1937 in British music

none 1937 1937 British music This is a summary of 1937 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 24 January – Ernest John Moeran completes the revised version of his Symphony in G minor, dedicated to conductor Hamilton Harty.From Beyond the Stave: The most glorious of English symphonies 6 March – Composer Benjamin Britten and his partner, the tenor Peter Pears, meet for the first time, in London.Mitchell, Donald Donald Mitchell (writer) 1991 Letters From A Life: Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten, Vol. 1, 1923–39 London: Faber and Faber 0-571-15221X 12 May – William Walton's ceremonial march, "Crown Imperial", originally written for his predecessor, King Edward VIII, is performed for the first time at the coronation of King George VI and Queen Elizabeth. 27 August – Britten's Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge is performed at the Salzburg Festival, conducted by Boyd Neel. 20 December – The Gaumont State Cinema opens in London with Sidney Torch as organist. date unknown Kathleen Ferrier wins the piano and vocal competitions at the Carlisle Festival, and is awarded a special rose bowl as champion of the festival.Leonard, Maurice (1988). Kathleen: The Life of Kathleen Ferrier, 1912–1953. London: Hutchinson. 0-09-173464-9. pp. 28–30. George Lloyd marries Nancy Juvet. Lloyd has PTSD and later acknowledges that he could not have recovered without Nancy's care.Allan Kozinn George Lloyd, 85, British Symphonic Composer https://www.nytimes.com/1998/07/10/arts/george-lloyd-85-british-symphonic-composer.html The New York Times 1998-07-10 2009-10-22 Ukrainian-born pianist Benno Moiseiwitsch takes up British citizenship. Popular music "A Nice Cup of Tea" Gracie Fields w. m. A. P. Herbert, Henry Sullivan "Did Your Mother Come From Ireland?" w.m. Jimmy Kennedy & Michael Carr Rust Brian The complete entertainment discography, from the mid-1890s to 1942 Arlington House New Rochelle, N.Y 1973 9780870001505 279 "Harbour Lights" w. Jimmy Kennedy m. Hugh Williams "Home Town" w.m. Jimmy Kennedy & Michael Carr "The Lambeth Walk" w. Douglas Furber, L. Arthur Rose m. Noel Gay Macpherson Ben Cultural identity in British musical theatre, 1890-1939 : knowing one's place Palgrave Macmillan London 2018 9781137598073 194 "Leaning on a Lamp-post" w.m. Noel Gay Ratcliffe Susan Concise Oxford dictionary of quotations Oxford University Press Oxford New York 2006 9780198614173 370 "Me And My Girl" w.m. Noel Gay & Douglas Furber Classical music: new works Arthur Bliss – Checkmate (ballet) Rutland Boughton – Symphony No. 3 in B minor Frank Bridge  String Quartet No. 4 Benjamin Britten – Variations on a Theme of Frank Bridge George Dyson – Symphony in G major John Ireland – These Things Shall Be Edmund Rubbra – Symphony No. 1 Ralph Vaughan Williams – Job: A Masque for Dancing (ballet) Percy Whitlock – Wessex Suite Film and Incidental music Richard Addinsell – Fire Over England, starring Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh. Ernest Irving – Feather Your Nest, starring George Formby, Polly Ward and Enid Stamp-Taylor. Musical theatre 5 February – On Your Toes London production opened at the Palace Theatre and ran for 123 performances 29 March – Swing is in the Air London revue opened at the Palladium 16 December – Me and My Girl (Noel Gay) – London production opened at the Victoria Palace Theatre and ran for 1646 performances. Musical films Big Fella, directed by J. Elder Wills, starring Paul Robeson and Elisabeth WelchBob McCann Encyclopedia of African American Actresses in Film and Television https://books.google.com/books?id=X7ZYsnTPIhwC&pg=PA357 21 December 2009 McFarland 978-0-7864-5804-2 357 Calling All Stars, directed by Herbert Smith, starring Carroll Gibbons and Evelyn DallRobert James