This day in music history.

April 14, 1912, The dance band on the Titanic played as the ship went down. At one point band leader Wallace H. Hartley told his musicians to save them selves, to a man they all stayed by his side until the end. All eight of these men died when the Titanic sank. The last song they played was "Nearer My God to Thee." Almost two weeks later Hartleys body was discovered in the Atlantic still wearing his band uniform and his music box still strapped to his body.
Nearer My God To Thee
Nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
Even though it be a cross that raiseth me,
still all my song shall be,
nearer, my God, to thee; nearer, my God, to thee,
nearer to thee!
Though like the wanderer, the sun gone down,
darkness be over me, my rest a stone
yet in my dreams I'd be nearer, my God, to thee
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
There let the way appear, steps unto heaven
all that thou sendest me, in mercy given
angels to beckon me nearer, my God, to thee
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
Then, with my waking thoughts bright with thy praise,
out of my stony griefs Bethel
I'll raise; so by my woes to be nearer, my God, to thee
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!
Or if, on joyful wing cleaving the sky, sun, moon, and stars forgot,
upward I fly, still all my song shall be, nearer, my God, to thee
nearer, my God, to thee, nearer to thee!