1927 in music - 1927 in music See also: 1926 in music, other events of 1927, 1928 in music and the list of 'years in music'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Published Songs 3 Musical theater 4 Musical film 5 Popular Hit Recordings 6 Other important recordings 7 Births 8 Deaths Events Blind Willie McTell's recording career begins The Soul Stirrers' recording career begins Big Bill Broonzy's recording career begins Louis Armstrong and His Hot Seven record Carter Family recording career begins Published Songs “Ain't She Sweet” w. Jack Yellen m. Milton Ager “Among My Souvenirs” w. Edgar Leslie m. Horatio Nicholls “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.
Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians - Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians The Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians is a dictionary of music and musicians, generally considered to be one of the best general reference sources on the subject. It was first published in 1878 as A Dictionary of Music and Musicians in four volumes edited by Sir George Grove with an appendix and index. The second edition, in five volumes, was edited by J. A. Fuller Maitland and published between 1904 and 1910. The third edition, also in five volumes, was edited by H. C. Colles and published in 1927. The fourth edition, also edited by Colles, was published in five volumes plus a supplement in 1940. The fifth edition, in nine volumes, was edited by Eric Blom and published in 1954..
1927 - 1927 Centuries: 19th century - 20th century - 21st century Decades: 1870s 1880s 1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s Years: 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 - 1927 - 1928 1929 1930 1931 1932 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Year in topic 3 Births 4 Deaths 5 Nobel Prizes 6 Heads of state in 1927 Events January 7 - First transatlantic telephone call - New York City to London February 23 - The Federal Radio Commission (later renamed the Federal Communications Commission) begins to regulate the use of radio frequencies. March 11 - In New York City, the Roxy Theatre is opened by Samuel Roxy Rothafel. April - The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 affects 700,000 people in the greatest.
1929 in music - 1929 in music See also: 1928 in music, other events of 1929, 1930 in music and the list of 'years in music'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Musical theater 4 Musical films 5 Top hit recordings 6 Births 7 Deaths Events December 31 - Guy Lombardo plays "Auld Lang Syne" for the first time Cab Calloway's musical career begins Charley Patton's musical career begins T-Bone Walker's musical career begins Memphis Minnie's musical career begins Gene Autry's musical career begins Published popular music "Adios Muchachos" Raven, Cesar Vedani m. Julio Sanders "Ain't Misbehavin" w. Andy Razaf m. Thomas "Fats" Waller & Harry Brooks "Am I Blue?" w. Grant Clarke m. Harry Akst "Any Old Time" w.m. Jimmie Rodgers "Around The Corner" w. Gus Kahn m..
1928 in music - 1928 in music See also: 1927 in music, other events of 1928, 1929 in music and the list of 'years in music'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Published popular music 3 Top Hit Records 4 Other Important Recordings 5 Musical theater 6 Musical film 7 Births 8 Deaths Events April 27 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet Apollon musagète is premiered in Washington September 11 - Leos Janacek's String Quartet No. 2, Intimate Letters, is premiered in Brno September 12 - Anton Webern's String Trio is premiered in Siena November 22 - Maurice Ravel's Bolero is premiered in Paris November 27 - Igor Stravinsky's ballet La Baiser de la Fée is premiered in Paris December 2 - Arnold Schoenberg's Variations for Orchestra is premiered in Berlin Sammy.
1926 in music - 1926 in music See also: 1925 in music, other events of 1926, 1927 in music and the list of 'years in music'. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 Published Songs 3 Top Hits: Recordings 4 Other important recordings 5 Musical theater 6 Births 7 Deaths Events First recordings by Jelly Roll Morton & His Red Hot Peppers Published Songs "(What Can I Say) After I Say I'm 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?" w.m. Irving Bibo & Howard Johnson "Are You Lonesome Tonight?" w. Roy Turk m. Lou Handman "Baby Face" w. Benny Davis m. Harry Akst "Barcelona" w. Gus Kahn m. Tolchard Evans "Because I Love.
American roots music - American roots music American roots music is a broad category of music including country music, bluegrass, gospel, ragtime, jug bands, Appalachian folk, blues, Tejano and zydeco, and Native American music. The music is considered "American" because it is either native to the United States or here varied enough from its origins that it struck musicologists as something distinctly new; it is considered "roots music" because it served as the basis of music later developed in the United States, including rock and roll, rhythm and blues, and jazz. This article is the first in the Music of the United States series. '''American roots music: Native American, European and African melting pot''' 1940s and 50s 1960s and 70s 1980s to the present African-American music Native American music Latin, Tejano, Hawaiian,.
