1932 in British music
Template:1930s in music (UK) This is a summary of 1932 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
- date unknown - Henry Hall becomes Director of the BBC Dance Orchestra.
Popular music
- "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
Classical music: new works
- 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
- Gustav Holst
- "If 'twer the Time of Lilies", for two-part choir and piano, H187
- Jazz-Band Piece
- Jig, for piano, H179
- John Ireland - A Downland Suite
- 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[1]
Opera
- Alfred Reynolds - Derby Day (with libretto by A. P. Herbert)[2]
Film and Incidental music
Musical theatre
- 16 September - Words and Music, a London revue by Noël Coward, opens at the Adelphi Theatre.
Musical films
- Carmen, directed by Cecil Lewis, starringMarguerite Namara and Thomas F. Burke
- Goodnight, Vienna, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Jack Buchanan, Anna Neagle and Gina Malo
- The Maid of the Mountains, directed by Lupino Lane, starring Nancy Brown and Harry Welchman
Births
- 3 January - Johanna Peters, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 2000)
- 19 January - Russ Hamilton, English singer-songwriter died 2008)
- 29 January - Myer Fredman, British-Australian conductor (died 2014)
- 31 March - John Mitchinson, operatic tenor
- 19 May – John Barnes, saxophonist and clarinet player
- 19 May – Alma Cogan, singer (died 1966)
- 21 May - Robert Sherlaw Johnson, pianist and composer (died 2000)[4]
- 31 August - Roy Castle, actor, musician and singer (died 1994)
- 18 September - Maureen Lehane, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 2010)
- 19 September - Lol Coxhill, jazz saxophonist (died 2012)[5]
- 15 November – Petula Clark, singer, actress, and songwriter
- 26 December - Clive Westlake, songwriter (died 2000)
Deaths
- 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[6]
- 22 July - Hugh Blair, organist and composer, 67[7]
- 23 November – Percy Pitt, organist and conductor, 62
- 10 December - Percy Fletcher, composer, 52
See also
References
- ^ 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.
- ^ http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/25340
- ^ [1] Times obituary.
- ^ "Jazz breaking news: Saxophonist Lol Coxhill Dies Age 79", Jazzwise (website), 10 July 2012
- ^ Rhondda Cynon Taf: History of Pontypridd. Accessed 14 June 2014
- ^ Alumnae Cantabrigienses. Accessed 26 Sept 2014