1925 in British music

none 1925 1925 British music This is a summary of 1925 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 3 April – Gustav Holst's opera At the Boar's Head is premiered in Manchester. date unknown After a spell of ill-health, Gustav Holst returns to teach at St Paul's Girls' School.Holst Imogen 1981 second The Great Composers: Holst London Faber and Faber 0-571-09967-X 64 William Walton dedicates the score of his Portsmouth Point to his patron Siegfried Sassoon, who had recommended it be published by Oxford University Press.Avery Kenneth William Walton Music & Letters 28 1 1–11 1947 10.1093/ml/XXVIII.1.1 854707 Popular music Mai Jones – "Blackbirds"s2-JONE-MAI-1899 Jones, Gladys Mai Huw Williams 3 June 2016 Classical music: new works Frank Bridge – "Golden Hair", for voice and piano "Journey's End", for tenor or high baritone and piano The Pneu World, for cello and piano Songs of Rabindranath Tagore (3), for voice and piano, or voice and orchestra Vignettes de Marseille, for piano Winter Pastorale, for piano Eric Coates – 2 Light Syncopated PiecesMusic on the Web – Eric Coates: Orchestral Works Walford Davies – Men and Angels, for chorus and orchestra, Op. 51 Frederick Delius – A Late Lark, for voice and orchestra Edward Elgar – "The Herald", part-song "The Prince of Sleep", part-song Gustav Holst – "God Is Love, His the Care", for choir Hymns (4) for Songs of Praise, for choir Motets (2), for choir Ode to C.K.S. and the Oriana, for choir Terzetto for flute, oboe and viola Herbert Howells – Piano Concerto No. 2 John Ireland – Two Pieces for Piano (1925) Ernest John Moeran – Bank Holiday Ralph Vaughan Williams – Concerto Accademico for violin and strings Flos Campi, for viola, wordless choir, and small orchestra Hymns (5) for Songs of Praise, for choir Two Poems by Seumas O'Sullivan, for voice and piano Three Songs from Shakespeare, for voice and piano Three Poems by Walt Whitman, for baritone and piano William Walton – Portsmouth Point, concert overture Peter Warlock – "A Prayer to St Anthony" Opera Armstrong Gibbs – Blue Peter Gustav Holst – At the Boar's Head Musical theatre Betty in Mayfair, with music by Harold Fraser-Simson and lyrics by Harry Graham Charlot's Revue of 1925http://www.guidetomusicaltheatre.com/shows_c/charlotsrevue1925revised.htm Charlot's Revue 1925 (Revised) A Guide to Musical Theatre 2 June 2016 Dear Little Billie, with music by H.B. Hedley & Jack Strachey and lyrics by Desmond Carter Love's Prisoner with music, book and lyrics by Reginald Hargreaveshttp://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/London%20Musicals%201925-1929.pub.pdf Love's Prisoner Over the Footlights 23 August 2017 5 August 2016 https://web.archive.org/web/20160805043245/http://www.overthefootlights.co.uk/London%20Musicals%201925-1929.pub.pdf dead On with the Dance, written and composed by Noël Coward and Philip BrahamThe Manchester Guardian, 18 March 1925, p. 11 "Great Showmanship" Publications William Wallace – Richard Wagner as he lived Births 17 February – Ron Goodwin, film composer (d. 2003) 8 March – Dennis Lotis, South African-born singerhttps://www.allmusic.com/artist/dennis-lotis-mn0000202685 Dennis Lotis – Biography AllMusic 25 December 2014 (d. 2023) 22 March – Gerard Hoffnung, cartoonist, comedian, musician (d. 1959) 23 March – Monica Sinclair, operatic contralto (d. 2002) 18 June – Johnny Pearson, composer, orchestra leader and pianist (d. 2011) 2 September – Russ Conway, pianist (d. 2000) 20 September – James Bernard, film composer (d. 2001) 1 October – Alan Styler, operatic baritone (d. 1970) 11 October – David Hughes, operatic tenor (d. 1972) 30 December – Eric Wetherell, composer, conductor, musical author (died 2021) 31 December – Daphne Oram, composer and electronic musician (d. 2003) Davies Hugh Obituary: Daphne Oram The Guardian 24 January 2003 https://www.theguardian.com/news/2003/jan/24/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries Deaths 1 March – Thomas Bidgood, conductor, composer and arranger, 66 (suicide)Thomas Bidgood http://marchdb.net/composers/show/15/ marchdb.net 1 March 2007 18 October 2009 https://web.archive.org/web/20120220031250/http://marchdb.net/wiki/index.php?title=Thomas_Bidgood 2012-02-20 usurped 22 March – Marie Brema, concert mezzo-soprano, 69 1 April – Francis William Davenport, composer and music writerhttp://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.article.07263 Davenport, Francis William (1847–1925), composer, writer on music Stephen Banfield Oxford Index 18 February 2019 See also 1925 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1925 References nb British Music, 1925 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1920s in British music