Events October 25 - Johannes Brahms' Symphony No. 4 is premiered in Meiningen. Tin Pan Alley group of popular song writers & publishers forms in New York City Gilbert & Sullivan's The Mikado premiers in London Published popular music "American Patrol" m. F. W. Meacham "The Boy In The Gallery" w.m. George Ware "Coppelia Waltz" by Leo Delibes "Dars a Lock on de Chicken Coop Door" by Sam Lucas "The Flowers That Bloom In The Spring" w. William S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan "Funny Things They Do Upon The Sly" w. G. W. Hunter & John Cooke Jnr m. G. W. Hunter "A More Humane Mikado" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan "Open Road" Johann Strauss II "Saffi's Aria" Johann Strauss II "Some Sweet Day" by Edward L. Park & William Howard Doane "There Is Beauty In The Bellow Of The Beast" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan "This Is The House That Jerry Built" w. T. S. Lonsdale m. W. G. Eaton "Three Little Maids From School" w. W. S. Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan "A Wand'ring Minstrel I" w. William Schwenck Gilbert m. Arthur Sullivan "What Cheer 'Ria" w. Will Herbert m. Bessie Bellwood Musical theater Erminie London production The Mikado London production Der Zigeunerbaron (The Gypsy Baron) Vienna production Births - "King" Joe Oliver January 27 - Jerome Kern February 12 - James Scott Deaths