1916 in British music

none 1916 1916 British music This is a summary of 1916 in music in the United Kingdom. Events 28 March – Sir Hubert Parry's choral setting of William Blake's poem "And did those feet in ancient time" (which becomes known as "Jerusalem"), is premièred at the Queen's Hall, London, having been written on 10 March. Gustav Holst completes composition of his orchestral suite The Planets, Op. 32. Popular music Harry Castling & Harry Carlton – "The Tanks That Broke the Ranks Out in Picardy"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 A. J. Mills, Fred Godfrey & Bennett Scott – "Take Me Back to Dear Old Blighty"Martin Pegler Soldiers' Songs and Slang of the Great War https://books.google.com/books?id=M5aHCwAAQBAJ&pg=PT163 20 August 2014 Bloomsbury Publishing 978-1-4728-0929-2 163 Ivor Novello and Lena Guilbert Ford – "Keep the Home Fires Burning" Frederic Weatherly & Eric Coates – "Green Hills Of Somerset"William H. Rehrig The Heritage Encyclopedia of Band Music: Composers and Their Music. Integrity Press 1991 151 Frederic Weatherly & Haydn Wood – "Roses of Picardy"The Stage 19 March 1959 6 Haydn Wood Dies P. G. Wodehouse, Herbert Reynolds & Emmerich Kallman – "Throw Me A Rose"Bill Raoul Sound Designer's Companion Broadway Press 9780911747423 268 Classical music: new works Kenneth J. Alford – The Great Little Army, marchJeffrey Richards Imperialism And Music: Britain 1876-1953 https://books.google.com/books?id=zSJ7zXkBc3MC&pg=PA431 2001 Manchester University Press 978-0-7190-4506-6 431 Frederick Delius – Cello SonataMartin Lee-Browne Paul Guinery Delius and His Music https://books.google.com/books?id=7BUABQAAQBAJ&pg=PA360 2014 Boydell & Brewer Ltd 978-1-84383-959-0 360 Gustav Holst – The PlanetsRichard Greene Kenneth Hamilton Greene Richard Holst: The Planets https://books.google.com/books?id=STNrlYoU1FAC&pg=PA15 16 March 1995 Cambridge University Press 978-0-521-45633-3 15 John Ireland – Two Songs, 1916 Opera Rutland Boughton – The Round Table Musical theatre 13 May – The Happy Day by Seymour Hicks, with music by Sidney Jones and Paul Rubens, and lyrics by Adrian Ross, opens at Daly's Theatre, starring Winifred Barnes, José Collins and Arthur Wontner, where it runs for 241 performances. 3 August – The musical comedy Chu Chin Chow, written, produced, directed and starring Oscar Asche, with music by Frederic Norton, premières at His Majesty's Theatre in London's West End, starring Asche himself, Frank Cochrane and Courtice Pounds. It will run for five years and a total of 2,238 performances (twice as many as any previous musical), a record that will stand for nearly forty years.Compilation of longest-running plays in history https://web.archive.org/web/20100402061014/http://world-theatres.com/longruns.html 2010-04-02 Births 3 January – Joan Ingpen, opera talent manager (died 2007) 8 February – Jimmy Skidmore, jazz musician (died 1998)Jazz Journal International https://books.google.com/books?id=h4sKAQAAMAAJ 1998 Billboard Limited 13 February – John Reed, actor and opera singer (died 2010) 3 March – Bernard Stevens, composer (died 1983) 17 March – Ray Ellington (born Harry Brown), singer (died 1985)Ian Carr Digby Fairweather Brian Priestley Charles Alexander The Rough Guide to Jazz https://archive.org/details/roughguidetojazz00carr registration 2004 Rough Guides 978-1-84353-256-9 75 14 April – Denis ApIvor, composer (died 2004) 9 May – Bernard Rose, organist and composer (died 1996) 9 July – Edward Heath, Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, organist and conductor (died 2005) 11 July – Reg Varney, actor and pianist (died 2008)Roy Hudd Philip Hindin Roy Hudd's Cavalcade of Variety Acts: A who was who of Light Entertainment, 1945–60 https://books.google.com/books?id=iydaAAAAMAAJ 1997 Robson Books 978-1-86105-115-8 11 August – Benny Lee, comedy actor and singer (died 1995) 18 August – Moura Lympany (born Mary Johnstone), pianist (died 2005)Lawrence Goldman Oxford Dictionary of National Biography 2005–2008 https://books.google.com/books?id=nbGcAQAAQBAJ&pg=PA705 7 March 2013 OUP Oxford 978-0-19-967154-0 705 29 November – Helen Clare (born Nellie Harrison), singer (died 2018)2018-09-25 Helen Clare, singer – obituary en-GB The Telegraph https://www.telegraph.co.uk/obituaries/2018/09/25/helen-clare-singer-obituary/ 2023-09-08 0307-1235 date unknown – Malcolm MacDonald, composer (died 1992) Deaths 21 January – George Musgrove, theatre and opera producer, 62Gittins Jean 1974 A050371b Musgrove, George (1854–1916) 1 November 2009 13 May – Jessie MacLachlan, Gaelic singer, 50Ewan Elizabeth L. Innes Sue Reynolds Sian Pipes Rose https://books.google.com/books?id=Zs6qBgAAQBAJ&dq=Jessie+MacLachlan&pg=PA233 Biographical Dictionary of Scottish Women 27 June 2007 Edinburgh University Press 978-0-7486-2660-1 233 2 August – Hamish MacCunn, composer, 48 (throat cancer)Alasdair Jamieson The Music of Hamish Maccunn https://books.google.com/books?id=ntoq4bpp7QQC&pg=PA46 2013 AuthorHouse 978-1-4772-3504-1 46 5 August – George Butterworth, composer, 31 (killed in action)Michael Barlow Whom the Gods Love: The Life and Music of George Butterworth https://books.google.com/books?id=_5-fAAAAMAAJ 1 January 1997 Toccata Press 978-0-907689-42-3 13 November – Frederick Septimus Kelly, composer and Olympic rower, 35 (killed in action)Frederick Septimus Kelly Race Against Time: The Diaries of F.S. Kelly https://books.google.com/books?id=ErX1-eHqmVUC 2004 National Library Australia 978-0-642-10740-4 24 November – John Francis Barnett, composer and music teacher, 79http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095448474 John Francis Barnett 9 September 2017 12 November 2014 https://web.archive.org/web/20141112131126/http://oxfordindex.oup.com/view/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803095448474 bot: unknown See also 1916 in the United Kingdom References nb British Music, 1916 in Music Category:British music by year Category:1910s in British music