Country music - Country music Country music is a popular musical form developed in the Southern states of the USA, with roots in traditional folk music, spirituals and the blues. The origins of country music as we know it today can be traced to two seminal influences and a remarkable coincidence. Jimmie Rodgers and the Carter Family are considered the founders of country music and their songs were first captured at an historic recording session in Bristol, Tennessee on August 1 1927 where Ralph Peer was the talent scout and sound recordist. It is possible to categorise some country singers as being either from the Jimmie Rodgers strand or the Carter Family strand of country music. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Jimmie Rodgers' influence 1.1 Hank Williams 2 The Carter.
Timeline of trends in music (1900-1949) - Timeline of trends in music (1900-1949) See also: List of years in music, Timeline of trends in music to 1899, Timeline of trends in music (1950-1959), Timeline of trends in music (1960-1969), Timeline of trends in music (1970-1979), Timeline of trends in music (1980-1989), Timeline of trends in music (1990-present) 1900s - 1910s - 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1900s 1900 in music Music of Argentina The bandoneón begins to become popular in Argentina; it will soon become one of the principal instruments in the tango Music of Colombia The accordion begins to become popular throughout the country Music of Cuba Romantic ballads called boleros are developed Music of Indonesia The developing form of kroncong is popular among the poor, urban people Music of Russia Vassily Andreyev and.
Royal College of Music - Royal College of Music The Royal College of Music is one of the most prestigious music schools in the United Kingdom. It is located in Kensington in London. Founded in 1882 as a successor to the National Training School for Music by the then-Prince of Wales (later Edward VII), the school opened in 1883 with George Grove as its director. It moved to its present location, next to Imperial College, London and near the Royal Albert Hall in 1894, and in the same year Hubert Parry became director, remaining until 1918. The college teaches all aspects of western classical music from undergraduate to doctorate level. It also has an extensive museum of musical instruments which is open to the public. Famous students of the RCM have included: Ralph.
Kander and Ebb - songwriting team consisting of composer John Kander, born March 18, 1927 and lyricist Fred Ebb, born April 8, 1933. They first worked together in 1962, on Flora the Red Menace, which was produced by Hal Prince, directed by George Abbott, and with book by George Abbott and Robert Russell. It was the musical in which Liza Minnelli made her initial Broadway appearance. Kander and Ebb have since been associated with writing material for Minnelli and for Chita Rivera, and have produced special material for their appearances live and on television. Their greatest acclaim came from the musical and film Cabaret. The musical was a major success, with a Broadway run of over 1100 performances. It won a Tony Award as the season's best musical, and its original cast recording won a.
Ken Russell - known as Ken Russell (born July 3 1927) is a controversial British film director, particularly known for his films about famous composers. He was born in Southampton, and served in both the RAF and the Merchant Navy before taking up the arts and beginning to make his own films. One of his first major successes was a BBC documentary about the life of Edward Elgar, and his TV film about the life of Frederick Delius, as seen through the eyes of Eric Fenby, was also well-received. His first major feature film was 1969's Women in Love, based on the novel by D. H. Lawrence. More work in a similar vein followed, including The Music Lovers (1970), a biopic of Tchaikovsky which drew attention to his homosexuality, and The Devils, based on.
Kurt Masur - Kurt Masur (born July 18, 1927) is a conductor. Masur was born in Brieg in Silesia and studied piano, composition and conducting in Leipzig. He held a number of conducting posts in East Germany, conducting the Dresden Philharmonic Orchestra from 1955 to 1958 and again from 1967 to 1972. In 1970 he became conductor of the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchestra, and in 1991 he succeeded Zubin Mehta as music director of the New York Philharmonic Orchestra. In 2000 he became principal conductor of the London Philharmonic Orchestra, and in 2002 music director of the Orchestre Nationale de France. Masur is particularly noted for his interpretation of German Romantic music..
January 1 - gains limited self-government 1998 - Smoking is banned in all California bars and restaurants 1999 - Euro currency introduced. 2000 - Bleen is no longer Blue and is now Green. 2002 - Euro banknotes and coins become legal tender. 2003 - Luís Inácio Lula da Silva becomes president of Brazil Births 1431 - Pope Alexander VI († 1503) 1449 - Lorenzo de Medici, statesman († 1492) 1484 - Huldreich Zwingli, protestant leader († 1531) 1516 - Margareta Leijonhufvud, former Queen of Sweden 1618 - Bartolomé Esteban Murillo, painter († 1682) 1735 - Paul Revere, silversmith, United States patriot († 1818) 1750 - Frederick Muhlenberg, first speaker of the United States House of Representatives († 1801) 1752 - Betsy Ross, seamstress († 1836) 1839 - Ouida, writer († 1908) 1842 - Albert.
