1932_in_British_music
1932 in British music
Overview of the events of 1932 in British music
This is a summary of 1932 in music in the United Kingdom.
- 7 October – The London Philharmonic Orchestra, recently founded by Thomas Beecham and Malcolm Sargent, gives its first public concert.[1]
- date unknown – Henry Hall becomes Director of the BBC Dance Orchestra.
- "Ain't it grand to be blooming well dead?" w. Leslie Sarony
- "The Flies Crawled Up The Window" w.m. Douglas Furber & Vivian Ellis
- "Love Is The Sweetest Thing" w.m. Ray Noble
- "Mad About the Boy" w.m. Noël Coward
- "What More Can I Ask?" w. A. E. Wilkins m. Ray Noble
- Arnold Bax
- Concerto for Cello and Orchestra
- Sinfonietta
- Sonata No. 4, for piano
- Summer Music, for orchestra (revised version)
- Symphony No. 5
- "Watching the Needleboats", for voice and piano (text by James Joyce)
- Arthur Benjamin – Violin Concerto
- Arthur Bliss – A Colour Symphony (revised)[2]
- Arnold Cooke – Harp Quintet[3]
- Gustav Holst
- "If 'twer the Time of Lilies", for two-part choir and piano, H187 (words by Helen Waddell)[4]
- Jazz-Band Piece
- Jig, for piano, H179
- John Ireland – A Downland Suite
- Cyril Rootham – Symphony No 1 in C minor[5]
- Michael Tippett – String Trio in B Flat
- Ralph Vaughan Williams – Magnificat for contralto, women's chorus, and orchestra
- William Walton – 3 Songs to Poems by Edith Sitwell
- Grace Williams
- Suite for orchestra
- Two Psalms for contralto, harp and strings[6]
- Alfred Reynolds – Derby Day (with libretto by A. P. Herbert)[7]
- 16 September – Words and Music, a London revue by Noël Coward, opens at the Adelphi Theatre.
- Carmen, directed by Cecil Lewis, starring Marguerite Namara and Thomas F. Burke[10]
- For the Love of Mike, directed by Monty Banks, starring Bobby Howes, Constance Shotter and Arthur Riscoe[11]
- Goodnight, Vienna, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Jack Buchanan, Anna Neagle and Gina Malo[12]
- Little Waitress, directed by Widgey R. Newman, starring Claude Bailey and Moore Marriott[13]
- The Maid of the Mountains, directed by Lupino Lane, starring Nancy Brown and Harry Welchman
- 3 January – Johanna Peters, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 2000)
- 12 January – Des O'Connor, comedian, singer and television host (died 2020)[14]
- 19 January – Russ Hamilton, English singer-songwriter (died 2008)
- 23 January – Cyril Davies, blues musician (died 1964)
- 29 January – Myer Fredman, British-Australian conductor (died 2014)
- 26 February – Jean Allister, opera singer (died 2012)
- 31 March – John Mitchinson, operatic tenor
- 19 May
- John Barnes, saxophonist and clarinet player
- Alma Cogan, singer (died 1966)
- 21 May – Robert Sherlaw Johnson, pianist and composer (died 2000)[15]
- 27 June – Hugh Wood, composer[16]
- 16 July – John Chilton, jazz trumpeter (died 2016)
- 31 August – Roy Castle, actor, musician and singer (died 1994)
- 11 September – Ian Hamer, jazz trumpeter (died 2006)[17]
- 18 September – Maureen Lehane, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 2010)
- 19 September – Lol Coxhill, jazz saxophonist (died 2012)[18]
- 15 November – Petula Clark, singer, actress, and songwriter
- 26 December – Clive Westlake, songwriter (died 2000)
- 28 January – Poldowski, Belgian-born British pianist and composer, 52
- 3 March – Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-born German pianist and composer, 67
- 14 May – John Hughes, composer of Cwm Rhondda[19]
- 22 July – Hugh Blair, organist and composer, 67[20]
- 21 August – Frederick Corder, composer and music teacher, 80[21]
- 21 September – William Herbert Scott, church composer and hymn-writer, 70[22]
- 23 November – Percy Pitt, organist and conductor, 62
- 4 December – Mona McBurney, pianist, teacher and composer, 70
- 10 December – Percy Fletcher, composer, 52
- Reid, Charles (1961). Thomas Beecham – An Independent Biography. London: Victor Gollancz. OCLC 500565141
- Randel, Don Michael (2003). The Harvard dictionary of music. Harvard University Press. p. 191. ISBN 978-0-674-01163-2.
- British Music Information Centre (1969). Chamber music by living British composers. British Music Information Centre. p. 10.
- Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions. Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 1934. p. 21.
- "Cyril Rootham (1875-1938) - Composer". Rootham.org. Retrieved 15 March 2019.
- John Evans, Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928–1938 (Faber & Faber, 2009), p 174
- Dunhill, Thomas F., "The Music of Derby Day" (1 May 1932). The Musical Times, 73 (1071): pp. 415–416.
- "White Face". BFI. Archived from the original on 2009-01-14.
- Ann Davies; Phil Powrie (2006). Carmen on Screen: An Annotated Filmography and Bibliography. Tamesis Books. p. 18. ISBN 978-1-85566-129-5.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986, page 74
- Ian Conrich (14 July 2006). Film's Musical Moments. Edinburgh University Press. p. 75. ISBN 978-0-7486-2727-1.
- Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986, page 256
- Colin Larkin (2002). The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music. Virgin. p. 311. ISBN 978-1-85227-947-9.
- Gerald Norris (June 1981). A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland. David & Charles. p. 198. ISBN 978-0-7153-7845-8.
- Fordham, John (2006-09-11). "Ian Hamer". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2017-03-25.
- "Jazz breaking news: Saxophonist Lol Coxhill Dies Age 79", Jazzwise (website), 10 July 2012
- Rhondda Cynon Taf: History of Pontypridd Archived 2009-01-06 at the Wayback Machine. Accessed 14 June 2014
- Alumnae Cantabrigienses. Accessed 26 Sept 2014
- "Corder, Frederick". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 385.
- Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland. A&C Black. p. 301. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2.