1924 in British music

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This is a summary of 1924 in music in the United Kingdom.

Events

13 May – Edward Elgar is appointed Master of the King's Musick in succession to Sir Walter Parratt.[1]
date unknown
- Richard Runciman Terry resigns as organist of Westminster Cathedral because of criticism of his choice of music, "erratic behaviour" and "neglect of duty".[2]
- The London Labour Choral Union is launched by Rutland Boughton.[3]

Popular music

"The Bristol Pageant", w. Frederic Weatherly, m. Hubert Hunt
"There's Life In The Old Girl Yet" w.m. Noël Coward
"Will You Forgive?", m. Albert Ketèlbey

Classical music: new works

Gustav Holst – Choral Symphony (premiered in 1925)
William Walton – Bucolic Comedies (lost), with words by Edith Sitwell
Arthur Wood – My Native Heath (orchestral suite, including the maypole dance "Barwick Green", now famous as the theme to The Archers)[4]

Opera

Ralph Vaughan Williams – Hugh the Drover, with libretto by Harold Child[5]

Musical theatre

Primrose, written for the London stage by Guy Bolton and George Grossmith Jr., with lyrics by Desmond Carter and Ira Gershwin, and music by George Gershwin.[6]
Puppets, revue with music by Ivor Novello and others, starring Binnie Hale & Stanley Lupino[7]

Births

8 January – Ron Moody, star of Oliver! (died 2015)
21 January – Benny Hill, comedian, actor and singer (died 1992)
9 February – George Guest, organist and choirmaster of St John's College, Cambridge (died 2002)
27 February – Trevor Duncan, composer (died 2005)
8 March – Alan Dell, BBC radio DJ (died 1995)
15 April – Sir Neville Marriner, conductor and violinist (died 2016)
18 April – Buxton Orr, composer (died 1997)
19 May – Sandy Wilson, composer of The Boyfriend (died 2014)
1 June – John Tooley, opera director and manager
19 September – Ernest Tomlinson, light music composer (died 2015)

Deaths

2 January – Sabine Baring-Gould, hymn-writer and collector of folk songs, 89[8]
15 February – Lionel Monckton, composer, 62[9]
18 March – Frederick Bridge, organist and composer, 79[10]
27 March – Sir Walter Parratt, composer, Master of the King's Musick, 83[11]
29 March – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford, composer, 71
5 April – Rosalind Ellicott, composer, 66 [12]
23 June – Cecil Sharp, folk song and dance revivalist, 64
6 August – John Roberts (Pencerdd Gwynedd), organist and composer, 76[13]
26 November – Rose Hersee, operatic soprano, 78[14]

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References

The London Gazette, no. 32935, p. 3841, 13 May 1924. Accessed 27 October 2010.
Peter Doyle, Westminster Cathedral 1895–1995, London, 1995, p.53
Maria Kiladi. "The London Labour Choral Union,1924–1940: A Musical Institution of the Left". Royal Holloway University of London. Retrieved 16 April 2018.
"Feedback". Autumn 2007. 2007-10-05. BBC Radio 4.
Michael Kennedy, Liner notes to Hyperion recording of Hugh the Drover. Hyperion Records, 1994.
Clive Barker; Simon Trussler (26 May 1994). New Theatre Quarterly 37: Volume 10. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-521-46656-1.
"Chronology of London Shows". The Guide to Musical Theatre. Retrieved 16 August 2017.
Sabine Baring-Gould (1978). Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-520078-2.
Brompton Cemetery website Archived 23 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine
Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.
Stanley Sadie (1980). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Macmillan Publishers. p. 241. ISBN 978-0-333-23111-1.
Dr Pippa Drummond (2013). Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 9781409494614.
Robert David Griffith. "Roberts, John Henry (Pencerdd Gwynedd; 1848-1924), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 January 2019.
Rosenthal, Harold. "Hersee, Rose", Grove Music Online accessed 25 May 2009

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[1] The London Gazette, no. 32935, p. 3841, 13 May 1924. Accessed 27 October 2010.

[2] Peter Doyle, Westminster Cathedral 1895–1995, London, 1995, p.53

[3] Maria Kiladi. "The London Labour Choral Union,1924–1940: A Musical Institution of the Left". Royal Holloway University of London. Retrieved 16 April 2018.

[4] "Feedback". Autumn 2007. 2007-10-05. BBC Radio 4.

[5] Michael Kennedy, Liner notes to Hyperion recording of Hugh the Drover. Hyperion Records, 1994.

[6] Clive Barker; Simon Trussler (26 May 1994). New Theatre Quarterly 37: Volume 10. Cambridge University Press. p. 33. ISBN 978-0-521-46656-1.

[7] "Chronology of London Shows". The Guide to Musical Theatre. Retrieved 16 August 2017.

[8] Sabine Baring-Gould (1978). Curious Myths of the Middle Ages. Oxford University Press. ISBN 978-0-19-520078-2.

[9] Brompton Cemetery website Archived 23 August 2006 at the Wayback Machine

[10] Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 42. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.

[11] Stanley Sadie (1980). The New Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians. Macmillan Publishers. p. 241. ISBN 978-0-333-23111-1.

[12] Dr Pippa Drummond (2013). Provincial Music Festival in England, 1784–1914. Ashgate Publishing, Ltd. ISBN 9781409494614.

[13] Robert David Griffith. "Roberts, John Henry (Pencerdd Gwynedd; 1848-1924), musician". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 6 January 2019.

[14] Rosenthal, Harold. "Hersee, Rose", Grove Music Online accessed 25 May 2009