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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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1920 in music
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This is a list of notable events in music that took place in the year 1920. January 19 - The Salzburg Festival is revived, september 4 - City of Birmingham Orchestra first rehearses. November 15 - First complete public performance of Gustav Holsts suite The Planets given in London by the London Symphony Orchestra conducted by Albert Coates, december 4 - Première of the opera Die tote Stadt by 23-year-old Erich Wolfgang Korngold. It later becomes known that the librettist, Paul Schott, is Korngolds father Julius, december 30 - Pearl Hamilton, plays piano with small jazz ensemble to appreciative audience at the Star Theater in New York City. Mamie Smiths first blues recordings become a hit, alerting record companies to the African American market, Hamilton Harty is appointed resident conductor of the Hallé Orchestra. Henri Sauguet forms Groupe des Trois along with Louis Emié and Jean-Marcel Lizotte, the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra launches its Mahler festival. Gabriel Fauré retires from the Paris Conservatoire, and is awarded the Grand-Croix of the Légion dHonneur, stewart Macpherson - Melody and Harmony After You Get What You Want, You Dont Want It w. m. Irving Berlin All Shed Say Was Umh Hum w. m, king Zany, Mac Emery, Gus Van & Joe Schenck All The Boys Love Mary Gus Van & Joe Schenck Aunt Hagars Blues w. m. B. G. DeSylva, Al Jolson & Vincent Rose Blue Jeans w. Harry D. Kerr, Otto Motzan & M. K. Jerome Broadway Rose w. Eugene West m. Martin Fried & Otis Spencer Chanson m. Rudolf Friml Chili Bean w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer Crazy Blues w. m, percy Bradford The Cuckoo Waltz w. Arthur Kingsley m. J. E. Jonasson Daddy, Youve Been A Mother To Me w. m. Fred Fisher Do You Ever Think Of Me. w. John Cooper & Harry D, earl Burtnett Down By The O-HI-O w. Jack Yellen m. Abe Olman Feather Your Nest w. m, James Kendis, James Brockman & Howard Johnson The Gipsy Warned Me w. m. R. P. Weston & Bert Lee Great Camp Meeting Day w. Noble Sissle He Went In Like A Lion w. Andrew B, sterling m. Harry von Tilzer Home Again Blues w. m. Harry Akst & Irving Berlin I Belong to Glasgow w. m, will Fyffe I Never Knew I Could Love Anybody Like Im Loving You w. m. Egan & Roy Marsh I Used To Love You, But Its All Over Now w. Lew Brown m. Albert Von Tilzer Id Love To Fall Asleep And Wake Up In My Mammys Arms w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. Fred E. Ahlert Ill Be With You In Apple Blossom Time w. Neville Fleason m. Albert Von Tilzer Ill See You In C-U-B-A w. m, Irving Berlin In A Persian Market m. Albert William Ketèlbey The Japanese Sandman w. Raymond B. Hirsch Margie w. Benny Davis m, con Conrad & J. Russel Robinson Mary w. Otto Harbach m. Louis A. Harry Lauder Old Pal Why Dont You Answer Me w. Sam M. Lewis & Joe Young m. M. K. Jerome Pale Moon w. Jesse Glick m. Frederick Knight Logan Palesteena 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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1921 in architecture
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The year 1921 in architecture involved some significant architectural events and new buildings. The Einstein Tower near Potsdam, Germany, designed by Erich Mendelsohn, berliner Tageblatt, designed by Erich Mendelsohn. The current Sydney Central railway station in Australia, harkness Tower in Yale University in New Haven, Connecticut, United States, after 4 years of construction. The Corn Palace in Mitchell, South Dakota, United States is completed, the Wong Tai Sin Temple is moved to its current site and completed. New Hindu Durgiana Temple in Amritsar, the Ohel Rachel Synagogue in Shanghai, designed by Robert Bradshaw Moorhead and Sidney Joseph Halse, is dedicated on January 23. Michel de Klerks Het Schip housing development for Eigen Haard in Amesterdam, monument to the March Dead, by Walter Gropius in Weimar, Germany. The Mayslake Peabody Estate in Oak Brook, Illinois, United States, the Chicago Theatre movie palace in the United States. The Theater Pathé Tuschinski movie/live theatre in Amsterdam, designed by Hijman Louis de Jong, is opened on October 28, adolf Loos designed a mausoleum for Max Dvořák that has remained unbuilt. March - Puhl & Wagner are contracted to decorate the interior of the Golden Hall with neo-Byzantine mosaics designed by Einar Forseth, March 21 - Teatro Yagüez in Puerto Rico, designed by José Sabàs Honoré, reopens. May 27 - A Buddha image is enshrined in the hall of the Daifukuji Soto Zen Mission in Hawaii. September 5 - The Cervantes Theatre in Buenos Aires, Argentina, hugo Häring and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe submit a competition entry for a Friedrichstrasse office building, fully made of glass. Construction work begins on the Watts Towers in Los Angeles, designed by Simon Rodia, american Academy of Arts and Letters Gold Medal – Cass Gilbert. Royal Gold Medal - Edwin Lutyens
