1924_in_British_music
1924 in British music
Overview of the events of 1924 in British music
This is a summary of 1924 in music in the United Kingdom.
- 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]
- "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
- 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]
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – Hugh the Drover, with libretto by Harold Child[5]
- 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 and Stanley Lupino[7]
- 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)
- 6 May – Denny Wright, jazz guitarist (died 1992)
- 19 May – Sandy Wilson, composer of The Boyfriend (died 2014)
- 20 May – Syd Dale, composer and arranger of big band, easy listening and library music (died 1994)
- 1 June – John Tooley, opera director and manager (died 2020)
- 19 September – Ernest Tomlinson, light music composer (died 2015)
- 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]
- 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.