January 30 - chess. 1995 - Workers from the National Institutes of Health announce the success of clinical trials testing the first preventative treatment for sickle cell anaemia. 1996 - Suspected leader of the Irish National Liberation Army Gino Gallagher is killed while in line for his unemployment benefit. 2002 - Slobodan Milosevic accuses the United Nations war crimes tribunal of an "evil and hostile attack" against him. 2003 - Belgium legally recognizes same-sex marriage. Births 1687 - Johann Balthasar Neumann, master builder (+ 1753) 1781 - Adelbert von Chamisso, poet (+ 1838) 1882 - Franklin Delano Roosevelt, President of the United States (+ 1945) 1894 - King Boris III of Bulgaria (+ 1943) 1901 - Rudolf Caracciola, driver of racing cars (+ 1959) 1902 - Nikolaus Pevsner, art historian 1912 - Barbara W..
January 9 - Jerome, American society beauty (†1921) 1856 - Anton Askerc, priest, poet 1856 - Lizette Woodworth Reese, poet 1856 - Stevan Mokranjac, composer 1857 - Henry B. Fuller, writer 1859 - Carrie Lane Chapman Catt, women's rights leader, founder of the League of Women Voters 1859 - Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar, church historian 1864 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (†1926) 1866 - Albert Baertsoen, Flemish painter, etcher 1867 - Jacques Urlus, Dutch opera singer 1868 - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (†1939) 1870 - Joseph B Strauss, civil engineer, builder of the Golden Gate Bridge 1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet, translator 1875 - Gertrude Whitney, sculptor (†1942) 1876 - Hans Bethge, writer 1879 - John Broadus Watson, behaviorist psychologist (†1958) 1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie,.
January 2003 - Microsoft SQL Server. The worm attack had the side effect of causing a distributed denial of service attack on the rest of the Internet. The New Democratic Party of Canada picks Toronto city councillor Jack Layton as its new leader, replacing Alexa McDonough, at its convention in Toronto. Layton wins on the first ballot, beating veteran MP Bill Blaikie. January 24, 2003 War on Terrorism: The United States Department of Homeland Security officially begins operation and former governor Tom Ridge takes command. Reorganization of other departments effected by its creation in the United States Government will continue for some time. This represents the largest reorganization of the United States Government since the creation of the United States Department of Defense during World War II. January 22, 2003 The RIAA, a music.
Jimmie Rodgers - Rodgers (September 8, 1897 - May 26, 1933) -- James Charles "Jimmie" Rodgers was the first country music superstar. Rodgers, known as The Singing Brakeman and The Blue Yodeler, was born in Pine Springs, Mississippi but considered his hometown to be Meridian, Mississippi, and spent most of his early life from boyhood accompanying his father on railroad jobs. He eventually became a railroad brakeman, an extremely dangerous and highly skilled job. In the days before air brakes the brakeman had to stop the train by running on top of the moving train from car to car setting mechanical brakes on each. Tuberculosis forced him to leave the railroad and he undertook all sorts of work, ranging from police detective to blackface performer before answering an advertisement from Ralph Peer of the.
Victor Gollancz - There he met Ernest Benn, who hired him to work in the publishing business. Starting with magazines, Gollancz then brought out a series of art books, after which he started signing novelists. Gollancz formed his own publishing company in 1927; the writers he published included George Orwell and Ford Madox Ford. He was also one of the founders of the Left Book Club. Gollancz had a knack for marketing, sometimes taking out full-page newspaper ads for the books he published, a novelty at the time. He also used eye-catching typography and book designs. In addition to his highly successful publishing business, Gollancz was a prolific writer on a variety of subjects. He was knighted in 1955. Selected bibliography The making of women, Oxford essays in feminism. (1918) Industrial ideals. (1920) Is.
Juliana of the Netherlands - own age. As the Dutch constitution specified that she should be ready to succeed to the throne by the age of eighteen, Princess Juliana's education proceeded at a faster pace than that of most children. After five years of primary education, the Princess received her secondary education (to pre-university level) from private tutors. On April 30, 1927, Princess Juliana celebrated her eighteenth birthday. Under the constitution, she had officially come of age and was entitled to assume the royal prerogative, if necessary. Two days later her mother installed her in the 'Raad van State' (=Council of State). A shy introvert, and a young woman of plain features whose religious mother would not allow her to wear makeup, Juliana did not fit the image of a regal Princess. She would, nonetheless, become.