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Amelita Galli-Curci
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Amelita Galli-Curci was an Italian coloratura soprano. She was one of the most popular singers of the 20th century. She was born as Amelita Galli into a family in Milan. She was inspired to sing by her grandmother, operatic composer Pietro Mascagni also encouraged Galli-Curcis singing ambitions. By her own choice, Galli-Curcis voice was largely self-trained and she honed her technique by listening to other sopranos, reading old singing-method books, and doing piano exercises with her voice instead of using a keyboard. She was seen by critics as an antidote to the host of squally. The soprano had toured widely in Europe, Russia and South America, in 1915, she sang two performances of Lucia di Lammermoor with Enrico Caruso in Buenos Aires. These were to be her only appearances with the great tenor, though they later appeared in concert. Galli-Curci and Caruso also acted as godparents for the son of the Sicilian tenor Giulio Crimi, Galli-Curci toured extensively throughout her career, including a 1924 Great Britain concert tour, where she appeared in 20 cities and a tour of Australia a year later. Galli-Curci arrived in the United States in the autumn of 1916 as a virtual unknown, also in 1916, Galli-Curci signed a recording contract with the Victor Talking Machine Company and recorded exclusively for the company until 1930. On 14 November 1921, While still under contract with the Chicago Opera and she was one of few singers who were contracted to both opera companies simultaneously. Galli-Curci remained at the Met until her retirement from the stage nine years later. Galli-Curci built and maintained an estate called Sul Monte in Highmount, New York, in the nearby village of Margaretville a theater was erected and named in her honor. She returned the favor by performing there on its opening night, weary of opera house politics and convinced that opera was a dying art form, Galli-Curci retired from the operatic stage in January 1930 to concentrate instead on concert performances. Throat problems and the pitching of top notes had plagued her for several years. Great care was taken during her surgery, which was performed under local anesthesia, a nerve to her larynx, the external branch of the superior laryngeal nerve, is thought to have been damaged, resulting in the loss of her ability to sing high pitches. This nerve has become known as the nerve of Galli-Curci. In 1908 Galli-Curci wed an Italian nobleman, the Marchese Luigi Curci, the Marchese Curci petitioned the papal council in Rome for an annulment of the marriage in 1922
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Harvard Glee Club
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The Harvard Glee Club is a 60-voice, all-male choral ensemble at Harvard University. Founded in 1858 in the tradition of English and American glee clubs, the Glee Club is part of the Holden Choruses of Harvard University, which also include the all-female Radcliffe Choral Society and the mixed-voice Harvard-Radcliffe Collegium Musicum. All three groups are led by Harvards current Director of Choral Activities Andrew Clark, the Glee Club was long a fixture of the Boston music scene, performing frequently with the Boston Symphony Orchestra and other ensembles, but this local prominence has lessened in recent years. A number of people were members of the Glee Club during their time at Harvard. The Glee Club was founded in 1858 by a group of students to sing glees, the group remained small until the end of the nineteenth century, when growth in its size and on-campus profile made higher musical aspirations possible. In 1919, it invited Dr. Archibald T, Doc Davison, the choirmaster of Harvards Memorial Church, to become Glee Club conductor. In 1921, the Glee Club embarked on its first European tour, the group was officially invited by the government of France, and the tour was covered by the press in the US and Europe. This tour also resulted in a spate of new work written expressly for the Glee Club by such composers as Darius Milhaud, Francis Poulenc, and Gustav Holst. Under Doc Davison, the Glee Club and the Radcliffe Choral Society became the choruses of choice for the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the relationship with the BSO