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Overview of the events of 1920 in British music
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This is a summary of 1920 in music in the United Kingdom .
Events
Popular music
Classical music: new works
Musical theatre
Births
9 January – Clive Dunn , comedy actor and chart-topping singer (died 2012 )
12 April – The Cox Twins , music hall entertainers (Frank, died 2007 , and Fred, died 2013 )
14 April – Ivor Forbes Guest , historian of dance (died 2018 )[ 10]
13 May – Gareth Morris , flautist (died 2007 )[ 11]
20 May – Betty Driver , singer and actress (died 2011 )[ 12]
19 June – Johnny Douglas , film composer and conductor (died 2003 )[ 13]
24 October – Steve Conway , singer (died 1952 )[ 14]
12 December – Dick James , singer and record producer (died 1986 )
Deaths
21 January – John Henry Maunder , composer, 61[ 15]
24 January – Percy French , Irish-born songwriter, 65 (pneumonia)[ 16]
7 April – Alice Elgar, wife of composer Edward Elgar , 72 (lung cancer)[ 17]
5 May – Robert Bryan , poet and composer, 61
28 May - Hardwicke Rawnsley , hymn-writer, 68[ 18]
28 June - Pauline Rita , singer and actress, about 78
14 December – George J. Gaskin , Irish singer, 57
See also
References
^ Daniel Snowman, Hallelujah! An Informal History of the London Philharmonic Choir (London: London Philharmonic Choir, London 2007), pp. 127–33 – Appendix II: "The History of the Philharmonic Choir".
^ Moore, Jerrold Northrop (1979). Music and Friends: Letters to Adrian Boult . London: Hamish Hamilton. p. 42. ISBN 0-241-10178-6 . Lady Elgar's diary
^ "Hamilton Harty" , The Musical Times , Vol. 61, No. 926 (April 1920), pp. 227–230 (subscription required)
^ Thaxter, John. I'll Leave It To You Archived 2011-06-10 at the Wayback Machine , British Theatre Guide, 2009
^ King-Smith, Beresford (1995), Crescendo! 75 years of the City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra, London: Methuen, ISBN 0413697401 . page 9.
^ "London Concerts"' The Musical Times , December 1920, p. 821 (subscription required)
^ Lucas, John (2008). Thomas Beecham: An Obsession With Music . London: Boydell & Brewer Ltd. p. 156. ISBN 978-1-84383-402-1 . Retrieved 29 May 2012 .
^ Barbara Doscher (ed. John Nix) From Studio to Stage: Repertoire for the Voice , Scarecrow Press, 2002, p 32 . Accessed 11 Sept 2014
^ Mike, Celia, "Howell, Dorothy", in The Norton/Grove Dictionary of Women Composers (Julie Anne Sadie and Rhian Samuel, eds.). The MacMillan Press (London & Basingstoke), p. 231 (1994, ISBN 0-333-51598-6 ).
^ Macaulay, Alastair (April 9, 2018). "Ivor Guest, 97, Dies; Transformed Study of Dance History" . The New York Times . London. Archived from the original on May 21, 2020. Retrieved November 11, 2020 .
^ Sebastian Bell (28 February 2007). "Gareth Morris" . The Guardian . Retrieved 24 February 2019 .
^ Dennis Barker (15 October 2011). "Betty Driver obituary" . The Guardian . Retrieved 24 February 2019 .
^ Tim McDonald (23 April 2003). "Johnny Douglas" . The Guardian . Retrieved 24 February 2019 .
^ "Steve Conway Biography, Songs, & Albums" . AllMusic . Retrieved 2021-09-23 .
^ Robert Evans; Maggie Humphreys (1 January 1997). Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland . Bloomsbury Publishing. p. 229. ISBN 978-1-4411-3796-8 .
^ The Songs of Percy French, by James N. Healy (Dublin & Cork: Mercier Press, 1983)
^ Moore, Jerrold N. (1984). Edward Elgar: a Creative Life . Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 750–51. ISBN 0-19-315447-1 .
^ Charles W. Spurgeon (17 March 2008). The Poetry of Westminster Abbey . Xlibris Corporation. p. 179. ISBN 978-1-4535-0144-3 .
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