1931 in British music
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This is a summary of 1931 in music in the United Kingdom .
Popular music [ edit ] Classical music: new works [ edit ] Havergal Brian – Symphony No. 2 in E minor Frank Bridge – Phantasm , for piano and orchestra Benjamin Britten – Arnold Cooke – Passacaglia, Scherzo, and Finale , for flute, oboe, clarinet, bassoon, and string quartet Frederick Delius – Fantastic Dance , for orchestra Irmelin Prelude , for orchestra George Dyson – The Canterbury Pilgrims (Geoffrey Chaucer ), for soprano, tenor, baritone, choir, and orchestra Edward Elgar – Soliloquy , for oboe and orchestra Gerald Finzi – To Joy , for voice and piano, op. 13 Patrick Hadley – Symphonic Ballad: The Trees So High [4] Gustav Holst – Twelve Welsh Folk Songs , for choir, H183 Herbert Howells – "A Maid Peerless", for SSAA choir and orchestra Severn , for SATB choir Gordon Jacob – Passacaglia on a Well-Known Theme , for orchestra Elizabeth Maconchy – A Hymn to Christ, A Hymn to God the Father , for double choir The Leaden Echo and the Golden Echo , for choir and orchestra Cyril Scott – Concerto, for cello and orchestra Trio No. 1, for violin, viola, and cello Trio No. 2, for violin, viola, and cello Herbert Sumsion – Piano Trio Michael Tippett – Symphonic Movement , for orchestra Ralph Vaughan Williams – William Walton – Belshazzar's Feast (oratorio) Film and Incidental music [ edit ] Musical theatre [ edit ] Musical films [ edit ] 6 January – David Whitaker , composer, songwriter, arranger and conductor (died 2012 )[7] 25 March – Humphrey Burton , television music and arts presenter 29 April – Lonnie Donegan , skiffle musician (died 2002 ) 5 July – Aloysius Gordon , British-based Jamaican jazz pianist, singer (died 2017 ) 28 August – John Shirley-Quirk , operatic bass-baritone (died 2014 )[8] 12 September – Tommy Moore , drummer (died 1981 ) 24 September – Anthony Newley , songwriter, actor and singer (died 1999 )[9] 4 October – Anna Reynolds , operatic mezzo-soprano (died 2014 ) 4 November – Clinton Ford , singer (died 2009 ) 8 May – Bertha Lewis , singer and actress with the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company , 43 (car accident) 18 June – Fanny Holland , singer and actress, 83 22 August – Joseph Tabrar , songwriter, 73[10] 19 November – Frederic Cliffe , composer, 74[11] 23 November – Leonora Braham , operatic soprano and actress, 78[12] See also [ edit ] References [ edit ] ^ The Opera Quarterly . University of North Carolina Press. 1995. p. 7. ^ Anon., "Contemporary Music: Festival in England This Year", The Times , issue 45735 (Saturday, 31 January 1931): 10C. ^ Holst, Imogen (1981). The Great Composers: Holst (second ed.). London: Faber and Faber. ISBN 0-571-09967-X . , p. 80 ^ Mann, William. Note in booklet with 2007 Lyrita CD SRCD 238, 2007, originally written for 1979 Lyrita LP issue. ^ Dunhill, Stanford, Bantock Violin Sonatas [RB]: Classical CD Reviews- May 2001 MusicWeb(UK) ^ Morley, Sheridan. A Talent to Amuse: A Biography of Noël Coward, Doubleday & Company, Inc., Garden City, New York, 1969, pp. 200–214, 223 ^ "David Whitaker" . dailytelegraph.co.uk . 2 February 2012. Retrieved 2 February 2012 . ^ Gerald Norris (1981). A Musical Gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland . David & Charles. p. 210. ISBN 978-0-7153-7845-8 . ^ The Bulletin . J. Haynes and J.F. Archibald. September 1992. p. 101. ^ Who was who: A Companion to Who's Who, Containing the Biographies of Those who Died During the Period ... A. & C. Black. 1929. p. 1322. ^ Maggie Humphreys; Robert Evans (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland . A&C Black. p. 67. ISBN 978-0-7201-2330-2 . ^ John Parker (1967). Who's who in the Theatre . Pitman. p. 1596.
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