continued until the creation of the Tanglewood Festival Chorus, both Club and Society continue to sing with the BSO on occasion. Most recently, the Glee Club appeared at conventions in Pittsburgh in 2002 and Boston in 2004. Concerts led by Marvin were favorably received across the country and around the world, many Glee Club members and assistant conductors have gone on to become leaders of American music, including composers, choral directors, and orchestra managers across the country. Nick Webster, former CEO of the New York Philharmonic Scott Tucker, wade John Jack Reed, author of Ten Days that Shook the World, who was also President of the Harvard Glee Club Jesse Francis Jeff Bingaman Jr. former U. S. Waldrep, American poet Noam Elkies, mathematician Patrick Harlan, television personality in Japan The Harvard Glee Club is faculty-directed, each tour and major project, such as a large concert or production and release of a recording, has its own student manager. The Glee Club rehearses in Holden Chapel in Harvard Yard, built in 1744, Holden is one of the oldest college buildings in America. The group performs most of its concerts in Harvards Sanders Theatre. The Glee Club tours a different part of the United States every spring break, recent spring tours have taken the group to northern California, the Upper Midwest, the Deep South, the Glee Club also takes month-long summer tours roughly every 4 years. Recent summer tours have included trips to East Asia, Australia, Scandinavia, the 2007-2008 season marked the 150th anniversary of the Glee Clubs founding. Highlights included a tour of the Eastern Seaboard and a three-day festival in Cambridge from April 11–13,2008
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Clarence Williams (musician)
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Clarence Williams was an American jazz pianist, composer, promoter, vocalist, theatrical producer, and publisher. Williams was born in Plaquemine, Louisiana, ran away home at age 12 to join Billy Kersands Traveling Minstrel Show. At first Williams worked shining shoes and doing odd jobs, by the early 1910s he was a well regarded local entertainer also playing piano, and was composing new tunes by 1913. Williams started a publishing business with violinist/bandleader Armand J. Piron in 1915. Handy, set up an office in Chicago, then settled in New York in the early 1920s. In 1921, he married singer and stage actress Eva Taylor. He was one of the primary pianists on scores of blues records recorded in New York during the 1920s and he supervised African-American recordings for the New York offices of Okeh phonograph company in the 1920s in the Gaiety Theatre office building in Times Square. He recruited many of the artists who performed on that label and he also recorded extensively, leading studio bands frequently for OKeh, Columbia and occasionally other record labels. He mostly used Clarence Williams Jazz Kings for his hot band sides and he also produced and participated in early recordings by Louis Armstrong, Sidney Bechet, Bessie Smith, Virginia Liston, Irene Scruggs, his niece Katherine Henderson, and many others. King Oliver played cornet on a number of Williamss late 1920s recordings and he was the recording director for the short-lived QRS Records label in 1928. Most of his recordings were songs from his house, which explains why he recorded tunes like Baby Wont You Please Come Home, Close Fit Blues. Among his own compositions was Shout, Sister, Shout, which was recorded by him, in 1933, he signed to the Vocalion label and recorded quite a number of popular recordings, mostly featuring washboard percussion, through 1935. He also recorded for Bluebird in 1937, and again in 1941, in 1943, Williams sold his extensive back-catalogue of tunes to Decca Records for $50,000 and retired, but then bought a bargain used-goods store. Williams died in Queens, New York City, in 1965, on her death in 1977, his wife, Eva Taylor, was interred next to him. Clarence Williams is the grandfather of actor Clarence Williams III and his daughter Joy Williams was a singer-actress under stage name Irene Williams. Clarence Williams was also credited as the author of Hank Williams 1949 hit My Buckets Got a Hole in It, a song that was later recorded by Louis Armstrong
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Columbia Records
