Events in Music
Music Premiere
Mar 18 First performance of Edward Elgar's "In the South (Alassio)"
Birthdays in Music
Glenn Miller (1904-1944)
Mar 1 American bandleader and jazz composer (Glenn Miller Orchestra - "In The Mood"; "Moonlight Srenade"; "String Of Pearls"), born in Clarinda, Iowa
- Mar 4 Joseph Schmidt, Austrian-Hungarian tenor and actor (Der Liebesexpreß; A Star Fell from Heaven), born in Storozhynets, Austria-Hungary (d. 1942)
- Mar 14 Voltaire "Volly" De Faut; American jazz reed player (New Orleans Rhythm Kings; Jean Goldkette), born in Little Rock, Arkansas (d. 1973)
- Mar 19 Tadeusz Zygfryd Kassern, Polish composer and cultural attache, born in Lviv, Poland (d. 1957)
- Mar 21 Nikolaos Skalkottas, Greek composer, born in Chalcis, Greece (d. 1949)
- Mar 26 Hermann Schroeder, German composer, born in Bernkastel, Germany (d. 1984)
- Mar 27 Hal Kemp American jazz alto saxophonist, clarinetist, arranger and sweet jazz bandleader, born in Marion, Alabama (d. 1940)
- Mar 30 Akarova [Marguerite Acarin], Belgian dancer and choreographer (Les Biches)in Saint-Josse-ten-Noode, Belgium (d. 1999)
