Events in Music
El Capitan
Apr 13 John Philip Sousa's "El Capitan" premieres at the Tremont Theatre in Boston
- Apr 20 John Philip Sousa's operetta "El Capitan" premieres on Broadway at Broadway Theatre, NYC
- Apr 25 Fight in Central Dance Hall starts fire at Cripple Creek, Colorado
- Apr 25 Sidney Jones & Harry Greenbacks musical "The Geisha" premieres at Daly's Theatre, London; runs for 760 performances
Birthdays in Music
- Apr 8 Karl Hermann Pillney, Austrian composer and painist, born in Graz, Austria-Hungary (d. 1980)
- Apr 8 Yip Harburg [Isidore Hochberg], American lyricist ("Over The Rainbow"; "It's Only A Paper Moon"), born in NYC, New York (d. 1981)
- Apr 29 Jacques Wolfe, Romanian-American composer, born in Botoşani, Romania (d. 1973)
- Apr 30 "Reverend" Gary Davis, American blues and folk guitarist ("Samson And Delilah"; A Little More Faith), born in Laurens, South Carolina (d. 1972)
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