February 16, 1930

Nicolas Slonimsky conducts the first performance of Charles Ives's Three Places in New England.

No, No, Nanette is released as an all-talking musical comedy film with Technicolor sequences. It was adapted from the Play and Broadway show of the same name.

Deaths

Anatoly Andreyevich Brandukov, a prominent Russian cellist (b. January 6 1859)

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