1918 in British music

none 1918 1918 British music This is a summary of 1918 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 13 February – Cellist May Mukle and violist Rebecca Clarke give a recital at the Aeolian Hall, New York City, accompanied by Marjorie Hayward, performing works by Hubert Parry, Frank Bridge, and Clarke herself, including the premiėre of her Morpheus, written under the pen-name "Anthony Trent".Morpheus: holograph listing at WorldCat. August – Anglo-Welsh composer Philip Heseltine concludes a year's stay in Ireland with the writing of a number of songs which will be published under the pseudonym Peter Warlock. 29 September – The première of Gustav Holst's orchestral suite The Planets takes place before an invited audience at the Queen's Hall, London, with orchestra conducted by Adrian Boult.Malcolm Gillies David Pear Mark Carroll Self-Portrait of Percy Grainger https://books.google.com/books?id=Q_-DqI_uq70C&pg=PA249 29 June 2006 Oxford University Press 978-0-19-971941-9 249 December – Ralph Vaughan Williams is appointed Director of Music, First Army.Victor Piuk Famous, 1914–1918 https://books.google.com/books?id=lOM7BAAAQBAJ&pg=PT51 10 March 2010 Pen and Sword 978-1-84468-824-1 51 Popular music Ivan Caryll – "Some Day Waiting Will End" Some Day Waiting Will End http://www.pritzkermilitary.org/explore/library/online-catalog/view/oclc/71145490 Pritzker Military Museum & Library 14 June 2016 Harry Castling and Fred W. Leigh – "Where's Old Bill?"Dave Russell Popular Music in England 1840-1914: A Social History https://books.google.com/books?id=n3PHdGaUqIkC&pg=PA157 1997 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-5261-3 157– Classical music: new works Kenneth J. Alford – The Vanished Army, march Arnold Bax String Quartet No. 1 in G major, GP. 199http://davpar.eu/bax/bax1519.html https://web.archive.org/web/20151018004008/http://www.davpar.eu/bax/bax1519.html dead October 18, 2015 Parlett Catalogue of music by Bax 1915–1919 2013-02-25 Symphonic Variations, GP. 210 Frederick Delius – A Song Before SunriseMary Christison Huismann Mary L Huismann Frederick Delius: A Guide to Research https://books.google.com/books?id=MKsd04prSgoC&pg=PA14 2005 Psychology Press 978-0-415-94106-8 14 Edward Elgar – Violin Sonata in E minor Musical theatre 1 June – Tails Up!, a revue starring Jack Buchanan, opens at Comedy Theatre, London, where it will run for 467 performances.Carson, Lionel The Stage Year Book Carson & Comerford Limited, 1919, p. 103. 5 August – Roses of Picardy, by Evelyn Thomas, opens at the Hippodrome, Cannock, before moving to the West End the following year.Lionel Carson The Stage Year Book https://books.google.com/books?id=hTgOAAAAIAAJ 1920 Carson & Comerford, Limited 162 Births 20 March – Marian McPartland, jazz pianist (died 2013) 16 April – Spike Milligan, comedian, writer, musician, poet and playwright (died 2002) 5 June – Robert Docker, composer (died 1992) 19 August – Dilys Elwyn Edwards, composer (died 2012) 22 September – A. J. Potter, composer (died 1980) 2 December – Wilfred Heaton, composer (died 2000) Deaths 15 January – Mark Sheridan, music hall performer, 53 (probable suicide by shooting)"Mr. Mark Sheridan's Death", The Glasgow Herald, 22 November 1918, p. 2 13 April – David Ffrangcon Davies, baritone, 62 26 August – Cecil Coles, composer, 29 (killed in action)Brief biography https://web.archive.org/web/20130816021557/http://www.bardic-music.com/Coles.htm 16 August 2013 7 September – Morfydd Llwyn Owen, singer, pianist and composer, 26 (complications from surgery for appendicitis)Cleaver, Emrys. "Morfydd Llwyn Owen (1891–1918)" in Musicians of Wales. Ruthin: John Jones 1968 7 October – Hubert Parry, composer, 70Dibble, Jeremy, "Parry, Sir (Charles) Hubert Hastings, baronet (1848–1918)", Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, Oxford University Press, 2004, accessed 18 April 2013 See also 1918 in the United Kingdom References nb British Music, 1918 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1910s in British music