recordings of his works. Some of his works have, in recent years, been taken up again internationally, Elgar has been described as the first composer to take the gramophone seriously. Between 1914 and 1925, he conducted a series of recordings of his works. Edward Elgar was born in the village of Lower Broadheath, outside Worcester. His father, William Henry Elgar, was raised in Dover and had apprenticed to a London music publisher. In 1841 William moved to Worcester, where he worked as a tuner and set up a shop selling sheet music. In 1848 he married Ann Greening, daughter of a farm worker, Edward was the fourth of their seven children. Ann Elgar had converted to Roman Catholicism shortly before Edwards birth, William Elgar was a violinist of professional standard and held the post of organist of St. Georges Roman Catholic Church, Worcester, from 1846 to 1885. At his instigation, masses by Cherubini and Hummel were first heard at the Three Choirs Festival by the orchestra in which he played the violin, all the Elgar children received a musical upbringing. Elgars mother was interested in the arts and encouraged his musical development and he inherited from her a discerning taste for literature and a passionate love of the countryside. His friend and biographer W. H, Billy Reed wrote that Elgars early surroundings had an influence that permeated all his work and gave to his whole life that subtle but none the less true and sturdy English quality
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Birmingham Town Hall
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Birmingham Town Hall is a Grade I listed concert hall and venue for popular assemblies opened in 1834 and situated in Victoria Square, Birmingham, England. The design was based on the proportions of the Temple of Castor, perfect and aloof on a tall, rusticated podium, it marked an entirely new concept in English architecture. The hall underwent a renovation between 2002 and 2008. Two sites were considered by the Birmingham Street Commissioners for the construction of a hall in the city, Bennetts Hill. Joseph Hansom, of Hansom cab fame, and Edward Welch were chosen as the architects, Hill of London was hired to build the 6,000 pipe organ for £6,000. Construction began on 27 April 1832 with a completion date of 1833. However, Hansom went bankrupt during construction, having tendered too low, the contractors were also losing money. Three guarantors donated money for the building, W. P. Lloyd, John Welch, with the injection of this money, the building was successfully opened for the delayed Music Festival on 7 October 1834, despite the building still being unfinished. During construction, on 26 January 1833, two workers were killed when a 70-foot crane constructed to install the roof trusses broke and the pulley block failed, John Heap died instantly and Win. Badger died a few days later from his injuries and they were buried in St Philips churchyard and a memorial, consisting of a pillar base made by one of the workmen for the Town Hall, was dedicated to them. Architect Charles Edge was commissioned in 1835 to repair weaknesses to the design of the building and he was also commissioned for the extension of the building in 1837 and again in 1850. Charles Dickens gave public readings here to raise money for the Birmingham and Midland Institute, sir Arthur Sullivans Overture di Ballo was also premièred here in August 1870, as part of the Triennial Musical Festival which commissioned new works for every season. The hall was the venue for the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra from 1918 until 1991 when they moved to Symphony Hall. In November 1880, the Hall was filled to capacity for a Birmingham public protest meeting in support of Revd, richard Enraght, Vicar of Holy Trinity, Bordesley, who was imprisoned in Warwick Prison under the Disraeli Governments Public Worship Regulation Act. Popular music has featured, and in the 1960s and 1970s, headline acts such as Buddy Holly, The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Queen, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath. On 9 August 1902, the hall, along with the council house, was illuminated in celebration of the coronation of King Edward VII. It was illuminated again on 22 June 1911 for the coronation of King George V, in 1901, it was the scene of rioting on the occasion of a visit by David Lloyd George. It featured prominently in the 1967 Peter Watkins film Privilege and doubled for the Royal Albert Hall in 1996s Brassed Off, the pediment also had images of Britannia, supported by mermaids, which were sculpted by William Bloye
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Gustav Holst
