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2 unusual facts about 1921 in music


Don Cossack Choir

The Don Cossack Choir of Serge Jaroff (Хор донских казаков Сергея Жарова) was a men's chorus of exiled Russian Cossacks founded in 1921 by Serge Jaroff and conducted for almost sixty years by him.

Little Marvel

Little Marvel records were sold exclusively at UK Woolworth's chain stores from 1921 to 1928, at a retail price of 6d (sixpence).


Abhijñānaśākuntalam

Italian Franco Alfano composed an opera, named La leggenda di Sakùntala (The legend of Sakùntala) in its first version (1921) and simply Sakùntala in its second version (1952).


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