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Columbia Records is an American record label owned by Sony Music Entertainment, a subsidiary of Sony Corporation of America, Inc. the United States division of Sony Corporation. It was founded in 1887, evolving from an enterprise named the American Graphophone Company. Columbia is the oldest surviving brand name in the sound business. Columbia Records went on to release records by an array of singers, instrumentalists. It is one of Sony Musics three flagship record labels alongside RCA Records and Epic Records, rather, as above, it was connected to CBS, a broadcasting media company which had purchased the company in 1938, and had been co-founded in 1927 by Columbia Records itself. Though Arista Records was sold to Bertelsmann Music Group, it would become a sister label of Columbia Records through its mutual connection to Sony Music. The Columbia Phonograph Company was founded in 1887 by stenographer, lawyer and New Jersey native Edward Easton and it derived its name from the District of Columbia, where it was headquartered. At first it had a monopoly on sales and service of Edison phonographs and phonograph cylinders in Washington. As was the custom of some of the regional companies, Columbia produced many commercial cylinder recordings of its own. Columbias ties to Edison and the North American Phonograph Company were severed in 1894 with the North American Phonograph Companys breakup, thereafter it sold only records and phonographs of its own manufacture. In 1902, Columbia introduced the XP record, a brown wax record. According to Gracyk, the molded brown waxes may have sold to Sears for distribution. Columbia began selling records and phonographs in addition to the cylinder system in 1901, preceded only by their Toy Graphophone of 1899. For a decade, Columbia competed with both the Edison Phonograph Company cylinders and the Victor Talking Machine Company disc records as one of the top three names in American recorded sound. In order to add prestige to its catalog of artists. The firm also introduced the internal-horn Grafonola to compete with the extremely popular Victrola sold by the rival Victor Talking Machine Company, during this era, Columbia used the famous Magic Notes logo—a pair of sixteenth notes in a circle—both in the United States and overseas. Columbia was split into two companies, one to make records and one to make players, Columbia Phonograph was moved to Connecticut, and Ed Easton went with it. Eventually it was renamed the Dictaphone Corporation, in late 1923, Columbia went into receivership
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Michio Miyagi
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Michio Miyagi was a Japanese musician, famous for his koto playing. He lost his sight in 1902, when he was 8 years old, in 1907 he moved with his family to Incheon, in southern Korea. When he was 14 years old, in 1909 he finished his first composition, at 18 he reached the rank of kengyo, the highest rank for a koto performer. Miyagi moved to Tokyo in 1917, and in 1919 he did his first recital of his own compositions, in 1920, he took part in the Great Recital of the New Japanese Music with Seifu Yoshida and Nagayo Motoori. He was reckoned as an authority in the new Japanese music, in 1925 he participated in one of the first radio presentations in Japan, and in 1929 he signed an exclusive contract with Victor Record Company, current JVC. He composed his most famous piece, Haru no Umi, in 1929, in 1930 he became a lecturer at the Tokyo College of Music, until he was appointed professor in 1937. In 1932 French violinist Renee Chemet visited Japan on a concert tour, after hearing Miyagi perform Haru no Umi Chemet arranged the shakuhachi part for violin, which she and Miyagi then recorded for distribution in Japan and Europe. He gained worldwide notability after the issuing of his albums in Japan, United States, after the Second World War, in 1948, he was appointed to the Academy of Arts of Japan. On 25 June 1956 he died after falling from a train in Kariya and he wrote more than 500 pieces, improved Japanese string instruments, and invented new kotos with 17 strings and 80 strings. He was also an essayist, and published more than ten books including Ame no Nenbutsu, the Michio Miyagi Memorial Hall was opened in 1978 on the site where he spent his last years. Prescott, Anne, Miyagi Michio, the father of modern Koto music his life, works and innovations, chiba Junnosuke, Oto ni Ikiru, Miyagi Michio Den, Tokyo, Kodansha,1992
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Cyril Rootham