Popular Culture and Working-class Taste in Britain, 1930-39: A Round of Cheap Diversions? https://books.google.com/books?id=yMXJCgAAQBAJ&pg=PA139 15 December 2010 Oxford University Press 978-0-7190-8025-8 139 Gangway, starring Jessie Matthews and Alastair SimJames Monaco The Encyclopedia of Film https://archive.org/details/encyclopediaoffi00mona registration 1991 Perigee Books 978-0-399-51604-7 287 Head Over Heels, starring Jessie Matthews Mayfair Melody, directed by Arthur B. Woods, starring Keith Falkner and Chili BouchierAngus McLaren Playboys and Mayfair Men: Crime, Class, Masculinity, and Fascism in 1930s London https://books.google.com/books?id=vPg2DwAAQBAJ&pg=PA166 16 October 2017 JHU Press 978-1-4214-2347-0 166 The Show Goes On, starring Gracie Fields, Owen Nares and John Stuart. Song of the Forge, starring Stanley Holloway.Stephen Shafer British Popular Films 1929-1939: The Cinema of Reassurance https://books.google.com/books?id=EweKAgAAQBAJ&pg=PA134 2 September 2003 Routledge 978-1-134-98837-2 134 The Street Singer, starring Arthur Tracy, Margaret Lockwood and Arthur Riscoehttp://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/52071 BFI | Film & TV Database | the STREET SINGER (1937) 2017-08-23 https://web.archive.org/web/20121021151441/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/52071 2012-10-21 dead Take My Tip, directed by Herbert Mason, starring Jack Hulbert and Cicely Courtneidge Births 8 January – Shirley Bassey, singer 22 January – Ryan Davies, comedian, singer and songwriter (died 1977) 27 January – John Ogdon, pianist (died 1989) 28 April – Jean Redpath, folk singer (died 2014) 5 May – Delia Derbyshire, musician and composer of electronic musicWrench Nigel Lost tapes of the Dr. Who composer BBC News 18 July 2008 https://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/7512072.stm 22 July 2008 (died 2001) 21 May – John Barstow, pianist and teacher 12 July – Guy Woolfenden, conductor and theatre composer (died 2016)https://www.theguardian.com/music/2016/apr/24/guy-woolfenden-obituary Guy Woolfenden obituary 24 April 2016 Michael Billington Michael Billington (critic) The Guardian 26 June 2018 27 July – Anna Dawson, actress and singer 19 November – Geoff Goddard, songwriter, singer and instrumentalist (died 2000) 30 November – Frank Ifield, British-born Australian singer 1 December Gordon Crosse, composer Humphreys Maggie Dictionary of composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland Mansell London Herndon, VA 1997 9780720123302 79 David Measham, violinist and conductor (died 2005) 12 December – Philip Ledger, composer and teacher (died 2012) 31 December – Anthony Hopkins, actor and composer Deaths 22 January – Walter Willson Cobbett, businessman and amateur violinist, editor/author of Cobbett's Cyclopedic Survey of Chamber Music, 89 10 April – Algernon Ashton, pianist and composer, 77 1 May – Herbert Hughes, composer, music critic and collector of folk songs, 54http://musicsack.com/PersonFMTDetail.cfm?PersonPK=100005903 MusicSack 27 August 2010 2 May – Sir Arthur Somervell, composer, 73 23 July – Charles Henry Mills, composer and music teacher (b. 1873) 25 November – Lilian Baylis, founder of Sadler's Wells ballet company, 63 (heart attack)Tanitch, Robert, "Olivier". Abbeville Press 23 December – Muriel Foster, contralto, 60Eric Blom, ed., Grove Dictionary of Music and Musicians, 5th ed, 1954, Vol. III, p. 455 26 December Dan Beddoe, tenor, 74 Ivor Gurney, composer and poet, 47 (tuberculosis)P. J. Kavanagh (ed.) (2004). Ivor Gurney, Collected poems (reprint ed.). Fyfield Books. 1-85754-709-8. See also 1937 in British television 1937 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1937 References nb British Music, 1937 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1930s in British music