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Gustav Theodore Holst was an English composer, arranger and teacher. Best known for The Planets, he composed a number of other works across a range of genres. His distinctive compositional style was the product of influences, Richard Wagner. There were professional musicians in the three generations of Holsts family and it was clear from his early years that he would follow the same calling. He hoped to become a pianist, but was prevented by neuritis in his right arm, despite his fathers reservations, he pursued a career as a composer, studying at the Royal College of Music under Charles Villiers Stanford. Unable to support himself by his compositions, he played the trombone professionally and later became a great one. He was the founder of a series of Whitsun music festivals, a shy man, he did not welcome this fame, and preferred to be left in peace to compose and teach. In his later years his uncompromising, personal style of composition struck many music lovers as too austere, nevertheless, he was a significant influence on a number of younger English composers, including Edmund Rubbra, Michael Tippett and Benjamin Britten. Apart from The Planets and a handful of works, his music was generally neglected until the 1980s. Holst was born in Cheltenham, Gloucestershire, the elder of the two children of Adolph von Holst, a musician, and his wife, Clara Cox. Holsts great-grandfather, Matthias Holst, born in Riga, Latvia, was of German origin, matthiass son Gustavus, who moved to England with his parents as a child in 1802, was a composer of salon-style music and a well-known harp teacher. He appropriated the aristocratic prefix von and added it to the name in the hope of gaining enhanced prestige. Holsts father, Adolph von Holst, became organist and choirmaster at All Saints Church, Cheltenham, he also taught and his wife, Clara, a former pupil, was a talented singer and pianist. They had two sons, Gustavs younger brother, Emil Gottfried, became known as Ernest Cossart, an actor in the West End, New York. Clara died in February 1882, and the moved to another house in Cheltenham. Gustav recognised her devotion to the family and dedicated several of his compositions to her. In 1885 Adolph married Mary Thorley Stone, another of his pupils and they had two sons, Matthias and Evelyn. Mary von Holst was absorbed in theosophy and not greatly interested in domestic matters, Holst was taught to play the piano and the violin, he enjoyed the former very much more than the latter
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The Planets
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The Planets, Op.32, is a seven-movement orchestral suite by the English composer Gustav Holst, written between 1914 and 1916. Each movement of the suite is named after a planet of the Solar System, from its premiere to the present day, the suite has been enduringly popular, influential, widely performed and frequently recorded. The work was not heard in a public performance, however. Although there were four performances between September 1918 and October 1920, they were all private or incomplete. The premiere was at the Queens Hall on 29 September 1918, the first complete public performance was finally given in London by Albert Coates conducting the London Symphony Orchestra on 15 November 1920. Holst also used Alan Leos book What is a Horoscope. as a springboard for his own ideas, as well as for the subtitles for the movements, Holst then scored the suite for a large orchestra, in which form it became enormously popular. Its novel sonorities helped make the work a success with audiences at home. He was, however, partial to his own favourite movement, a public concert was given in London under the auspices of the Royal Philharmonic Society on 27 February 1919, conducted by Boult. Five of the seven movements were played in the order Mars, Mercury, Saturn, Uranus and it was Boults decision not to play all seven movements at this concert. He felt that when the public were being given a new language like that. The anonymous critic in Hazells Annual called it an extraordinarily complex, at a Queens Hall symphony concert on 22 November of that year, Holst conducted Venus, Mercury and Jupiter. There was another public performance, in Birmingham, on 10 October 1920. It is not clear whether this performance was conducted by Appleby Matthews or the composer and his daughter Imogen recalled, He hated incomplete performances of The Planets, though on several occasions he had to agree to conduct three or four movements at Queens Hall concerts. He particularly disliked having to finish with Jupiter, to make a happy ending, for, as he himself said, the first complete performance of the suite at a public concert did not occur until 15 November 1920, the London Symphony Orchestra was conducted by Albert Coates. This was the first time the movement Neptune had been heard in a public performance, the composer conducted a complete performance for the first time on 13 October 1923, with the Queens Hall Orchestra at a Promenade Concert. Because of the constraints of the 78rpm format, the tempi are often much faster than is usually the case today. In Neptune, two three-part womens choruses located in a room which is to be screened from the audience are added. Holst almost certainly attended a performance of Schoenbergs Five Pieces for Orchestra in 1914, and owned a score of it
