1936 in British music

none 1936 1936 British music This is a summary of 1936 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 4 February – Documentary film Night Mail, on which Benjamin Britten has collaborated with W. H. Auden (with score recorded in January), is premiered at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.Mitchell, Donald (ed) (1991). Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 1 1923–39. London: Faber and Faber. 0-571-15221X. p. 317. 12 May – Ralph Vaughan Williams's opera The Poisoned Kiss is given its first performance by the Intimate Opera Company, conducted by Cyril Rootham, at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.Performances of The Poisoned Kiss advertised on the Bronx Opera's website https://web.archive.org/web/20120123050654/http://www.bronxopera.org/The_Poisoned_Kiss_and_Hansel_and_Gretel.html 2012-01-23 Retrieved 25 December 2011 June – Sir Malcolm Sargent courts controversy by giving an interview to The Daily Telegraph in which he says that an orchestral musician does not deserve a "job for life" and should "give of his lifeblood with every bar he plays". Musicians take offence because of their support of him during his recent recovery from tuberculosis.Aldous, Richard (2001). Tunes of Glory: the life of Malcolm Sargent. London: Hutchinson. 0-09-180131-1. p. 83. 1 September – Arthur Rubinstein plays John Ireland's Piano Concerto in E-flat major at the Proms at Queen's Hall.Foreman, Lewis. The John Ireland Companion. The Boydell Press, 2011: p. xxxiii 25 September – Sophie Wyss sings the premiere of Britten's Our Hunting Fathers in Norwich, with the London Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by the composer. date unknown – Granville Bantock begins an affair with Muriel Mann.Katherine de Marne Werner (ed.), 2013, My Dear Rogue, Sir Granville Bantock's Secret Romance That Influenced the Music of One of Britain's Greatest 20th Century Composers, Distinction Press, 1-937-6671-03 Popular music "Has Anybody Seen Our Ship?" w.m. Noël Coward "Let's Have A Tiddley At The Milk Bar", w.m. Noel Gay, sung by Nellie WallaceVintage Sheet Music https://web.archive.org/web/20160303221936/http://www.tsvintagesheetmusic.co.uk/single.php?id=16900 2016-03-03 . Accessed 3 Sept 2014 "The Window Cleaner", by Fred Cliff, Harry Gifford and George Formbysong when-im-cleaning-windows-t172806 yes When I'm Cleaning Windows Allmusic.com September 24, 2011 Classical music: new works Arnold Bax Threnody and Scherzo String Quartet No. 3 in F major William Henry Bell – The Tumbler of Our Lady for soloists, choruses and orchestra Frank Bridge – Movement for String Quartet Benjamin Britten – Our Hunting Fathers Alan Bush – Concert Piece for Cello and Piano Erik Chisholm – The Forsaken Mermaid (ballet) Eric Coates – Saxo Rhapsody Gerald Finzi – Earth and Air and Rain Dorothy Gow – Oboe Quintethttp://oboeclassics.com/~oboe3583/ambache/wList.htm Women of Note 14 December 2010 Constant Lambert – Summer's Last Will and TestamentLisa Hardy, The British Piano Sonata 1870–1945 Haldane Stewart "The Winds at Bethlehem" (carol, with words by W. M. Letts)https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0000D3PXJ The Winds at Bethlehem January 1936 "Penned are the Sheep" (carol, with words by R. K. Davis)http://www.banksmusicpublications.co.uk/product/penned-are-the-sheep/41464/338/ Penned Are the Sheep - Banks Music Publications William Walton – Theme for Improvisation Ralph Vaughan Williams – Dona Nobis Pacem Percy Whitlock – Sonata for Organ in C minorPeter Hardwick British Organ Music of the Twentieth Century https://books.google.com/books?id=rO3jVbN_y9gC&pg=PA374 2003 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-4448-3 374 Opera Roger Quilter – Julia Film and Incidental music Hubert Bath – Tudor Rose Allan Gray – The House of the SpaniardBFI.org Leighton Lucas – The Cardinal Musical theatre 22 December – The London production of Balalaika opens at the Adelphi Theatre and runs for 570 performances. 