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Joseph Carl Breil, one of the first American composers to compose specific music for motion pictures, dies of heart disease, aged 55, in Los Angeles, California, USA. He is perhaps best-remembered for composing the score to D. W. Griffith's 1915 epic, Birth Of A Nation.
George Gershwin attends the premiere of Levee Land, a group of four jazz-based songs by black composer William Grant Still, performed by Broadway star Florence Mills, at Aeolian Hall, New York City, USA.
George Bragg is born in Meridian, Mississippi, USA. He will grow up to become the founder of the Texas Boys Choir and a two-time Grammy Award winner.
Popular radio group The Billy McGinty Cowboy Band plays the eighth night of two weeks at the Orpheum Theatre, Kansas City, Missouri, USA.