Events in Music
Birthdays in Music
- Sep 3 Rosendo Ejercito Santos, Filipino composer, born in Caridad, Cavite City, Philippines (d. 1994)
- Sep 3 Salli Terri [Stella Tirri], Canadian-American Grammy Award-winning pop-classical-folk-exotica singer, arranger, composer (Duets with the Spanish Guitar), musicologist, and educator, born in London, Ontario (d. 1996)
- Sep 7 Kirill Molchanov, Russian-Soviet composer, born in Moscow (d. 1982)
- Sep 9 Hoyt Curtin, American composer (Hanna-Barbera cartoon themes, including "The Flintstones", and "The Jetsons"), born in Downey, California (d. 2000)
- Sep 12 Jackson Mac Low, American poet and composer, born in Chicago, Illinois (d. 2004)
- Sep 13 Charles Brown, American blues singer and pianist ("Merry Christmas, Baby"), born in Texas City, Texas (d. 1999)
- Sep 13 Yma Sumac [Chavarri], Peruvian-American 5 octave soprano (Omar Khayyam), born in Ichocan, Cajamarca, Peru (d. 2008)
- Sep 18 David Gahr, American photographer noted for his work with folk, jazz and rock musicians (Time Magazine; Folkways albums), born in Milwaukee, Wisconsin (d. 2008)
- Sep 18 Ray Steadman-Allen, British choral and brass band composer, born in Salvation Army 'Mother's Hospital', Clapton, England (d. 2014)
- Sep 20 Franco Ventriglia, American opera singer, born in Fairfield, Connecticut (d. 2012)
- Sep 20 Frank Comstock, American arranger (Les Brown), and theme composer (Rocky and His Friends), born in San Diego, California (d. 2013)
- Sep 20 William Kapell, American pianist and recording artist, born in NYC, New York (d. 1953)
- Sep 21 Lode Backx, Flemish pianist, born in Borgerhout, Belgium (d. 2010)
- Sep 24 Theresa Merritt [Hines], American singer and actress (The Wiz; That's My Mama), born in Newport News, Virginia (d. 1998)
- Sep 27 James Wilson, English-Irish classical composer (Grinning At The Devil), born in Islington, London (d. 2005)
Weddings in Music
James Cagney
Sep 28 American stage and film actor, dancer, and singer James Cagney (23) weds American dancer Frances Vernon in NYC
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