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The Complete Book of 1900s Broadway Musicals. Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. ISBN 9781538168943. Faucett, Bill F. (2012). George Whitefield Chadwick: The Life and Music of the Pride of New England. Northeastern University Press. ISBN 9781555537746. Finson, Jon W. (1997). The Voices that Are Gone: Themes in Nineteenth-Century American Popular ...
Modern Native American pow wows arose around the turn of the 20th century. While some claim that pow wow had been an integral part of indigenous cultures for over 10 centuries, some modern analysts believe that pow wows were invented to appeal to tourists and had only a tangential relationship to genuine Native American traditions, which generally revolved around ceremonial dance music like ...
November 7 – The musical comedy, Naughty Marietta, with music by Victor Herbert, is first performed on Broadway; November 10 – Edward Elgar conducts the premiere of his Violin Concerto, with Fritz Kreisler playing the solo part; Mary Garden begins her 20-year reign as soprano of the Chicago Civic Opera; Ragtime banjo by Vess L. Ossman ...
Garland Encyclopedia of World Music, Volume 3: The United States and Canada. Garland Publishing. ISBN 0-8240-4944-6. Koskoff, Ellen (2005). Music Cultures in the United States: An Introduction. Routledge. ISBN 0-415-96589-6. Levine, Victoria Lindsay (2002). Writing American Indian Music. American Musicological Society. ISBN 0-89579-494-2.
c. 1800–1910: Transition to Modernism ... • 20th-century • 21st-century: 20th-century classical music is art music that was written between the years 1901 and ...
22 November – An honorary doctorate in music is conferred on Edward Elgar by the University of Cambridge. [1] 27 November – The Sérénade lyrique for small orchestra by Edward Elgar, composed in 1899, is performed in its orchestral version for the first time at St. James' Hall, London. [6] unknown date – Arnold Bax enters the Royal ...
January 25 – Richard Strauss's opera Elektra receives its debut performance at the Dresden State Opera.; February 19 – First production of Bedřich Smetana's opera The Bartered Bride (Prodaná nevěsta) in the United States, at the Metropolitan Opera in New York City, conducted by Gustav Mahler with Ema Destinová in the title role, sung in German.
Vaudevillean Mamie Smith records "Crazy Blues" for Okeh Records, the first blues song commercially recorded by an African-American singer, [1] [2] [3] the first blues song recorded at all by an African-American woman, [4] and the first vocal blues recording of any kind, [5] a few months after making the first documented recording by an African-American female singer, [6] "You Can't Keep a Good ...