11 September – Careless Rapture (Ivor Novello) opens at the Theatre Royal on and runs for 295 performances. Musical films Ball at Savoy, directed by Victor Hanbury, starring Conrad Nagel and Marta Labarr The Beloved Vagabond, directed by Curtis Bernhardt, starring Maurice Chevalier, Betty Stockfeld, Margaret Lockwood and Austin Trevor Dodging the Dole, directed by John E. Blakeley, starring Barry K. Barnes and Dan Young Everybody Dance, starring Cicely Courtneidge Everything Is Rhythm, starring Harry Roy and Dorothy BoydBFI.org The Last Waltz, starring Jarmila Novotna, Harry Welchman, and Gerald BarryWood, Linda. British Films, 1927-1939. British Film Institute, 1986. It's Love Again, directed by Victor Saville, starring Jessie Matthews, Robert Young and Sonnie Hale.BFI.org Limelight, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Anna Neagle, Arthur Tracy and Jane Winton.BFI.org Southern Roses, directed by Frederic Zelnik, starring George Robey, Gina Malo and Chili Bouchier.BFI.org Births 4 January – John Gorman, entertainer (The Scaffold) 29 January – Malcolm Binns, pianist 23 February – Trevor Beeton, plumber 22 March – Roger Whittaker, Kenyan-born singer-songwriter 29 March – Richard Rodney Bennett, composer and pianist (died 2012)Zachary Woolfe, "Richard Rodney Bennett, British Composer, Dies at 76", New York Times, 30 December 2012 20 April – Christopher Robinson, organist and conductorBirthday's today https://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2012-4-20.html https://web.archive.org/web/20120426082521/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/archive/2012-4-20.html dead 26 April 2012 The Telegraph 19 April 2014 20 April 2012 Mr Christopher Robinson, Organist and Director of Music, St John's College, Cambridge, 1991–2003, 76 2 May – Engelbert Humperdinck, singer 7 May – Cornelius Cardew, composer and musicologist (died 1981) 12 May – David Snell, harpist, composer and conductor 25 June – Roy Williamson, folk singer-songwriter (died 1990) 27 June – Robin Hall, folk singer (died 1998)"Robin Hall and Jimmie MacGregor MBE" https://web.archive.org/web/20131211024149/http://projects.scottishcultureonline.com/hall-of-fame/robin-hall-and-jimmie-macgregor-mbe/ 2013-12-11 , Scottish Traditional Music Hall of Fame. 26 July – Mary Millar, singer and actress (died 1998) 2 August – Anthony Payne, composer 7 September – George Cassidy, jazz musician and music teacher to Van Morrison (died 2023)https://www.funeraltimes.com/georgecassidy84673923 16 September – Gordon Beck, jazz pianist (died 2011) 24 October – Bill Wyman, rock bassist 5 November – Richard Drakeford, composer (died 2009) 14 November – Freddie Garrity, singer (Freddie and the Dreamers) (died 2006) 17 December – Tommy Steele, singer Deaths 23 January – Dame Clara Butt, operatic contralto, 63Kennedy, Michael. "Butt, Dame Clara Ellen (1872–1936)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004. Online edition, January 2011, accessed 24 March 2013 11 February – Florence Smithson, singer, 51 (post-operative complications)"Death of Miss Florence Smithson", The Times, 13 February 1936, p. 10 3 March – Ethel Mary Boyce, composer, pianist and teacher, 73Brown, James Duff and Stephen S Stratton. British Musical Biography (1897), p. 55 4 March – Ernest Pike, tenor, 64 (cerebral haemorrhage)The Musical Times, Vol. 77, No. 1118 (April 1936), p. 368 – Obituary 18 May – Alick Maclean, conductor and composer, 63 4 June – Mathilde Verne, pianist and teacher, 71 15 August – Sir Henry Lytton, Gilbert & Sullivan comic baritone, 71 19 August – Harry Plunket Greene, Irish baritone, 71Nicholas Kenyon Musical Lives https://books.google.com/books?id=1eUXAQAAIAAJ 2002 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-860528-7 52 11 November – Sir Edward German, composer, 74Nicolas Slonimsky Music Since 1900 https://books.google.com/books?id=4DNhfCCel3wC 1949 Coleman-Ross Company 417 See also 1936 in British television 1936 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1936 References nb British Music, 1936 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1930s in British music