Chronology
- 1909 Born Kansas City, Mo. December 3
- 1919 First solo concert, Kansas City, MO
- 1926 Moves to New York City
- 1927 First copyrighted song: Razor Blade Blues
- 1928 Syncopated Love Song (copyrighted July 2) performed on station KWK by Merle Johnston’s Saxophone Quartet
- 1929 First publication: mood music for silent films; Nathaniel Shilkret records Syncopated Love Song (December 13)
- 1930 Rehearsal pianist, Billy Rose's first revue Sweet And Low. Syncopated Love Song published
- 1931 Staff composer at Famous Music; Jazz Nocturne becomes hit instrumental. Syncopated Love Song is made into song called Have You Forgotten. Ho-Hum and Whistling In the Dark popularized internationally
- 1932 Jazz Nocturne is made into song called My Silent Love, Paul Whiteman concert at Carnegie Hall Concerto in Three Rhythms is introduced. In April, her piano roll recording of 'Was That The Human Thing To Do' is released as Duo-Art roll #0860.
- 1933 Makes film appearance with Edward Heyman for Paramount, Astoria; Whiteman appearances: Madison Square Garden; Writes hit song for Ziegfeld Follies with Yip Harburg: Moon About Town
- 1934 Vera Brodsky & Harold Triggs (duo-pianists) perform Suesse’s ballet music for Tamara Geva at Radio City Music Hall; Town Hall concert conducted by Bernard Herrmann; Brooklyn Academy with Whiteman; Boston Symphony Hall Arthur Fiedler; writes songs for Broadway play The Red Cat; Appears on George Gershwin's radio broadcast (October 28); Whiteman records Blue Moonlight for Victor; You Oughta Be In Pictures is published
- 1935 Composes Sweet Surrender (Universal) film score; Performs with General Motors Symphony ; Philadelphia Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Nathaniel Shilkret at Robin Hood Dell, PA.
- 1936 Billy Rose Casa Manana (Texas Centennial), hit song The Night Is Young And You're So Beautiful
- 1937 More Casa Manana; White House with President & Mrs. Roosevelt
- 1938 More radio appearances, writes song interpolated in Cole Porter show, You Never Know, Etc.; Robbins publishes instrumentals
- 1939 Composes suite for harpist Casper Reardon Young Man With a Harp; Philadelphia Symphony performs harp suite with Reardon (July 19)
- 1940 Makes records for Schirmer records; Makes second visit to White House with harpist Casper Reardon
- 1942 Composes and orchestrates 2-piano concerto; composes for Diamond Horseshoe Revue; Cocktail Suite; Meredith Willson recorded series includes American Nocturne
- 1943 Composes and orchestrates Three Cities suite; writes plays with Virginia Faulkner; Concerto in E Minor- Cincinnati Symphony, duo-pianists Ethel Bartlett & Rae Robertson (known familiarly as "the Bartlett Pair")
- 1944 More Diamond Horseshoe scores
- 1946 Sells screenplay, It Takes Two, to RKO; Paul Whiteman introduces Night Sky (October 27) on broadcast
- 1947 It Takes Two (comedy written with Virginia Faulkner) opens (February 3); Departs for France (October) to study composition with Nadia Boulanger
- 1948: studies and composes concert music
- 1950 Sails back to NY (October); Moves to 30 E. 60th St.
- 1952 composes incidental music for Seven Year Itch; The Girl Without A Name published
- 1953 Josephine (songs by Suesse) opens, Playhouse Theatre, Chicago
- 1955 Concerto Romantico performed at Cooper Union, broadcast on radio
- 1956 Concerto In Rhythm performed by Rochester Civic Orchestra (composer at piano), conducted by Frederick Fennell
- 1957 Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra concert- conducted by Josef Krips
- 1959 Come Play With Me opens, York Playhouse, NY. with Tamara Geva, Liliane Montevecchi, Tom Poston (April 30); composes for play The Golden Fleecing
- 1965 Nina Stevens (Dana's mother) dies
- 1970 Moves to New London, CT
- 1971 Marries C. Edwin Delinks
- 1974 Carnegie Hall Concert, December
- 1975 Newport Music Festival concert; Sells Steinway to pianist Peter Mintun; Moves to Virgin Islands with husband
- 1979 Mintun honors Suesse at testimonial dinner, San Francisco. Reunited final time with Edward Heyman.
- 1981 Husband dies of cancer ; Moves to New York
- 1982 October 1 is proclaimed Dana Suesse Day, Kansas City (Mo.); Suesse accepts honors from Mayor Richard L. Berkley in person. Last visit to Missouri; Interview on WOR radio
- 1986 Appears at Wall-To-Wall American Song tribute, Symphony Space, NY
- 1987 Suesse dies from stroke (October 16)
- 1996 Two CDs are produced, devoted to the music of Suesse: “Keyboard Wizards of the Gershwin Era” (Pearl, UK) produced by and “The Night Is Young – The Concert Music of Dana Suesse” (Premier) produced by Robert Stern.
- 1998 Literary Executor Peter Mintun gives talk at Library of Congress for event "The Gershwins and Their World" .
- 2003 BBC Concert Orchestra conducted by John McGlinn, performs Afternoon of a Black Faun, Moon About Town and Serenade To A Skyscraper
- 2005 Albany Symphony Orchestra Performs Concerto in Three Rhythms conducted by David Alan Miller, Kevin Cole, soloist .
- 2009 The Hot Springs Music Festival Symphony Orchestra performs Concerto in Three Rhythms (arranged in 1932 by Ferde Grofé for Paul Whiteman Orchestra, conducted by Richard Rosenberg; Michael Gurt, piano soloist (June 3). Festival Orchestra records Suesse's Jazz Nocturne (arranged by Carroll Huxley for Paul Whiteman Orchestra) and Concerto in Three Rhythms for Naxos Records (for 2010 release).
- 2011 On the Sono Luminus CD (DSL 92129), Suesse’s Concerto in E Minor for Two Pianos & Orchestra (1943) is performed by Beatrice Long & Christina Long, duo-pianists, with the Eskisehir Greater Municipality Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Patrick Souillot. This concerto was introduced by pianists Ethel Bartlett & Rae Robertson with the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra conducted by Eugene Goossens.
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