Tag Archives: 1900s – 1910s

A long time before the rise from the Mills Brothers as well as the Printer ink Spots within the 1930s, the American Quartet (also called the Top Quartet) reigned supreme among the definitive male vocal groupings in traditional pop. The foursome (that ought to not end up being baffled with …

b. 6 Might 1866, St. Louis, Missouri, USA, d. 23 March 1919, NY, USA. A significant librettist and lyricist through the early years from the twentieth hundred years, Blossom still left his dad’s insurance business after he started writing short tales and then, books, among which, Checkers, he effectively dramatized. …

Nora Bayes was one particular rare woman triple-threats in vaudeville entertainment: a singer, comedienne, and songwriter of tremendous capability, she was easily typically the most popular feminine entertainer in vaudeville for a lot of the first one fourth from the 20th hundred years. Blessed Leonora Goldberg in 1880, she started …

At delivery he was presented with the name Louis Meuer. By enough time he made an appearance in the St. Louis World’s Good in 1904, he previously grown right into a extremely achieved pianist, his gorgeous hands built with extraordinarily very long and slender fingertips that could period nearly two …

b. Edna Pettie, 2 Sept 1878, Syracuse, NY, USA, d. 1 January 1948, Lausanne, Switzerland. As a little child May made an appearance on stage in kids’s productions of musical comedies and operettas, before learning music at the brand new York Conservatory. In 1895 she produced her NY debut as …

A legend from your ragtime years who unfortunately by no means recorded, Tony Jackson is remembered primarily due to Jelly Move Morton’s terms of compliment, and because of his structure “Pretty Baby” learning to be a regular. He was a favorite entertainer in Storyville (where he began employed in the …

Alma Mahler’s popularity is primarily because of her relationships to, and affairs with, the best performers of her period, most notably the fantastic Gustav Mahler from whom she took her name. Being a composer in her very own right, she had written too little to become classed as greater than …

Oscar DuConge was the grand aged man of 1 of the numerous music dynasties of New Orleans music. Wendell DuConge, who performed on vintage Fatty acids Domino information in the ’50s, could have known as him grandpapa. Oscar DuConge created a brace of his very own musically willing sons, notably …

In comparison to his brother, Eduardo Agramonte, Emilio Agramonte may seem like something of the milquetoast. In the end, the previous was a fearless soldier of star and a doctor and author of armed forces music who found his death within an 1872 fight through the Cuban Battle of Independence, …

A modern of Debussy, Fauré, and Ravel, Sévérac ranks perhaps just marginally below this recognized group. He was, for quite a while, evaluated a second-rate composer generally due to his decision to keep Paris — and its own affects — a move noticed by many being a stage backward, uncovering …