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London Symphony Orchestra
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The London Symphony Orchestra, founded in 1904, is the oldest of Londons symphony orchestras. It was set up by a group of players who left Henry Woods Queens Hall Orchestra because of a new rule requiring players to give the orchestra their exclusive services, the LSO itself later introduced a similar rule for its members. From the outset, the LSO was organised on co-operative lines and this practice continued for the orchestras first four decades. The profit-sharing principle was abandoned in the era as a condition of receiving public subsidy for the first time. In the 1950s the orchestra debated whether to concentrate on work at the expense of symphony concerts. By the 1960s the LSO had recovered its position, which it has retained subsequently. In 1966, to perform alongside it in works, the orchestra established the LSO Chorus, originally a mix of professional and amateur singers. As a self-governing body, the orchestra selects the conductors with whom it works, at some stages in its history, it has dispensed with a principal conductor and worked only with guests. Since 1982, the LSO has been based in the Barbican Centre in the City of London, among its programmes there have been large-scale festivals celebrating composers as diverse as Berlioz, Mahler and Bernstein. At the turn of the century there were no permanent salaried orchestras in London. The main orchestras were those of Covent Garden, the Philharmonic Society and he would then engage another player to deputise at him for the original concert and the rehearsals for it. The treasurer of the Philharmonic Society described the system thus, A and he sends B to the first rehearsal. B, without knowledge or consent, sends C to the second rehearsal. Not being able to play at the concert, C sends D, in 1904, the manager of the Queens Hall, Robert Newman and the conductor of his promenade concerts, Henry Wood, agreed that they could no longer tolerate the deputy system. After a rehearsal in which Wood was faced with dozens of unfamiliar faces in his own orchestra, Newman came to the platform and announced, Gentlemen, in future there will be no deputies. Orchestral musicians were not highly paid, and removing their chances of better-paid engagements permitted by the deputy system was a financial blow to many of them. The principal movers were three players and a trumpeter, John Solomon. Busby organised a meeting at St. Andrews Hall, not far from the Queens Hall, invitations were sent to present and former members of the Queens Hall Orchestra
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Albert Coates (musician)
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Albert Coates was an English conductor and composer. He was a success in England conducting Wagner at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden in 1914 and his strengths as a conductor lay in opera and the Russian repertoire, and he was not thought as impressive in the core Austro-German symphonic repertoire. After 1923 he failed to secure a permanent conductorship in the UK, and for much of the rest of his life he guest conducted in continental Europe, in his last years he took orchestral appointments in South Africa, where he died at 71. As a composer, Coates is little remembered, but he composed seven operas and he also wrote some concert works for orchestral forces. He learned the violin, cello and piano as a child in Russia, from 12, he was raised in England. After attending the Royal Naval College, Dartmouth, he studied science at Liverpool University, Coates returned to Russia to join his fathers company, but he also studied composition with Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov. In 1902, he entered the Leipzig Conservatory, to study the cello with Julius Klengel and the piano with Robert Teichmüller, Nikisch appointed Coates répétiteur at the Leipzig opera, and he made his debut as a conductor in 1904 with Offenbachs The Tales of Hoffmann. He was engaged as the conductor of the Elberfeld opera house in 1906, from there he progressed to the post of assistant conductor at the Semperoper, Dresden, under Ernst von Schuch and Mannheim in 1909 under Artur Bodanzky. The Times judged him sound and artistic, though not particularly inspiring to watch, in the same year, he was invited by Eduard Nápravník to conduct at Saint Petersburgs Mariinsky Theatre. In July 1910, he married Ella Lizzie Holland, Coates first appeared at Covent Garden in 1914 in a Wagner season. He won critical praise for his performance of Tristan und Isolde and his conducting of Puccinis Manon Lescaut later in the same season was also well received, his Parsifal less so. The