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EVENTS

May 28 - Gilbert & Sullivan 's H.M.S. Pinafore debuts in London

PUBLISHED POPULAR MUSIC

"Aloha Oe" w.m. Queen Liliuokalani Of Hawaii

"Carry Me Back To Old Virginny" w.m. James A. Bland

"De Gospel Raft" by Frank Dumont

"Emmet's Lullaby" Joseph K. Emmet

"I Am The Captain Of The Pinafore" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan

"I Am The Ruler Of The Queen's Navee" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan

"I'm Called Little Buttercup" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan

"In The Evening By the Moonlight" w.m. James A. Bland

"Keep In De Middle Ob De Road" w.m. Will Hays

"Kind Captain" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan

" Never Mind The Why And Wherefore " w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan

CLASSICAL MUSIC

Ferruccio Busoni - ''Piano Concerto in D, op. 17, for piano and string orchestra''

Niels Gade - ''Capriccio for violin and orchestra in A minor''

Sergei Taneyev - ''Symphony no 2 in B flat minor''

OPERA

Charles Gounod - '' Polyeucte ''

Joseph Parry - ''Blodwen''

MUSICAL THEATER

Gilbert And Sullivan – '' H.M.S. Pinafore '', London production

Jacques Offenbach – '' Madame Favart '', Paris production

BIRTHS

March 4 - Egbert Van Alstyne , US songwriter

March 29 - Albert Von Tilzer , US songwriter

May 25 - Bill "Bojangles" Robinson , American tap dancer, singer, actor

July 4 - George M. Cohan , US songwriter, entertainer

July 21 - Ernest R. Ball , US composer

October 19 - Alphonse Picou , clarinettist

November 4 - Jean Schwartz , songwriter

DEATHS

February 2 - Josif Runjanin , composer

April 8 - Henriette "Jetty" Treffz , first wife and business manager of Johann Strauss II

''date unknown'' - Jose Bernardo Alcedo , composer of the Peruvian national anthem