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Cyril Bradley Rootham /ˈruːtəm/ was an English composer, educator and organist. His work at Cambridge University made him a figure in English music life. A Fellow of St Johns College, where he was also organist, Rootham ran the Cambridge University Musical Society, one of his students was the younger composer Arthur Bliss, who valued his tuition in orchestration. Roothams own compositions include two symphonies and several orchestral pieces, an opera, chamber music, and many choral settings. Among his solo songs are settings of verses by Siegfried Sassoon which were made in co-operation with the poet. Rootham was born in Redland, Bristol, to Daniel Wilberforce Rootham and his father was a well-known singing teacher whose students included Eva Turner and Clara Butt, and he was also a director of the Bristol Madrigal Society. After attending Bristol Grammar School, Rootham initially entered St Johns College, Cambridge, graduation in 1897 was followed by a second bachelors degree, this time in music, which he completed in 1900. Rootham continued his education at the Royal College of Music where he studied under Marmaduke Barton, Walter Parratt, Hubert Parry and Charles Villiers Stanford. Roothams first professional appointment was as organist of Christ Church, Hampstead and this was followed by a brief period as organist at St Asaph Cathedral in north Wales in 1901. In the same year, Rootham was appointed organist at St Johns College, Cambridge, in 1909, Rootham married Rosamond Margaret Lucas who supplied him with support and encouragement. Rosamond was put in charge of the making at the CUMS concerts. Their son Jasper St John Rootham was born in 1910, in 1912, Rootham became conductor of the Cambridge University Musical Society. Under his enterprising leadership and programming, the CUMS exerted a significant influence on English musical life of the time, Rootham revived Handel oratorios, Mozart operas and other currently neglected works by Purcell and others. E. J. Dent and others are credited with the textual preparation. The CUMS concerts also promoted modern music such as Zoltán Kodálys Psalmus Hungaricus, Arthur Honeggers Le roi David and Ildebrando Pizzettis Mass and Piano concerto, in 1930 Rootham invited several contemporary composers to the concert, Manuel de Falla, Kodály and Honegger attended, as did Kathleen Long. Roothams genial manner and enviable physique made him popular amongst students. This popularity helped the success of the CUMS concerts, all of which were largely extracurricular, in 1914 Rootham had become a Fellow of St Johns after taking over the post of University Lecturer in Form and Analysis of Music. In 1924 he was made Senior Lecturer in Counterpoint and Harmony, Rootham was also a much appreciated teacher of orchestration
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Ain't We Got Fun
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Aint We Got Fun is a popular foxtrot published in 1921 with music by Richard A. Whiting, lyrics by Raymond B. It was first performed in 1920 in the revue Satires of 1920, then moved into vaudeville, the song also contains variations on the phrase The rich get richer and the poor get poorer, though this phrase predates the song, its use increased with the songs popularity. Aint We Got Fun follows the structure of a foxtrot, the melody uses mainly quarter notes, and has an unsyncopated refrain made up largely of variations on a repeated four-note phrase. The Tin Pan Alley Song Encyclopedia describes it as a Roaring Twenties favourite and praises its vibrancy, zesty music, truncated phrases like not much money are the verbal equivalent of syncopated musical fragments. Critical appraisals vary regarding what view of poverty the songs lyrics take, nicholas E. Tawa summarizes the refrain Aint we got fun as a satirical and jaunty rejoinder toward hard times. The men who had fought had been lured into the army by gaudy promises, moreover, they had been at war and were coming home with a soldiers attitude to life, which is fundamentally, in spite of discipline, a lawless attitude. There was a turbulent feeling in the air and he could just as easily have concluded that the song revealed a certain fatalism, a resignation and even capitulation to forces beyond the control of working people. It is possible that Aint We Got Fun, a product of the industry was part of a complex resolution of crisis in capitalist society. Far from revealing the indomitable spirit of working people, it figured into the means with which they were controlled and it is a problem of interpretation laying at the heart of popular music, one which emerged with particular clarity at the time of the English Industrial Revolution. However, others concentrate on the fun that they got, stephen J. Philip Furia and Michael Lasser see implicit references to sexual intercourse in lyrics such as the happy chappy, and his bride of only a year. There are several variations on the lyrics, the sheet music published in 1921 by Jerome K. Remick and Co. It premièred in the show Satires of 1920, where it was sung by Arthur West, a hit recording by Van and Schenck increased its popularity, and grew into a popular standard. It also appears in Dorothy