Russian Revolution in 1917 did not at first adversely affect Coates, the Soviet government appointed him President of all Opera Houses in Soviet Russia, based in Moscow. By 1919, however, living conditions in Russia had become desperate, Coates became seriously ill, and with considerable difficulty left Russia with his family by way of Finland in April 1919. After his arrival in England, he was appointed conductor of the LSO. Reviewing his first performance in the post, The Times praised him warmly, along with the younger Adrian Boult and Geoffrey Toye, in September 1919, he was appointed to teach a new class for operatic training at the Royal College of Music. Reporting the appointment, The Times wrote, There can scarcely be a musician in this country with so wide, the following month, there occurred an incident for which Coates is remembered in many books and articles. As a result, the gave a notoriously inadequate performance. Elgar did not complain publicly, but the world knew privately of Coatess behaviour
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Die tote Stadt
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Rodenbachs novel Bruges la Morte had already been adapted by the author into a play. The play was translated into German by Siegfried Trebitsch under the title Die stille Stadt, Trebitsch was a friend of Korngolds father Julius. The two met in the one day and got into a conversation about a possible operatic adaptation. Trebitsch later met Erich, who was enthusiastic about the project, Trebitsch recalled met the young master Erich Wolfgang Korngold in search of a scenario or, even better, a mood or operatic background that could be dramatically elaborated. I urged him to take up Das Trugbild, however, his work on two of his own plays prevented him from getting much further, and since his prose was wordy and unsingable anyway, we gladly excused him from the task. Father and son decided to adapt the play themselves, and co-wrote the libretto, Julius decided to change the plot so that the murder occurs in a dream, rather than in actuality, as in the original. Korngold started the composition in 1916 and he left it for a year to take up military service before resuming and completing the score. When Die tote Stadt had its premiere on December 4,1920, the success of these earlier works was so great that Die tote Stadt was subject to a fierce competition among German theatres for the right to the world premiere. In the end, a double premiere was arranged and the opera opened simultaneously at the Stadttheater Hamburg. In Cologne, the conductor was Otto Klemperer, and his wife Johanna Geisler sang Marietta, in Hamburg, Korngold himself was in the theatre, and the conductor was Egon Pollak. Die tote Stadt was one of the greatest hits of the 1920s, within two years of its premiere it had circled the globe, including several performances at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City. But the work was banned by the Nazi régime because of Korngolds Jewish ancestry, the key postwar revivals of the piece were at the Vienna Volksoper and the New York City Opera. In recent years, however, the work has enjoyed notable revivals, among others at the Theater Bonn, the Royal Opera House, the French premiere of the opera took place in a concert performance in 1982 at the Paris Théâtre des Champs-Élysées. The first French staged performance was in April 2001 in Strasbourg under the baton of Jan Latham-Koenig with Torsten Kerl, the first UK staged performance was on 27 January 2009 at the Royal Opera House, Covent Garden. In 1986, he directed the episode Glück das mir verblieb of Aria, in the 1989 film, Slaves of New York, directed by James Ivory, an excerpt from the 1975 RCA recording, with Carol Neblett, is heard. He keeps a Temple of Memories in her honor, including paintings, photographs, when his friend Frank pays him a visit at his house and urges him to honor Marie by moving on with his life, Paul flies into a rant, and insists that Marie still lives. He tells Frank that he has met a woman on the streets of Bruges who exactly resembles Marie, soon, the woman, Marietta, a young and beautiful dancer, appears for her rendezvous with Paul. They talk, she is put off by his odd behavior, but persists in trying to interest him in her charms—she sings and dances seductively, Paul meanwhile is driven to a state of extreme anxiety
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold
