1921 in British music
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This is a summary of 1921 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
- January – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford gives a public lecture entitled "Some Recent Tendencies in Composition", criticising current musical trends.[1]
- 5 March – Sir Charles Villiers Stanford makes his last public appearance when he conducts his latest work, the cantata At the Abbey Gate.[2] The Observer thought it "quite appealing even though one feels it to be more facile than powerful."[3]
- June – Adrian Boult conducts an experimental Opera Intime week at the Aeolian Hall in London.[4]
- date unknown – A new production of The Tempest at the Aldwych Theatre, directed by Viola Tree, adds new incidental music by Arthur Bliss to that by Thomas Arne and Arthur Sullivan.[5]
Popular music
- "And Her Mother Came Too" w. Dion Titheradge, m. Ivor Novello
- "Dancing Time" w. George Grossmith, Jr., m. Jerome Kern
- "Shimmy With Me" w. P. G. Wodehouse, m. Jerome Kern from the musical The Cabaret Girl
Classical music: new works
- Kenneth J. Alford – The Mad Major
- Arnold Bax – Mater ora Filium
- Eric Coates – Moresque
- John Foulds – A World Requiem (1919–21; premiered 1923)[6]
- Albert Ketèlbey
- John Ireland – Two Pieces for Piano
- Cyril Rootham – Suite in three movements for flute and piano
Opera
Musical theatre
- 17 January – The League of Notions London revue opens at the Oxford Theatre.
- 5 October – The Golden Moth (Music: Ivor Novello) opens at the Adelphi Theatre, starring Bobbie Comber and Thorpe Bates.
Publications
- Porte, J. F. Sir Edward Elgar. London: Kegan Paul, Trench, Turner & Co. Ltd.
Births
- 5 February – Sir John Pritchard, conductor (died 1989)
- 2 March – Robert Simpson, musicologist and composer (died 1997)
- 21 March – Antony Hopkins, composer and music writer (died 2014)
- 8 April – Alfie Bass, actor (Tevye in West End production of Fiddler on the Roof) (died 1987)
- 23 May – Humphrey Lyttelton, English jazz musician (died 2008)
- 12 July – Hilary Corke, writer and composer (died 2001)
- 8 September – Sir Harry Secombe, singer and comedian (died 2001)
- 21 September – Jimmy Young, singer and radio broadcaster (died 2016)
- 2 October – Robert Bruce Montgomery, composer (died 1978)
- 21 October – Sir Malcolm Arnold, composer (died 2006)
Deaths
- 8 February – George Formby Sr, singer and comedian, 45 (tuberculosis)[7]
- 25 February – John Thomas of Llanwrtyd, composer, 81[8]
- 14 March – Gustave Barnes, violinist, painter and sculptor, 43[9]
See also
References
- ^ Stanford, Charles Villiers. "On Some Recent Tendencies in Composition", Proceedings of the Musical Association, 47th Sess. (1920–1921), pp. 39–53 (subscription required)
- ^ "At the Abbey Gate", The Times, 7 March 1921, p. 8
- ^ Anderson, W R. "Yesterday's Music", The Observer, 6 March 1921, p. 15
- ^ Boult, Adrian (1973). My Own Trumpet. London: Hamish Hamilton. ISBN 0-241-02445-5.
- ^ Evans, Edwin. "Arthur Bliss". The Musical Times, February 1923, pp. 95–99, accessed 21 March 2011 (subscription required)
- ^ BBC Press Release
- ^ "Mrs George Formby's Own Story". The Sunday Post. Dundee. 13 February 1921. p. 16.
- ^ Robert David Griffith (1959). "Thomas, John". Dictionary of Welsh Biography. National Library of Wales. Retrieved 19 August 2017.
- ^ Nancy Benko, 'Barnes, Gustave Adrian (1877–1921)', Australian Dictionary of Biography, Volume 7, MUP, 1979, pp 179–180.