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Italian composer Ferruccio Busoni writes to his wife Gerda, in Berlin, Germany, Europe, telling her that he has just seen, in a Cologne variety theatre, a marionette performance which included an entire puppet orchestra. He describes the orchestral performance with the words, "the conductor conducted very exactly, according to the rhythm and even according to the character of the piece. And the marionettes' first violin and double bass players bowed with precision. I was charmed by it."
The musical play A Country Girl, or Town and Country, with music by Lionel Monckton and additional songs by Paul Rubens, is performed at Daly's Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe, during a run of 729 performances.
Guiseppe Creatore And His Italian Band play at The Grand, Atlanta, Georgia, USA.
Musical comedy The Girl From Kay's is playing at The Comedy Theatre, London, England, UK, during a run of just over one month.The Peekskill Evening Star newspaper in New York State, USA, runs two unrelated stories on the front page. One is about a man being put to death in the electric chair, while the other is about a wealthy man who had died. By a curious coincidence, both men are named Hamilton Fish. In 2010, the two items will inspire Rachel Mason to create a song cycle, an art installation and a film series entitled The Deaths of Hamilton Fish.
Musical revue The Show Is On, starring Beatrice Lillie and Bert Lahr, plays at The Winter Garden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA, where it will run for 236 performances.
Benny Goodman And His Orchestra play a historic concert at Carnegie Hall, New York City, USA. This event is credited with giving jazz a hitherto unimaginable degree of respectability.The Ted Straeter Orchestra plays at The Mark Hopkins Hotel, San Francisco, California, USA.
Tommy Jones And His Flames Of Joy and Dewey Lamonte And His Playboys are playing at The Blue Heaven Theater Lounge, Chicago, Illinois, USA.
Woody Herman's Woodchoppers begin a week-long engagement at The Crystal Terrace, Duluth, Minnesota, USA.
The movie comedy musical Sailor Beware, starring Dean Martin and Jerry Lewis, is released to cinemas in Japan, Asia.UK pop newspaper NME reports that Sarah Vaughan is keen to record with British bandleader Johnny Dankworth.
British comedy duo Flanders And Swann are performing their show At The Drop Of A Hat during a run of 215 performances at the John Golden Theatre, Broadway, New York City, USA.
On an extensive nationwide promotional tour in support of his novelty single Baby Sittin' Boogie, Buzz Clifford visits deejays and other music business contacts in Chicago, Illinois, USA.Jill Sobule is born in Denver, Colorado, USA. She will find success as a singer-songwriter when her song I Kissed A Girl becomes a Billboard Top 20 hit in 1995 - the first song with an overtly lesbian theme to be played on Top 40 radio.
Ella Fitzgerald records Let's Fall In Love, Come Rain Or Come Shine, Between The Devil And The Deep Blue Sea and other tracks at Radio Recorders Annexe, Los Angeles, California, USA, for Verve Records.
Wayne Fontana and The Mindbenders play at the The City Hall, Salisbury, Wiltshire, England, UK, Europe, supported by The Barracudas.
Count Basie and his Orchestra record Just In Time, On The Street Where You Live and other tracks for the album Broadway - Basie's Way.
Engelbert Humperdinck is appearing in a season as Robinson Crusoe in pantomime at The Palladium Theatre, London, England, UK, Europe.
Earl 'Fatha' Hines is playing during a long engagement at The Colonial Tavern, Toronto, Ontario, Canada.Brian Bennett, drummer of The Shadows, is stricken with appendicitis during their season at The Talk Of The Town in London, England, UK, Europe. Cliff Richard deputises on drums for the evening.
Charlie Walker, with Billy Sherrill as producer, records Sweetheart Of The Year, The One Rose, A Bad Girl and When The Conscience Hurts Me Most, in Columbia Recording Studio, 804 16th Avenue South, Nashville, Tennessee, USA.
Petula Clark presents the last of her BBC-tv series of programmes, This Is Petula Clark, from the Television Theatre in London, England, UK, Europe, with vocal backings from The Breakaways.
Brendan O'Hare, second drummer of Teenage Fanclub, is born in Bellshill, Scotland, UK, Europe.
The Temptations play the fifth night of two weeks at The Talk OF The Town, London, England, UK, Europe.
Pink Floyd mainman Dave Gilmour plays a solo show at the Royal Festival Hall, London, UK. In the audience is UK Minister for Defence, Geoff Hoon.
Figures released by The Official Charts Company reveal that pop albums outsold rock albums in the UK for the first time in seven years in 2011. Seven of the Top 10 best-selling albums of 2011 were classified as pop albums.
The funeral of recently-deceased blues singer 
Gary Loizzo, lead singer of The American Breed, dies aged 70, of pancreatic cancer. After his success with American Breed, he became a twice Grammy-nominated recording engineer, for his work with REO Speedwagon, Styx, Bad Company, Slash, Survivor, Liza Minnelli, Tenacious D and others.
Globally-acclaimed Nigerian funk artist William Onyeabor dies aged 70 following a brief illness at his home in Enugu, Nigeria, Africa.
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Sari Schorr And The Engine Room play at The Half Moon, Putney, London, England, UK, Europe.
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