1911 in British music

none 1911 1911 British music This is a summary of 1911 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 24 May – Edward Elgar conducts the première of his second symphony in front of a smaller-than-expected audience at the Queen's Hall, London."Elgar's New Symphony", The Times, 25 May 1911, p. 10 June – Edward Elgar is appointed to the Order of Merit by King George VSupplement, The London Gazette, no. 2769, p. 4448, 19 June 1911. Retrieved 27 October 2010. 21 June – Sergei Diaghilev's Ballet Russes begins its first London season at Covent Garden. Dancers Vaslav Nijinsky, Tamara Karsavina, Adolph Bolm and others perform Le Pavillon d'Armide, Carnival and Prince Igor.Richard Burbank. Twentieth Century Music: A Chronology (1984), p. 53 22 June – At the Coronation of King George V and Queen Mary, Sir Frederick Bridge, as Director of Music, seeks to cover four hundred years of British music,Richards, p. 104 Works by Thomas Tallis, John Merbecke and George Frederick Handel are included, alongside new works by Sir Hubert Parry (a new orchestral introduction for his setting of Psalm 122, "I was glad" and a new setting of the Te Deum), Charles Villiers Stanford (a new setting of the Gloria), Elgar (Coronation March), organist Walter Alcock (a new setting of the Sanctus), and Bridge himself.*Range Matthias 2012 Music and Ceremonial at British Coronations: From James I to Elizabeth II https://books.google.com/books?id=CzmgJGWpDKUC&dq=coronation+music+1911&pg=PA255 Cambridge University Press 978-1-107-02344-4 30 June – English pianist Solomon makes his debut at the Queen's Hall in London at the age of eight years old, performing Tchaikovsky's Piano Concerto No. 1.'Solomon: British pianist' Encyclopedia Britannica July – Frank Bridge completes his orchestral suite The Sea, during a visit to the seaside town of Eastbourne.http://www.musicaltoronto.org/2012/08/09/introducing-the-sea-a-suite-for-orchestra-by-frank-bridge Introducing: The Sea, a suite for orchestra by Frank Bridge John Terauds Musical Toronto 17 January 2018 October - The Society of Women Musicians, co-founded by Gertrude Eaton, Marion Scott, Katharine Eggar, and others, holds its first meeting.Sophie Fuller. "Society of Women Musicians", Grove Music Online, ed. L. Macy (accessed March 12, 2007), grovemusic.com (subscription access).Linda L. Clark Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-Century Europe https://books.google.com/books?id=NtitRt1uUXMC&pg=PA112 17 April 2008 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-65098-4 112– 23 November – Elgar's Symphony no 2, again conducted by the composer, is performed by the Hallé Orchestra, and receives mixed reviews."Elgar's Second Symphony in America",The Times, 3 January 1912, p. 7. 30 November – Swan Lake is performed for the first time in London by Ballet Russes at Covent Garden. Popular music Harry Lauder - "Roamin' In The Gloamin'" Billy Merson "The Photo of the Girl I Left Behind" "The Spaniard That Blighted My Life"Edwin M. Bradley The First Hollywood Musicals: A Critical Filmography of 171 Features, 1927 through 1932 https://books.google.com/books?id=Rg-UBJaPD-sC&pg=PA11 1 January 2004 McFarland 978-0-7864-2029-2 11– Classical music: new works Granville Bantock – Dante and Beatrice, symphonic poem George Butterworth – Two English IdyllsNicole V. Gagné Historical Dictionary of Modern and Contemporary Classical Music https://books.google.com/books?id=ppHoEX_6v10C&pg=PA51 2012 Scarecrow Press 978-0-8108-6765-9 51 Frank Bridge – The Sea Eric Coates – Miniature SuiteNaomi Musiker Reuben Musiker Conductors and Composers of Popular Orchestral Music: A Biographical and Discographical Sourcebook https://books.google.com/books?id=ipnrAgAAQBAJ&pg=PT70 25 February 2014 Routledge 978-1-135-91770-8 70 Frederick Delius A Song of the High HillsBarrie Jones The Hutchinson Concise Dictionary of Music https://books.google.com/books?id=zoa3AwAAQBAJ&pg=PA165 3 June 2014 Routledge 978-1-135-95018-7 165 Summer Night on the River Edward Elgar Coronation March Symphony No. 2 in Eb, Op. 63 Gustav Holst – Second Suite in F, for military band Roger Quilter – Where the Rainbow Ends (incidental music for the play)British Library. Department of Manuscripts Descriptions: Additional manuscripts 68,892-70,637; Egerton manuscripts 3,813-3,867; Additional charters and rolls 76,609-76,772, 76,792-76,836; Egerton charters and rolls 8,853-8,858; Detached seals and casts CCVI.1-9 https://books.google.com/books?id=FHRRAQAAMAAJ 1993 British Library 978-0-7123-0325-5 Ethel Smyth – The March of the Women Charles Villiers Stanford Symphony No. 7 in D minor, Op. 124 Piano Concerto No. 2 in C minor, Op. 126 Opera The Count of Luxembourg, based on the music of Franz Lehár's German operetta Der Graf von Luxemburg (1909), with English lyrics and libretto by Basil Hood and Adrian Ross."The King and Queen at Daly's Theatre", The Count of Luxembourg, The Times, 22 May 1911, p. 10 Musical theatre 4 March – Peggy, with music by Leslie Stuart, book by George Grossmith, Jr., and lyrics by C. H. Bovill, starring Edmund Payne, Phyllis Dare and Gabrielle Ray, opens at the Gaiety Theatre, London, where it will run for 270 performances.Culme, John. "Footlight Notes, no. 277" https://web.archive.org/web/20110928135022/http://www.gabrielleray.150m.com/ArchiveTextPQ/PeggyGaiety1911.html 2011-09-28 . 4 January 2002, accessed 11 August 2010 Births 24 January Evelyn Barbirolli, oboist (died 2008) Muir Mathieson, conductor and composer (died 1975) 9 June – Frederick May, Irish composer (died 1985) 27 August – Kay Walsh, dancer and actress (d. 2005) 25 December – Eric Gilder, musicologist (died 2000) 27 December – Anna Russell, singer and comedian (died 2006) 28 December – Max Jaffa, violinist and bandleader (died 1991) date unknown - Gladys Midgley (née Vernon), pianist and singer (died 2005)D. Brook, Singers of Today (Revised Edition - Rockliff, London 1958), pages 140-144. Deaths 4 May – Ronald Richardson Potter, organist and composer, 31 29 May – W. S. Gilbert, lyricist (Savoy operas), 74 13 June – Patrick Heeney, Irish composer, 29O'Brien Jason 26 Apr 2011 Singing praises of 'forgotten patriot' who wrote anthem https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/singing-praises-of-forgotten-patriot-who-wrote-anthem-26726907.html independent.ie Dublin 3 Oct 2021 29 August – Hildegard Werner, Swedish-born musical conductor, 77 13 October – Harry Rickards, English-born baritone, comedian and theatre owner, 67 (apoplexy)Martha Rutledge Rickards, Harry (1843–1911) rickards-harry-8207 1988 28 August 2014 See also 1919 in the United Kingdom References nb British Music, 1911 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1910s in British music