1932 in British music
This is a summary of 1932 in music in the United Kingdom.
Events
- 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.
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
- Arnold Cooke – Harp Quintet
- 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[2]
Opera
- Alfred Reynolds – Derby Day (with libretto by A. P. Herbert)[3]
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
- For the Love of Mike, directed by Monty Banks, starring Bobby Howes, Constance Shotter and Arthur Riscoe[6]
- Goodnight, Vienna, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Jack Buchanan, Anna Neagle and Gina Malo
- Little Waitress, directed by Widgey R. Newman, starring Claude Bailey and Moore Marriott[7]
- 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)
- 26 February – Jean Allister, opera singer (died 2012)
- 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)[8]
- 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)[9]
- 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[10]
- 22 July – Hugh Blair, organist and composer, 67[11]
- 21 August – Frederick Corder, composer and music teacher, 80[12]
- 23 November – Percy Pitt, organist and conductor, 62
- 4 December – Mona McBurney, pianist, teacher and composer, 70
- 10 December – Percy Fletcher, composer, 52
See also
References
- ^ Reid, Charles (1961). Thomas Beecham – An Independent Biography. London: Victor Gollancz. OCLC 500565141
- ^ 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
- ^ "White Face". BFI.
- ^ Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986, page 74
- ^ Wood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986, page 256
- ^ [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
- ^ "Corder, Frederick". Who's Who. Vol. 59. 1907. p. 385.