1932 in British music

none 1932 1932 British music This is a summary of 1932 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 7 October – The London Philharmonic Orchestra, recently founded by Thomas Beecham and Malcolm Sargent, gives its first public concert.Reid, Charles (1961). Thomas Beecham – An Independent Biography. London: Victor Gollancz. OCLC 500565141 date unknown – Henry Hall becomes Director of the BBC Dance Orchestra. Popular music "Ain't it grand to be blooming well dead?" w. Leslie Sarony "The Flies Crawled Up The Window" w.m. Douglas Furber & Vivian Ellis "Love Is The Sweetest Thing" w.m. Ray Noble "Mad About the Boy" w.m. Noël Coward "What More Can I Ask?" w. A. E. Wilkins m. Ray Noble Classical music: new works Arnold Bax Concerto for Cello and Orchestra Sinfonietta Sonata No. 4, for piano Summer Music, for orchestra (revised version) Symphony No. 5 "Watching the Needleboats", for voice and piano (text by James Joyce) Arthur Benjamin – Violin Concerto Arthur Bliss – A Colour Symphony (revised)Randel Don Michael The Harvard dictionary of music 2003 Harvard University Press 978-0-674-01163-2 191 https://archive.org/details/harvarddictionar0004unse/page/191 Arnold Cooke – Harp QuintetBritish Music Information Centre Chamber music by living British composers https://books.google.com/books?id=y54JAQAAMAAJ 1969 British Music Information Centre 10 Gustav Holst "If 'twer the Time of Lilies", for two-part choir and piano, H187 (words by Helen Waddell)Catalog of Copyright Entries: Musical compositions https://books.google.com/books?id=BhJhAAAAIAAJ&pg=PA21 1934 Library of Congress, Copyright Office. 21 Jazz-Band Piece Jig, for piano, H179 John Ireland – A Downland Suite Cyril Rootham – Symphony No 1 in C minorhttps://rootham.org/works.html Cyril Rootham (1875-1938) - Composer Rootham.org 15 March 2019 Michael Tippett – String Trio in B Flat Ralph Vaughan Williams – Magnificat for contralto, women's chorus, and orchestra William Walton – 3 Songs to Poems by Edith Sitwell Grace Williams Suite for orchestra Two Psalms for contralto, harp and stringsJohn Evans, Journeying Boy: The Diaries of the Young Benjamin Britten 1928–1938 (Faber & Faber, 2009), p 174 Opera Alfred Reynolds – Derby Day (with libretto by A. P. Herbert)Dunhill, Thomas F., "The Music of Derby Day" (1 May 1932). The Musical Times, 73 (1071): pp. 415–416. Film and Incidental music John D. H. Greenwood – After Office HoursBFI.org Louis Levy – White Facehttp://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/57908 https://web.archive.org/web/20090114015457/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/title/57908 dead 2009-01-14 White Face BFI Musical theatre 16 September – Words and Music, a London revue by Noël Coward, opens at the Adelphi Theatre. Musical films Carmen, directed by Cecil Lewis, starring Marguerite Namara and Thomas F. BurkeAnn Davies Phil Powrie Carmen on Screen: An Annotated Filmography and Bibliography https://books.google.com/books?id=Yl3cwxX2s_oC&pg=PA19 2006 Tamesis Books 978-1-85566-129-5 18 For the Love of Mike, directed by Monty Banks, starring Bobby Howes, Constance Shotter and Arthur RiscoeWood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986, page 74 Goodnight, Vienna, directed by Herbert Wilcox, starring Jack Buchanan, Anna Neagle and Gina MaloIan Conrich Film's Musical Moments https://books.google.com/books?id=59SqBgAAQBAJ&pg=PA75 14 July 2006 Edinburgh University Press 978-0-7486-2727-1 75 Little Waitress, directed by Widgey R. Newman, starring Claude Bailey and Moore MarriottWood, Linda. British Films, 1927–1939. British Film Institute, 1986, page 256 The Maid of the Mountains, directed by Lupino Lane, starring Nancy Brown and Harry Welchman Births 3 January – Johanna Peters, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 2000) 12 January – Des O'Connor, comedian, singer and television host (died 2020)Colin Larkin The Virgin Encyclopedia of 70s Music https://books.google.com/books?id=uWoZAQAAIAAJ 2002 Virgin 978-1-85227-947-9 311 19 January – Russ Hamilton, English singer-songwriter (died 2008) 23 January – Cyril Davies, blues musician (died 1964) 29 January – Myer Fredman, British-Australian conductor (died 2014) 26 February – Jean Allister, opera singer (died 2012) 31 March – John Mitchinson, operatic tenor 19 May John Barnes, saxophonist and clarinet player Alma Cogan, singer (died 1966) 21 May – Robert Sherlaw Johnson, pianist and composer (died 2000) Times obituary. 27 June – Hugh Wood, composerGerald Norris A musical gazetteer of Great Britain & Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=KcMXAQAAIAAJ June 1981 David & Charles 978-0-7153-7845-8 198 16 July – John Chilton, jazz trumpeter (died 2016) 31 August – Roy Castle, actor, musician and singer (died 1994) 11 September – Ian Hamer, jazz trumpeter (died 2006)https://www.theguardian.com/news/2006/sep/12/guardianobituaries.artsobituaries Ian Hamer Fordham John 2006-09-11 The Guardian 2017-03-25 en-GB 0261-3077 18 September – Maureen Lehane, operatic mezzo-soprano (died 2010) 19 September – Lol Coxhill, jazz saxophonist (died 2012)"Jazz breaking news: Saxophonist Lol Coxhill Dies Age 79", Jazzwise (website), 10 July 2012 15 November – Petula Clark, singer, actress, and songwriter 26 December – Clive Westlake, songwriter (died 2000) Deaths 28 January – Poldowski, Belgian-born British pianist and composer, 52 3 March – Eugen d'Albert, Scottish-born German pianist and composer, 67 14 May – John Hughes, composer of Cwm RhonddaRhondda Cynon Taf: History of Pontypridd. Accessed 14 June 2014 22 July – Hugh Blair, organist and composer, 67Alumnae Cantabrigienses. Accessed 26 Sept 2014 21 August – Frederick Corder, composer and music teacher, 80Corder, Frederick Who's Who 1907 59 385 https://books.google.com/books?id=yEcuAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA385 21 September – William Herbert Scott, church composer and hymn-writer, 70Maggie Humphreys Robert Evans Dictionary of Composers for the Church in Great Britain and Ireland https://books.google.com/books?id=WSLUAwAAQBAJ&pg=PA301 1 January 1997 A&C Black 978-0-7201-2330-2 301 23 November – Percy Pitt, organist and conductor, 62 4 December – Mona McBurney, pianist, teacher and composer, 70 10 December – Percy Fletcher, composer, 52 See also 1932 in British television 1932 in the United Kingdom List of British films of 1932 References nb British Music, 1932 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1930s in British music