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Master of The world of 1915
schopenhauer Soprano Alma Gluck records the first million-selling classical record
schopenhauer The First Film Score
In nineteen-fifteen, the first film score played! (Yeah, it played!) / An original sound for the silver screen was made! (Oh-oh!)
schopenhauer Soprano Alma Gluck made history in 1915 when her recording became the first classical solo to sell one million copies.
schopenhauer Ragtime king Scott Joplin staged a historic, stripped-down performance of his opera 'Treemonisha' in 1915.
schopenhauer Sort the vintage tunes to discover the music, movies, and news that defined 1915.
Joplin's lost masterpiece: Scott Joplin's opera 'Treemonisha' was so neglected in 1915 that it wasn't fully staged with a professional cast until 1972, decades after his death.
A record player that reproduces sound from a grooved disc or cylinder using a stylus. In 1915, Alma Gluck's phonograph recording of 'Carry Me Back to Old Virginny' sold one million copies.
What record label released Alma Gluck's historic million-selling recording in 1915?
What instrument did Scott Joplin play himself during the 1915 rehearsal performance of 'Treemonisha'?
Which 1915 song sold over 700,000 copies as a major pacifist anthem in the United States?
Which band's performances in Chicago in 1915 helped popularize the term 'jazz' or 'jass'?
Which former US President was outraged by the pacifist message of the 1915 song 'I Didn't Raise My Boy to Be a Soldier'?
In which US city did the word 'jazz' first start appearing in sports and entertainment newspapers in 1915?
In what New York neighborhood did Scott Joplin stage a stripped-down rehearsal of his opera 'Treemonisha' in 1915?