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Erich Wolfgang Korngold was an Austrian-born composer and conductor. A child prodigy, he one of the most important. He was a noted pianist and composer of music, along with music for Hollywood films. When he was 11, his ballet Der Schneemann, became a sensation in Vienna, followed by his Piano Sonata which he wrote at age 13 and his one-act operas Violanta and Der Ring des Polykrates were premiered in Munich in 1916, conducted by Bruno Walter. At 23, his opera Die tote Stadt premiered in Hamburg, in 1921 he conducted the Hamburg Opera. During the 1920s he re-orchestrated, re-arranged and nearly re-composed, for the theater, by 1931 he was a professor of music at Vienna State Academy. At the request of director Max Reinhardt, and due to the rise of the Nazi regime and his first was Reinhardts A Midsummer Nights Dream, which was well received by critics. He subsequently wrote scores for films as Captain Blood, which helped boost the career its starring newcomer. His score for Anthony Adverse won an Oscar, and was followed two years later with another Oscar for The Adventures of Robin Hood, overall, he wrote the score for 16 Hollywood films, receiving two more nominations. Along with Max Steiner and Alfred Newman, he is one of the founders of film music, Korngold was born to a Jewish family in Brünn, Austria-Hungary, the second son of eminent music critic Julius Korngold. A child prodigy living in Vienna, he could play four-hand piano arrangements alongside his father at age five and he was also able to reproduce any melody he heard on the piano, along with playing complete and elaborate chords. By the time he was seven he was writing original music, Erich played his cantata Gold to Gustav Mahler in 1909, Mahler called him a musical genius and recommended he study with composer Alexander von Zemlinsky. At the age of 11 he composed his ballet Der Schneemann and he continued composing with great success throughout his teens. He composed a trio, then his Piano Sonata No.2 in E major. During these early years he also made live-recording player piano rolls for the Hupfeld DEA and Phonola system and also the Aeolian Duo-Art system. Korngold wrote his first orchestral score, the Schauspiel Ouverture when he was 14 and his Sinfonietta appeared the following year, and his first two operas, Der Ring des Polykrates and Violanta, in 1914. In 1916, he wrote music to various chamber works and songs, including Much Ado About Nothing. Korngold was active in the theatre throughout Europe while in his 20s
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Three X Sisters
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The Three X Sisters were an American all-girl harmony singing trio, initially known as The Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce. They were on stage singing together as early as 1922, and formed their trio in 1924 and they were known on NBC radio as radios foremost harmony trio. Comparable female trios of the day were the Boswell Sisters, the Pickens Sisters, Pearl, Violet, and Jessie had individually all been fairly well known in their theater venues by 1914. Earlier, Pearl and Vi had individually sung in Cumberland, Maryland, theaters, Jessie performed alongside Arthur Yule, her father. She was on the Brooklyn, New York, vaudeville circuit and beyond - as a child star Baby Helen, her stepping-stone success through songs. Pearl Hamilton began her career on Broadway as early as 1917 and her roommate during this era was Joan Page, another Stars of the Future entertainer/singer. The average salary in 1919 was $22.00 per week for the All Jazz Revue chorus girls, Pearl started out as a soft shoe and high-kick dancer, and received positive dance reviews. The Hamiltons began their singing careers in harmony at the Haymarket Theatre in Chicago. Some walk-on or cameo parts in silent films with Paramount Pictures showed their dancing talents, Violet had been chosen in 1926 by Paramount, exclusively, for a scene of her Charelston dance moves. Later references to this accompanied their singing career. In 1920, Pearl and Violet, were part of the vocal chorus. A later addition was friend Jessie Fordyce with the All Jazz Revue showcase, Pearl and Violet started entertaining with the All Jazz Review, their first known performance, sponsored by Irons & Clamage and the Swear Club was reviewed by The Billboard on January 10,1920. Pearl, a tall, willowy girl, Is a dancing wonder as her artistry in dance had become well known, the trio started out on Broadway and in vaudeville, with Helen Kane Schroeder, the original Boop-boop-a-Doop Girl. The trio did various song and dance acts, eventually settling for close harmony, the Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce earliest known performance together was at B. F. Keiths Theater in Syracuse, New York, on May 13,1923. In 1924, they toured in vaudeville, with Helen Schroeder. Pearls harmony trio had the musicianship of the Raymond Fagan Orchestra, Pearl Hamilton met Ed Santos, who played trumpet with Fagans band, and a year later they married in Rochester, New York. During early July 1925, The Hamilton Sisters and Jessie Fordyce were singing at the Eighty-First Street Theatre, in 1926, the trio toured with another popular all-girl act, Jerry and her Baby Grands, appearing together at the Palace Theater in New York. They also toured together in Canada, the Hamilton Sisters and Fordyce gained enough success to tour abroad