Parkers 1929 short story, Big Blonde, warner Brothers used the song in two musicals during the early 1950s, The Gus Kahn biopic Ill See You in My Dreams and The Eddie Cantor Story. Woody Allen used the song in his 1983 film Zelig, the instrumental tune is heard at a party during a sequence set in the 1920s in the 1942 biopic, The Pride of the Yankees. Actress Teresa Wright sings part of the actual lyrics as well. The song was featured in the film By the Light of the Silvery Moon, Day and MacRae also dance to it in On Moonlight Bay —anachronistically, since the movie is set during the First World War, before the song was written. British emo/post-hardcore band Baby Harp Seals song Eric Arthur Blair incorporates lyrics from Aint We Got Fun. as well as references to George Orwell. It was used as a late 1970s commercial jingle for Little Friskies Cat Food and it appears in the film adaptation of the novel from 1974, The Great Gatsby, directed by Jack Clayton
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Billy Jones (1930s singer)
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William Reese Billy Jones was a tenor who recorded during the 1920s and 1930s, finding fame as a radio star on The Happiness Boys radio program. Jones worked in occupations as mining, banking, and blacksmithing before his 1918 recording debut. He recorded with the Cleartone Four, the Crescent Trio, the Harmonizers Quartet and the Premier Quartet, after he met Ernie Hare in 1919, they teamed in 1920 when Brunswick executive Gus Haenschen had them sing an accompaniment on a Brunswick Records recording. They went on to do numerous recordings together for Brunswick, Edison and they began on radio October 18,1921 on WJZ. Sponsored by the chain of Happiness Candy stores, they were heard on The Happiness Boys program beginning August 22,1923 on New Yorks WEAF, moving to NBC from a run from 1926 to 1929. As The Happiness Boys, they sang popular tunes, mostly light fare and comic songs, by 1928, they were the highest paid singers in radio, earning $1,250 a week. The partnership ended with Hares death on March 9,1939, Jones continued to perform, teaming with Hares 16-year-old daughter, Marilyn Hare, in 1939-40. Hoffmann, Carty, Billy Murray, The Phonograph Industrys First Great Recording Artist Kinkle, the Complete Encyclopedia of *Popular Music and Jazz, 1900-1950 Gracyk, Tim, The Encyclopedia of Popular American Recording Pioneers, 1895-1925 Joseph Dinneen. How Bob Emery Became Big Brother to 12,000 Youngsters, boston Globe, March 1,1925, p. E6. The Happiness Boys Billy Jones at the Internet Movie Database
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Edison Records
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Edison Records was one of the earliest record labels which pioneered sound recording and reproduction and was an important player in the early recording industry. The first phonograph cylinders were manufactured in 1888, followed by Edisons foundation of the Edison Phonograph Company in the same year, until 1910 the recordings did not carry the names of the artists. The company began to lag behind its rivals in the 1920s, Edison invented the phonograph, the first device for recording and playing back sound, in 1877. The earliest phonograph was something of a curiosity, although it was one that fascinated much of the public. Early machines were sold to entrepreneurs who made an out of traveling around the country giving phonograph concerts. Talking dolls and Talking clocks were manufactured as expensive novelties using the early phonograph, in 1887, Edison turned his attention back to improving the phonograph and the phonograph cylinder. The following year, the Edison company debuted the Perfected Phonograph, Edison introduced wax cylinders approximately 4 1⁄4 inches long and 2 1⁄4 inches in external diameter, which became the industry standard. Several experimental wax cylinder recordings of music and speech made in 1888 still exist, the wax entertainment cylinder made its commercial debut in 1889. At first, the customers were entrepreneurs who installed nickel-in-the-slot phonographs in amusement arcades, saloons. At that time, a phonograph cost the equivalent of several months wages for the worker and was driven by an electric motor powered by hazardous. When relatively affordable spring-motor-driven phonographs designed for home use appeared in the mid-1890s, blank records were an important part of the business early on. Most phonographs had or could be fitted with attachments for the users to make their own recordings, one important early use, in line with the original term for a phonograph as a talking machine, was in business for recording dictation. Attachments were added to facilitate