1919 in British music

none 1919 1919 British music This is a summary of 1919 in music in the United Kingdom. Events April – Poet Robert Graves, temporarily living in Wales, asks composer John Rippiner Heath to set some of his work to music.Jean Moorcroft Wilson Robert Graves 2018 246 Bloomsbury 7 April – The Original Dixieland Jazz Band arrives in the UK for a 15-month tour. 22 July – Manuel de Falla's ballet El sombrero de tres picos (The Three-Cornered Hat) receives its world premiere in London, performed by Ballets Russes. 19 August – The Southern Syncopated Orchestra, while touring the UK, performs for King Edward VII of the United Kingdom.BBC: London – History, "London's jazz legends". Accessed 10 December 2012. Ernest Ansermet's review is considered one of the first serious pieces of jazz criticism. 27 October – Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto receives its première in London, performed by Felix Salmond. The concert goes ahead with inadequate rehearsal time, because of Albert Coates, who is conducting the rest of the programme.Stevenson Joseph Felix Salmond: Biography Allmusic artist q50431/biography yes 23 June 2007 Elsie Griffin joins the D'Oyly Carte Opera Company. Popular music Fred W. Leigh & Charles Collins – "My Old Man (Said Follow the Van)" "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations" by Elizabeth M. Knowle, 1999 Classical music: new works Arnold Bax – Tintagel Rebecca Clarke – Viola SonataLiane Curtis A Rebecca Clarke Reader https://books.google.com/books?id=tDSKJ4FREnoC&pg=PA235 2005 The Rebecca Clarke Society, Inc. 978-0-9770079-0-5 235 Gustav Holst – Ode to DeathSullivan Jack New World Symphonies: How American Culture Changed European Music 116, 118 Charles Villiers Stanford – A Song of Agincourt Ralph Vaughan Williams – Fantasia on a Theme by Thomas Tallis (revised version)Mellers Wifrid Vaughan Williams and the Vision of Albion Barrie & Jenkins 1989 49–50 The Double Man 0-7126-2117-2 Opera Rutland Boughton – The Moon Maiden Frederick Delius – Fennimore and GerdaBoyden, Matthew, et al, The Rough Guide to Opera, Rough Guides, 2002. 978-1-85828-749-2 Musical theatre 22 October – Maggie, with music by Marcel Lattès and lyrics by Adrian Ross, starring Winifred Barnes, opens at the Oxford Theatre, London, where it will run for 108 performances.http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/London%20Musicals%201915-1919.pub.pdf London musicals 1915–1919 Over the Footlights 10 September 2017 19 April 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160419103936/http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/London%20Musicals%201915-1919.pub.pdf dead Births 25 January – Norman Newell, record producer and lyricist (died 2004)Leigh Spencer Spencer Leigh (radio presenter) 7 December 2004 Norman Newell https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/norman-newell-23509.html https://web.archive.org/web/20250508091950/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/norman-newell-23509.html 2025-05-08 2025-06-02 The Independent en-GB 10 March – Margot Fonteyn, ballerina (died 1991) 13 August – George Shearing, jazz pianist and composer (died 2011) 15 August – Bernard Barrell, musician, music teacher and composer (died 2005) 4 September – Teddy Johnson, popular singer (died 2018)Laing Dave 10 June 2018 Teddy Johnson obituary https://www.theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2018/jun/10/teddy-johnson-obituary 10 June 2018 The Guardian 2 October John W. Duarte, writer, guitarist and composer (died 2004) Sean 'ac Donncha, Irish traditional singer (died 1996) 11 November – Hamish Henderson, folk song collector (died 2002) 3 December – Charles Craig, operatic tenor (died 1997)Forbes, Elizabeth, Obituary: Charles Craig, The Independent, 25 January 1997 Deaths 20 March – Pauline Markham, vaudeville actress, singer and dancer, 71Pauline Markham Dies. New York Times (New York City), March 21, 1919; p. 13 2 June – Ernest Ford, conductor and composer, 61 27 September – Adelina Patti, Italian-French opera singer resident in Wales, 76 date unknown – Oliveria Prescott, writer and composer, 75/76 See also 1919 in the United Kingdom References nb British Music, 1919 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1910s in British music