Events in Music
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Dec 12 James Weldon Johnson's poem "Lift Every Voice and Sing", is set to music by his brother J. Rosamond Johnson; the hymn becomes known as the Black national anthem [1] [2]
Birthdays in Music
- Dec 12 Sammy Davis Sr., American vaudeville dancer (Mr. Wonderful), born in Wilmington, North Carolina (d. 1988)
- Dec 13 Jonel Perlea, Romanian opera conductor, born in Ograda, Romania (d. 1970)
- Dec 14 Boyan Georgiev Ikonomov, Bulgarian composer, born in Nikopol, Bulgaria (d. 1973)
- Dec 17 Lucijan Marija Škerjajanc, Slovene pianist, composer, conductor, and teacher, born in Graz, Austria (d. 1973)
- Dec 22 Alan Bush, English composer pianist and teacher, born in London (d. 1995)
- Dec 25 Gladys Swarthout, American mezzo-soprano (La Gioconda), born in Deepwater, Missouri (d. 1969)
- Dec 29 Willie Humphrey, American jazz clarinetist, born in New Orleans, Louisiana (d. 1994)
Deaths in Music
- Dec 8 Henry Russell, composer, dies at 87
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