starting, stopping, and skipping back the recording for dictation, the business phonograph eventually evolved into a separate device from the home entertainment phonograph. Edison Records brand of business phonograph was called The Ediphone, see Phonograph cylinder, Edison also holds the achievement of being one of the first companies to record the first African-American quartet to record, the Unique Quartet. A notable technological triumph of the Edison Laboratories was devising a method to mass-produce pre-recorded phonograph cylinders in molds and this was done by using very slightly tapered cylinders and molding in a material that contracted as it set. To Edisons disappointment the commercial potential of this process was not realized for some years, most of the regional Edison distributors were able to fill the small early market for recordings by mechanical duplication of a few dozen cylinders at a time. Molded cylinders did not become a significant force in the marketplace until the end of the 1890s, before using metal cylinders though Edison used paraffin paper. In 1902, Edisons National Phonograph Company introduced Edison Gold Moulded Records, cylinder records of improved hard black wax, capable of being played hundreds of times before wearing out
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Gus Kahn
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Gustav Gerson Kahn was an American lyricist. Kahn was born in Koblenz, Germany, in 1886, the family emigrated to the United States and moved to Chicago in 1890. After graduating from school, he worked as a clerk in a mail order business before launching one of the most successful. Kahn married Grace LeBoy in 1916 and they had two children, Donald and Irene, in his early days, Kahn wrote special material for vaudeville. Later, he began writing lyrics for composer and bandleader Isham Jones, throughout the 1920s, Kahn continued to contribute to Broadway scores such as Holka Polka, Kittys Kisses, Artists and Models, Whoopee. and Show Girl. He went on to several movies, mainly for MGM. He had a friendship with Walter Donaldson. Their first collaboration was the song My Buddy in 1922 and they went on to compose over one hundred songs together. Kahn died in Beverly Hills, California, on October 8,1941 and he was interred in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park Cemetery in Glendale, California. He was survived by his son, songwriter and musician Donald Kahn, Gus Kahns most famous songs include, My Buddy with music by Walter Donaldson, It Had To Be You with music by Isham Jones, and Makin Whoopee with music by Walter Donaldson. Kahn was also the lyricist for the Ted Healy/Three Stooges short film Beer and Pretzels, Kahn has been incorrectly associated with the song Side by Side which has words and music by Harry Woods. Kahns papers are housed at the Great American Songbook Foundation, a collection guide for his papers can be found here. Everybody Rag with Me Memories Pretty Baby So Long, Mother What Are You Going to Do to Help the Boys and your Eyes Have Told Me So Aint We Got Fun. American Songwriters, An H. W. Wilson Biographical Dictionary, ISBN 0-8242-0744-0 OCLC14357785 Furia, Philip. ISBN 0-7876-6009-4 OCLC50004668 Kahn, Gus, ill See You in My Dreams. OCLC650149287 Kahn, Gus, Bronislaw Kaper, and Walter Jurmann, new York, Robbins Music Corp,1937. American Popular Song Lyricists, Oral Histories, 1920s–1960s
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All by Myself (Irving Berlin song)
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All by Myself is a popular song written by Irving Berlin, published in 1921. It was performed in a musical revue, recorded in London on November 14,1946. Crosby also performed it alongside Al Jolson and this performance was broadcast live on Crosbys radio show on May 71947
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Irving Berlin
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Irving Berlin was an American composer and lyricist, widely considered one of the greatest songwriters in American history. His music forms a part of the Great American Songbook. Born in Imperial Russia, Berlin arrived in the United States at the age of five. He published his first song, Marie from Sunny Italy, in 1907, receiving 33 cents for the publishing rights and he also was an owner of the Music Box Theatre on Broadway. Alexanders Ragtime Band sparked a dance craze in places as far away as Berlins native Russia. In doing so, said Walter Cronkite, at Berlins 100th birthday tribute, he helped write the story of country, capturing the best of who we are. He wrote hundreds of songs, many becoming major hits, which him a legend before he turned thirty. During his 60-year career he