15 April 1912 – the Titanic sank, taking with it English violinist and the ship’s band leader Wallace Henry Hartley. Folklore has it that the band played music to the very last, soothing the panicked passengers with the hymn ‘Nearer, My God, to Thee’. None of the musicians aboard the ship survived, and the hymn was played at Hartley’s funeral as he loved it, so there is circumstantial evidence to support the anecdotal.
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