wrote an estimated 1,500 songs, including the scores for 19 Broadway shows and 18 Hollywood films, with his songs nominated eight times for Academy Awards. Many songs became popular themes and anthems, including Easter Parade, White Christmas, Happy Holiday, This Is the Army, Mr. Jones, and Theres No Business Like Show Business. His Broadway musical and 1942 film, This is the Army, Celine Dion recorded it as a tribute, making it no.1 on the charts after the September 11 attacks in 2001. In 2015, pianist and composer Hershey Felder began touring nationwide as a show, portraying Berlin. Composer George Gershwin called him the greatest songwriter that has ever lived, Berlin was born on May 11,1888, in Tolochin, Russian Empire. He was one of eight children of Moses and Lena Lipkin Beilin and his father, a cantor in a synagogue, uprooted the family to America, as did many other Jewish families in the late 19th century. In 1893 they settled in New York City, as of the 1900 census, the name Beilin had changed to Baline. By daylight the house was in ashes, as an adult, Berlin said he was unaware of being raised in abject poverty since he knew no other life. Tsar Alexander III of Russia and then Tsar Nicholas II, his son, had revived with utmost brutality the anti-Jewish pogroms, which created the spontaneous mass exodus to America. When they reached Ellis Island, Israel was put in a pen with his brother and his Yiddish-speaking family eventually settled on Cherry Street, a windowless cold-water basement flat in the Theater District of the Lower East Side. His father, unable to find work as a cantor in New York, took a job at a kosher meat market and gave Hebrew lessons on the side
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Ivor Novello
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Ivor Novello, born David Ivor Davies, was a Welsh composer and actor who became one of the most popular British entertainers of the first half of the 20th century. He was born into a family and his first successes were as a songwriter. His first big hit was Keep the Home Fires Burning, which was popular during the First World War. His 1917 show, Theodore & Co, was a wartime hit, after the war, Novello contributed numbers to several successful musical comedies and was eventually commissioned to write the scores of complete shows. He wrote his musicals in the style of operetta and often composed his music to the librettos of Christopher Hassall, in the 1920s, he turned to acting, first in British films and then on stage, with considerable success in both. He starred in two silent films directed by Alfred Hitchcock, The Lodger and Downhill, on stage, he played the title character in the first London production of Liliom. Novello briefly went to Hollywood, but he returned to Britain. The best known of these were Glamorous Night and The Dancing Years, from the 1930s, he often performed with Zena Dare, writing parts for her in his works. He continued to write for film, but he had his biggest late successes with stage musicals, Perchance to Dream, Kings Rhapsody and Gays the Word. Novello was born in Cardiff, Wales, to David Davies, a rent collector for the city council, and his wife, Clara Novello Davies, as a boy, Novello was a successful singer in the Welsh Eisteddfod. Another of his mothers associates was Clara Butt, who taught him to sing Abide with Me when he was a boy of six, Novello was educated privately in Cardiff and then in Gloucester, where he studied harmony and counterpoint with Herbert Brewer, the cathedral organist. From there he won a scholarship to Magdalen College School in Oxford and he later said that this prolonged youthful exposure to early sacred choral music had turned his tastes, in reaction, to lush romantic music. Although Brewer had told him he would not have a career in music, Novello from his early youth showed a facility for writing songs, after leaving school, he gave piano lessons in Cardiff, and then moved to London in 1913 with his mother. They took a flat above the Strand Theatre, which became his London home for the rest of his life, in London he found a mentor in Sir Edward Marsh, a well-known patron of the arts. Marsh encouraged him to compose and introduced him to people who could help his career and he adopted part of his mothers maiden name, Novello as his professional surname, although he did not change it legally until 1927. In other respects, the war had less impact on Novello than on many men of his age. He avoided enlistment until June 1916, when he reported to a Royal Naval Air Service training depot as a probationary flight sub-lieutenant. After twice crashing an aeroplane, and with the influence of Marsh, Novello continued to write songs while serving in the RNAS
